Other December Pictures

Here are some other random pictures taken in December and some in January. We were able to meet up with my Uncle Jimmy, his wife Patricia, their Daughter and Son-in-law and their kids. We haven't seen them in years so it was good to catch up. The other pics are of Sam, of course! We moved him up to the next Sunday school class because he was still in the nursery at church. He will be one of those preschoolers that gets stuck in the lower class longer because his birthday is in Oct. We transitioned him to a backpack instead of his diaper bag so that's the pics that I have of that. The third pic is of him with a ornament box on his head in case you can't figure that one out! haha

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Christmas Eve 2008

We started a new family tradition and had brunch at Emily's house on Christmas Eve morning. We had drawn names during Thanksgiving and exchanged ornaments after breakfast. Emily had everything decorated and we all had a great time. Sorry to my Mom...I got pics of everyone else with their ornament except you! And I was the one that drew your name, too!!
The rest of the pictures are from the Phillips Family Christmas Eve party. Sam really enjoyed himself and entertained everyone there. Sorry to Joseph who got left out of the pictures. I guess he had the camera more this time! Usually it's me who always gets left out! haha

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December 2008

Here are some pics from the last week! I'll upload Christmas pics sometime later this week or after the first of the year! :) Merry Christmas to all!

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Sam's baby brother!

He wouldn't move is hands away from his face but you can still see that he resembles his big brother. Now we can't wait til he gets here!!!

Thanksgiving and other random pics

We went to Chatom, AL to Honey and Papa's for Thanksgiving this year. Uncle Clay, Aunt Pam, cousin Lauren, Great-Granny and Great-Pawpaw Townsend also came. We visited Great-Granny Sasser at the nursing home there, too. The rest of the pics are just random stuff around our house and the last few pics are of our Christmas tree we put up a week ago! Enjoy!

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Sam is growing!

Sam is 13 months old now! He is practically running. His favorite toy right now is Daddy's old cell phone. He loves making pretend calls on it. His favorite place is still outside, so we have no problems putting on jackets or shoes because he knows where he's going to go once they're on!! We think he's a genius! hahaha He can say doggie, momma, daddy, nose, mouth, ears, eyes, mmmm for milk, cracker, cookie and he can point out all of those things as well. I don't know why we are encouraging him to learn new words, give it a few years and we will be praying for silence!!! He'll also raise his hands if anyone says, "Touchdown!" and he'll dance if he hears music. He is definitely a little show-off because we can't go anywhere without him talking, laughing or making faces at complete strangers. He loves the attention. Here are some pics to show just how much he's grown! :)

1 month old

3 months old

5 months old

8 months old

9 1/2 months old
(I must not have taken a "chair" pic that month!)

13 months old! :) Such a big boy!

Halloween and the Mountains

Unfortunately, I did not take pics at our church's Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat on Halloween night because Joseph, Emily and I were working a booth and then ran to our car to do trunk or treat. I did give in and decorate the car in Georgia colors, just because we have more GA stuff. I also did my best at carving a GA "G" pumpkin, mainly because a Gator is much more complicated to carve! haha Anyways, my usual 1,000 picture event ended up being one picture of the back of Sam because he didn't want to stand still. He was a cowboy that didn't want to stand still or wear his hat, so Pops wore it most of the night! haha Thanks to our friends Mark and Robin and Karen and Emory we have pics of Sam on that night.
The second half of the pics are our trip to Dahlonega and Helen up in the GA mountains. We wanted to get away for the day and see the leaves. Sam got a souvenier "flute" which he serenaded us with. We also met up with Aunt Pam, Uncle Clay and Great-Granny and Great-Pawpaw Townsend. Sam really enjoyed the swings and slide and of course Pawpaw's rolling walker/chair!

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Sam - 1 year old!

These are some pics from the last few weeks. Sam had another ear infection and he was sad that he couldn't go outside because it was too cold. One afternoon, Mommy gave in and bundled him up to go outside. It was the first time he wore mittens and a hat so he was very interested in those. The first set of pics is a very happy boy getting to play outside. There's also pics of him playing with his birthday balloons, a big hit! Also pics of him playing with Daddy, Mommy and Logan. Also the day of the FL/GA game...always interesting in our household with Daddy being a Bulldog fan and Mommy a Gators fan! haha And last our visit to the pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin for our church's fall festival and trunk-or-treat. Enjoy!

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Sam's Birthday Party

Sat. Oct. 18th we had Sam's birthday party. We had an Elmo theme and lots of friends and family came. My parents and sister came up from AL and my uncle, aunt, cousin, and Sam's great-grandparents came from Toccoa, GA. Sam's other Great-grandmother's came as well as lots of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He seemed to enjoy the party, except for the part where he burnt his hand on the candle wax:( He opened all his presents and we all had a great time!

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Sam's Birthday

On Sam's actual birthday we put a candle in a Chick-fil-A biscuit and let him blow it out, then he got to open one present, an Elmo phone. Meme and Pops came by that afternoon and brought a balloon and a present, a little pull-along puppy. He liked the balloon so much we let him take it to Wed. night church that night. He also got a birthday card in the mail from Aunt Elaine. When Honey and Papa and Aunt Jen showed up the next day they brought his car that they had painted for him. These are some pics from those two days.