happy birthday Rylee!

Colton and I headed down to Jackson this past weekend to celebrate Rylee's 1st birthday. As you can see she was as cute as ever in her pink tutu, tights and high top converse sneakers! It's so hard to believe that one year has already passed. Brian and Courtney hosted a great party and we had a fun time!

16 weeks

Colton turned 16 weeks on Thursday. He has been such an active little baby! He is constantly rolling over and playing on his belly. He tries so hard to move once he is on his belly, but just can't quite figure it out. It won't be long until he will be crawling all over the place! Although watching him grow and achieving milestones is fun, I sometimes miss when he was just a few weeks old and so tiny...and he stayed in one place! He started eating vegetables at lunch last week, and Laura (our babysitter) says he has been doing well. Colton has been doing better with his sleeping, sometimes he can sleep through the night, otherwise he is up somewhere between 3 and 4 to eat and then back to sleep until about 8 or 9! The last time I weighed him he was up to 16 lbs!! His legs are long, he will soon be out of 6 month pants. These past 16 weeks have been so much fun and absolutely amazing! We are so in love with our little Colton!

fun with rylee

Brian, Courtney, and Rylee came up to visit the other weekend. The two kids had fun together, the dad's went hunting and the mom's did lots of shopping! Here are some pics from the weekend.

ready to jump!

I pulled Colton's jumper out of the closet this weekend and decided to put it together because he looked like he was about the same age as the girl on the box.


Well it doesn't look that he is tall enough just yet, oh well, he likes to sit in it and play with the toys.

Hotty Toddy!!

Saturday we headed to the Grove for our first football game of the season. The weather was beatiful and the rebels won!! Colton enjoyed his first game and all the sights of the grove. Thanks Bess and Mac for the cute camo overalls.

Thanks Ms. Vickie!!

October 20 was my first day back to work, and thanks to Justin's mom it wasn't that bad. Ms. Vickie came and stayed with Colton for the first week, and she was a HUGE help. She cooked, helped around the house and best of all, loved on Colton! She also interviewed ladies to sit for Colton at home while I'm at work. We are so blessed that we have found Laura, she is watching Colton during the day so that he can stay home and not have to go to daycare! This past week Laura could not came everyday since she was finishing up with another job. Thankfully Justin, Rachael and Curtis were able to move their schedules around to keep Colton. Thank you so much for all of your help!!!!


For those of you who didn't know, I have taken a new job, Friday was my last day at Baptist. I will be working now in Marks which is only 20 minutes from home and the new position is less hours so I can spend more time with Colton. I start in Marks on Monday!