God's Newest Angel

The Lord called Papaw home to heaven on January 26th after 87 BLESSED years of life.

My Papaw was the light of my eyes and the smile in my heart. As a child I would spend countless days (sometimes months) visiting him and Mamaw. The trips were never dull and Papaw seemed to never get enough of us grandkids.

I can't thank God enough for letting Papaw live just long enough to get to meet Cannon. It was a meeting of two beautiful blue eyed boys. I know Papaw couldn't talk well enough to tell me how proud he was of his newest great-grandson but the smile on his face told me all I needed to know. This past Thanksgiving Day, Cannon sat in Papaw's lap as he sang him a sweet whistle song along with Mamaw's perfect harmony.....it's a sight and sound I will not soon forget!

We love you Papaw and we will see you again one day in heaven!

Yeah....Sun & Car Seats!!

FINALLY.....we have sunshine!!! It didn't last long on this day but we will take it!

On the day we were going over to Adam & Summer's house to switch Cannon to his big boy car seat, the sun actually came out. After looking through the instruction book for days and trying to follow all the diagrams, we decided to enlist the help of Adam who is a local firefighter here in Hilton Head. Thanks Adam for all your help, looks like all your safety training classes have paid off!!!

Here is Cannon's last time in his "baby" car seat that he is so happy to pass down to his brother or sister in the coming months.

If this isn't a sign that he wanted to get outside and enjoy the sunshine then I don't know what is?

He's testing out his new ride!

And finally.....his first car ride in his big boy seat and all the excitement puts him right to sleep!

It's Cold Outside!

Our winter is here in South Carolina and it seems to be sticking around a lot longer than we thought....and wanted! It has made for all of our weekends so far at home and indoors where the heater is continuously running and where all our blankets are keeping us all warm.

Cannon is being a trooper even when we keep him in his pajamas for most of the day.

Hope we see Mr. Sunshine soon!!

Bye Bye 2009....Hello 2010!!

Wow, where did 2009 go?? I feel as if we were just in January getting ready for Cannon's birth and now here we are almost a year later.

We celebrated New Year's Eve with our friends and Cannon's friends too! Maddie, Addison & Cannon played for hours before heading off to bed and us adults got our second wind to stay up long enough to see the ball drop. Thank you Ben & Danielle for having all of us over to ring in 2010!!! We look forward to celebrating more special times with you and getting the new babies together soon! And same for Summer & Adam. What special friends you have become in our lives as well as Addison in Cannon's life! It was so much fun getting to see Addison & Cannon grow up together in the Grasshopper room at daycare and now we get to look forward to having all three babies together in that same room later this year.

I can't help but reflect back on 2009 and give God all the glory for so many blessings! Aaron and I welcomed our first child and got an extra surprise months later! Yes, to our amazement, I got pregnant only months after giving birth to Cannon. As much as we were in shock, we have come to realize that it's God's plan, not ours. We always knew that because of my "older" age, we would need to have our children close together but this was a little closer than we had planned. As everyone has told us, it will be so nice to have them grow up close in age and hopefully be best friends.

May 2010 bring lots more joy and blessing to us all!!!

The three pregnant mamas!

The kids exchanged Christmas gifts and Daddy thinks Cannon liked Addison's baby doll just a little too much!