Christmas Time!

Christmas was great this year!  For the first time since starting our family, we decided to stay home so that Santa can visit Riley at home.  Of course, we missed spending it with the rest of the family, but we had a great time hanging with each other.  Also, this was the first White Christmas in the ATL area in many decades, so that was awesome!  It snowed ALL DAY long!  Sipping on some hot Irish Coffees helped to keep us warm! lol

Here is Riley and Mommy making the dough for Santa's cookies.

Opening gifts on Christmas morning was great!  Riley did a great job of handing gifts to everyone... of course this was done between jumping on her new toy! 

After opening presents, we went outside to play in the snow...

Camera Down

Just wanted to let everyone know that we haven't updated the site lately b/c Miss Riley dropped the camera from the table.  I know that it is my fault for putting the camera on the table to begin with, but in my defense we were packing up to travel and I always place items on the table during packing... oh well, it is being repaired now.  That is a $170 lesson that I shall not repeat. 

In the meantime, everyone is doing well aside from Christopher.  He dislocated his shoulder during a wrestling match this past weekend.  He had to wait for over an hour until he could get to the ER and have a doc put in back in place.  Pain level appeared to be very high. 

Here are the matches.  In the first match, he does a pretty good job of handling a game opponent (who went on to place 3rd in the 12 team tournament the next day) and Chris goes on to win the match 18-11.


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In this match, Chris injures his shoulder around the 2:10 mark.  You can see him taking down his opponent and both guys landing on this left shoulder.  This is where the damage was done.  Chris goes on to win this match by a score of 20-10.


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In this third video you can see just after Chris does a takedown he does a random posting of his left arm (for leverage) during this post his shoulder dislocates.  Chris was winning 2-0 before the injury occurred. 


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Centennial Park

It has been over a week since baby Drew has thrown up!  We are not sure if it is the new formula or the baby food or the combination that helped him get better along with the reflux medicine.  We are so thankful that he is back to gaining weight!  Now that Drew is feeling better, we are ready to get out of the house.  Yesterday we went to Centennial Park to meet up with Uncle Mike and Aunt Margo and family.  The weather was perfect for being outside.

Riley and Drew watching the fountain show. 

Riley wanted to be down playing in the water! 

North Georgia Cabin

Two weekends ago, we headed to the Blue Ridge Mountians in North Georgia for the weekend with The Doyle's.  It was a great weekend except for baby Drew and Mommy getting the stomach virus.  There was a light snow Friday night, so Drew got to see his first snow!  The cabin was literally on top of the mountain.  The views were awesome!  Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

The kids checking out the snow! 

 Riley and Camryn in matching coats!

Daddy and Riley making a fire 

Mommy and Drew checking out the view! 

 Brandon, Cat, Brody and Camryn



Riley and Camryn loved playing with their baby dolls!

Christopher Hitting Pads

Here is a video that I didn't know existed until a few days ago, but it shows Christopher hitting some pads a few months ago. 

Happy 2nd Birthday to Riley Erin!!!

Our beautiful Riley Erin turns 2 today!  As the saying goes, time goes by too fast.  Our house may be a mess, but our children know we love them.  We make sure to spend lots of time with our kids.  We love every second of it.  Here are a few pictures of our Riley growing!  Slow down, Mommy wants you to stay a little girl!

Riley right after she was born.

 Riley 1 day old



Riley 1 month old

Riley 3 months old

Riley 6 months old

Riley 9 months old

Riley 13 months old

Riley 18 months old

Riley 23 months old!

Happy Birthday to Riley Erin!

Riley's 1st Hair Cut

Just a few days shy of making it to two years, but Riley finally had her 1st hair cut today.  Of course, Riley kept Mommy and Tiffany busy trying to keep up as she took her to-do list with her to the salon.  She is a good sport and luckily so is Mommy and her new hair dresser, Tiffany!  Here are a few shots from today.

Happy Halloween!!!

Today starts Halloween weekend!  Today daycare is doing a Halloween party for the kids.  Here is a picture of Riley and Drew this morning before heading to daycare!

Drew is still sick...

We hope to find out more today at his 2:45pm appointment, but for now we are just baffled.  About every 2 to 3 days he will puke.  At first, we thought it was just from the Similac recall, but then we're pretty sure that he also picked up a stomach virus, but that was 2 weeks ago and it is still happening.  Perhaps he is just having a reflux issue.... hopefully we'll find out more today.  Riley is doing much better, but she was really only down for a day or two... not much can keep her down for longer than that!  Here are a couple of shots we took this past week.

Riley wanted to play in Mommy's car Friday night, so Mommy and Riley had a pizza party in the car while jamming to music!

Riley loves to take care of her baby dolls!

Notice how Riley makes sure to have a burp cloth for her baby doll!

Riley's 2nd Bday Party in Jesup

Last weekend we held Riley's 2nd Bday party in Jesup and it was awesome!  We had a great turnout and everyone seemed to have a load of fun, especially Riley!  This past week hasn't been so great as we've all been fighting colds and Drew has a nasty stomach virus that has proved to be difficult to deal with.  We had to take Drew to the ER on Thursday because he couldn't keep any food or Pedialyte down... he's doing much better today.  Here are a few pics from the party.

For the rest of the pics from the party check out this slideshow!