Sophie's 9 month check up

Here is little Sophie after a nap. She is looking a little more like Clifton :) Even though she is 10 months old, she had her 9 month check up yesterday. She is 28 inches tall and 19 pounds 6 ounces! This puts her in 50% for both categories. She did not stop moving the entire appointment. The doctor's comment was, "you have your hands full with that one!"

Here is Kaleb striking a pose and sophie's new face. He still loves to get in her crib and play a little while in the mornings and after naps.

Pops got Kubby a new computer. Here they are "working". Kaleb loves it, but i think Clifton likes it more. You can tell by the hair that this is an early morning activity :)

A photographer is coming to our home today to take pictures of Sophie, Jan found us a free photo session, so i am very excited. She has a new dress and a new bow to match. We need some pictures of this little girl. She has been so snotty that she has only had her picture made professionally one time :(

Our Dollywood Trip

Abigail wanted to ride the Tea Cups, but none of us wanted too (too chicken), so Ashley said she would.

Abigail and Kaleb riding the Busy Bees.

The Elephant ride is much faster than we thought it would be. Eli still liked it. He loved every ride.

The lady had to help then get the seat belts right. Maybe it was just Stephanie that needed help.

That's Bonnie on the left and Natalie on the right... Natalie is Ashley's daughter and Bonnie is Natalie's friend.

Steph cheesing it up...

We ordered Abigail and Eli their own hotdog and they were BIG! Here's Abigail eating hers.

We wore poor little Eli out.

Notice that Kaleb is jumping.

Working Cows...

I called Dad this morning to remind him it was his night for watching Eli and he said that they were working cows (it's where they give them shots and tag them if need be and other things to keep the cows healthy) today if we wanted to come and hang out. I had planned on going to the Zoo this morning, but decided to go and check things out. When we were younger we were the ones helping and not the nice people from UT Vet school. Thank you Vet students! Stephanie, Kaleb, and Sophie came a little later. We had a great time.

Dad trying to write things down while holding Eli and watching Kaleb.

Kaleb walking through the pen. He had such a good time. Stephanie said that when she put his boots on today that he said "I'm a cowboy." Too cute! He also kept saying hi to the cows.

My Aunt Pam, Stephanie, and Sophie.

Tommy and some other guy that works for Dad getting the cows to go up to the head shoot.

Eli and Pop's in the truck taking the cows down the road a little ways back to were they live.

Eli's Birthday Party!

On Sunday night we had Eli's birthday party. Everybody was there. Thanks to Jennifer and Jay for driving all the way from Nashville and back. It was some fun times. I uploaded a ton of pictures. I had a hard time picking which ones to put up. Thanks to Sam for taking pictures as well. I've got a lot of pictures he took on here. Also, thanks Pop's for letting us have it at your house.

Sweet face.

He did not like the cake at all. You can tell by the face!

The tractor cake I made.

Pop's and Luke.

Grandma and Eli. He's pointing at the pony he was scared of.

Michael, Eli , and Matt.

Grandad, Eli, and Nanna. Pointing is his new thing to do now.

Tommy grilling. Thank you!

Matt grilling. Thanks to you as well!

Michelle and Luke! He's got the cutest smile.

Kaleb and Abigail going down the slide.

Abigail riding the pony.

Kaleb riding the pony.

Luke riding the pony.

Eli playing with Aunt Jennifer's earrings.

Here's part of the finished playground. Abigail calls it "POP'S PARK."

Michael swinging high.

Heres the other part of Pop's Playground. Abigail, Kaleb, and Clifton swinging and Jennifer pushing Abigail.

Eli did not like the pony. Maybe one day he will. We'll keep trying.

Sophie riding the pony with a spoon in hand. I guess you never know when you need one.

Dad got this jeep last week. Here is Kaleb driving Abigail.

Abigail driving Luke around.

Abigail driving Kaleb around.

Abigail driving Eli around. Eli keep talking to her and Abigail looked at me and said " Aunt Jan what is Eli saying?" He was just going blah blah blah.

Bye bye!

Abigail swinging.

Kaleb swinging.

Jeremy and Luke swinging.

Eli on the Merry-go-round.

Kaleb on the merry-go-round.

I could have put up tons more pictures, but I decided to stop there.