Whit and Brady Turned One Year old!

December 27, 2008
Ricky and I were able to go see Whit and Brady for the First Birthday party! What a miracle they are! They were so good even though they were sleepy. They dappled in the birthday cake and almost made it through opening all their presents. As Whit was being rocked to sleep, he paused a minute to wave bye-bye to the cars he could see leaving out the window and then he also blew them kisses! Brady decided he didn't want to nap just yet and played a little while longer, I got the cutest picture of him showing off all those teeth he's been cutting!

December 2008

December has flown by! A Merry Christmas was had by all! Ricky and I had my family over for Christmas Eve lunch and presents. All we had to make this time was mashed potatoes and black eyed peas. My sister, Laura brought the turkey and my brother, Tim brought a Honeybaked ham. The 23rd, the kids and I spent the day using Aunt Laura's famous cookie dough to make sugar cookies. Emily rolled, cut and baked them and Brent and I decorated them with frosting and sprinkles...my booty is getting bigger just thinking about it again! And of course Aunt Laura brought boocoodles of more freshly baked cookies and confections(her specialty).
Christmas day we got up with Emily and Brent who ripped through all their presents at a record pace! Everyone was excited about what they got! Santa was good to us! The kids got new I-Pods, I got a jewelry chest and Ricky got an ax! Yes, an axe! I was even able to slip a few things under the tree for Ricky that he didn't know he was getting and believe me, that's an accomplishment! I cooked a quick breakfast and then Ricky started loading the car for our trip to Munson and Andalusia.
We had a nice lunch with his dad and Lucy and supper at his Mom's. Love Love Love Carolyn's dumplings! We had such a blessed and great Christmas . We are so thankful for everything everyone gave us and for being able to spend Christmas with our families.
I didn't take any pictures Christmas Eve, but my sister did, so I have to get those from her, but I got some from Christmas at the Morris'. The boys were adorable learning to push their walker toys we got them. Watch out, Wendy and Michael, they'll be walking in no time!

Thanksgiving/November 08

It has been a while since I lasted posted. I have had sciatica and haven't been able to sit for long, but the chiropractor I'm seeing has me on the road to recovery! November was busy month. After AU homecoming, we had Dave and Mandi's wedding to attend in Andalusia the weekend before Thanksgiving and I have NO pictures from that even though everyone looked rosy cheeked and radiant. You see we remembered to bring the camera, but left the battery on charge at home!It was the coldest night of the year, but it was a beautiful ceremony with the horses in the background. Brent absolutely loved the fire pit and stayed glued to it...only left it to down some boiled peanuts and Emily wrapped up in one of Mandi's blankets and stayed close to the heater.
The next weekend, Ricky and I hosted my family and Ricky's mom for Thanksgiving and I was so busy hosting that I didn't get any pics of that either! But my first turkey turned out perfect and juicy! Whew! We also got to visit with Wendy and the boys at the Jones' house in Munson that week. And I posted those precious pics of the twins. Wendy was even able to come by our house for the first time and have lunch before heading back home. Whit and Brady had fun cruising around the family room and sitting on Ricky's motorcycle. Brady didn't want to get off. Wendy has those pics posted on her blog.

Auburn Homecoming 2008

The Tennessee Martins went from being the Sky hawks to the Chicken hawks at Auburn's Homecoming Game. War Eagle! We were so happy they won. We had a full day. Got up at 6 am, left for Auburn and got there about 10:30 am, drove Emily around the Vet School, visited the book store for a few souvenirs, played some games they had set up for the kids, watched the Tiger Walk, walked to the Forestry Center for their BBQ lunch and then it was almost time for the game. We were able to get 4 tickets (thank goodness) right outside the stadium and made it in time to see the eagle fly! So all was good! Afterwards, we walked to Toomers' Corner and let the kids roll the trees(Ricky too!). The drug store was very crowded so we didn't get any lemonade this visit, but we did go in the store next door called Auburn Art and found some beautiful Auburn decor! They had the prettiest Christmas ornaments and a blue Christmas tree all decked in blue and orange! We made it home about 11:30 pm. Long day, but worth the fun! Can't wait for next year!

Auburn Here We Come!

I have literally loaded all of the recent and decent pics (not that I have any UNdecent ones, just some not so flattering!Ha Ha) that I have on our camera now! BUT there will be more soon!
Ricky, Emily, Brent and I are headed up to Auburn this weekend for homecoming. We are bringing nothing but goodluck with us! Brent will simply die if he doesn't get to toliet paper roll that square! He is also looking forward to seeing Aubie and the eagle fly. We went over to Bama Fever/Tiger Pride in Malbis to get some new T-shirts...we are all wearing blue, not orange since I am going to try and get some pics to use for Christmas cards and I thought the orange might clash.

Halloween

Brent went to a Halloween party last night dressed as local golfer, Boo Weekly complete with camo undershirt and Big League Chew(gum) in his back pocket. Emily is at a rodeo in Georgia. So Ricky and I decided to go to one of our favorite restaurants in Pensacola, Madison's. It's in the old Sacred Heart Hospital built in the 1900's. The building is made of stone and literally looks like a castle. The restaurant itself is where the nuns quarters once were. The food was delicious. Ricky had grilled tuna and I got pecan-crusted shrimp. Afterwards, we went downtown to Seville Square to see what was going on for Halloween and saw boo-coodles of people walking in groups with tour guides in costume. It was Historic Pensacola's annual Ghost Walks. We joined in. It was a lot of fun hearing the old ghost tales and learning more about Pensacola's history. As the guide was telling a tale about a ghost in front of the Barkley House a whole bunch of birds swooped down out of the oak tree above our heads and we all just about peed in our pants!

Sandals Whitehouse Jamaica

Our Honeymoon

I was able to figure out the slideshow business, so don't get dizzy watching them both! I put one picture of the grape tree in the honeymoon slideshow twice by accident, but I was scared to try and fix it.
Did you spot the black and green hummingbird hiding in the one pic? Ricky worked hard to get that shot! There were about three couples trying to get a picture of that bird at the same time, it was very funny watching all of us chasing that fast little booger in circles around the resort grounds!

Jones' Jamaican Honeymoon

Our Wedding

A Year in the Life of the Jones!

I have just started this blog and I feel ike I have to catchup, so I am adding tons of pictures to start off(I'm not done yet!) from the last year. I will be adding more soon of our wedding, honeymoon and lastest fishing trips!