Our little Indian

Thanksgiving weekend

On Friday after Thanksgiving we loaded up the camper and went to Brian's hunting farm in Thomson, GA.  We had SO much fun!  We shot guns, ate good food, told good stories, drank good whiskey, and took NO baths!  When we got home on Sunday, after much desired baths, we went to get our Christmas tree.

Moye chasing Brice down to hog-tie him.

Reading stories in the camper

Showing off Momma's good aim, and the fact that I blew the target off the stand!

The boys got to fetch a deer out of the woods

Christmas Parade

Brice and I watched while Brian and Sam rode on the Boy Scout's float. 

Our BUSY Fall!

This past month as been really busy but lots of fun! As previously mentioned, Sam has been enjoying Cub Scouts and a few weeks ago all the boys in his Den achieved their Bobcat badge.

We finished up the Mighty League fall ball season undefeated but lost the final championship game. It was a heart breaker!

Lots of fun was had making "spooky cupcakes" with a little crazy attire from our funny-man, Brice...

Brian and I hosted a little get-together at the lake and had lots of fun with our friends.

At the end of the 9-week grading period, first grade had a small awards ceremony. As you can see, Sam is mighty accomplished and we are very proud!

Halloween rolled around and, as usual, we had tons of fun dressing up. Mix Master Candy Wrapper was the hit of the night! Dan Uggla (Sam's favorite Braves player) and our "charming knight" made out like bandits in the candy department!

And to bring this post to a close, today was one of the most eventful days yet! To our surprise Sam had to have TWO teeth pulled, unexpectedly, this afternoon. I won't go into all the detail but here he is...our snaggle-tooth. And, yes, (I know you're wondering) he did have to have Novocaine and he was quite a trooper! After the teeth were pulled we rushed to get Brice and head back to Sam's school so he could do a small speaking part in in the Book Fair Family Night skit. He kept it a total surprise so I have no photo or video.

Cub Scouts

In addition to baseball two nights a week, Sam has started Cub Scouts and Brian is the Den Leader. The boys are having a really good time and learning a lot.

Dawgs vs.(Miss. State) Dogs

We took Brice to his first UGA football game last weekend. It was fun and our seats were great! I've got a picture of the boys with Hairy Dawg that will be posted soon After the game Brian and I tailgated while the boys played football in the parking lot.

I love these...settin' up the play!

This in one Auburn grad who LOVES her bulldawgs!!

More baseball

It wouldn't be a baseball night if Brice weren't eating a sandwich for supper in the dugout. He's such a good sport and CANNOT wait until he's playing ball too!

L-R: Bailey, Grey, Cooper, Sam, Dane, Blake, Sutton, Caleb, Gunn, Zack
Coaches: Seth, Chris & Brian


Sam LOVES playing catcher!

Brice's VERY creative version of London Bridge

My fur baby...5 months old

July...snuggled up!

September...the bed is getting smaller!

1st game

GrandPals//Heroes Day

Today was GrandPals//Heroes Day at Sam's school. It was extra special for us because Sam was selected out of all the 1st graders to read what he wrote about his hero - Papa! My daddy. He wrote:

My Hero

by Sam Whitley

My hero is my Papa. He helped the National Guard. He helped America good. He loves America a lot. And he helped me and he loves my family too.

I didn't tell Daddy exactly what Sam was doing, just that it was special and Daddy really shouldn't miss it. Well, needless to say, he was speechless and brought to tears when he heard Sam read that - in front of the entire school plus all the military and emergency response special guests.


His paper laying on the ground, he's reading over it one last time.


We practiced some over the weekend and Sam read loudly & clearly!