Nathan Impellizzeri's song "Ode to Her" on ONE TREE HILL

Puppy Love

It's 76 degrees in DECEMBER? Craziness, but we LOVE it! We played outside a lot yesterday at Memaw and Papaw's house with Kenzie. Here's some super cute pics. Sorry for the lens flare, the sun was right at me. I couldn't miss these shots, though. Too precious!

Three Little Monkeys

We totally enjoyed our 74 degree weather today! I didn't know that our trees in our front yard were climable until I saw my Spiderman child (Ashton) climbing it. Brayden soon followed and then, Emy was asking for help up in it. They thought it was the greatest thing. Emy held on for dear life, but thought it was hilarious to look upside down.

Emy's First Haircut

Emy got her first haircut today. I was cutting the boys' hair and I asked her if she wanted her hair cut. She said yes and was very excited, as you can see in this first picture:

"I'm ready..."



"I don't like brushing out the tangles..."



"I don't know if I want to go through with this..."




"Wait! It wasn't that bad and I'm soooo super cute!"





The pretty bengal princess, all finished!




I love this picture!

Brayden's 1st Grade Christmas Program

Brayden sang with his 1st graders at Michigan Avenue's Christmas Program Monday night. It was so cute! Autumn (his cute little girlfriend from kindergarten) is the girl on the stage by herself. She starts the song singing solo. ADORABLE! Brayden is in the 2nd row, 6th child from the left. The video of their song is below this post.

Brayden's 1st Grade Christmas Program Video

Leif, Jen and Abby came to visit!

We LOVE our dear friends, The Hyrne's! They came to visit for a couple days and we had so much fun!

Yes, this is the true Leif Hyrne...


Abby (3 1/2), Leif and Jen

Merry Christmas, HO HO HO!

We LOVE seeing Santa in the mall! Emy wasn't afraid this year and thought it was funny to sit on his lap - she smiled like she was such a big girl! The guy taking the picture was busy with other customers, so Santa told me how to take the picture and I did it! So cool that this picture was actually taken by me (they don't allow other cameras so I couldn't have done it myself with my own camera).
Another special thing is that Santa told our kids a story, the true story about the candy cane. White is for purity, Red is for the blood of Christ, and the three stripes of red are for The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. We all thought that was such a cool thing to know!

December 1st - Dad's Birthday Surprise Video

December 1st - Dad's 50th Birthday - SURPRISE Party

Dad's Surprise Party - December 1st

December 1st - Gingerbread House Making and More at Memaw Sarah's

Memaw Sarah's and Gingerbread House - December 1st

November 24th - Ashton's 5th Birthday Pictures

Ashton's 5th Birthday Party - November 24th

November 20th-22nd - Braxton's Birthday Pictures & Thanksgiving at Tara's

Braxton's Birthday and more fun at the Brazell's at Thanksgiving - November 20th-22nd

November 19th - Pictures of My Mom

November 19th - Sarah Boone Pictures

November 19th - Dinner with Memaw Sarah for Ashton's Birthday

November 19th - Dinner with Memaw Sarah

New Info on Comments

I just I changed my blog setting to welcome everyone's comments, not just blogger users! =) Yipppeee!

Emy and Daphne

Emy loves Daphne so much!

Happy Birthday, Linda!

Happy Birthday, Linda! Here she is at dinner last night with our gifts to her.

Ashton is Spiderman at our house...

Free Day at the Knoxville Zoo - Nov 10th

November 10th - Trip to the Zoo

The Bee Movie - My Personal Review

I took Brayden to watch this last Friday night (then, Tony took Ashton Saturday night - alone dates for each of us). Anyway, can I just tell you all how much I LOVE this movie??? I LOVE Jerry Seinfeld, but I wasn't sure about the movie since I love his show for adults. I checked all the info about any questionable content on Dr. James Dobson's website and everything looked okay to me. I'm so glad we went because I totally loved this movie. It was HILAROUS and extremely educational about Bees and where honey comes from, etc. Brayden LOVES funny things and laughed LOUDLY (I had to keep cupping his mouth b/c he was SOOO loud! lol) at EVERY funny part. I had to agree with him b/c I was cracking up myself. This movie has become a new favorite in our house and Ashton wants a Bee costume. So much so, that he took off all his clothes so Tony could color him (with markers) as Barry, the main Bee. Hilarious. Sooooo, I highly recommend this movie for EVERYONE! It's cute, hilarious and educational. Great job, Jerry Seinfeld!

Ashton's on the Ritz...

This was taken at his school. All the kids got to dress up in tuxedos or fancy dresses. How FUN! Ashton is definetly my most photogenic child. He poses so naturally, it's hilarious! His school pictures are being taken today and I'm curious to see how those turn out. It's always a surprise with him!

Weekend with the Swinehart's

We had a great weekend with the Swinehart's in Charlotte, NC! It was so good to spend some real time with Betty after all these years! Can you believe that it has been over 3 years since we've really spent time together? We have seen eachother maybe once a year for a couple of hours at a time in Cinci but that's basically it. Geez, I think we both agreed that we WON'T let that happen again! Our kids loved playing with eachother - well, I guess you could say our BOYS loved playing with eachother. Emy doesn't really play with other kids her age yet and Avary (Betty's 4 month old daughter) is too little to play with right now so she kind of was in her own world. =) But, my boys were in HEAVEN at their house and loved everything about being there. Brayden wants to move there to be close to them, how sweet! Betty tells me that her boys are asking constantly when they get to come to our house. So cute! Well, I posted TONS of pictures on here so you can check them out whenever you get the chance.

Swinehart Family Collages

Swinehart Collages

Swinehart Family Pictures - Nov. 4th

Nov 4th - Family Portraits

Tyler-Bryce-Dylan Photographs They Took - Nov. 4th

Tyler-Bryce-Dylan Photographs

Fun Times with the Swinehart's - November 2007

Fun Times with the Swineharts

Swinehart Soccer Game Pictures - Nov. 3rd

Nov 3rd Soccer Game

Fun Times

Here's some fun pictures from this past week. Enjoy!


I just had to send this! We were at the celebration service at FBCC for Brayden and Ashton's soccer teams. Brayden sat in the pews with his team and I guess he pulled one of these info cards out and started filling it out. Click on the picture to see it close up. You can see he wrote his name, then he wrote "March 30" vertical (the "3" is backwards) under birthday. Grade, is of course, "1" and then ... hahahaha, under GENDER, he wrote "?" I saw this and Tony and I started laughing to hard we were crying. Yes, true mature parents in a celebration listening to a man trying to tell all these kids it's important to have a relationship with Jesus and here we are, cracking up. Ah, the sweet innocence of children!


Instead of trick or treating, we went to FBCC's fall festival. Here's the boys on this huge blow up fighting thing. There's video of it in the previous posts.



This is Amy and Addison Clark - Amy is the wife of Mickey, our youth pastor on staff with Tony at Grace Point. They have three children, Easton (6), Braydon (4), and Addison (1).




Emy loves riding the PONY!

Emy loves the chicken, too. There's video of this in the previous posts.

We saw Mario and Luigi! The boys were a little upset b/c they have asked soooo many times for us to make them a costume like this. We're still trying. It's coming up with the overalls for Brayden is where we've been stuck. I'm not paying over $20 for them, so it's been a journey that is still going on.

Yesterday, we went to walmart and looked through all the costumes on discount. We found UNIQUA! Her favorite character from The Backyardigans! Emy LOVES it (as you can tell by her HUGE smile) and this is what she will be next year, I'm sure.

Emalyn Grace Holding Chicken at FBC Fall Festival 10/31/07