SUGAR

MEET THE NEWEST MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY.... SUGAR. SHE'S A 5 YEAR OLD ENGLISH BULLDOG. SHE USED TO BE MY AUNT JULIE'S, BUT MY AUNT JULIE WANTED TO KNOW IF WE WANTED HER, AND WE DID, BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS WANTED A BULLDOG. SHE'S BEEN A GREAT ADDITION TO OUR FAMILY. SHE'S AN INSIDE DOG, SO THE GIRLS ARE REALLY LOVING THAT. OUR 2 LABS(OUTSIDE DOGS) ARE A LITTLE JEALOUS I THINK, BUT THEY'LL GET OVER IT HAHA. SHE'S A GOOD DOG, SLEEPS ABOUT 80% OF THE TIME, AND WHEN SHE'S AWAKE..SHE'S EITHER ROAMING AROUND THE HOUSE BEING A VACCUUM CLEANER(PICKING UP ALL THE CRUMBS, ETC.) OR JUST LAYING DOWN BEING LAZY. SHE'S SO CALM AND NEVER BITES AND GROWLS...SHE LETS THE GIRLS CRAWL ALL OVER HER AND TUG AT HER, AND THEY TRY TO GET ON HER BACK FOR A PIGGY BACK RIDE---BUT WE STOP THEM AS SOON AS WE SEE THEM DOING THAT. SUGAR WAS NAMED "SUGAR" BY MY COUSIN JEN, BECAUSE THE 3 MIDDLE LETTERS ARE "UGA" (GO DAWGS). WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE SUGAR IN OUR FAMILY AND WE HOPE TO HAVE HER FOR MANY YEARS. HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES OF HER :

Preschool

August 17,2010 was the start of a new journey in our life. Our sweet 4 year old, Tegan, started preschool. She's been soooo ready to go to school. She's so smart and wants to learn and enjoys learning and making new friends.WE put her in at a local church about a mile from our house. It's a very good program with some great teachers and staff. I am so happy for her that she is having such a good exzperience thus far. I know she will have a great year and will be ready for Kindergarten when the time comes next year. Where has all the time gone??? It just seems like yesterday I was in the hospital, in labor for over 15 hours before seeing the face of my sweet first born-- and now she's all grown up and going to school. I am so glad and blessed to be a stay at home mom to my girls so I can enjoy every little moment with them and not miss all their milestones.

DAY 1- ALL READY TO GO



DAY 2-- SPORTIN' HER PLAID

DAY 3-- ALL SMILES WITH A LITTLE ATTITUDE

DAY 4-- SO READY TO GO AND TIRED OF TAKING PICTURES EVERYDAY :)

VACATION

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Tegan is FOUR

Tegan's birthday party theme this year was "Ice Cream". She LOVES LOVES LOVES ice cream!!! She invited a few of her little friends over and we had a great party, filled with games, the bouncy house, food, cupcakes and of course ICE CREAM. She had a great time with her friends, just playing and being kids.

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1st Ballet Recital

On May 29, 2010, Tegan had her 1st EVER ballet recital!!! It was such a memorable experience for her and us. Her class danced to "Every Girl Can Be a Princess". Tegan did a great job, she knew exactly what to do and when to do it. We are so proud of you Tegan!

1st of MANY Daddy/Daughter Dates

Terrel got to take Tegan on her very 1st Daddy /Daughter date. He promised her that if she did a really good job through her surgery and all that just she and he would go to the Braves game. They went on Friday, May 15 and watched the Braves take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. They got there kind of early to watch some batting practice and throwing and every once in a whil eone of the players would throw a ball in to the stands for teh fans, and Tegan kept saying to her Daddy that she wanted a ball(**Remember this for later in the post**). They sat down the first base line into right field about 3 rows from the field, so they had pretty good seats. Terrel said Tegan was great, she behaved so well and just had a blast and never got bored. To add to this exciting date, Terrel caught a foul ball and was on TV as he was handing it to Tegan--- what a priceless evening in my opinion.Once Terrel caught the ball and handed it to Tegan , Tegan said to her Daddy-- WE DID IT!!! They gave us ball!!! (She thought the players finally through a ball to her). The evening went on and the Braves went on to win after some very exciting basbeall activity with scoring runs and homeruns, etc. On Fridays at the Braves home games they have Friday Night Fireworks...so of course they had to stay at watch those-- and Tegan was in heaven...she absolutely loved the fireworks. They got home after midnight and my little miss Tegan was still WIDE awake when they got home--- she was so excited to tell me all about the game. I am so glad that she and her daddy were able to spend some special time with just the two of them. What a great father my girls have. I am so grateful for him and the time he wants to spend with our girls.

WHY DID YOU NAME ME THAT?

I read on a few people's blogs about why they chose their child's name. I didn't do the link up that some of the other's did, but it's always fun to talk about baby names.... **NO WE ARE NOT PREGNANT**

Our first bundle of joy came to us in June of 2006. We chose the name Tegan from my name and Terrel's name. We took the TE from his name and the GAN from my name and formed Tegan. We had never heard the name when we decided to name her that, but then I started to hear it more and more. It's still not too popular of a name, but every now and then someone will say, ohhh my niece or grandaughter is named that....usually the spelling is different but again every once in a while the spelling will be the same. Her middle name is Brook, which is my middle name also. We never had any other names picked out for her...this was the one. If she was going to be a boy...I liked Jackson, Parker, & Landon

Carley was born in September 2008. We decided on her name one day while I was looking in the baby name book and found it.... I would sit at home with Tegan and look through the baby name book then email Terrel at work with the names I found that I like...he always said NO for every name I would pick out and would have some crazy reason...but then one day he was looking back at some names and said what about Carley and I told him I had picked that name several weeks ago and emailed you about it and you had said No.... but we decided together that we liked Carley. Her midddle name is Jordan after my great-grandmother...it was her last name. Other names I liked when I was pregnant with Carley were--- Avery, McKay, Conner, and Braelynn--- I know there are more but these are just a few.

We're so grateful for our two little girls that we have and hope to one day have at least one other little one join our family.