Pictures From Mother's Day

I know I already did a Mother's Day post to Tanner, but here are the pictures from my day!! P.S.- This is also the day we told our Baby news!!!

Before church, we got up early so I could open my happies!! And I had a very big helper!!

After church we stopped back by our house for a quick outside pic and to grab the presents for our moms!!

We met my family in Clinton to eat at Takara. Little did we know, we were in for a bit of drama!! They sat us at one of the hibachi tables and took our drink order. Tanner could barely keep his eyes open (as shown in the above photo) so I ran him to the bathroom just in case he fell asleep. An accident while sleeping in big boy underwear is fun for neither the potty trainer or trainee!! So when we come back, the waitress is asking us to get up because they "forgot" they had a reservation for 16 and needed to seat THEM instead of us!!!! The people beside us said they were NOT getting up, but we graciously choked down our pride and gave up the table. As I was walking to the door (through our embarrassment) anger swelled up within me. It was uncontrollable - remember I was newly pregnant and had no control over this!! When the hostess asked where we were going I let her have it!! And then the waitress came over to defend her side of the story!!! I threw manners, grace, class and caution to the wind and matter-of-factly told her the goof up on the reservation was not our problem and she should've thought that through before she sat us AND took our drink order and that we were very dissatisfied customers who would never step foot in there establishment again and we would happily take our business elsewhere!!!! After Scotty picked his jaw up off their floor all he could say was, "Wow!! You just ate her lunch!!" To which I replied, "Well if she'd given me mine, I wouldn't have had to eat hers!!" So we left and went to eat BBQ at Sonny's!!!

Tanner had fallen asleep at Sonny's so we went back to hang out at Mom & Dad's and after he woke up we gave Mom her gifts. That's how we told them: We gave Mom a new mat and I attached a little note to it saying, "It's time to roll out the welcome mat for Baby #2!!" They were all so shocked and excited!!

After that we headed over to Scotty's parents to drop the Baby bomb on them!! We couldn't fit it in anywhere so he announced that he would say the blessing before we ate. I got out the video camera (which some thought was weird at first) and Scotty said, "Dear Lord, Thank you for today and all our Moms. Please especially be with Valerie as she's pregnant with #2..." and he tried to keep going, but you couldn't hear him anymore through all the screams coming from all our family!!! They were so excited and could NOT believe they didn't see it coming!! I didn't take any pictures because I really wanted it on video!! So I didn't even get a picture of Scotty and his mom =(
But here's one last one of me and Scotticus!! Thanks for giving me such a great Mother's Day and making me feel so special!!

Byram Day

On April 30th, Scotty had to work the first aid table at Byram Day. We decided to make it a family affair and loaded up to go with him. There was music, rides and fair food so we were set!! Thankfully, it wasn't miserably hot and we all had a great day!! And what made it even better was that Baptist had our own RV so we had an air conditioned bathroom!! No port-a-potties for us!! It was a life-saver for my little Toileteer!!!

We ate Back Yard Burger as soon as we got there!! Tanner had a nice little set up in his stroller!!

Then it was time for Snow Cone!! I think it was kinda tart!!

The Drs. Davis

This big rig got a thumbs up!!

Hope he enjoys this motorcycle while he can cause he WON'T be allowed to have a crotch rocket when he grows up!!!

And the Merry-go-Round!!

Then it was time to clean up and go home!!

Easter 2011

So here's how we spent our Easter!! It was jam-packed full of fun, family, and eggs!! Here we go...We'll start with the decorations!!

This was our outside....I was pretty pleased with how it all turned out!!

My father-in-law cut the branches of his crape myrtles and had tons that he was getting rid of so I asked if I could snag a few. Took em' home, Scotty cut them down to the size I needed and after a coat of white spray paint, they were ready to make their debut on my front porch!!

Please don't ask me why, but this little guy decided he'd camp out for several days (almost a whole week!!!) and every time I'd hafta go out or come in, I was terrified he was gonna jump on me!! But Tanner loved him!!

Ugh.

Woulda looked better if a certain sweet man in my house, who shall remain nameless, had gotten my mirror hung on this wall!! Love ya!!

My centerpiece was a mini version of my front porch!!

The Easter gingerbread house Tanner & I made!!

The Thursday before Easter Tanner had his Easter party at school and that's all he talked about!! So, of course, that Wednesday night before he was too excited to go to bed!!

Tanner & Gracie at the Easter Party!!

Lined up and ready to hunt eggs!!

Looks like it was a successful hunt!!

Tanner with his class....they were all too busy with there eggs to waste time taking pictures!!

My sweet boy!!

Tanner & Miss Ashley

I love staying at home so I'm always available for whatever he has going on!!

They finished up their Easter party with pizza!!!

And cupcakes!! Desserts do NOT go to waste in our family!!

Later that night I found Tanner & Daddy sharing Koolaide right out of the pitcher!!

The Saturday before Easter was so packed with stuff to do I'm not really sure how we ended up fitting it all in!! We started off the morning by going to our church's Easter Egg Hunt at Davis Rd. Park. Tanner loved the duck game!!

Then it was off to the ring toss to see Mrs. Carol (his Sunday school teacher)!!

He could swing all day!!

Then we ran into his friend, Hudson. They were so happy to see each other!!

Daddy's trying to explain to Tanner that he should collect eggs before he gets all the candy out!!

Then we headed to Aunt Patsy's house for another Easter Egg Hunt. She has one every year, but this year her daughter, Lisa, was pregnant so we threw her a surprise shower from all the family!! Here's Lisa walking into the shower, shocked as could be!!

Tanner & Tony (Lisa's husband) playing a little song!!

There's always tons of games going on over there. Brandon was so sweet to help Tanner play volleyball with the big kids!!

Tanner & his Uncle T!! They have a special little bond!!

Tanner loves skipping rocks across the water. Although, it's really more like chunking them in there!!

Tanner & Granny

Tanner & his Aunt Patsy!! He loves to find her at church every Sunday!!

After lunch at Aunt Patsy's it was time to head out to MawMaw's in Bentonia!! I'm really not much of a country girl, but we Love going to her house!! It's always so much fun!! Here's Peyton & Keely fishing.

I think it's so sweet when a Daddy will bend down to their child's level and Scotty does this all the time!! They've got so many great memories together!!

Paul let Tanner reel in the first catfish!! He wasn't really sure about it!!

And then ran to Daddy when it started to wriggle!!

He loved being able to get so close to the ducks!!

PopPop got a fish too!!

Daddy helped Tanner again....

And then he wanted to try it all by himself!! He's so big!!

Tanner & Aunt Krissy

Todd & his girlfriend, Lauren. This was her first experience at MawMaw's house so she had to be initiated!! We've all had a ride on the airplane at some point!! You hafta do it to be in the family!!

We blind-folded her. Todd & Adam were the pilots and she held on to Uncle Tim. The pilots raise the plane (the board) about 6 inches in the air and then.....

Uncle Tim bends down lower and lower to make the blind-folded person think they're actually going higher and higher!!

Then the pilots "loose control" of the plane, Uncle Tim moves out of the way as fast as he can....

And the person thinks they're falling from like 6 feet in the air when really it's a measly 6 inches and they usually sprawl out in such awkward positions!!! For somebody like me whose got a problem holding back laughter when somebody falls....it's one of the highlights of my life!!! Look at how hard PopPop is laughing in the back!!! Bent over and all!!! Hahahahaha!!!

Then Keely needed a turn!!

And Tanner wanted to wear the blind-fold.

Swingin' again!!

MawMaw was raising some pigs and took Tanner down there to watch her feed them!! I love this picture of MawMaw.

Then it was time to feed the chickens and roosters and turkeys!! They bite, Uncle Tim!!

Then, it was time for games!!

Scotty's all about us being our own family, which is one of my favorite things!! So Easter Sunday we went to the Sunrise service. We'd never been before and it was really so much fun!! We had our lawn chairs, blanket, and Tanner's breakfast and we were set!!

When we got home from church, we discovered that the Easter bunny had come to our house while we were gone!!!

Tanner was soooo excited!!!

Then we died eggs!!

That afternoon we hid eggs with my family at my cousin Dana's house. The "elders" decided this year was the year for us young whippersnappers to take over the duty of egg hiding. We've got a little more prankster in our blood than they do!! We decided to hide an egg in my poof and it kept the little ones stumped for a while!!!! P.S. - We absolutely do NOT use Bump-it's in this family!! Our poofs are naturally teased with elbow grease!!

Aunt Bobbie & Granna watching Tanner find his eggs!!

Aunt Z held the basket so Tanner could get more work done!!

I love this picture!! He's getting an egg OUT of the muffler, not putting one in!!

More eggs!!

Whoa!!! That's a lot of eggs!!

Our family Easter pic!!

Dawson, Tanner & "Nay" (Danae)

That night we went to my parent's house for more fishing!! Here's me and Sister.

Me & Dad

Yay for Scotty!!!!

Tanner & his Da

I love that he asked if he could come help me!!

Pa & Granna

Scotty & Amanda having a brother/sister moment!! He was teaching her how to hold a fish without getting finned!!! As Tanner would say.... that's so Grosst!!

I kinda don't know what to do with that thing.

Dad had his nice little set up to clean the fish!!

My little Easter Bunny with his Buzz!!

Yummy chocolate bunny!!

There were pirate swim trunks in his Easter basket from Mimi & PopPop!!

Miller, Bryson, Peyton, Keely, & Tanner

Somebody found the jelly beans!!

Hope everybody's Easter was as good as our's!!