Happy 50th Birthday Mom!

My mom is nifty fifty! Had lots of celebrating on her behalf. Her lake friends threw her a party at The Store complete with cake and shrimp and grits. Brianna was my date and Michael stayed home with the boys. Today the boys and I went and got her a cake, balloons, and flowers for a mini-sing along. Happy Birthday Mom! Love you!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and your tummies get full. Our nephew Garett will be down from Indiana and Randy and Charlene will be up from Florida so we should have a full house. Travel safe and we love you!

November So Far...

Boys are doing great! They are both getting excited for Christmas. Everytime we see a tree, wreath, Santa...you name it and they are both beside themselves. Dylan had another bout of pneumonia. Luckily we caught it really fast this time and he was fine after a antibiotics shot and a week long script for antibiotics and cough meds. No hospital stay! Hooray!!

Michael's band Mean Wiener got to open for Marcy's Playground! So cool. Michael said they were really nice guys and he had a great time being a grown up in a bar for the evening.

Uncle Adam, Michael, the boys and I road tripped to Columbia for the day to see the pirate exhibit at the State Museum. Its quite AMAZING how nothing changes. They have finally dusted the mice in the display case. Dylan and Lucas thought it was neat seeing a giant mammoth and train. The pirate exhibit was nice. They had puppets and pirate garb for the boys to dress up in. After the museum we hit Cupcake so we could have dessert later (HOLY YUMOLA!!) and went to Eric's San Jose for lunch. It was nice to hang with Unc. The boys love him to pieces.

We pulled off a near miracle and got the Saur's, the Kennedy's, the Arthur's and the Murley's together for dinner. ALL of us. Even Allen. Seriously. So all the grown ups and kiddies met at Panchos and ate and chatted it up. It was great to see everyone! And even bester is Ami brought Max homemade chocolate chip cookies! It is good to be preggo! :)

Halloween 2010

This one pic will have to do until I can find my pics. I don't know what I did with them. Anywho: October was the longest month EVER! We Halloweened our hearts out. Michael was Captain America, I was Luigi, Dylan was the Joker and Lucas was Mario.

MMT had their first annual Halloween party put on by Lisa Thomas. She did a great job and all the kids had a BLAST! They bobbed for apples and cake walked. All the food was super yum so thanks for everyone coming out and bringing goodies.

We went to Boo on Main again this year with Nana and Poppa. The boys got a bucket of candy and Momma got an elephant ear. Woot! Poppa had to settle for a chili dawg b/c no corn dogs this year. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO I ASK YOU?! After that the gparents went to their gig at the lake and we went to Bethesda Baptist to bounce house. The straight up static cling hair was proof the Murley boys had a great time.

Michael and I had a grown up night and went and saw the Columbia City Ballet perform Dracula. They came to the Sumter Opera House and did an amazing job! Who knew Lady Gaga and ballet went together but it does. Lisa and Dan invited us and we had great fun. Michael decided beer and half naked chicks is pretty ok stuff. We are looking forward to a Midsummer's Nights Dream in spring.

On actual Halloween Michael and I were sort of over Halloween so we didn't have any plans to go out BUT Dylan ran into the neighbor kid Cherokee at the mailbox and we ended up at Alice Drive Baptist for more bounce houses and games and candy.

Aunt Brie Turns 31

Happy Birthday Brianna!! Love you!

Max is 33 weeks

Lil baby Max is getting big. He is the size of a pineapple and has very sharp elbows. He spends a lot of his time in my lung. We are as ready as we can get. His bed is clean and set up, his car seat is washed and put together and we have a new-to-us Tahoe to bring him home in. In the Escape we would have had to travel in shifts. Looking forward to holding his little hiney. :)

Go Gamecocks!!!!

The University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks beat the University of Florida in the SEC East division game! Soooo exciting! Go Cocks!!!

Dylan Michael is half way to SIX!

Biggun is five and a half and thinks he is grown. He is doing good in school. His report card was good. He needs to work on counting backwards and he gets n and h confused. The great news is he has really started loving to draw. He spent 8 hours drawing on a marker board we got. He's hooked on Humpty Dumpty. They did fairy tales at school and now he loves all things Humpty.
Dylan has become a really good big brother. He has started trying to get Lucas to say things right. He's getting excited about Max coming and swears he is going to take care of him. Dylan remains a Daddy's boy. There is NOBODY on this planet as cool to Dylan Michael as his dad. He likes showing him off at school and can't wait for him to walk through the door. I can't believe how big he is now. He is missing his two front teeth and has freckles across his nose. Feels like we just brought him home. Don't blink or you'll miss it! Dylan keeps us on our toes. He is determined and very opinionated but always has been and always will be. He is his own man and we are very proud of him.

Lucas gets his .5

Lucas is now two and a half. He is practically a man. His speech is getting better every day. He is a big helper and likes to do laundry and put things in the trash for Momma and Daddy. He is a bit of a copy cat and will repeat everything that comes out of Dylan's mouth in about a six second delay. He is still one of the happiest children I've ever seen and loves to snuggle his Momma. He has his Daddy's sense of humor and makes us laugh every day. "What does a bear say?" ~MOOOOOO! (with a big grin on his face) He still refuses to go on the potty. Turns me down flat but that is the only baby thing we have left. No pacifier, no crib, and he drinks from a big boy cup. I guess I'll really attack potty training after Max gets here. Can't be TOTALLY perfect right? ;) Lucas is a joy and we love him so.