So sweet and BIG NEWS!

Bryce loves his new cousin so much!

Hopefully he will feel the same way about his new little brother or sister that is due to arrive in July!!!!! That's right, we are expecting!! I'm 11.5 weeks pregnant now and the due date is July 11th.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!

Jude

Our nephew, Jude Ruffin Williams, was born yesterday morning. Isn't he precious???

Check out Blakeley and Hunter's blog at http://www.huntandblake.blogspot.com/

Santa and the Space Museum

Not together, though that would be Bryce's absolute dream come true I think!!! We spent last weekend in Huntsville with my sister and her husband and Cappy getting ready for baby Jude's arrival. Sunday we took Bryce to the Space and Rocket museum. He had a BLAST! We saw a 3D movie that was super cute. Bryce kept his glasses on the whole time and even tried to grab at a couple of things in front of him. Too funny!

Santa came to Bryce's school today. Even though it wasn't a scheduled school day for Bryce the teachers let the Tues./Thurs. kids come today just to see Santa. He was excited to see him but wasn't too sure if he would sit in his lap or not. His teachers and all the other kids were sitting on the stage waiting for Santa to come in and read a story to them. Bryce refused to go up there. He wanted to sit with me. Oh well. But when Santa walked in his face lit up! He was so excited! He stood up from the table, said bye mama and followed Santa right up on the stage! He didn't stop at his class though, Bryce kept on walking at sat right at Santa's feet! It was so cute!! After the story each child got to sit on Santa's lap and take a picture and tell them what they wanted for Christmas. I turned my head to talk to another mom and Bryce waltzed back up on stage to sit in Santa's lap. All by himself! Luckily I caught it and got my friend to snap a picture for me. He told santa he wants a "nice, big truck" for Christmas.

This one is priceless! Santa is here!!!

Surprising news.....

My sister is 38 weeks pregnant with her first child. They had an ultrasound at 20 weeks and it was decided that she was carrying a girl, who they were going to name Winnie. We have all bonded with Winnie and gone CRAZY buying pink stuff. The room is finished (though not painted pink) and Blakeley and Hunter were so excited to bring baby Winnie home soon. They had an ultrasound today to confirm the baby's position and were very surprised to learn that baby Winnie is actually a BOY! Oh my.

They are so happy the baby is healthy and will learn to love their boy, but they feel like they lost a little girl today. I'm so sad for them. I am headed to Huntsville this weekend armed with tons of blue. We will get them through this and in no time forget the sadness this day has brought. Maybe we will even laugh about it one day? Here is a link to their new blog (the old one was titled winniecwilliams so they decided to change it) http://huntandblake.blogspot.com/

Our Christmas Tree

We had so much fun picking out our tree yesterday. We drove out to a you cut it place about an hour away. Bryce loved running through the trees. We came home and had hot chocolate while we decorated the tree. Here are some pictures.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We always have lunch with my dad's mom's family (usually about 60 people there each year!) at my Aunt and Uncle's house in Pine Level, AL. They have alot of land and Uncle Dave has a lot of farm equipment. Bryce loves it there! The weather was perfect so we spent all day there on hay rides, 'driving' the tractor, and sledding behind the tractor. Here are some pictures:

Feeling much better

Bryce is feeling much better, has been since Friday. I cancelled our Dr. appointment because I could tell he was feeling better. I was so glad he was feeling better because about a month ago I had set Friday as our bye-bye diapers day. It worked!!!!! No more diapers for Bryce!! He is so big :) And looks so cute in his big boy underwear!

Sick

Bryce has been sick for about a week and a half. The first week it was just a cold, mainly stuffy nose and runny eyes. That mostly went away but from Sun-Wed he had fever and he still isn't feeling 100%. He is playing and having fun most of the time, but still a little more subdued than normal. He missed school last week for our trip to West Point and Memphis and he missed both days this week being sick. Today was the preshool's Thanksgiving program and lunch. His class sang a cute turkey song, but Bryce had to miss it! I was so sad!! I'm sure there will be many more programs to see in our future!

Here are some pictures from our trip last week

Reagan had a pinched nerve in her back, poor thing! Bryce was so sweet to her.

At the Children's Museum of Memphis

PECANS!!!

Firestation

We went to a Firestation in Pensacola yesterday with our playgroup. Bryce loved it!

Halloween and MSU football

The pictures are a little out of order, but on the 25th we took Bryce to his first MSU football game. He had a lot of fun! He rang his cowbell the whole time :) That weekend we stayed in West Point with Anthony's parents then spent the week in Olive Branch with my parents and had a great time both places! Thursday we left for the lakehouse which meant Bryce got to trick-or-treat with his cousins, Borden and Jack. He loved it! We are headed back to West Point and Memphis again this weekend through all next week. Anthony is going with us for a week long VACATION!!! I'm so excited!

Fun week

We had a wonderful weekend. It is always nice to travel and be on the go, but it is also great to get to stay at home for the weekend. The weather was perfect. We worked in the yard, went to the farm (previous post), and carved our first pumpkin! Aren't they so cute?


We also 'built' a space shuttle in our playroom. Bryce's latest obsession is space, space shuttles, astronaunts and planets. He loves his new shuttle!
Bryce had wild wild hair this morning when he woke up!
We had our playgroup's halloween party today. Bryce is a motorcycle dude for halloween this year. Doesn't he look tough? Someone made the comment that the sweetest, most innocent kid in the playgroup was the roughest and toughest for halloween!

We are headed to West Point and Starkville for the weekend, then Memphis (Olive Branch) for the week. We can't wait!!!

Our trip to the farm

Our playgroup went to a place in Daphne, AL called Brantley Farms today. It is a small petting zoo type farm. I was hoping for pumpkins, but they didn't have any! I did discover that Satsumas are wonderful (that is their main crop).

Here is Bryce playing on an old toy tractor. Anthony said he used to have one of these!


Feeding a calf
Feeding a goat. You see Bryce's little hands? I was shocked he did this! On the hayride

New pictures

At my friend Whitney's wedding
Bryce at Lulu's
Arrgh Matey!
The Borden family at the Beach Club

My college roommate Whitney at her wedding


Bryce and Uncle Sauce looking at pictures of space and rockets My parents are in Gulf Shores for two weeks and we are having a great time going back and forth visiting with them and playing at the condo. The weather was perfect the first weekend and should be nice again by the time we go back over there after school on Thursday. Bryce stayed with them while Anthony and I went to Laurel, MS for Whitney's wedding. It was a nice little vacation for us and it was great to see Whitney and some other Tri Deltas there! They took Bryce to a bluegrass festival on Saturday and he had a blast. Bryce is still enjoying school and things are going great here in Pensacola!