Belle Turns One

At the time of this writing, Belle is now 16 months, but I wanted to share some pictures of my baby girl at her first birthday. Blogging has not been a priority in awhile. We had the party and James and Marcias, and everyone had a blast, although I remember it being a very windy day. Sounds like the beginning of a Pooh story. Anyway here are some pictures of the party. Take a look at the cake, Magan did great, but this was right after a Thanksgiving get together so no one was very hungry.

Around the House

Just thought these pics from around the house were funny.


Sam decided he wanted to be an alien

Me and the boys made us a friend. His name is Fred.

Anabelle got trapped!

This is fairly common after hard days at school. Sam just passes out wherever he may be.

Early Mornings with the Boys…and Captain America

I know I have blogged about this before, but it is somewhat of a joy (for me, probably not Magan) to have two little boys up with me before I leave to work in the mornings. Almost without fail each morning while I am taking my shower (around 5:40am) I hear the door open and Davis start asking me about why I have not fixed his milk and his “bar” (nutrigrain bar). Sam is usually up with him since neither of them can wake up without waking up the other one. But I love fixing them some breakfast and getting some big hugs before I leave.

Aunt Melissa has given Davis a gift that has transformed him into Captain America. This costume which was a little late for Halloween has been his outfit for the last few days. He just has to wear it. He also does not answer to Davis while in costume…he IS Captain America.

Space and Rocket Center with Uncle Marc

We have been trying to make it up to Huntsville to visit Uncle Marc for awhile, but things just kept coming up. But we were attending Ben’s birthday party in Decatur one Saturday evening, so decided it was a good time to visit him in the morning.

Marcus lives basically across 565 from the Space and Rocket Center and has a nice two bedroom townhome. It looked like the typical bachelor pad, stocked with a bicycle in the living room, a drum set and electric guitar in the guest room, and enough flat screen tvs for a family of 5.

It was good getting to visit him and see his place. He then took us to a local meat and two place “Blue Plate”. It was very good. He then agreed to come with us to the Space and Rocket Center even tho he was probably much more interested in the football game that was just coming on.

The Space and Rocket Center is very neat but very expensive (Tip: Just buy a McWane Center membership and admission is free). The main museum walks you through the process of making it to the moon, while you walk directly beneath a Saturn rocket.

I found some pictures of when Sam was smaller and at the rocket center. He still likes this ride even though he has a hard time showing his emotions.
Sam is the short one in both pictures...

Those little boys got big in a hurry...

We told Marc goodbye and hope we can visit him again soon.

FYI...Magan and I have a picture in front of this mural when we were dating, but now you can't get to it because it is part of the special exhibits...Oh well.