Will's Smile

Will's new smile started around New Year's Eve

Everything Will does is passionate - if he is mad, he is REALLY mad, if he is happy he is really cheesing! These are some my favorite recent pics from my phone that I have Will - LOVE THAT DIMPLE! He used to do this awkward face when you said, "SMILE." Now when you say, "Cheese" this is what you get. I love it! He has always kind of had this scrunched up face.

Will at 6 months

Spending a day with Mommy and Daddy without Big brother

Cruising at Shipwrecked

Random Moments

Some of my favorite pics, I take with my cell phone. Here are some since the beginning of the year.

Found Gaines pouring tea for the princesses at Shipwrecked. Of course Will had to run in there and get right in the middle of it!

Running at the Farm

Sporting our new coats from CocoBonBon - LOVE THEM!!!

Gaines's old teacher Ms. Jennifer gave him this aviator jacket hand-me-down and he is obsessed with it

First day of Music Class, had to stop first at the Donut Hut in Green Hills. The boys thought they were big stuff sitting at the counter.

 I love this one of Gaines and Daddy's boys

Gaines was pretending Will was his baby and rocking him and singing to him - this lasted about 2 minutes until Gaines shoved Will off the chair

  Mommy went to Atlanta for Melissa's baby shower and Daddy had "Boys Weekend." I don't know how Garrick manages to get such a good pics of the two of them. I am sure he would say he is a pro is why...Look at these cuties!!!

Cooking with my little boys

I have been really trying to let the boys help me cook or do other projects but it truly takes everything I have because I really do not have the patience for it! Will has to have on all his Chef's gear for anything we do in the kitchen. I remember when Gaines was his age, he loved to cook in his hat and apron.

PUMC's First Annual Women's Retreat

I had such a great time meeting new friends and spending time with God at the women's retreat. It was a beautiful weekend in the mountains. My goal for 2012 is to really getting involved at PUMC and hopefully find a church home there. This was the first step besides regularly attending on Sundays when we are in town. There was about 75 women that attended. The message for the weekend was turning ashes to beauty and we did just that! Just wanted to share some of my favorite pics!

Great testimonies, messages, and music!

The view

 From Ashes to Beauty through God's grace and mercy

Childhood friends are lifelong friends

Weekend with the Grandmothers

I am so blessed and so are the boys to have two sets of wonderful grandparents and grandmothers! Garrick has been traveling so much lately with work and I really wanted to go to PUMC's first women's retreat so Nonni and Mamaw agreed to watch the boys. 


Nonni always has these grandiose ideas she wants to do with the boys despite the fact she is exhausted and has worked all week! She takes the boys solo to Fired Up which is a paint your pottery place on Friday night. They had a blast, I am hoping she will write a recap of their weekend that i can include in this post.


On Saturday, Mamaw came in from Knoxville and her and Nonni took the boys to the circus. Gaines went last year and loved it! This year he enjoyed it as well but liked the snacks a lot more. He told Nonni after about an hour in a half that he was ready to leave to go "watch a show." What else is new?!?! Will on the other hand sat in Mamaw's lap and watched the entire thing! Loved it! He definitely has the Gaines's men blood in him because his excited face looks just like his indifferent face!

The boys and their Grandmothers at the Circus

Discovery Center

Monday was beautiful and I called up Mimi to see if she wanted to go to the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro and of course she did - so off we went! 

I think I will have this framed forever!

 Will of course is right under Gaines the entire time. Look how cute this handy man is!

At lunch - I think lunch sent Mommy over the edge!

Melissa's Baby Shower - You Are My Sunshine

This weekend we celebrated Baby Hill with a You Are My Sunshine shower for Mel. As we all know she loves yellow so we thought this would be a perfect fit for the mom-to-be. It was really like a mini-girls weekend. We had so much fun catching up and having a sleepover at Jess's house. I think Elizabeth thinks she is already an ADPi! 

The theme turned out so cute!

 The Mom and Dad To Be

 Girlfriends

The Mom-to-Be and Hostesses

We are so excited for Baby Hill to arrive in April!!!