Christmas Morning...

The past 4 years for Christmas we has gone to Nashville, it has become a tradition. Everyone wears their Christmas P.J.'s all day long, we play lots of games and watch Christmas movies!! Jason and I can't be home with our families for the holiday so we have created a family away from home that we love. We go to "The Robert's House," who included: Jay, Stacy, Lilly is 7 and Gray is about 4. The kids sure do make a difference to have them around for Christmas, it really makes you remember what Christmas is all about.


This was the tree Christmas morning before anyone dove into the presents. We may have went a little overboard this year.
Lilly and Jason on Christmas morn!
This is Mr & Mrs. Robert's...
and Jason showing off one of his gifts a scarf....
Gray and myself....
After an early morning and lots of unwrapping we were tired, so we snoozed and watching one of my favorite Christmas movies "The Polar Express."
We had a lovely Christmas and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!!

The puppies are now 7 weeks old and are finding new homes. It's a little sad to see them go, but I have 3 left still to keep me company for a while. Who knows maybe we will have to keep one!! For Christmas we are going to Nashville so I have puppy sitters right now, they think it's the funniest job ever! These are some of the last few pictures of the puppies!!


This is my favorite Jasper,
and Mr. Jackson,
This is Bama and Tide, look they are friends sitting side by side....awwww!!

This is Dakota, she was notorious for falling asleep in the water bowl,
and in the food!! She just couldn't keep her eyes open any long and just fell asleep where she laid.
This is Tide the last day I had her, I wrapped her up like a present in a bow for her new family!!

Playing catch up...

Just a little note to catch everyone one up on our lives. The wedding if you didn't already hear that the date has changed it has. Instead of a January wedding it has been moved to April 4th, do to not enough room available at the resort. As for our house, YES it is still on the market, but we do have some people really interested right now. I will be sure to keep you up dated on that. That leaves us with the puppies.....ohhh....how cute they are!!! They are 5 weeks today and growing as fast as Michael Phellps in a swimming pool. We have one officially sold and many calls and a couple planning visits to see them next week.(Sorry about the underline I have know idea where it came from or how to get rid of it!)

This is almost all of them (5) all just feed, plump and sleepy. It has become a daily routine after they eat to all cuddle up in my lap and sleep. It's pretty cute...huh!!!

Puppy update...

Well tomorrow the puppies will be 4 weeks old. It is so amazing how incredibly fast they grow, before I know it they will be gone! We are going to begin selling them at 7 weeks, so that means I ONLY have 3 more weeks with them. Ohh.....how sad it's going to be to part with them, I am already so attached I can't even imagine.


This is the first week they were born.
And now a comparison to today at almost 4 weeks and you can see for yourself, they have more than doubled in size.
This is my Jasper with a big weird head and I love him the most!!
This is 1st born "Bama," she is the dominate dog for sure, we love her chubb!!
This is "Dakota & Tide," they look the most like momma, Tinkerbell.

We have puppies...

Life for us a little hecktic right now, just to fill you in. Jason is living in an apartment in Birmingham, Alabama(2 1/2 hours away) and has been for about a month and a half, he has a new store there. So our house in Chattanooga, Tennessee is on the market while I am working and staying there...by myself!!. Not the funniest thing but it's life, we are making it work! I visit often. So I decided to leave FAT Tinkerbell with him so he's not by himself and she's prego. Of course the wedding plans are still needing attention and I just took that trip to Boise to see the fam!!

Tinkerbell is the proud mommy of 6 puppies, two boys and four girls (cause girls are best!). It was interesting to say the least. On Sunday she started nesting(digging) really bad and panting lots(which mean it's in the next couple days or sooner) and I wasn't planning on coming to Birmingham until Monday morning. But I drove there later Sunday night to get everything ready just in case. On Tuesday I knew they were coming soon she just wasn't acting right so 2:30 am her water broke, first baby Bama(that's the only one we have named so far) came at about 6:30 am and about 20 minutes later a still born, then at 9:45 am after many hours of hard contractions we felt like something was wrong and took her to get a c-section. From then a couple hours later we had 5 more puppies which mean another still born. But the puppies we have our health, adorable and tiring. I get up every 2 hours to let them feed, I feel like I had my own baby(only because I am getting NO sleep, and we all know how much I like my sleep!!)




This is Tinkerbell boyfriend Rufus and the new proud daddy of 6. He is pretty cute himself!!

Look at that tongue!!
Tinkerbell was huge, I couldn't believe that she actually had 8 pups in there!! I had a nickname for her while she was pregro, fatty, fatty 2 bi-four(yes dad I am sure I spelled that wrong)!! hee hee
This was the first born "Bama." So far she's my favorite!
This is all 6 of the puppies, we got a good variety of color thanks to Rufus!

Trip to Boise

Things around here have been extremely crazy busy lately, sorry it's been so long since my last blog. But this one is a good one!! My sister -in-law Katrina (as you may know) recently had a baby girl Sophia "Marie". My mom and I both went to help out and spend quality time with the little ones while she recovered.

This first one is of Aaron in my Ugg boots he liked to wear around the house(Chris is going to be in trouble with that one, he already has expensive taste...huh!!).
This was our day at the Zoo with Aaron, Mom and I!! It was so amazingly beautiful with all the leaves changing colors we just couldn't help ourselves.

He sure did think that lion was pretty cool!!!

I could not believe how adorable baby Sophia was. I really got a understanding of what new mothers go through...wow...and the scary part is I still want one too!!!
Ohh...how big brother loved his little sister and to hold her all the time(until she cried of course, then he wanted nothing to do with her)!!
The Cockrell Family and their new little addition.
So my mom has a theme almost anytime she comes and this time it was "Dinosaurs" everything. She came up with this creative idea to do a big dinosaur dig( oh yes and I had to be the one to hide all 25 of them in the dirt, I think there is still 3 or 4 we never found...whoops!!). Aaron sure did enjoy that day tons!!




This boy sure does love to pose for pictures. Anytime I had the camera out or he saw me taking a picture of anyone else he had to have one also. And after he always wanted to see how they turned out. I couldn't stop myself from taking one of him in his cute little robe though!! I do have to admit I went a little camera happy, but they are so cute and I don't get to see them often enough. I sure had a great trip to Boise it was well worth it!! Thanks to Katrina for putting up with us(I am sure my mom and I are a little louder and out spoken then Katrina's use to around her house for a week plus)!!

The Alabama vs. Clemson game

This past weekend Jason and I went to Atlanta (it's about 2 hours away) for a football game. On Saturday Alabama played Clemson at the Georgia Dome, and Alabama whooped butt!! If you can't tell we are big Alabama fans. We decided to splurge and stay in "The Four Seasons hotel" and let me tell you what...it was worth every penny!! That hotel is amazingly beautiful! On Sunday before we drove home we got a couples massage and that was great. Needless to say after our massages we didn't feel like driving of course because we were so relaxed, but we had to get back to reality(and work)sometime.





This is at the Four Seasons hotel after the game.



They had these amazing real flowers in the lobby everyday that smelt wonderful, so of course I had to take a picture (Jason couldn't believe how many pictures I wanted to take). We had a wonderful time over the weekend just a nice little get away.