Jumping into 4!

The boys had a little birthday party at Planet Gymnastics this past weekend. They turn 4 on October 2nd. It was a fun party, some great friends came and they LOVED their presents.

They slid...

and jumped...that is why my pictures are not very good, they didn't STOP moving the entire time!

Jackson taking a breather...not for long!

Look who came...Anderson and Benson!

Porter even ran around and explored....Brooke didn't stop moving either :)

Maggie's Daddy (and Harrison and Hudson's Daddy) might have had more fun than the kids, I'm sure they needed some ibuprofen the next day, I HATE I didn't catch the flips they "tried" on camera!

Collin and Hudson, old buddies

Cousins!

He sticks his tongue out when he concentrates ;)

Brave Harrison

It is so fun to get together with your best friends and their kids!

All the kiddos, props to Hudson and Brantlee for smiling

Harrison was so excited!

We sung to Hudson first...

Than to Harrison!

A favorite gift....Hermit crabs from Kali, Kayla, Aunt Julia and Uncle Matthew, 2 more living things for me to be responsible for YAY!!

It was a sweet little party and the boys are still talking about it, all the grandparents were there and some great friends. Thank you for making our babies' party so special!

Pierce Pickers

There are a few things for our house we have wanted for awhile that need to be old or things that you can't buy new. We knew there was a good chance we could find them here at these old family farm buildings and today we decided to go "Picken", here is the day in pictures, beware if this is not your thing you probably won't be dazzled.

If you know how I am you will know that at this point I thought hard about entering this place, I had to call Joel back to escort me, wild life is all I had on my mind.

Surveying the inventory, old wood ladder, wood doors, etc.

An old bike with training wheels

Ahh, these old wood doors are to die for, great colors some even have glass.

Wood-framed windows out of a church

Wood church pew, there were about 6 of these and we sifted through to find the one in the best shape.

Here are the guys, Joel, Matthew and Chris loading up our lumber we found for a project. Look at ALL that wood!

Pulling the church pew to safety, we saved it from the true death.

Here we come to the next building!

American Pickers would have gasped!

Old bikes, three of them!

I love this lamp and glass bottles behind it.

Our last stop!

These are the things we pulled out from that building, that suitcase has a pair of pristine white roller skates in it!

This old wood Coca Cola crate and bottles we saw as we were about to pull out.

I literally had 100 pictures, I would hold my camera down in a dark place and take a picture and then look at the camera to see what it saw, I was not as good of a picker as I had thought I would be. I have a lot of respect for snakes, rats, bees, wasps etc. and I don't want to disturb their house. I don't know that we have a place for everything we got we just got somethings we thought were cool and wanted to at least put them in our attic to get them out of the elements. Fun day, good finds....Kimberly, just wait till my projects are done then you will understand! haha

Birthdays Everywhere

Last week we celebrated Joel's birthday and his mom's (Mawmaw) birthday, and today is my mom's (nanny) birthday! The kids all love it because we have a lot of cake and present opening. Here are some shots from the festivities...

We had a great visit with Joel's parents from Atlanta, Nana and Pappy Pierce

Eating at Matthew's while they were here

Happy Birthday today to Nanny, she has been out of town and sure did miss her!

We celebrated Mawmaw's at O'Charleys...Harrison LOVES cake and dessert is an understatement.

Adults on one side and kids on the other....for good reason :)

Saylor's first time to sing Happy Birthday to Daddy!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

H and H thought these were so cool....celebrations are almost all for them these days, it makes it fun that they get so excited.

Running Shoes!

To your surprise the boys got their first pair of running/tennis shoes this week! They have never had a pair of athletic shoes besides Keds or Crocs. I know that probably sounds crazy but I just had a hard time with loving them. Like I suspected they looked 10 years old when they put them on :'(. However, the report is in and they can DEFINITELY run faster "super fast" in them, in fact, they make them want to run everywhere!

They arrived the very next day! It's too hard to get out and shop and try on shoes with this circus so I resorted to Zappos!

Harrison is wearing an 11

Hudson wears a snug 12

"Harris" "Huddy Buddy" and "Saylor McQueen"

*yes I did just do a whole post on a new pair of shoes...I only report on breaking news or news worthy material ;)

Priss is 4 months!

Saylor P was 4 months old on September 3rd! She is 17 lbs 4 oz (off the chart) and 25.5 inches long (80th percentile). She has been sleeping through the night this week, going to bed at 7:30 and sleeping till 6:30. She is eating every 3-4 hours and takes about 4 oz during the day and sometimes 6 before bed. She is such a sweet baby girl and when we are at home she doesn't cry or fuss unless she is hungry :) She still does not like to ride in the car unless she is asleep....that is my biggest complaint since we have to ride in the car twice a day to drop off and pick up big brothers.

Today has been so sentimental, I don't know what it is about 4 months old, I guess realizing that we will never have another infant and that stage is slowly fading away. I cleaned out her closet since she is in 6 month clothing :/ , then Joel got down the exersaucer for her to try and then we were going to put the changing table back up in the attic since I don't use it and I had to stop...it was just too much!

Hanging out in the kitchen in the Bumbo.

While we were all admiring her in the saucer, I pulled out the pictures of Harrison and Hudson in them and showed the boys how Harrison used to fall asleep in it every time...too much sentimental things going on today, Father Time please slow down, we are loving this too much :'(