Recent Happenings

Looking through pictures on the camera always reminds me how long it's been since I've blogged. I thought I would try to catch up before the holiday weekend.

Henry has loved our tree up, and helps me water it every night. He does like to pull on the ornaments until they come off and then act like it was an accident so he can have an excuse to try and put them on again. We did a little photo shoot with some pj's Aunt Leslie gave us last year. He kind've looks like an old man and I'm sure he'll kill me later, but I couldn't resist!

Jeff and I were in the mood for oysters a couple of weeks ago and decided to have our own oyster roast in the garage after Henry went to bed one night. I am embarrassed to say how many oysters the two of us were able to finish off, but I will say it was one of the best oyster roasts I have been to. We had a blast!

Some things we've done recently that I unfortunately did not capture pictures of was singing Chrismas carols to a local retirement home, and delivering food and gifts to Community First in downtown Bluffton. It was so nice to show Henry how to give back to others, and they loved having him as entertainment. He has such a gift of making people smile and laugh!

We are celebrating our Christmas tonight as a family and heading to Sumter tomorrow to be with the rest of our family.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!





Henry thought the lights were candles and he wanted to blow them out.


Some of Henry's surprises we've been working on...

It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Christmas!

These are for my mother-in-law. I just love putting up Christmas decorations. The house always feel empty when we take them down. I wish we could leave them up all year! We picked out the first tree we saw, and realized when we got home it was not going to fall and was going to stay really tall and skinny- like my two favorite people (Jeff and Henry incase you didn't get it)





I spent my day with these 4 munchkins. Can you say BUSY! By the way, they are not looking to escape, our dog Lake is outside.

Bluffton Christmas Parade

There is nothing like it! If there's one thing Bluffton can do is throw a parade. We started our morning by attending a pre-parade party at the Colvin's. It was a great way to start the festivities! The company and food were both wonderful!

Last year Henry sat mostly in a stroller and then we let him crawl around a little afterwards. I was a little worried this year because he doesn't know what it means to sit still. He was perfect. He found a seat- not ours mind you, but someone who chose to bring one and I guess not sit in it. Anyways he sat in this seat the entire time. He did get up to catch candy, ask me to open it, and sit in the chair again. The boy does not eat sugar, so 3 dum dums and a candy cane later we had a really hyper boy!

It was a great time, and a perfect way to kick off the holiday season!

Oh, did I mention they were giving out real baseballs at the parade. I think they did this just for Henry!

Jingle Bells

A Man and His Throne

We've been playing around with potty training lately, and the only way we can get Henry to stay on the potty is to give him a magazine. The picture does not do justice just how funny the experience was. We do have a video, but we thought we would spare Henry the embarrassment....for now.

Citadel Homecoming

We had a great time in Charleston for the Citadel Homecoming game. They played Wofford and unfortunately lost, but other than that a great trip. The weather was PERFECT! Henry had a great time with his cousins, Nolan, Carter, Tyler, Dylan, and Molly. He also had a great time with their toys- especially Tyler's cars! It was nice to catch up with everyone and enjoy fall at the beach!

Halloween night

We had some friends over for Halloween to trick-or-treat with us and to watch the Carolina game afterwards. The trick-or-treating was great- no comment on the afterwards.

Henry's friends, Alex the farmer and Annabelle the bee came over to walk around the neighborhood with him. The amount of people that were out was unreal! One of our friends passed out candy at our house while we walked with the kids. He ran out of candy, and then started handing out other snacks in the house! So funny!

We just went around the block to the people's houses we knew, but Henry insisted on walking himself. He would go up to a house and set his pumpkin down and walk off. I don't think he really cared about the whole candy thing at all. Good thing too, because when we got back to the house we had more trick-or-treaters so we gave them all of Henry's candy. I don't think he will let us get away with this next year. It was a great time!

Trunk or Treat

Last weekend we had Trunk or Treat at our church. They had games laid out for the kids and even a professional country line dancing instructor. Of course once Henry saw a field with balls in it, he was hooked. He loves to play with older kids. Our pastor has 3 boys 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, and Henry thinks they are the coolest. It's so cute to watch them watch out for him! The night was a hit, and it was a great start to our Halloween festivities! The pictures are a little out of order, but you get the picture!

Let's go!

Da and his dinosaur

Henry made this face when I told him to smile!

Henry's costume from the back...

and front!

Enjoying a lollipop at the end of the night

standing in the middle of the "chicken dance"

playing baseball with the big boys

Pumpkin Patch

This past weekend Jeff's family was in town and while the boys went to shoot skeet, the girls went to the pumpkin patch in Ridgeland. Henry and I went there last year with our friends Amanda and Harper. They had added a lot more this year, and Henry really enjoyed it now that he's so mobile. It was a little chilly, but perfect weather for a fall outing. Henry loved the animals, football throw, and especially the tractor ride where he got to pick out his own pumpkin. He kept saying Henny's pumptin. Once again we took way too many pictures! I am so glad Mimi and Katie got to share this experience with us. We had a great time!