Throwback Thursday~ Turkey time

Well....it is that time again. February has flown by and March is here....and is the start of not seeing Daddy for awhile because he is in the "mountains"...per Alexis. It is about time for Turkey season. Daddy just cant wait for this time! He gets the land in Piedmont prepped and ready weeks before it is time for the season to come in. He enjoys spending the time with his Dad too when they go together..and his granddad too when he is able to go!!
Alexis cracks me up because whenever she doesnt know where Tyler is....she asks me if he is hunting in the mountains! ha! Also....what is the funniest..is for example the other night I cooked a pork loin and she asked Tyler if he killed it so we could eat it! (Thank goodness the answer was no..because I dont eat the things he kills). :)
Maybe one day Alexis and Lily will enjoy going hunting with Daddy some! We shall see if they are future hunters! I do know one thing....they sure will look cute as usual in camouflage even if they dont hunt! :)

The year was 2011~

This is Tyler's dad's dad, Pawpaw Lindy...he comes to hunt sometimes too!

Daddy with his turkey! I do believe this is the one that is hanging...mounted...in our basement. Yep, pretty sure that bird is on my wall! 

Wordless Wednesday

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord for blessing us with this beautiful day. We at the Law house are very thankful for everything you have done. We have had a great weekend...even with Lily not feeling well yesterday. She is still not herself..but much better today. Her stomach has been bothering her for the past couple of days. (I am hoping it is teething...and she is done with it!) (fingers crossed!)
We didnt have any plans this weekend but to just hang out at home, relax and today we played outside. It was 70 degrees and blue sunny skies! Could not have asked for a better day! It was a far difference than all the past days here lately with all the gloom and rain! So sad, but it is supposed to start storming again tomorrow! :(  Maybe it will pass and not! (fingers crossed again!!) Alexis jumped...and jumped...and jumped on her trampoline! She would still be jumping right now if it were up to her! That girl just has WAY tooooo much energy! ha! We also practiced tee~ball today also! She is getting better and better! :) Daddy is slowly...but surely finishing up the yard, so he worked on it all weekend. There is just SO much to do with it! I cant wait to see the finished product of the backyard since he has done such a great job on the front!

And this weekend...we have been playing with what is left of our Valentine balloons! This is the lonely last one we have! I guess it is perfect timing since this is the last week of LlllooOOoooove month!
(February has flown by!)

The teether and the tattletale...

We have had an eventful week this week with the Fancy Nancy Tea~party, Awanas, and Bible study.
Alexis said her new Bible verse Wednesday night which was: 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only son. John 3:16'. I love that she loves to learn her verses and every Wednesday is just so excited to go to Awanas! And tonight we had dinner with Nan, Pawpaw and Brandi and then enjoyed going to a movie! .....and now we are ready for the weekend! (always ready for the weekend here at this house!)

On another note...Alexis is a tattletale...yep I said it, Alexis knows it and Daddy says it a billion times because she mostly tattles on him! :) With that being said. Last night I had my Bible/book study. I had everything taken care of in order for the girls to go to bed while I was gone. Lily was already asleep. My last words to Tyler before I left was "Dont forget to brush Alexis' teeth before you put her to sleep."  (again everything else was done)

Now....from the time I left..... to the time it was to put Alexis to sleep was 15 minutes. Well, I guess in that 15 minutes it was soooooo hard to remember my last words...the only ONE thing I asked him to do.
Well....Alexis wakes up this morning right before I am about to leave to go to work. So she comes into the kitchen and the first thing out of her mouth is "Mommy, Daddy didnt brush my teeth last night" (In that perfected tattletale sing song voice that she has)....that really is annoying, and we are working on her to not be such a tattletale even though it is not totally bad being one sometimes. (when needed) ;)

So, I....loud enough so Daddy can hear me since he is in the bedroom....say "So Daddy didnt brush your teeth last night like I asked him to do...the one thing I asked him to do before I left!?" Well, Daddy hears this and responds "Mommy, Alexis is a tattletale!" (in that same perfection of the tattletale sing song voice) ...I know who Alexis gets it from! ;)
So, lesson # 532,325,522 in the Law house learned:  If you do what you are supposed to do...which should always be the correct/right thing, then you will NEVER have to worry about being tattled on!
(by a 4 year old!)  ;)

Poor Lily this week..(I feel like I say that ALL the time)...has been teething really really bad. I never knew when Alexis was cutting teeth. She never had any problems and never had any signs. Well, sweet Lily...she has ran a low grade fever, not felt like eating much, has had a really runny nose and MAJOR blow out diapers with bad diaper rash. We can tell every time she has teeth coming in! :( Luckily for me, all of her bad blow diapers have been at school...not so lucky for her teachers...and really sad for her having to deal with it! Poor thing just cant seem to get a break sometimes! :( I am really ready for her to have all of her teeth in!

Alexis has practiced Tee~ball a couple of afternoons! We find out next week what her team name is and who is on her team! Practice will be starting coming up and then in April will be her first games!! She is really good at swinging her bat and hitting the Tee...we are working on that swing to hit the ball though! ;)

Lily hanging out with Daddy!....yes, if you notice her shirt is just over her head and that is all! They both were too lazy to put it on all the way! ha!

Before Tyler and I had kids...we would LOVE to go at random times of the night...say 10:00 o'clock at night to Sonic or McDonalds and get an ice cream or some kind of fun drink! Well, since we have had kids...we havent been able to do that. Well, Daddy decided he wanted to have Daddy~Lexie time so 30 minutes before her bedtime the other night....they loaded up and headed to McDonalds to get ice cream! Notice Alexis has chocolate all over her face! She ate all of the chocolate and didnt eat much of the vanilla! I am sad that Daddy has replaced me on "fun runs" to get ice cream...but it makes it all better that I am replaced by this cutie!! 

Food for thought

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’

DAD: ‘Yeah sure, what it is?’ replied the man.

SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’

DAD: ‘That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?’ the father said angrily.

SON: ‘I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?’

DAD: ‘If you must know, I make $50 an hour.’

SON: ‘Oh,’ the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: ‘Daddy, may I please borrow $25?’

The father was furious, ‘If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don’t work hard every day for such childish frivolities.’

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The father sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the father had calmed down, and started to think:

Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn’t ask for money very often, so the father went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

‘Are you asleep, son?’ He asked.

‘No daddy, I’m awake,’ replied the boy.

‘I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier’ said the man. ‘It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $25 you asked for.’

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. ‘Oh, thank you daddy!’ he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.

The father saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.

The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

‘Why do you want more money if you already have some?’ the father grumbled.

‘Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,’ the little boy replied.

‘Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.’

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that worth of your time with someone you love. If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours... But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
** I hope my girls always know that no matter what, I love them with all my heart and they are always my first priority. This is a great reminder, to live life to the fullest and spend time with the ones you love! :)

Throwback Thursday ~Little Booties

I love pictures like these.........the kinds of pictures where when your little girls are no longer little, yet grown...and you pull these type pictures out and my little girls..that are grown... are "so embarrassed" that these pictures were made! Oh, I love pictures like these...and I have more.... that I can show the girls when they are older and them be like "Mom, I cant believe you took a picture of me like this!" ;)  I cant wait!

My sweet little booties! :)  Both these "little cracks" were about 7 months old!

Alexis ~ early 2009

Lily ~ early 2012

Fancy Nancy Tea~Party

Instead of doing "Wordless Wednesday" today, I wanted to share something that I thought was much more "fancy"! Yesterday Gran and Aunt Pam took the girls to their first Fancy Nancy Tea~party at the Anniston Library. I have been reading Fancy Nancy books to Alexis for awhile now and she loves the series so she just could not wait for the tea~party!
Fancy Nancy does all kinds of fun and fancy things in her books. Alexis is just like Fancy Nancy too! The series of books are really cute!
Fancy Alexis and Fancy Lily got all dolled up in their fancy attire and enjoyed dancing, coloring, eating cupcakes, singing and drinking tea. The tea~party is not just any tea~party!..........there is a year waiting list for this! Aunt Pam tried to get the girls a seat last year and it was full so they were put on the waiting list to hopefully have a spot this year. Well, Aunt Pam got a call confirming that they would have a seat this year and it was so worth it! Everybody had a great...and fancy...time!!

The girls enjoyed dancing...Lily just kept trying to watch and see what her big sister was doing! :)

Fancy Lily was just amazed at what all was going on!

Fancy Alexis!

Here they are again dancing and singing...and Lily trying to see what sister was doing!

Fancy Lily enjoying her cupcake and snacks with Aunt Pam and Gran

My Fancy girls!!

My eyes...my eyes!

We just dont know what to do since we have had some sunshine the past couple of days! Today has been a beautiful day!! Heard through the grapevine that it is supposed to start raining again tomorrow! :(
Well...we can at least remember what to do with sunglasses today...and get to use them while we make silly faces! :)

Hard workin & feelin the blues...

Saturday funday has not turned out so fun this weekend!.........Lily, Daddy and I didnt get really any sleep last night. Tyler and I had a great time on our date night, but once we got the girls home the fun began! :(
Lily was up all night coughing and crying because she just couldnt get comfortable and breath through her nose. So, today I took her to the doctor. Poor little thing has had bronchitis, the flu and now upper respiratory asthma/sinus infection in the past 2 months! She has been through it all! :(
She is sleeping now, and hopefully the medicine she got will make her feel better soon! We were going to watch Alexis' little friends..Cooper, Walker and Nick play their basketball game, but we had to cancel. :(
While we were gone to the doctor, Daddy got the front yard finished! There are a couple more things that he wants to get done, but WOW at the transformation he has made! It looks great! He is such a hard worker. He just doesnt know how to sit down! :) .........he puts 100% in everything he does and never cuts corners! I hope that my girls look up to him and take after him as they grow! :) He is for sure a great role model for his girls! :)
So....we will be spending the rest of our weekend trying to rest and feel better! ....and now onto the back yard next for Daddy! :)


Lily was SO good while we were waiting on the doctor!

The next two pictures are the "before" pictures of our yard before Tyler got his hands on it! ha!

The next two pictures are the "work in progress" pictures! :)

And ...............drum roll please............... THE NEW LANDSCAPED YARD!

My funny Valentines!

This week was Valentines day week! We had alot of fun activities this week to celebrate the day of LlloOove! :)
Tuesday night we had dinner with Aunt Pam, Brandon, Nannie, Hogan and Gran at Aunt Pam's house. The girls are always so excited to go to Aunt Pam's house and eat all of her apples before it is time to eat dinner! :) Gran gave the girls the CUTEST little Tutu outfits for Valentine's Day to wear to their Fancy Nancy Tea Party that is next week! (Alexis can NOT wait for this!..we have been reading Fancy Nancy books for the past 2 weeks and she just loves Fancy Nancy! I call her Fancy Nancy Lexie and she just smiles sooo big!) Aunt Pam got the girls two fun Valentine books that they have enjoyed reading this week too!
Wednesday night Alexis had Awanas..and after we came home and got everything ready for her Valentine party at school the next day! She had soo much fun at her party on Thursday!
*Funny story:

I asked Alexis the other day who her valentine is…..and she said she wanted it to be Nick! ( a precious little boy in her class) so, I asked her yesterday when I picked her up how her Valentine party went... etc.

I asked her if Nick was her valentine? …………well……..she lowers her head and looks so sad and says no. I asked her why he wasn’t.

She goes……”Well Mommy, he did eenie meenie miney mo…and so I wasn’t his valentine.” (looking so sad when she said this)

So I said….”well he did eenie meenie miney mo…..to choose his valentine..so who was his valentine?”…………and Alexis said ……Ella! Haha!

Mr. little ladies man had a tough decision…………and what a genius way of making the decision than none other than eenie meenie miney mo!! 

I just laughed so hard picturing Nick standing in front of Alexis and Ella doing eenie meenie miney mo! WAY too funny! Alexis did say though that Nick……..and Walker gave her a valentine’s hug! Ha! It just cracks me up how they are at this age with things they do and say!! ha!

So Thursday was THE day! :) Tyler, the gentleman that he is, asked his mom to go to dinner with him so they went to eat and then enjoyed ice cream together after. So, Pawpaw wanted to be our Valentine...so the girls and I went to dinner with Pawpaw! (We had more fun that Nan and Daddy did! ;) )

Tonight Tyler and I get to have our Valentines date! whooo hooo! :) Gran got us a gift card for dinner so we are going to eat and to a movie! It has been a looong while since we have been on a "date" so...we are excited...and Gran is keeping the girls............so we are kid less too! :) whooo hooo! :)

One of these days Alexis is going to look at these pictures and say "Mom...what was I doing?"...and my response will be.."This is you..being you..and not listening to me and not wanting to put the love sign down and you making up your own poises!" :) .............but I love her poises she does! :)

Alexis was so excited to do her Valentine cards for all of her friends! She wrote all of their names and her name on each one! I was SOOOO proud of the great job she did writing! (She is only 4!!) :)

This is the cutest thing ever! Alexis made this at school to put all of her Valentines in! Is it not adorable!...and soo much fancier than the shoe box things I made when I was a kid to put mine in! I love seeing all of her valentines she got from all of her sweet friends!!

Aren't these outfits sooo cute for their Tea party coming up! Cant wait to see them in these!!

Nan got Alexis the cutest little desk so she can do her homework when she starts school! Alexis loved it..and Lily loved it too! Lily kept trying to get up there and sit too! ha!

But...they both LOVED the balloons just as much!! :)

Throwback Thursday ~ Loves Past!

Since today is Valentine's Day I thought it would be a great idea to do some of my favorite past Valentine pictures for Throwback Thursday!! I will share what all we did for Valentine's day on my next post! :)

My most favorite Valentine's Day memory (in my younger years :) ) was my Junior year at Auburn! *I dont have any pictures downloaded, but I wanted to share it for memory's sake! :)
Tyler was in Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Auburn. For Valentine's weekend his Fraternity had a "Sweetheart Formal" in Savannah, Georgia! For the weekend the guys and their chosen dates loaded up and we headed to beautiful Savannah! We had such a GREAT time! Savannah is beautiful! We all enjoyed walking the boardwalk, eating, hanging out, shopping etc! That Saturday night was the formal. We all got dolled up and ate and danced the night away to the band!
Every Fraternity has what is called a "sweetheart" in their chapter... which is the girl that they vote on that all the guys feel is the "sweetheart"  out of all the girlfriends, friends etc that hang out at their house. Well, Tyler's Fraternity voted and decided for me to be their sweetheart!  :)
So at the "Sweetheart Formal" they honored me and gave me flowers! I felt so special and sooo happy that all the guys voted for me! :) It meant alot because all of those guys were very special to me and still to this day are close to some of them! :) Tyler and I had so much fun together on that trip and I was so happy he was my valentine! :)

These pictures are just so precious to me of my beautiful little Valentines in years past!! :)

Alexis ~ 2011

Alexis ~ 2010

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Alexis and Payton! She is "head over heels" for this little guy! :)

Sweet Lily ~ 2012

My Valentines ~ 2012

Wordless Wednesday

My heart

Lily is 17 months this week! She is the most sweet, loving and huggable little girl! I could just squeeze her to death! :)
These past couple of weeks have been the biggest changes yet for her to me. She has just become much more of a toddler so quick here lately! The "I can do everything by myself" attitude is already kicking in too. She will throw a little fit if you do something that she wants to do by herself!
Her vocabulary has taken off also! She is getting pretty good at copying words that I say. She has started saying no. Yep, no has officially hit the word list! (She usually says no no no, though!)
She also says "dop"....(stop), bubble, dog, night night and hey are some others that she has been saying too!!
She is obsessed with closing doors, cabinets, drawers, the trash can door, dishwasher, anything that is open...she HAS to close it and keep it closed. I have had several accidents almost of dumping left over food into the floor instead of the trash can because I will look down and it will be out and before I know it, she has already pushed in the trash can and closed the door!..........right when I am about to dump the food!
She LOVES to color with Alexis. She will sit in the chair...grab a crayon and just "color" like she is 4 years old too!
**I think she is going to be a lefty because she always uses her fork and writes with her left hand. Alexis would swap back and forth with what she would do at this age, but overall she would always use her right hand. Lily just uses her left hand every time so we shall see if she changes!
Speaking of forks.........she has become obsessed with forks lately too! She will grab my fork away from me and start using it if I dont get her one to use! She is getting better and better with getting the food in her mouth instead of on my floor! ;) Alexis at this age wasnt even interested in using a fork...and when I did introduce it to her, she would still mostly use her hands. Lily was the one that decided herself that she was ready! (Maybe that is a good sign that she will starting wanting to potty train herself too!) ;)
She is also loving trying to take her clothes off by herself. She will get mad if I try and help her...but madder when her shirt or pants get stuck...like over her head! And her MOST favorite thing to do is take her shoes and socks off.... All.the.time. It is such a PAIN too! :) Every time we get out of the car, we have to search for where she has thrown her shoes and socks and put them back on only to turn around 5 seconds later and see that she is trying to take them off again!......she has even been put in time out at school because she will not stop taking them off when the teachers tell her to stop! :)
She still loves to eat....and eat....and eat! She really isnt picky at all. Green beans are still by far her favorite!
She is responding so much more to questions when someone asks her something and more aware of her environment too! We are getting closer to 2 more and more everyday!! {insert tears here}

This picture describes her personality perfectly to me! That little sweet..innocent half smile, just has my heart!!

 Here she is using her fork! She is getting really good at it! :)

Here is a perfect example of Lily wanting to do everything by herself and little miss "Mommy" trying to help! Lily just had to put her shoes on by herself...even though it is on the wrong foot!...but dont worry "Mommy Alexis" was there to correct her! :)

Where is my "Rock~a~tar?"

We had a great weekend! Saturday got up to 62 degrees! I love when I dont have any "obligations" and we just have an easy...go with the flow...weekend. That is exactly what we had! Our friend Becca called and invited us to the Anniston Museum so we loaded up and met Laynee and Walker to play! The girls had a blast just running around, playing and looking at all of the animals! We had lunch with them and then headed home for perfect timing of the afternoon nap! ;)
Daddy worked on the yard and it is almost done thanks to Nan coming up to help him out!
Every Sunday...I cant help but get the song "Manic Monday" in my head! I love the lyrics..."I wish it were Sunday....thats my fun day...I dont have to run day!"....and that is what we are doing so far today!
The girls decided to have a "rock show" this morning! They were cracking me up!! Lily was just dancing and singing  right along with Alexis! (She kind of stopped when I cut the video camera on though)!


Alexis, Lily, Laynee and Walker. This is the best picture I could get of four busy kiddos! (The bear in the background just ended up having to be chopped out of the picture!) :)

This video cracks me up! The rock show was going great until Alexis had to go find her "Rock a tar" (her guitar...she couldnt think of the correct word!)...

Seeing double

I just fell in love with this picture when we took it of Alexis when she was a baby! When Lily was born, I could not wait for her to be around the same age as Alexis so I could get a picture of her too!!

Sweet .....sweet....beautiful little ballerinas!......

These two faces

These two faces make my week! We have had a great week this week, just doing our same ole groove. We havent been too busy and this weekend we dont have any plans really either other than Tyler is REALLY needing to get our yard finished. He is re-landscaping the front and back yard because it was in BAD shape when we moved in! (before and after pictures coming soon!!)....and I am planning on taking Alexis to practice tee~ball since it is supposed to be a beautiful day tomorrow!! :) I hope everyone has had a great week and going to have a great weekend too!!