Friday, June 15, 2012

Lately...

May/June have been SUPER busy months so far-  really.  This will be a long post- but hopefully it's ok because there are a lot of pictures.

In May the most momentous thing was celebrating Larry's graduation with his PhD from the University of Georgia!  He is officially Dr. Larrry Correll-Hughes.  We had a great but jam packed weekend celebrating graduation, Mother's Day and we had Children's Sunday at church, where I preached.  Here are some photo chronicles of the events:

 Larry at the famous UGA Arch- we actually took this photo a couple of week before graduation and already people were lined up to snap pics here.


 Right after the graduation ceremony with the kiddos

 Larry with his sister Sarah and nieces, Katerina and Victoria
Larry's mom and dad


Children's Sunday/Mother's Day service-a really great day!

The cousins all together (sort of)


Later in May Brooks finished up his three year tenure at Tuckston Learning Center.  He had a great year at Nursery School and we loved his teachers, Mrs. Mary and Mrs. Laurie SOOOO much.




After the events of May we went into June where our church put on an AMAZING week off VBS led by me:)!  This was the last major event I led as a part of my job as Assoc. Pastor for Children at Milledge Avenue Baptist Church.  I got a couple off good pictures of Brooks and Lucy during the week.



 



Finally and most recently, some great friends from church, Carey and Denise Huddlestun invited us to go with them to the Peachtree Dekalb airport to play and watch planes take off and land.  The kiddos had so much fun and we got to see the Memphis Belle (the plane they used in the movie) !
 Watching the planes take off and land!


 They had a great playground right by the runway.  Brooks and Lucy had BIG fun!
 Mrs. Denise helping Lucy on the slide.
A family pic by the Memphis Belle

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Things Brooks' Says

Conversation with Brooks (age 4) on the way to pick up the babysitter:

Brooks:  Are you gonna be sad when I go to college.
Me:  yes, I'll probably cry because I'll miss you.
Brooks: well you don't have to cry, you know.  Daddy will still be with you and Lucy will love you.
Me: what about you?  will you still love mommy?
Brooks:  (*nods and grins)  Yep,  you don't have to cry when I go to college because I will come back from college to see you.

*sigh* I just know I'm gonna blink and that day will be here.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Happy Birthday Brooks!

Our sweet boy turned four this month- FOUR!  I can hardly believe it!  Somehow his birthday celebrations turned into a week long extravaganza.

Monday the 12th (his actual birthday) he woke up to streamers, balloons and birthday pancakes.

 He had a great day playing with some birthday presents and finished the day by going out with the family to pick out his big  present- a big boy bike!


On Friday Larry surprised brooks by waking him up early and taking him on an "adventure."  They traveled on the Megabus from Athens to Atlanta.  In Atlanta they rode the train (Marta) and went downtown to Centennial Olympic park and had fun playing on the playground and visiting the World of Coke.

On Saturday, we had Brooks' birthday party.  It was a Dinosaur adventure!





 The kiddos drew dinosaurs with sidewalk chalk and then threw water balloons at them to make them "extinct."




 Next they were paleontologists discovering "dinosaur bones" in our sand box.

 Cake and icecream!

 Lucy had her share of cake and ice cream too!



 The plan was to have a dinosaur egg hunt outside, but the rainy weather kept us inside to discover dinosaur eggs had been put in their explorer buckets :).  Our dinosaur eggs were filled with candy, toy dinosaurs and dino tattoos.

 Lucy got in on the dino egg fun.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

You Are My Sunshine....

My Only Sunshine.
You make me happy when skies are grey.




Happy 1st Birthday to our little sunshine.  Lucy is a year old!  I can hardly believe it, but it is true.
She truly is the sunshine of our lives with her sweet disposition and sunny smiles all the time.
She has four teeth in that smile and is busy all the time trying to keep up with big brother and play with all his toys. She also reserves her best smiles for big brother.
She has started taking a few steps and will walk some, but mostly prefers crawling as the faster mode of transportation.  She already has several words and signs.  Some of her words are:
dada
Brooo (brooks)
ball
bye bye
all done ( spoken and signed)
more (spoken and signed)
yay! (said while clapping)
baby ( her favorite toy from Christmas)

She loves snuggles and hugs (which her mommy also loves) and LOVES to hug and snuggle stuffed animals and her "baby."

We celebrated our little Sunshine Girl with a "you are my sunshine" themed party.  Lots of friends and family joined us to celebrate Lucy and with her a happy 1st birthday.

A display of recent pictures with the "sunshine song"


The brunch Spread

Rainbow fruit on a stick

Birthday cake (inside are layers with coconut and lemon flavors) Yum!

Birthday cupcakes (for those who don't like coconut and favors for the grown-ups)

Love from Mimie :)

Sweet friends- Susan and Zoe Bolen

sweet former neighbors from family graduate housing- Rina and Emma Lobos

more great family housing neighbors- Kelly and Aida Okie


Getting ready to blow out candles and eat cake!



Big brother helped Lucy Blow out her candles


baby's first buttercream!



 Mrs. Denise ( above) and Mr. Carey (below) wishing Lucy a happy birthday.  These are friends from church staff at MABC.


we traded the cupcake for some fruit!

Love from Aunt Sharai

Hanging out with Papa and cousin Austin


Open presents with Mrs. Laura

Opening presents with Mommy

Eating a bow- much better than actual presents!

tired girl getting hugs from Daddy!