jack's first birthday party

we had a wonderful time at jack's first birthday party this past saturday (oct. 17th). he did sooooo good! it is like he knew that everybody came over to see him and to celebrate him! he welcomed the early guests at the door. he sat in his daddy's lap while opening all of the gifts and became very protective over them :) he even helped open some of them. he even played with the toys and not the wrapping paper. although the next day he sure did have fun carrying around the empty boxes and bows that mimi made! he made a mess of his cupcake (didn't try any of it) and then cried when his guests laughed at him. all in all we had a great time and i am so happy that everything went smoothly!
i am sad to say that the only picture we have of my mom (mimi) and the birthday boy is the back of her head when she was trying to sooth him after the cupcake cry! i am so upset about this and want to cry but what can you do? i told her that i want to put him in his b-day shirt again and take a picture with her when we see her next but that would be cheating. next year you better believe i will be taking lots of pictures of mimi and jack!!
jack's real birthday is tomorrow at 4:14 pm. a year ago right now i was freaking out and going back and forth to the doctor's office to see when i was going to be induced. i just wanted one more day to get ready for him and to get my nerves up about birth so i tried to make it for the 22nd but there were too many ladies already scheduled to be induced that day...so the 21st it was! so i made sure i had everything in my bag (which i had packed a month earlier). we went to mellow mushroom for dinner with jason, lori, nicolette, house, and kelly. it was a good last dinner and i ate a ton because i knew that i couldn't eat anything after that until jack was born. we played with pete as much as we could because we knew we wouldn't see him for a few days. oh sweet memories! i know i am going to be a mess tomorrow thinking back to our sweet baby boy being born and about all of the wonderful memories we have made in a year!

maddie's first birthday

marcus came over friday night for dinner, along with house, kelly, and michelle. we had a lot of fun catching up with him and eating this delicious cake that he brought us from edgar's bakery...yum!

jack loves to play with the cords for the blinds. (of course i am sitting right there for all of you that were wondering)

this is the way that he sucks on pacies...with his bottom lip sticking out the bottom of it :)

we went to beth and stu's house saturday night to celebrate maddie's first birthday. we had a lot of fun watching her eat her cupcake. she did really well with it. but her favorite part was when stu gave her a fudge pop.

jack gave maddie a tea set for her birthday and then enjoyed playing with it. it was funny to see jack play with pink and purple toys. maybe one day he will have a little sister that will beg him to play tea party with her.

climbing on the couch

jack can climb up on the couch really well these days...scary!! when i came back in from fixing my cereal this morning he was up on the couch playing with the blinds! i can't leave that boy alone for a second :)

pumpkin patch

we went to old baker's pumpkin patch in harpersville, al yesterday and had so much fun even though it rained a little while we were there. jack got really dirty in the patch, but that is ok because he is a boy...i have to get used to dirt!!

walking in the pumpkin patch

so proud of his pumpkin.

trying to pick it up

we got the 2 on the right

he loved to tap on the pumpkins

daddy with 2 little pumpkins!!

on the hayride
jack really liked watching the tractor

fun day at the pumpkin patch :)
when we got off the hayride they offered to bring our pumpkins to the car and jack cried when we took his away so we had to hold onto his the rest of the time! he loved his pumpkin!!

fun saturday!

we had such a wonderful saturday! we went to sonic for breakfast, then yard selling, milos for lunch, then to a homemade art show, next was botanical gardens, sonic for a snack, then to kelly's art show, and then home to watch the auburn game!

i love how he walks with his hands up like that!

he loves to hold balls and sometimes throw them (mostly likes to throw them into the fireplace). he says "t" for throw

standing up

jack has a terrible habit of pulling hair. he pulls my hair and his daddy's hair and thinks that it is the funniest thing in the world. he makes what we call his devil noise! it hurts so bad...which in this picture you can't tell that i am yelling at johnny and telling him to help me. i was completely stuck because i couldn't get jack off of my back.
on the other hand, jack has the cutest habit of pulling his hair when he is sleepy. it is adorable. he pulls his hair in his crib until he falls asleep and has done this since he was almost a newborn. i remember the first time he pulled his hair and didn't know to let go when it hurt and started to cry! it was hilarious!!

johnny and jack watched most of the game like this...i snuck a picture of them

high five daddy! waaarrr eagle!

jack's 3rd haircut

brushing his new haircut at toys r us

no more conan!

jack has a new obsession with pacies...it just took him 11 months to figure this out!!

happy 3rd birthday pete!

this is the night we got pete, january 3, 2007

this is not a great picture but look how small he was compared to my hands!

the second night with pete.

i loved how his ears flipped backward

our pup!

pete is legal in dog years today!! i can't believe he is 3! it seems like just yesterday that we drove to gulf port to pick him up. we went there thinking we were going to get a girl dog and ended up falling in love with pete. he had such a round tummy and those eyes...how could we resist those eyes?!?

pete still has that puppy look to him and feel. he has brought so much love and joy to our family over the past 3 years. he loves us so much and shows us that everyday. he lives to please us and to be there for us. we love him and thank him for being such an awesome dog and wonderful part of our family!