Family Dedication

Pinelake does family dedication. We had the great honor of dedicating our family to the Lord and specifically committing to raise Thomas in a Christian home. Part of the dedication is to choose a verse to commit to praying over your child. We chose Proverbs 19:20-21 (NASB):

Listen to counsel and accept discipline,

That you may be wise the rest of your days.

21 

Many plans are in a man’s heart,

But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

Halloween 2012

We thought a cow would be the perfect costume for Thomas this year. Why? Because he is an excellent moo-er. However, when we got this sweet little darling into his costume, he refused to moo. Out of the costume--excellent moo-ing skills. In the costume--not a peep. Kids!

Our silent little cow

Thomas with his friends Ellington the giraffe and Wade as himself

Getting some candy (that dad ate...)

He's over it...

 We also took Thomas back to the Pumpkin Patch this year. I think he had even more fun this year. We went with friends, so he had some other kids to play with. Plus, with his new tractor obsession...it was a sure fire hit!

Homecoming at MSU was also during October. Every year, we walk over to the Drill Field with Dad to find his brick. We walked all the way over there and searched forever only to finally determine (after pulling up last year's pictures on the blog and trying to determine the brick's location) that the brick had been taken up for construction. So we took a family photo in front of the construction instead. 

That same football game, my nephew had an announcement to make! He was a big brother! My sister in law and brother announced that they were expected in late May. 

Carving a pumpkin with Dad! 

Sliding down the toddler jumper at the church's Family Night. We had an entire section reserved just for the preschoolers. It was fabulous. The kids had a blast!

More Randoms from Sept/Oct 2012

Say What?

Sweetly watching for Daddy

Michael would shoot me for posting this, but he probably never looks at this blog so whatever. How cute are they studying together?!?

Sliding at the park for his friend Austin's 3rd birthday!

Taking a break!

Huh?!

Sliding at Pump It Up! for cousin Andrew's birthday!

September Randomness

I'm sure there are sweet stories behind each of these lovely photos, but I don't remember. He's cute though! :)

Thomas in a box.

Visiting Nanny at work. Quite obviously on MAROON FRIDAY!

Posing in front of the cooler...? He adores Poppa's store. It is almost always our first stop in  Columbus.

Napping in the stroller! Maroon right down to his socks!

Playing at the park with cousin Luke and I believe Grammy was in attendance as well!

Sliding by himself. A first.

Luke and Thomas at Wee Babies Music at the public library. This was taken as evidence that the class actually existed. Every time Stephen was in town and we tried to go, it was canceled. This time, I had the boys by myself.

Last fall I won two tickets to the dotMom Conference in Birmingham. I'm so glad I did because I made a great new friend! I asked Ashia to go with me. We had met briefly at church and talked a bit about the conference, so when I won the tickets, I asked her to go with me. She's turned out to be an awesome friend! Plus, we had a great weekend AWAY from the kiddos! I'm secretly hoping to win tickets again this fall, except it would be a bit more challenging since Parker is so young. He would definitely have to go with me.

Ashia and I in the photo booth!

Me and Jen Hatmaker! OMG!

Random picture of Michael and Thomas on the monkey bars. :)

Hail State

We love MSU football around here. I think Thomas really enjoyed this season...well maybe not the football. I don't think we made it past the 1st quarter one time, but he did enjoy tailgating and playing with his cousins!

Waiting to put the tents up and enjoying a snack with Poppa!

He knows how to say, "Go State!"

Waiting for the Dawg Walk

Cheese with Mama

Playing with the Ketchum cousins

Watching the game with Daddy

yeah...this...all on his own!

Labor Day Weekend 2012

For Labor Day, Thomas and I took Daddy to two of our favorite spots to play: the park and MSU's campus! It was a fun family day!

I could never get Thomas to slide, but of course he does it for Daddy!

Playing in a fountain on campus was a favorite this summer!

August 2012

Looking at that last post makes me sad. That was SO long ago, and Thomas is gigantic now compared to then. It's amazing how much he has changed in the last year. I'm going to attempt to catch us up really fast since now I have a new little one's journey to chronicle. So without further rambling,

August 2012:

We played at the Splash Pad at Dwayne Hayes for the first time! (This would be come a BIG hit Summer 2013!) It took him awhile this trip to get warmed up to it, but he had fun!

Thomas started his second year at Parent's Morning Out! He LOVED school this year!

One of his best friends turned one and we helped celebrate! Thomas dragged (drug?!) that cow all over the party!

Played in the sprinkler at Grammy and Poppa's house!

Luke wasn't so sure about the wet grass on his feet, so I helped him out!

Played in his new swimming pool...

and sand table. Yeah. That's my kid eating sand. What can I say?

So that's August in a nutshell. At least according to my photos anyways!