Brooks Baptism

We planned Brooks Baptism the same weekend as Maggie's birthday. I don't recommend back to back entertaining like this with small children, if anyone thinks it might be a good idea. :) We were blessed to have so many with us to share this special day. Family came to enjoy a brunch at our house after our church service. It was a fun weekend!

Brooks with Rev Grady and Aunt Kiki, his Godmother

It speaks volumes of our supportive families to have so many with us and is so reassuring to have so many people to help teach our children about the Lord.

I am #1 today!

This tongue smile is so Brooks and so hilarious!

Pretty cool that Aunt Kiki got my first laugh out of me this weekend.

Maggie turns 3!

It's hard to believe our sweet girl is already 3. She is such a treat and we had so much fun celebrating her birthday this year. 

Celebrating with cupcakes at school and my birthday crown my teachers let me make

This is what I chose for my birthday dinner to celebrate with the 5 of us--chicken fingers, applesauce, and fries.  Easy enough!

Maggie had a Princess and Knight birthday party. You know we love a theme, so had fun with it!

Maggie by the castle Dad made for her party. The castle was a hit! All the kids loved playing in it. Maggie posed like this without prompting so we could take her picture. :)

Our littlest knight

Maggie and her brothers ready for the party to begin

Aunt Elle and her friend Lizzie helped turn the boys into knights and helped the princesses dress up and accesorize. We had lots of fun!

Decorating crowns with Aunt Kiki (the knights decorated shields!)

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Happy Birthday to Maggie! (This wasn't Mom's best cake, but Mags was excited about it!)


 Maggie with all her friends at her birthday

Opening gifts and so excited about her Rapunzel wig from Carter and Harper

Davis playing with the drawbridge

Christmas in Charleston

We had fun celebrating with the Davis family at the beach house in Charleston this year.

Mom and Maggie on the carriage ride

Davis and Aunt Elle

Carriage ride group pict

Maggie stuffing stockings

All three kiddos, Maggie felt pretty rough the days surrounding Christmas. Can you tell? 

Maggie opening with Dad

Loving her Belle dress

Uncle Will loving some Brooks time

Baking sugar cookies like Mommy always did growing up

With the sandman we built!

Davis and Stephanie playing

Sweet boy with Aunt Elle

Davis and Brooks with their matching vests

Putting out reindeer food on the porch

Checking out what Santa brought us--Brooks on his new activity mat.

Maggie and Davis were excited to ride their bikes Santa brought them. Maggie and Belle riding her new princess bike

Davis cruising on his new big wheels

The Davis family at Uncle Marks

Thomas family shot

D watching a western movie with Uncle Bruce

Grandmomma with Brooks

Uncle Kent and Davis

Uncle Mark with the kiddos

The Rob Davis fam--we are so excited Stephanie will become a Davis this August! 

Christmas at home

The weeks leading up to Christmas this year were truly magical this year. Maggie and Davis were full of questions, in awe of Santa and his reindeer but loving to talk about the Christmas story and baby Jesus. 

We had a little Christmas party with the 5 of us, when we had finger foods for dinner and exchanged presents. Davis and Maggie were adament that they shop for Mom and Dad, so those shopping experiences were quite the adventure! It was fun to have our Christmas at home, even though it wasn't on Christmas day.

.Davis and Maggie were excited about their new sleeping bags and slept in them that night. Hopefully some camping adventures will be in the near future.

We had an Elf on the Shelf that came to us this year and we named him Bucky. He tended to get into whatever we got into during the day when we were sleeping at night.  Making a smore--guess he got the idea when we had marshmallows in our hot chocolate!

Bucky must like firetrucks, too.

Making a snow angel after he saw us bake cookies. He's silly!

Christmas at Lake Burton

I apologize that it is February and I am just posting Christmas picts. Things are insanely busy at our house and something had to go by the wasteside--and posting on the blog was it. We will try to catch you up on our crazy wonderful life!

We had a wonderful time with the Rogers family at the Lake. We celebrated the weekend before Christmas and it was really relaxing--even though there were 7 kids ages 6 and under.  

Santa made a personalized visit to Lake Burton to visit the Rogers family! It was great to catch up with him!

The whole fam with Santa

All the cousins with Santa. The kids played so well together and had so much fun!

Davis and Maggie with Grammy and PaPaw

Santa reading the letter we sent him. So cool!

Brooks' first visit with Santa. He has on the same outfit D did when meeting Santa the first time.

Brooks

Claire loves her a baby

Maggie and Claire ready for a yummy breakfast