December 30, 2007

December 29, 2007

I love....

My husband, my kids, my pets, my family and........My New Camera!!!!

Yesterday after it stopped raining we decided to take down all of the Christmas decorations on the outside of the house. While we were at it we decided to do some yard work since it was such a nice day! What a perfect afternoon to take some pictures!

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

Carrigan loves driving the lawn tractor but...we found out that she is not heavy enough to keep it going unless she puts all of her weight to the back of the seat. If she needed to stop in a hurry - she just stood up and it automatically shut off.





She loves to have her picture made. Can you tell?





Alan was daddy's little helper. Of course, he wanted to do everything that Rusty was doing. His favorite thing to do was use the shovel and put everything into the small pull behind trailer!







My little man likes his picture taken too!



We hope that everyone has a Safe and Happy New Year!
We're looking forward to 2008 and hope you are too:-)

Kim

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday! We had a great Christmas!

Christmas started early for us this year. After we attended our friend Jim's funeral we had Christmas with Rusty's family. It was a little early this year but the only time that we could get everyone together. Everyone had a great time and the food was great. The kids had fun as well as the adults. Thanks Barb, Tim, Kati, Kevin, Ty, Brooke, Chad and Ashley for everything! What a great Christmas!

The next stop was my mom's house in Birmingham. I took the kids over there this past Saturday (Rusty had to work).

Before we got to mom's house we stopped by to see The Sides Family. For those of you that don't know who they are. Me and Kristi use to play with Leslie when we were little. Her grandparents lived next door to our grandparents. We use to sit out on grandma's porch and color and Leslie can remember playing with the mailbox which my mom has at her house now. It was great seeing her and meeting her husband Scott and her daughter Erin. Her son Chris unfortunately had to go to work that morning.

Once we got to mom's house we had so much fun and boy does Mom make the best chili ever! Thanks Mom for having my favorite! We had alot of fun shopping and lots more fun opening the presents! Thanks Mom, Kandis and Matthew for everything! Again - another great Christmas!

Christmas Eve Rusty had to work at the fire station. It actually did not turn out that bad in the beginning since Carrigan was convinced by some little girl at school that Santa comes on the night of the 25th and not the 24th. Therefore they were not driving me crazy with wanting to open presents or asking me what time he was coming. I told Carrigan and Alan that we needed to go ahead and make Santa some cookies just in case he decided to come early. The kids had alot of fun doing this. Thanks mom for making the dough for me and for sending it home with us. :-)

Early Christmas morning I was prepared to do what I needed to do. I woke up at 130am and took care of business. For some reason I could not go back to sleep so I decided to turn on my scanner and see what was going on in the county. Unfortunately, there was a house fire and Rusty and Pat (my brother-in-law) were on the call. I listened to the call until 4am and then finally fell asleep. At 730am my phone rang and it was Rusty heading back to the station from the early morning call. By the time Rusty got home it was after 915am. It was a good thing that Santa wrapped all of the presents this year because it was really hard keeping the kids in the room. Poor Rusty - when he got home he was so tired. It took all that he had to stay awake long enough to watch the kids open their presents, ride their new bikes, eat breakfast and then open the family presents. He could not keep his eyes open. The kids were great and played while we let daddy sleep. He slept until around 400pm and then the kids were all over him. LOL! Tim and Barb came over later that evening and had dinner with us. They brought some more presents and got to see everything that the kids got. It was a fun night.

Here are some of the pictures that I took from our Christmas.

Here is a picture of the front of our house for those of you that didn't get to see it this year.


The Sides Family - Scott, Leslie and Erin
Doesn't their cat look just like our Gigi did?


Alan, Carrigan and Princess in front of the tree! Joan - do these shirts look familiar?


Carrigan and Alan getting ready to decorate the Christmas cookies.


They were both so serious when it came to decorating!


Finger licking good!
Mommy my fingers are yucky!


They were both so proud! They had alot of fun!


Carrigan with her Hannah Montana CD and High School Musical CD.
Alan and his new train set.


Their new bikes from Santa. They were both freezing but wanted to
ride anyway. Alan's little nose was so red! They only lasted
about 5-10 minutes - LOL!


Alan got a new Mater shirt and Carrigan was enjoying
listening to her new MP3 player. Of course - High School
Musical was playing!
Joan - he wore the Thomas shirt that you
gave him from Saturday - Tuesday! He even slept in it!
I could not get it off of him.


We hope that everyone has a Safe and Happy New Year!


Kim

In Memory of Jim Hambrick

Yesterday was a very sad day. We attended the funeral of our friend Jim Bob! I took some pictures from the service to share with everyone

Please keep Mandy, Abby and Chloe and Jim's family in your thoughts and prayers.

Kim

Thanksgiving and other things!

December 1, 2007

I can't believe that it is December 1st. This year seems to have flown by. I guess before I know it our kids will be graduating High School and ready for college.

We had a great Thanksgiving. I took the kids to mom's house the day before Thanksgiving. Kristi was also there with Hunter. Both Rusty and Pat had to work :-(. The food was excellent.

The kids seemed to have alot of fun also. Carrigan loves Grammy's computer. Her computer is alot faster than mine due to having DSL. On the way home Carrigan cried and told me to take my computer back to Best Buy and tell them to make it faster - HAHA!!! Thanks mom for letting her play on your computer. She thinks that is the neatest thing since it goes so fast. Alan decided to venture up the mountain by himself. He was not scared at all but Hunter had to go after him. There were several minutes that we were not able to see either one of them so Matt climbed it. Eventually we saw Hunter coming down the mountain and then behind him was Matt and Alan. Alan didn't seem to be too scared but I think that was because he had Matt and Hunter.

Below are some pictures that I took of our trip to mom's:

COUSINS!
No I did not plan on all 3 having on black shirts - HAHA! It just happened that way!



Carrigan getting ready to climb the mountain.



Alan on his way down the mountain.



Here comes Alan and Matt.



On Thanksgiving Day we went to Barb's house. The whole family was there - Barb, Tim, Grandma Hammett (Doris), Me, Rusty, Carrigan, Alan, Kati, Kevin, Ty, Brooke. Chad, Ashley, Joyce & Johnny (Kevin's Parents), Joyce's sister and her friend from Florida (sorry I forgot their names). There was a house full. We had alot of fun and the food was great. As usual we got out the sale ads and mapped out our adventure for the next morning. Unfortunately - I forgot to take pictures this year :-(

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Some of you might be wondering what Alan has been up to lately. Well....his favorite this is to still go outside and play. On this particular day I told him that he could go outside but for him not to get dirty. Carrigan was with him so I thought that everything would be okay. This is what I saw..........

Beware - some might consider this offensive - HAHA!!
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I crack up every time I look at this because the look on his face. It's like he knows that he wasn't suppose to take all his clothes off but he did anyway. Needless to say that it was probably about 50 degrees the day this was taken. Plus - Carrigan did not set a good example...she's in the back ground with her clothes all sandy. My little man and his adventures!

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Update on Pepper!

Pepper is doing great. She has gotten use to coming out of her cage and she likes to be in the same cage with Sweetie. They seem to be getting along just fine. As soon as I can I will look into getting them a bigger cage so they can share. :-)

Here is a picture of Rusty and Pepper.
This was the first time that Pepper sat on his shoulder.



Pepper and Carrigan



Carrigan and Sweetie



Carrigan was so excited to have both of the birds on her shoulder. All day long she has asked me to get them out of the cage for her to hold them.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Kim

November 10, 2007

A BEAUTIFUL NOVEMBER DAY!
November 10, 2007

This past Saturday Rusty and I took the kids to North Georgia. We thought that we would see some of the leaves that were changing and just spend the day as a family. We had such a great time. The weather was beautiful - a little chilly but it wasn't too bad.

Our first stop was Amicalola Falls. It had been approximately 10 years since Rusty and I had been there. It was actually the weekend that Lady Diana passed away. Things have really changed since we were up there last. Here is the website in case anyone wants to read about it : www.amicalolafalls.com

Here are some pictures that I took from our trip:



Here is a picture of Rusty and the kids. The falls are in the background. For those of you out of state and hear about our water situation on the news ~ we still have water. I'm not saying that we have alot but at least the falls are still flowing!



From the looks of this truck - the person driving it must have had a really bad day. The truck probably went off the cliff and rolled downed the hill until a tree stopped it.



The Falls!



Alan is at that age where he does not like to sit still and he will look every where
but at me when I'm trying to take his picture!

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Our next stop was Burts Farm! This was a really neat place to go. I can't believe they still had a ton of pumpkins and it was already the 2nd weekend on November.
I can only imagine what it was like in October! Here is the website: www.burtsfarm.com

Of course Alan was not looking where he was suppose too but I just had to
take a picture of him surrounded by the pumpkins!



My little man posing!



My beautiful little girl!

We hope that everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather and that everyone has a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving next week!

Kim

Pepper

Introducing our newest family member

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Pepper

Sorry the picture is kinda blurry!

Several weeks ago I decided to look for a new bird to keep Sweetie company. I felt as though Sweetie was bored and needed a companion. Sweetie went through this kinda whinny thing during the day unless you were in the room with her. Well - guess what! She has not done that all day! :-) Thanks to Mrs. Kathie - I found the perfect companion for Sweetie!

In case you are wondering what kind of birds they are - they are both cockatiels!

Sweetie and Pepper so far get along great! I have put their cages side by side and they have been busy checking each other out. If Sweetie goes to the side of her cage closest to Pepper - Pepper moves in the direction. They pretty much try to stay close to each other. It is really cute!

This is Sweetie!

Here is a picture of Pepper not real happy that I was trying to take her picture!



Sweetie wasn't quite sure about it herself!



Just wanted to share with everyone!

Hope everyone had a fun last night!

Kim