1st Birthday Party!

Isaac's birthday is this Wednesday, January 27th.

One.

Wow.

Can somebody please tell me where the time goes?? I feel like it was just yesterday when I was giving birth to this precious boy. I'll save you the details until his real birthday, Wednesday.;)

Speaking of birthdays, Isaac had a fun party on Saturday night with a lot of fun friends, family, and of course mommy and daddy. There were tons of people that I wish we could have invited but due to my house being so small the number was limited....so all this to say, if you are one of Isaac's buds or my bud and were not here know that we LOVE YOU too!

So....on to the pictures. Who are we kidding, thats what everyone cares about anyway....

Isaac's first birthday cake. I got this cute little cake at Publix. I just told them what I wanted and they whipped it up for me.

I made what seemed like zillions of cupcakes for the party. I thought cupcakes would be the easy way out. I wish I would have gotten a memo about how wrong I was the day before. Who knew making the perfect spongy, soft, delicious, scrumptious cupcake could be so hard. Lets just say there was some cussing involved.... sorry mom.

At least they turned out cute.

The little man's "throne."

Isaac came to the decision that he would not take an afternoon nap this day. I'm not sure how he came to this decision.... Maybe he was eager to tear into his cake.

Mommy with the birthday boy. Who needs cake when you can chew on your hand!

This is what you could find Isaac doing most of the party. You see, he can't walk yet....well, he could, just doesn't know it yet...but he insists on pushing this little train around the house sideways. He's been doing this for a few weeks now and I'm telling you, he can really fly. I've never seen a baby move so fast pushing something. I'm not sure where he got the idea that pushing it sideways would be fun but he loves it! We think he looks like a little old man with his walker because he literally picks the train up and turns it around when he bumps into something. Its pretty comical to watch.

Stopping for a quick picture with Isaac's future roommate and pal, Ryder. We need to teach Isaac some manners though on friendship. Every time his buddy touches him, he pushes him away or slaps him in the face. I've tried to warn him this isn't good for their friendship...

Ryder looks a little frightened of Isaac here.... Ha!

Some of my college buds coming to celebrate!

And my high school buds...still remaining close after all these years.

There was only one person missing.....Aunt Jess. We missed you as you can see...

Isaac having fun with Pop. (my dad)Now....on to the cake.

He didn't know what to think of the birthday song.

He wouldn't try the cake on his own so mommy had to plunge his hand into the sweet yummy goodness. As you can see, he enjoyed it immensely.

"Its not that bad once I have it in my mouth."

Mmmmmmm

Everything is good when our cousin, Hudson is around.

Coco and Pop with the birthday boy (my parents)

Papa Spray and CC (Steven's parents)

We missed you Carla, Katie, Cameron, and Camille!! I wish you could have been here! Isaac missed you lots!

One last picture of our sweet birthday boy today after the party. He was pooped but having fun with daddy is what he does best! I love this picture! Too bad I cut off Steven's face.

Happy 1st Birthday Party sweet boy!!!!!

100th post

First with the pictures, then the 100th wall post celebration...

"Mommy likes to takes pics of me in the high chair...thats the only time I sit still she says"

"I'll be walking soon"

Loving some table food

Whoo Hoo!!! That right folks, 100 wall postings have been created from this very blog. Can you believe it!! I can't even begin to grasp it. I've been waiting for this day since..well, since 99 post ago.

I thought confetti would come out of the computer... or atleast a surprise resembling that of a fun slow motion card stacking you get after winning a game of solitaire. Nothing. Nada. Oh well, I guess I'll have to create my own celebration...

How about this...how about if you happen to stumble on this blog today, tomorrow, or the day after (or the day after that) leave me a little comment saying "happy 100th" or something like that. I would give a give-a-way to the person with the best "You've just written a century comment" but we'll have to wait until Dr. Sprayberry is making the "big bucks" for that to happen. Until then, comment on...

Fixed it

Thanks for the help Rachel. :)

And of course I can't post without a picture!

He loves his daddy....

help!

I was playing around with my blog...something i should NOT have done without knowing more about it. anyway, i have lost my tab that says "LAYOUT" and it is replaced with "TEMPLATE" so i've lost all my links to friends, side pictures, etc. does anyone else know what i'm talking about?? if so....HELP! :)

Congratulations of course!

We can't forget to give a big shout out to the Alabama Crimson Tide and their National Championship WIN!!!!

Way to go team and ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!

new toy

Mommy loves playing with her new camera these days. She is learning how to use it.....I think it may take her a while. (don't tell her I said that)

Don't mind my crusty, snotty nose.

Tight spaces

I went to brush my teeth and I walked back in the living room only to find a certain someone hiding. He's a fast little thing...

Isaac loves playing with his daddy!!

We are gearing up here to watch the championship game tonight! Extremely exciting! And don't worry about me....I'll be watching the first half with my sister in law over at their house and then I get to come home, put my 11 month old to bed and watch the end all by myself. Yes, thats right. Steven gets to work on this glorious day and night. Oh the joys of being a doctor....

ROLL TIDE!!

I'm ashamed...

...to say that I didn't take ONE picture of little Isaac's very FIRST Christmas. I know, I know what your thinking. "You are the worst mother ever...not capturing your first born on his very first Christmas. You ought to be ashamed of yourself." And (to satisfy your pleading) I am upset with myself.

I didn't know that packing a car for two people and one child (only 11 months old mind you) could be such a busy task during the holidays. We were focusing on packing ourselves that I just forgot to pack the camera. Thankfully our families had a camera on hand so when I get the pictures from them I will be sure to post right way.

We had a wonderful Christmas!! My mom drove to Birmingham the Saturday before Christmas and picked up little Isaac for a trip to CoCo's house in Auburn. By the way, my mom decided to title her grandmother name, Coco, which is a Masai (African) word for "mother of the mother." My parent have been to Africa more times than I can count, and I've been twice, the most recent being the summer after my senior year of high school with all of my sisters and brother. We were living amongst the Masai tribe in Kenya so needless to say, they have a very special place in our hearts. Well, long story short, that is how my mother decided to be called Coco.

So back to the week before Christmas. My mom came to get Isaac on Saturday and Steven and I had around four days all to ourselves in Birmingham. We finished up shopping of course and ran errands. The biggest perk was going to see two movies while free. ...yes TWO movies. We were in heaven. We saw Invictus and Avatar. Both were very good and entertaining. Anyone else think Avatar was incredible technology??

We went to Sylacauga on Tuesday because CC (Steven's mother) picked up Isaac from my mom the day before. We were both chomping at the bit to see our precious little boy!! It was the longest we have been away from him and it was HARD!! Wonderful, but hard. He had the sweetest smile on his face when we walked through the door.

On Christmas day we of course helped Isaac open his presents and left around lunch to see my family in Auburn. It was a strange Christmas for our family this year because the only sibling home was me and my little sister Camille. Carla and her husband J.B. were with his parents in Mississippi and my brother was spending Christmas in the middle east with my sister, Katie. We were able to skype Katie and Cameron and watch Katie open her Christmas presents from mom. Technology is a wonderful thing.

Since I didn't take any pictures I'll post some of Cameron's trip to Jordan and Israel. What an amazing trip that would have been!

My sister, Katie, lives in Jordan and she took Cameron and Katie's friend from childhood around to see the sights.:)

They visited Petra, Jordan the first part of the week. Petra is the sight of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. And if you haven't seen that movie....shame, shame on you. Its one of my faves.

My sister, Jesse, and my brother Cameron

Check out that view!!!A stop at the Dead Sea. No need for a raft here. You float due to the high amount of salt. My brother overlooking Bethlehem on Christmas Eve

Katie and Bethlehem (they slept in Bham that night and sang Christmas carols around a fire outside. Cameron and Katie in Jerusalem Look Papa Spray, you would have survived over there too!!! :)
The Jordan River (a possible sight for Jesus' baptism)
Katie touching the sea of Galilee



They saw and experienced so many amazing things!! We missed you guys at Christmas Cambo and Katie bug!

Back to my Christmas traveling..... this past Sunday I traveled with my mom to visit my grandmother in Jackson, MS. Steven had to go back to work so Isaac and I opted to go with mom. We had such a fun, relaxing time with Meme and my mom's two sisters. Did I take any pictures? Well, of course not. yes, yes, I am ashamed. no need to remind me.

Well, I best be going to be bed. It is late.

Oh, be ready for many many picture post coming in the near future.

Because this is what I'm getting tomorrow....

I'm giddy with excitement!!

Splish Splash

This kid LOVES his bath time....can you tell??

I usually sit on the top of the toilet while he makes a wet splashing mess all over the floor.

"Mom, who cares if you get wet! Its fun!" he says

"Just don't take pictures with my wee wee showing please."

"Do I have a big mouth?"

"Have you seen my new teeth? Mom said I was up four times last night thanks to these bad boys."

St. Nick

Isaac met good ole' Santa Claus today. He was quite beside himself with the meeting and thoroughly enjoyed studying Santa's long white beard. Daddy can't grow a beard so this was something new to him.:) Isaac met his buddy, Ryder at the mall and they experienced their first Santa sighting together. I think St. Nick thought Ryder's mom (Ashley) and I were a little over the top with our cameras flashing and repeated high pitched sounds of "Isaac look over here...Ryder, come on buddy look over here...oh my goodness look how cute...awww, LOOK! really how cute!!..oh adorable, look at him looking at Santa while he talks to him...oh shoot, i didn't get it...hey santa can you talk to my child one more time so I can get a picture...okay, good. Aww...cute!!!" We did manage to get a picture of both of them on Santa's lap. Although they were both staring off into the distance like a deer caught in headlights. ...that is after we got Isaac to stop checking out the beard.

"Isaac..."

"ISAAC..."
"There you go buddy, good job.."
Getting more comfortable...

"STOP. IT. I can't take the cuteness." I told him to whisper in Santa's ear that he wanted a big screen T.V. and new car...

The finished product. Sorry kinda fuzzy...we don't have a scanner

Speaking of Santa Claus, I can't believe December is already here and its only 10 more days until Christmas. Would you be surprised if I told you I haven't done ANY shopping whatsoever? You would? Oh. Okay, just joking. Of course I've done shopping...

To be honest, its a little hard to shop with a toddler wanting nothing to do with quietly sitting in a stroller. But, I need to get started. Procrastination has always been my down fall.

Isaac is great and his is everywhere. Crawling at lightning speed and pulling up on anything that's in his path. He is such a JOY! We are so thankful for our precious son and what delight he brings to our little household. He loves to race across the floor with his cousin, Hudson, and chase after a plastic cup. He loves to hide his paci in a cup and smile when you say "where did it go???" and then he quickly pulls it out and laughs when he hears, "there it is!" He loves splashing around in the bathtub. His right arm literally never stops splashing. I usually just sit on the top of the toilet seat now, far away from him and just watch him splash and play away. He has four teeth and a few more quickly on their way.

Well, that enough for now...I won't have anything left to update you on his 11 month post! Wow, almost one year. my baby boy is growing up....

I LOVE to scream!!!

As the title of the post says, our child loves to scream. I even have video to prove it. I realize that some people don't love watching videos of other people's children (I mainly put this up for the grandparents to be honest) but if you are bored and want a little entertainment feel free to watch my child scream scream away.

Here is a video for your viewing pleasure

Here is a cute video of Isaac laughing. He gets so tickled when you surprise him. Oh, and excuse us eating dinner in the living room that night.:)

On a different note, we FINALLY put up a Christmas tree. This is the first Christmas tree we have had since three years ago in our first year in Bradenton, Florida. Honestly it never really felt that "Christmasy" down in Florida due to the fact that it was usually 70 degrees in December, I was still wearing shorts, and you could smell fruit on the trees in our neighborhood. I guess you could call us Scrooges, but we always left to visit family in Alabama about a week or two before Christmas so we didn't feel the need.

Heres a picture of our sweet little tree.

Merry Christmas!!