Summerville Classic

Brayton wrestled in his first tournament today (Saturday).  It was a long, stressfull, tiring day.  It's nerve wracking and very INTENSE.  I am a nervous wreck the entire time he wrestles and right before he goes up.  I was secretly hoping he would not like it. Well, he likes it.  A LOT.  Why can't we just stick to soccer?  Those little boys are ROUGH and HARD CORE.

 He has had two previous matches (past 2 Sundays).  He tied his first (7-7) and won the last one (17-2).  The tournaments are different then the matches because you get to wrestle more than once.  It's an all day event. 

ALL DAY. 

The first match was with a little boy from Walterboro...it was very intense and a very close match.  So hard to watch.  UGH.  Poor Brayton got his first taste of "not winning".  7-5. 

 My poor baby took it like a man on the mat.  He held his head high, shook hands with his opponent and walked off.  As soon as he got away by himself  he got upset and cried.  I felt so bad for him, but at the same time, he needed to experience losing.  It's part of life.  It would be much easier to lose a soccer game or board game, though.  HA! The second match was equally as rough, only this time it was 8-5.  Both matches were sooooo close.  He did great and we are so proud of him.  He always tries his very best and everything he does.

Little pep talk from the coach

On the bright side...little man brought home a medal for 3rd place!!!

Two of Brayton's classmates wrestle, too!  It's fun to have some buddies to hang out with during the long wait!

Zachary, Cameron and Brayton

A Birthday Cake and Gingerbread House

We made a birthday cake for Jesus this year.  It's something I hope to do with the kids each year.  Brayton chose the icing color and did all the sprinkles himself.  He was very proud of his cake, so we took it over to GeGe's with us for Christmas Eve.

Brinlee was pretty proud, too!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!!!

While we were in the kitchen we decided to create our gingerbread house, too...another tradition :-)  That's one of the reasons I LOVE CHRISTMAS SO MUCH.  I love all the traditions and family time together.  Gotta love making memories!

Parade Day

One of our many Christmas traditions is attending the annual Summerville Christmas Parade.  Well, this year we mixed it up a little and we were actually IN the parade.  At first, I was a little sad thinking we might miss something or it might not be as fun.  Well, let me just tell you- we had a BLAST and I can not wait to do it again next year!

 Mom and Sharon entered the "shop truck" so we just threw some garland on it and threw some cute kids in the back :-)  

Jr, Ernest and Chase drove and sat up front. Me, Mom, Sharon, Tiff and the rest of the crew sat in back and sang Christmas carols (and Brayton and Kylee screamed Merry Christmas to everyone).

Did I mention it was COLD?!?

And thanks to Aunt Sharon, we had to listen to this most of the ride!

We were in the front of the parade so once we were done we got to park and watch the other 1/2 of it...and we got to see Santa again...woo hoo!!!

Santa Baby

OK, so visiting Santa this year was a little different.  We actually had to stand OUTSIDE in freezing weather for over an hour.  Then, once we got inside, it was another hour.  We didn't mind waiting inside, though..atleast it was warm..and they had plenty for the kids to do.  Brayton was super excited about visitng Santa this year.  He couldn't wait to talk to him and tell him how great he's been doing in school.  He was the Terrific Kid for December, after all. 

Santa was so good to Brayton.  He knew that he liked Nascar, so he had a special gift waiting for him...a race car!!  He also knew that Max (Elf on the Shelf) was living with us...AND he knew that our bestest friends (Julie, Ansley and Ella) moved away.  Santa is awesome!

Brinlee was sleepy and cranky....so she feel asleep.

We waited that long so I was determined to get a picture, even if she was napping! HA!

Atleast she wasn't crying!!

PRICELESS!!!

So worth the 2 hour wait....so well worth it!!!

Trimming the Tree

Trying to catch up with Christmas posts...it's going to take me a while :-)

I always decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving.  I could not wait to get started this year.  Brinlee just LOVED the Christmas Tree this year.  I wasn't sure what to expect with her, but she didn't mess with it at all, I was so proud!  She helped us decorate it and everything. 

Brayton loves to help, too...although he gets bored with it after hanging a few balls.

I love looking at all the ornaments he has made...once Brinlee starts making them I'm going to need a seperate tree for handmade ornaments!

Brinlee also loves posing by the tree.  She'll go sit in front of it and say "cheeeeese."

And the best part of decorating for Christmas....

sitting back with my babies and enjoying it :-)

....and eating home made chex mix!!

Daddy hooked us up with the goodies!!

Happy New Year!!!

I love New Years!  I love new beginnings and all the resolutions and planning and organizing that follows.

There are a few things I hope to accomplish this year...and maybe if I put them on here I will be held accountable, or atleast have a reminder.

 

I have way too many to list, but here are just a few :-)

 

-Get organized! I want to go through closets, the garage, our upstairs that we are using as a storage unit and just trash, trash, trash!  I really want to eliminate the clutter and all the "stuff" we don't need or don't use.

 

-Organize/Print/Back Up all my photos.  I only print what I want to frame, which isn't much.  My wonderful husband bought me an external hard drive to store my photos, but I need a plan B.  I need to find an online site to back up my photos. 

 

-Same as above with home videos.

 

-Spend more one on one time with my awesome husband, he deserves it!

 

-Spend more one on one time with Brayton

 

-Spend more QUALITY time with Brinlee (Kindermusic or a gym class).

 

-Find a Sunday School class to get involved with again.  (Brinlee doesn't like nursery, so that's been hard for me)

 

-Become better with saving and budgeting our money!

 

-Become better with sending cards for no reason and just being more thoughtful

 

-Make atleast one craft a month

 

-Get  into my photography more!

 

-Start sewing

 

-Cook Dinner more and try new recipes

 

-Read my Bible more and try to become and better Christian

 

HAPPY 2010!!!!!!!!!! 

Weeeeeeeeeee just havin' FUN!

this is from November...

Back yard fun couldn't get any better~!  Brayton loves playing in leaves.  Hopefully when he's older this will come in handy when it comes to yard work.  So far, he's on board with helping us out.  The weather has been nice and mild and we have had the best time playing out back.  

And my little firecracker has had the best time playing dress up.  What a great combination...a camo hat, pearls, tu tu and fuzzy brown boots! HA!  She loves going in to my closet and playing with all my hand bags, shoes and jewelry box.

Brayton got these "silly glasses" as a prize for the fund raiser we did last week.  We've had a lot of fun with these, too :-)

Publix FieldTrip

This is from November....

The week before Thanksgiving KC (Brayton's class) went on a field trip to Publix. We held hands and walked there (it's right across the street). It was a cute little trip, I actually learned a few things myself! The purpose of the trip was to buy the ingrediants for Friendship (vegetable soup). The class was broken into small groups and each group got a shopping list.


Later that week, they cooked the friendship soup and had thanksgiving lunch with their friends from another class.

I love Brayton's school and his teachers...that's another thing to add to my long list of things to be thankful for!!!!