Elizabeth Kelly's Royal Birthday - Atlanta

We headed to Atlanta this weekend to celebrate Elizabeth's 4th Birthday. Jessica threw an amazing birthday party down to every last detail. It was crazy but very organized! There were 31 kids ages 5 and under to be entertained. The theme was Princesses and Princes. I am so glad we were able to celebrate the big day!!!

So excited to head to Atlanta for the Royal Event!

The birthday girl - Princess Elizabeth

 Prince Gaines and Knight Will

The Royal Odom Family

Auntie Mel and the Boys
Gaines was literally up under Mel the entire afternoon.

Look at all the kids!

Baby Reese has arrived!

 After the party we went to the Kellys to continue the celebration. All our babies got to play and we all got to catch up a little bit.

I love seeing Caroline's personality come out. She is getting so big!

Our 4 year olds!

Trying to get a group pic - Caroline was so sleepy. She wanted no part in this picture.

Love this! E is like come on boys lets get this over with!

Now isn't this priceless?!?!

 We spent the night over Melissa and Chris's house and it was so much fun seeing them in action with Reese. The boys loved Baby Reese. Knox not so much!

I feel so very blessed to have such great friends that want our families to grow up together as much as I do. I hope our kids appreciate this one day!

Valentine's Day

I love Valentine's Day!!! We started celebrating a day early by making Valentine treats for Daddy and the boys teachers. I feel like I should get a Mom Medal when I let them participate, it never quite goes the way I envision these moments with my children. The boys each got a Transformers Rescue Bot as their "Valentines" from Mommy and Daddy. Will "wrote" on each one of his Valentines for school and they both picked out who they wanted each Valentine to go to in their class.

The final product from start to finish! And we made peanut butter brownies for  the teachers - YUM!

Daddy loved his cake

Making the boys take pictures before school

my keeper - how stinkin' cute are these heart throbs?!?!

Threatening them to get the picture

Whining "I don't want to do this"

"No Will!"

Will and Lily at school - sweet puppy love!

We are still waiting for Gaines to redeem this coupon he made for us at school.

Sunday

I made the boys take pictures before Church in their cute little ties and this pretty much sums up my children.

The Many Faces of Will Odom

NonNon's House

Garrick was out of town this weekend and Mom took the boys on Saturday where I could do some Spring Cleaning. In one day, they can do more at her house than a normal person would do in a month! As soon as Gaines walks in he starts saying, "Nonni, can we....Nonni, where is.... Nonni, Nonni, Nonni."

Would you want to come home if you had a full-service bathroom attendant? Seriously, a chair to hold your book while you did your business?

The office Nonni and Gaines created complete with a family picture. Mom said he stayed in his office all day writing notes.

Poor Will exhausted!

Bath time!

Jesus Loves Me

Will has been singing Jesus Loves Me all the time. He sings while playing with his toys, in the car, everywhere. I asked him to sing it where I could record it and my cell phone messed up on the video before this one - it was priceless. He was singing so sweetly like an angel and then Gaines started singing too and Will starts SCREAMING at him to stop messing up his song. Now that sums up Will Odom. He can be the most precious little boy ever and in a split second he has turned!

Below is the sweet version.

Super Bowl Sunday

Garrick and the boys went shopping for their annual Super Bowl Bash with the guest attendance of 4. With all the food we cooked you would think we were having a real Super Bowl Party. We pumped up the boys all week on who they were going to cheer for. Believe it or not even Gaines watched the entire game. I guess having a little competition helped to peak his interest.

Gaines and Mommy - GOOOO RAVENS!
Daddy and Will - GOOOOO 49ERS!

The boys helped make pigs-n-a-blanket.

Will watching the game. He kept saying my team tackled you!

Post Game Pic
Ravens Won

PUMC Women's Retreat

This year I helped coordinate the 2nd Annual Women's Retreat in Beersheba Springs, TN and it was amazing. We had around 85 women attend. I am truly amazed at the women of our church and blessed beyond measure to be able to be a part of their lives.

The theme of the weekend.

Ice Breaker Game
Fashion Show

Kicking off the retreat

Morning wake-up call.

The Lodge
The snow started falling while we were in morning session. It was beautiful but made everyone very anxious about getting home off the mountain.

Amazing speakers and testimonies

During free time we had quite a crew join in on Natalie's Zumba class.

MJ Gals
Claire, Sarah-Beth, Danna, and Christy

During our reflection time. I love this place!

Women's Retreat 2013