Jay's birthday party

We had Jay's birthday party on Saturday and it was about 55 degrees and COLD. We still bundled up and had a good one though! We did a football tailgate theme and had nachos, chili, mini corndogs, candy, and cake. We built a fire outside and had a bounce house and all the kids never even noticed it was so cold! On Elle's first birthday party I feel like she was held the whole time but this was NOT the case with Jay. He was wild and all over the place chasing the older kids. Josh says he is the tazmanian devil....ha The Birthday Boy

Jay, Pitty Pat, and Zander

Grandaddy, Jay, and GrandJoe

Cakes

Caramel apples

Singing to the birthday boy. He was like "who, me?"

Group pic of the boys that will be in Jay's grade in school (minus Zander--he was napping) Hank, Byran Edward, Jay, Rob, Park, and Jackson

His first dumptruck! yeah!

Our attempt at a family pic

Fall Festival

We went to the annual fall festival at canebrake on Sunday and had a great time. They had 2 bounce houses, a petting zoo, and a pony ride. Good times! My sweet sock monkey and witch

Checking out the animals

Jay was not scared of ANY animal

Riding the pony

Quick pic before church

MSU homecoming

We took the kids to Starkville last weekend and stayed with the Chance family. It was a fun filled weekend and the dawgs are now 7-0! Woo hoo! Hanging with Bully

Family Pic in front of stadium

Ready for tailgaiting

Elle and a friend from the tailgate

Jay and Evan Nettles having a stare down

Don't forget to brush your teeth ya'll!

Jay's 1 yr checkup

Took Jay to the dr for his 1 year check-up and here's his stats: 19.8 lbs(27%), 31.5 inchss(95%) and head circumference (58%). They measured his height with his shoes on so i think maybe that made him measure so tall? I didn't think he was 95% in height! Playing in the waiting room not knowing SHOTS are coming up:

He screamed during the shots but as soon as I was able to pick him up off of the table he stopped. He is NOT into the nurse or dr touching him--or any stranger for that matter! He got a sucker for being a good boy!

Birthday Boy

Jay turned 1 year old this Saturday. It was nice to have a weekend to stay in Hattiesburg and not really have any plans other than hang with the kids and watch MSU football on TV! Birthday boy

Getting ready to head downtown to "live at 5" and hear the music.

At Huddle House on his birthday getting ready to eat pancakes---his favorite breakfast!

Elle enjoyed her breakfast and mine :)

Trying out his birthday present

Ready for church!

Seaside

We took our annual trip to Seaside with Josh's family and this time we stayed the whole week. It was awesome weather and not really crowded this time of year there. The drive down there was just peachy. Everytime Jay would finally go to sleep Elle would reach her foot over into his car seat and nudge him or just laugh really loud at her movie and wake him up! We had to stop at the Original Oyster House in Mobile and hit up the playground and eat.

Love sliding

Jay rocking Zander

Pitty Pat, Elle, and Zander

Jay's first time to walk on the beach. I thought he would not be able to walk in the sand but boy was I wrong. He ran!

Building sandcastles

Swimming at the pool.

GrandJoe and Jay

Josh taking Elle for a bike ride

Goodbye Seaside! See you next year!

Future bulldog

Tailgating at the USM game. Elle, Anna Cooper, Mary Clayton, and Caroline

So Hurricane Issac came through a few weeks ago and thankfully it was not as bad as they predicted. Elle got a few days off from school but Josh and I pretty much worked through it since our jobs don't stop for a storm. Ha! Here's some pics of what we've been up to. A tree fell into our backyard during the hurricane and broke part of Elle's playset. She wanted to call Dr. Shook (her pediatrician) b/c she thought he could fix it! ha!

Jay and Josh were cleaning up outside during the rain like this

Elle and I were baking peanut butter cookies

By the time the weekend came we were stir crazy from all the rain so we headed to Ocean Springs to my parent's condo to check out the water damage there. Their condo is on the 3rd floor so the water didn't make it up that high thankfully. We went downtown to the "Blue Moon Festival". They had live music, food, and alot of fun!

Pushing brother back to the car

Getting ready to watch the bulldogs on TV

We took the boat out to horn island. Their were water snakes in the water as a result of the hurricane. We caught 2 of them with Elle's net. Crazy

Hanging with Grandaddy