Our Beautiful Boy is One-Year Old!

Yes, our beautiful baby boy is now a year old! We had a wonderful time celebrating with family over Labor Day, and then just the 4 of us on his actual birthday when we got back home. Here are some pictures of our special little man!

Having birthday supper at Nana and Papaw's house.

Loving the lemon-blueberry birthday cake Nana made. And it was GF for Scott!

My mom's a genius.


My parents have the most beautiful farm and house. It's so nice to come home to. Kilee loves to play outside there. Here's a pic of her running around the front sidewalk.

Scott and me -- enjoying the most peaceful front porch on earth.

After the first birthday celebration at my parents' house, we went to Scott's mom's house (Mamaw). We had so much fun there. First we had a fish fry and then a birthday brunch the next day. The whole family came! Josiah was pretty excited to be surrounded by so many presents!

Opening a little dog pull-toy.

A birthday tradition! Kilee also had one of these cupcake-shaped cakes from Gigi (Great-Grandma) for her first birthday. He tore into it!

We also visited Scott's Dad and Shelly (Paw-paw and Gamma) while we were there, but I was the forgetful mama and forgot to bring the camera to their place. We had fun playing in the kitchen floor where they had laid out all of Josiah's birthday toys, along with some toys for sissy too. It was fun getting to visit and let the kids run all over. Good times!

Back home again! I dressed Josiah up on his actual birthday. He looked like such a little man!

Josiah's birthday supper!

Josiah's birthday cake!

Happy Birthday, Buddy!

The cutest little boy in the universe.

Ripping open his birthday presents at home, with help from sissy.

Ahh, little boys and cars -- always a hit!

September News

September has been a great month so far! We've had some good times as a family, including going fishing together, attending our church's first ever adoption picnic, playing with friends, and traveling to see family. Things are starting to get busy again now that we've had a month or so of a break since camp ended. One new big event in our family is that we have a preschooler now! Kilee started attending preschool this month on Tuesdays and Thursdays and she loves it! Josiah and I have been able to run errands and I've been trying to be faithful to go to the gym 3 times a week.
We've had a really dry month like everyone else. All of the grass is brown! But as Scott says, "just let it die, it's all crabgrass anyway," so I'm not too worried about it. Hopefully we'll get some cool weather soon.
Enjoy some of our September pics!

Playing on the new playground that Aunt Deb and Uncle Dann gave Josiah for his birthday and Christmas. He loves it!

Playing in the grass

Nothing says summer like a little boy with a hose!

Kilee likes the playground too!

Going for a ride on a sunny day!

We recently got Josiah a new set of shelves with baskets to hold his new big-boy toys from his birthday. I like the way his room turned out with the new piece!

1st Day of Preschool
Kilee's a big preschool girl now!