Wow!!

It's been over 5 months since blogging.... I'm just getting farther and farther behind. Let me bring you up to date with just a few paragraphs. Since my last post we have had our third sweet baby boy. Hudson Tait graced us with his presence on March 14th. He came 5 days after his due date and weighed in at 7 lbs. 13 oz., 20 inches. It was the least of a transition for our family. Our biggest transition has been going from no children to the first little one. He is such a smiley and happy baby. He started turning over really early, like 12 weeks. Maybe even earlier. He is so verbal, started sleeping 6-8 hours through the night by 3 weeks old and stayed there until about 8-9 weeks and then SLOWLY moved his way up to 12 hours at 4 months or just a couple of days after.

We made a sweet family vacation to Tennessee in July and LOVED it! The older two boys had a blast and Hudson was a huge hit! All the Aunts and Uncles got to love on him. He was the only non-mobile baby so he was held A LOT!! I don't know if I gave him his bottle while we were there. CARRAZY, I know!

Honestly, if I didn't have a ton of work to get the baby weight off each time, I would love to be pregnant again! I love the WHOLE process. But...like I've said before, it's not the pregnancy, labor and newborn stage that is hard, it's raising them. Truett is 4 and sometimes I feel like he has had more schooling in psychology than I have. It's hard to know if I'm doing the right thing.
The best thing I've found is a book called "Shepherding a Child's Heart" it is the most insightful and delightful book I've ever come across. It hits the nail on the head. It's practical and yet completely biblical. I have probably read something like 20-30 parenting books. A lot of great books and, yet, this one is THE best in my opinion.

Not that I've got "IT" down, but I'm constantly seeing areas where I need to work on and pray about. So, now that I've got you semi- caught up, maybe I can stay more updated on my blog and give you more weekly posts.

Aggghhhhh

Our home computer has been plagued by a virus of some sort recently. We had just thrown away our restore disk just weeks before our computer went AWOL on us (go figure). So we basically deleted our whole computer and saved what we could on our external hard drive. I forgot and put more pictures of this summer and misc. things and then deleted the computer (thinking I had saved the pictures). Well, I lost many of this summers photos. I only have a few miscellaneous ones. So, I'll leave you with a few we took in Michigan. We ate so good and I loved spending time alone with Wayne, I know these times are few.

A Zingerman's Brownie and Famous Coffee


Zingerman's Deli
Zingerman's Store
Yum.... Zingerman's Bread
Chili Cheese Fries (Zingerman's Roadhouse)

Can you tell we LOVED Zingermans!

Our trip to Michigansota!

Before we left for our trip to Michigan, Wayne's mom kept asking, "Now where are y'all going?" "Michigan or Minnesota?" Truett would say, again, "Mitchagan, Maw Maw!" Right before we left Truett asked "Mama, are you going to Michigansota?"

When we weren't at the beach or sleeping...

Love those little chubby toes!!






One of the restaurants we ate at- The Back Porch- is there on the left.

Our favorite things to do at the beach...

EAT

SHOP

PLAY

SWIM

A long time coming...

Sorry I've been gone so long. Our home (desktop) computer is on the verge of a meltdown, so I have to get on Wayne's laptop. He has been working like a wild man, so I was forced to only look at other blogs :) Well, hopefully I can keep you updated, I just might have to wait until Wayne is asleep. We enjoyed our vacation in Florida. Truett loved seeing the beach and was quite exhausted after a 7 hour drive and a long lunch break in the middle. He NEVER fell asleep on the way to the beach but he did get a good nap on the way home! I will try to not bore you with too many pictures, but what fun would a blog be without them!

Truett woke up ready for the beach, but until mommy and daddy were ready Truett enjoyed watching Mickey and Donald!

Truett and Paw Paw made a HUMONGOUS sand castle... I should have taken a picture when they finished it! Paw Paw had a moat and everything around it!
Hey, Mommy!!

He didn't know if he like the sand at first, he said there were ant beds everywhere (he thinks all sand, must be ant beds). He soon realized it's like dirt and began to LOVE the sand!

Summer Vacation

We didn't think this was something we could afford. With a new baby on the way and lots of planning and preparing the last thing on our mind was a vacation. My mother-in-law has been asking us to go with her to the beach. She is so sweet and always offers to pay for everything, not something we let her do. She said she was going to the beach for her upcoming wedding anniversary and wanted us to go, we joked about it and then she said "let's go book something". I did some research and found that we could stay somewhere pretty nice for 3 nights for about $600 but THEN we found a really nice place for 7 nights at $ 995. So, 4 extra nights and less than $400 extra bucks... we were stoked! A family vacation!!!!!!!! So we are leaving in less than 2 weeks to Destin, FL.

Beautiful Destin beaches

at night


an area shopping center

Good-bye Sweet "Cott and Beck Beck"

Truett was infatuated with Uncle Scott and Aunt Becca's house, dogs, and even with them. He talks about them daily and we wish we could visit you guys more often. Here was us leaving them, only Uncle Scott could make it to see us off but we'll miss you both terribly.

This is an understated picture of the way Truett felt and acted on our trip! You can see in the following picture just how much his mood changed when I told him we had to leave Uncle Scott and Aunt Becca and it would be a while before we could see them again. He truly seemed to understand it in parts.
He never cried but looked like he could try to get a tear!
Uncle Scott tried very hard to cheer him up!

It worked a little bit!

Random, Part 23

Uncle Scott and Aunt Becca... WE MISS YOU!

Take me back to MAYBERRY, Part 2

Take me back to MAYBERRY, Part 1

Mount Airy and Mayberry very well may have been our highlight of the trip. None of us, except for Paw Paw, really WANTED to go. But after Paw Paw's recommendation and everyone wanting everyone else to have a great trip we decided it couldn't hurt us! We had a fast, but very nice time!
Look carefully to the right of the police car, there were "street preachers" on that corner. Preach it, brothers!
Me, Truett, and Barn!
Wayne's so very clever shot!
Don't give the man a camera, he will shoot every random picture, hey Uncle Scott (in the background)

PF Cheng... continued!

Happy 28th Birthday,Natalie!!!!



The Happy Couple of 6 years! How sweet it is to be loved by you!
Our rare family picture
The headless child

All he wants to do is make his Paw Paw laugh :)