The many costumes of John Carter

Within a day John Carter can change identities three or four times. Usually he's Santa Clause, but other days he's Buzz Lightyear or Woody, a Star Trooper, any of three Power Ranger's, a lion....you get the idea.....here are some examples...

I'll try to get one of him in his Buzz costume too.

Funny Babies

Davis {left} Eli {right}

The twins love their bath better than anything else. They splash and scream and dance for as long as we'll leave them in there. After a while Davis' hair got kind of wild looking so we had to make Eli's match. Eli looks terrified in both pic's!

Christmas 2005

John Carter (Angry Santa)

Elf John Carter

Christmas 2006

This was our Christmas Card


Little Einstein Toy 2006

Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007

New Year's Eve Party King

Last Christmas

2008 "Sponge Bob Underwear!"


Christmas 2008

New Pictures

Here are some of the pictures we made last week. These are John Carter's 4 year portraits and the twin's 9 month.


My handsome little man!


Eli & Davis

Typical John Carter

Cutie-Patootie's

Look how grown up he looks!
My babies are growing up!

First Friends Halloween Party

Class at the Pumpkin Patch



Some of these pictures were taken by John Carter......


Hello Cowboy Mac

Mama being silly

John Carter's best friend Bailey-Bee


There's Sheriff Woody!

It's been a while since the last post. Needless to say, we've been busy. If you want to see new pics of the kids you can follow this link to Whitney Sheperd's blog www.photographybywhitney@blogspot.com. She's a terrific photographer. She's really got it together because it's only been a week and my disk is ready!!

I'll try to do better with my posts.

Some Older Pix

In these pictures the twins were just four months old and John Carter was a little over three. My how they've all changed in four months. John Carter looks more like a little man and the twins look like they're catching up with him. Next year it may look like I have triplets if they keep growing like they are!

Playing Catch Up

We've been so busy these past couple of months. I cant believe I haven't had time to blog! Here are a few pictures to keep you updated on what the boys look like...
The twins will be 8 months old on the 16th and John Carter will be 4 (yes 4 years old!) in November!! Time surely does fly.......


Davis (feeding himself sweet potatoes)


("The Mrs. Vickie Gang" at First Friends...J.C. Bailey & Caroline

The boys experimenting with different food and utensils.


Little drummer boys

I think they look like little old men in this picture.

We're so blessed to have happy and healthy children.

Catching Up.....

We have been SO busy this month. 4th of July,
Birthday parties and on July 13th we welcomed
the first girl born in our family, Harper Claire.
Congratulations Aunt Brandy & Uncle Big-Will
The following are just random July pix to help us get caught up.


Eli "The Uni-Bomber"


Allie & the Boys



The day Eli finally held his bottle on his own.


My two pirates in their ship. Notice "Cap'n Jack is missing part of his arm.
We looked and looked for a hook, but never found one.

Kendall's Birthday Party at the river


4th of July at the river with Kendall


Eli's first dip in the Elk...Davis would have none of it!

We didn't know John Carter could swim

(luckily he still had his swim vest on)

when he and Mary Ellen (she's 5) decided

to jump in and swim across the river to meet

up with one of the boats that had just left. My little fish!


The tadpoles.

Ode to MJ

Like him or hate him he was an icon of my era and he made a difference in the world.....so thank you Michael Jackson for the great music, silver glove, moonwalk, and especially the cool parachute pants one little girl proudly wore in 1986!!

Special People

Mr. Harold and Mrs. Flo are two very special people in our lives. They have been very generous to us over the past few years and we are very appreciative of it. We consider them our babies extra set of grandparents. Recently they built John Carter a bird house and of course he wanted it painted ALL RED!! So, Mr. Harold did the wood work and Mrs. Flo painted and she also added a little white heart because she said John Carter was always in hers. Here are the pictures of the day they came over and put it up.

Just a side note...God puts special people in our lives for a reason. He lets them teach us life lessons that we will hopefully pass on to others one day. I truly believe in the concept of "Paying it Forward." So, thank you Mr. Harold and Mrs. Flo for always being so kind and thoughtful.


Mr. Harold digging the hole

Filling the hole with rocks

Packing the dirt

A pretty red birdhouse and three

special friends!

Fun in the Sun with Kendall

These little sillies are in love one minute and fighting the next.
Mrs. Amy and I think they'll probably get married since they
already act like it!
Thanks Miss Kendall for sharing your water slide with us.

The Twins are 5 Months Old!

This was the "happiest" picture I could get.
(Eli is on the left and Davis is on the right)



They're just not glad about growing older....