Oh Christmas Card, Oh Christmas Card

I have used http://shutterfly.com/ for years and orders lots of prints and just recently ordered baby thank you cards and baby announcements. I usually use them because they have lots of promotions and I love a good deal! I had already looked at their Christmas cards for this year. I saw several designs that caught my eye. Now if we could only get our picture made and everybody look pretty. I do have the outfits already to go though :)

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards/confection-dazzle-christmas-5x7-photo-card-5x7-photo?sortType=1&storeNode=93480&fe=1

Another possibility:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/burst-of-snowflakes-christmas-5x7-photo-card-5x7-photo?sortType=1&storeNode=93480&fe=1

And another:

http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards/merry-christmas-christmas-5x7-photo-card-5x7-photo?sortType=1&storeNode=93480&fe=1

This was one of them. You can check out the other designs at http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery or http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards. If we were cool enough to have a New Year's Party we might use these http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/new-years-cards.

I have ordered our Christmas cards from Shutterfly for the past several years and have always been very pleased. They arrive on time and look great. I recently ordered pictures from them and they were lost in the mail, but no problem, I got another set of the prints shipped to me at no addition cost.

And yes, I can't figure out how to make my links into pictures, so if you want to see my possibilities you will have to click on the link :)

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Brothers?

I decided to post a picture of Garrett and Ty to show their similarities. This is the only picture of have of both of them in the same shirt. I think they look more alike in person than in these pictures, but you can definitely tell they are brothers.

Garrett--6 weeks

Ty--8 weeks

Future Farmer

Today was Garrett's Fall Festival at school and he decided to dress up like a farmer and I just wanted to share the pictures!

Oh Boy!

Let me start out by saying that my life with two boys is never, ever dull! Ty is such a cute chunky baby! He is almost up to 11 pounds! He has started smiling a lot and I thought this was such a cute picture of him. I had to put in the swing because of the next picture!

I was on the computer this morning and apparently left Halloween paint in the hands of my 3 year old. He came into the office and said look at my Mom, I'm a pirate.

He did a pretty good job of painting his face like the picture on the pirate makeup. This is what the makeup looks like now. I did get a kick out of it. Luckily he didn't try to paint Ty!

Pumpkin Patch and Playoffs

We are so happy that October is here and Atlanta is finally feeling like fall! We have been busy this month and will continue to be! We have been to a pumpkin patch and cheered on the Braves for NLCS playoff game #3 in Atlanta. That is a great thing about living here. It takes us about 30 minutes to get to Turner Field and park and we can hop right back on the interstate and be home so soon! We had a great time at the game. My dad is a big Giants fan and he definitely enjoyed the Giants victory. Ty enjoyed his first Braves game (for the most part). Luckily our seats were in the shade and we had a nice breeze blowing for most of the game. Garrett always loves going, but fell asleep in the nineth inning :)



It was a beautiful day in Atlanta!

The weekend before, we headed up to Dawsonville and enjoyed a great pumpkin patch and mini corn maze. It is nice to get out of Atlanta and head north up the mountains without all the traffic! Garrett had fun feeding goats and picking out some pumpkins. It would really be great if the fall weather would return instead of being 85 degrees again!

One Month Old

It is so hard to believe that Ty is already one month old! Time is flying by! Garrett is still doing great with him and hardly leaves him alone. I think that he is weighing in about 10 pounds now, but we will see for sure at the ped. on Monday. He smiled at both David and I this weekend for the first time and actually somehow managed to roll from his belly to his back (I'm thinking that was complete fluke or is advanced beyond measure).

He still looks like a little Garrett and is really a great baby. He is waking up 2 to 3 times a night and awake for many hours during the day. The bad part about that is that he wants to be held while he is awake. He screams if he is awake in his carseat!

We went to Tennessee last weekend for David to play in the CCHS Alumni Baseball game. So it was Ty's first time out of state. Mom, Dad and Cory came down last week and we went to the North Georgia State Fair (it's about 10 miles from us). Garrett really enjoyed it and got to ride a pony and see a bear show. He was not interested at all in riding any of the rides. It was a pretty good fair for $5.00.

It has finally cooled off here. We went for mid-90's to upper 70's and its wonderful! We are hoping to go to a pumpkin patch this weekend and getting ready for all things Fall. We officially celebrated Garrett's birthday on Tuesday and went to a play based on the book "How I Became a Pirate". Ty was great and went to sleep during it.

That's all our updated for now!

Welcome September!

September has been a busy month so far for us. Garrett will be 3 on the 28th! I know, it is so hard to believe that he has been part of our family for 3 years. He is quite interesting these days and constantly keeps us on our toes. Preschool is going great and loves going. We have officially given up pull-ups. I had been waiting to see if he regressed after Ty was born (I had heard bad stories about potty training after a new baby), but he didn't have any issues. So he has started wearing underwear everywhere and is doing absolutely fantastic with it. I'm sure he was ready to switch long before we did.

We went ahead and had an early birthday party for him because we wanted to have as many family members here as possible, so we had this party on the 11th. He is still big into dinosaurs, so we had a dinosaur birthday party. He got lots of great things and lots of pajamas!

He is doing great with Ty. He just wants to be around him and kiss him. He hasn't acted jealous of him and Ty has adjusted pretty well to Garrett's noise level.

An update on Ty: He is doing great. I can tell he is starting to fill out and sleeps longer at night. Right now he is sleeping 3 to 4 hours in between feedings at night, but he doesn't want to sleep in his bassinett at all. I'm probably starting a bad habit, but I need sleep! He is becoming much more alert and is up for hours at a time now. He is up for about 3 hours and sleeps for about 2. I think he is following in Garrett's footsteps about not wanting to sleep! We don't go back to the ped. for another couple of weeks, so I'm not sure how much he weighs. He still looks so much like Garrett as a baby and is a really good baby. He only cries if he is hungry, wet or sleepy.

David went back to work on Wednesday and we have adjusted well. I took both boys to drop Garrett off at school on Wednesday and we were on time! He carseat is a beast and I probably look rough carrying it, but you forget how heavy they are!

Enjoy the pictures and we will keep you updated!