Sam is Seven!

Sam turned 7 at the end of December. For our precious Christmas baby, we've begun the tradition of "family birthday supper" ON his birthday, then a party later in January.  The day began with the breakfast of (Southern) champions...Krispy Kreme!

 For supper, Sam chose the menu:  pizza, corn, green beans, salad and ice cream cake for dessert.  It was yummy!  We gave him a new bat bag and bat.  That night the boys went home with Gmama and Papa to spend the night.  Sam called us about an hour later, crying, saying he wanted to come home.  Turns out, he was worried that he was still missing all the fun from his birthday supper.  He later sent an email to Brian and me (from Gmama’s computer) saying: “I am messing you. I can not wait to see you. What are you doing at work calling costumers I bet. Yesterday was the best birthday ever I ever had and I loved the cake and the presents they were awesome! And tell daddy that I love him and tell him I  want to know what he is doing. And the last thing I want to say is... I love you!!!!!!!!!!!” 

Later, we had Sam's actual party at a Mercer Bears basketball game.  

It was a BLAST!

Athens, Christmas, Snow Mnt. and a hike

Just when I catch up on one thing, I fall back on another...this blog! So when a sweet & well-meaning friend told me she missed my posts, I knew I needed to make a better effort.  So, here goes.  I'm warning you, it's loooong....  

The day that school let out for Christmas break we picked up the boys 

and went to Athens for a basketball game.

Brice learned to ride his bike without training wheels 

when we were at Grammy's for Christmas lunch.

Brice was a shepherd in the pageant at church and we was so excited that he carried his very own hiking stick!

Sam had a speaking part for the first time.

One of Brice's favorite Christmas presents...Zombie Brain Lab!

Sam got a cool Lego pyramid game.

So, right after Christmas, Sam turned seven.  Really?  Anyway, a separate post about his birthday supper is above.  Here's what else we've been up to...  We went to Snow Mountain at Stone Mnt. Park with our cousins.  Even though it really warmed up and we all wished we had on shorts and t-shirts, it was still tons of fun!    

We celebrated Christmas some more at Pine Hill Farm.

Sweet teen-aged cousins are the best!  Emily, Andrew, Sam & Brice

Sam got a BB gun!

We went on a hike on the Hitchiti Trail.  

Ruby had the time of her life!

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.