Good times in Tennessee

Nothing in particular that I needed to "blog" about, I just wanted to share some pictures from the last couple of weeks.

I have been wanting to get a sweet picture of Noah sleeping and I finally remembered this week. Such a sweet boy.


We were in Cookeville a few weekends ago and of course Tay enjoyed the water. It was actually a little cool that weekend, so her and my Dad were the only 2 to get in.


Taylor's good friend Cole just turned 2 and we went to the park for his birthday party. Taylor loved the slide and swings. Her two favorite things.




Cole's daddy works at the firehouse that was across the street from the park, so all the kids went over and took a tour.
Noah was loving his fireman hat. He was cracking up the entire time. It was so funny.


All of the kids got to sit in the driver's seat of the truck. Noah thought it was great, but Taylor was too scared to get in.


We had some friends come and visit last weekend. Krisha had not met either of the kids, so I was glad she got to see them.


We also had some of Mark's friends in town the same weekend. We took them to Arrington Vineyards on Saturday where we listened to music and ate dinner. Noah, being the happy baby that he is, just sat there the entire time and played. He had a great time :)


Noah has officially started to eat foods. It took him a while to get used to the whole swallowing thing, but now he loves to eat!!


Yesterday we spent the day with some of our friends from church. They live out in the country so Taylor and Sophie had a blast running around. We went down to their creek where the kids played and found all kinds of fun creatures.


I just had to include this picture because of what Taylor is eating. The Sammons had tons of pears from the trees near their property. Taylor kept eating them. I think she went through about 10 of them!!!


This was the girls' best "cheese" faces :)

A couple of pictures for ya....

This first picture is really the only reason for this blog post, but I figured I might as well throw a couple of other in there also :)

Noah got his first tooth yesterday (Sunday)!!! We were at a church picnic and I just happened to notice it. And then today, I saw his second tooth. Besides him being a little more clingy, you never would have have known this kid was getting teeth in. You really have to look, but they are there.


Last weekend, we had our first annual neighborhood get together. The weather was perfect and we had a really good crowd. We all had a great time!


All of the kids swam in our cool waterfall pool. There were about six 2 year old, so it was fun to watch them all!


This is from Taylor's first day of potty training. We still have a while, but we have made some progress...

Mineral City, OH - Vacation #2

Like I stated in my last post, we are not taking a true family vacation this year. So visiting our parents is what I am counting as our summer vacations. Last week we went to see Mark's family in Ohio. We had a great trip (excluding the 9 hour car ride where Tay did not sleep :)) We had not been to Mineral City in one year, so we were ready to see everyone!

This is just a picture of Noah before we left, always smiling.


Mark's parents had a baby pool on their back porch. Taylor loves the water, so she was in it the first day. She was having a blast going down the slide.


On Friday we went to the lake on Mark's parents boat. This was Noah's first boat trip. All the kids (Sophie included) had a blast!


Taylor driving the boat with Grandpa.


Noah sat in the water with me before he got into the lake.


Noah kept splashing the water, getting dirt on his hands, and then sucking his thumb...wonderful.


Taylor and her cousin Cole.


This is Mark's grandma sitting with Taylor. We discovered on this trip that she LOVES cheetos. If we ever need her to be still, all we have to do is give her some cheetos.


Family photo


All of Mark's family


Taylor got a baby doll from her Aunt Amy and Uncle Todd. She was hugging it before we even got it out of the box.


The 4 youngest cousins. The 3 youngest were all born within 10 months.




Noah and his new cousin Walker. Yep, I said new...he is only 2 months old and weighs over 15 lbs!! I am pretty sure he will have passed Noah up by the next time we see him.


Taylor and her Uncle Beavis...I mean Chad.


Noah and his Aunt Jennie.




Noah and his cousin Hayden (5 months older).


Noah and his aunt Amy.


Grandma feeding Noah his bottle.

Cookeville Vacation

Our family does not technically have a "vacation" this summer, so I am counting Cookeville as our family vacation. Me and the kids left last Tuesday, so we were there for almost an entire week. My brother and his family were there also, so we got to spend lots of quality time with everyone.

Taylor absolutely LOVES her cousin Addie. She talks about her all the time. The girls were so cute together. If only they lived closer...


We went to my grandparents house for dinner one night. My granddad always takes the kids on a tractor ride. All of the great-grandchildren loved it....except Taylor. She was not happy.


On the other hand, Noah thought it was great! Maybe it is a boy thing :)


My parents have a wonderful pool in their back yard. We were out there almost everyday.


On a rainy morning, we took the kids to play at the Burger King playground.


Just some cute pictures of Noah and Sophie.




This is from our family reunion. These girls did a good job of entertaining one another.


Mark's brother and sister-in-law came for a visit from Ohio two weekends ago. This was their first time to meet Noah.


Aunt Amy reading with Taylor.


After church.


Taylor loves doing somersaults. I thought I should include this cute booty picture :)