A BIG Weekend

This past Labor Day Weekend was a BIG weekend for us! It was our 6 Year Anniversary and Emma and Reid's wedding. They actually got married on our anniversary...September 4th. It was so much fun celebrating our special day with so many family and friends and watching another couple celebrate their love and and the beginning of their future together.

Tyler and I got a room at the Crescent for Saturday night so Gloria came and stayed with the kids and we had a very nice 24 hours OFF! We relaxed by the pool all day soaking up the sun, ordering lunch poolside and drinking margaritas! It was so much fun!! Just as I was finished getting ready for the wedding Tyler came up behind me and surprised me with the most amazing gift...a BEAUTIFUL ring representing both Ava and Landon with their birthstones! It was the perfect gift after 14 years of knowing each other, almost 9 years together, 6 years married and two beautiful babies later!! I love this man so much and everyday that goes by I am so incredibly thankful to have such a wonderful man by my side that I love so dearly and is my best friend in the world!

A Look Back......

September 4, 2004

6 Years Later....

Emma and Reid's Rehearsal Dinner

The Bride and Groom

3 Besties...Michelle, Ellen and Mom

Mother of the Bride and Mom

Tyler crashes the picture

Relaxing at the Crescent

My Beautiful ring...thank you baby!! I love you!!
Diamonds for Ava and Moonlight Ruby for Landon

Mom and her two girls

Mother of the Bride with 2 of her 3 beautiful girls

Sweet Maddie the Flower Girl

Aunt Michelle and Aunt Leslie

Maddie and Will

Congratulations Emma and Reid!!

Tyler and Robert with the London Boys

Ya'll are next!!

Father Daughter Dance

Sisters

Sisters...I love you Linds!!

Ava goes to School!

Ava started her first week of school this week. She is going M-W-F from 9-2 PM and is LOVING it!! She is such a big girl...she doesn't even cry anymore! She plays a little of the sad game at first saying "mommy no bye bye" and I tell her I will be back very soon and she says "okay kiss mommy please"! Her teachers, Mrs. Linda and Mrs. Ashe, say she is doing wonderful and is the helper in the class. She loves to help all the kids wash their hands and help with other tasks. The night before school days she now says "mommy night night for school"...she can be so darn cute!!

Ava and her teacher Mrs. Linda

She said YES!!

That's right...my baby sister is ENGAGED!! Clayton popped the question on Wednesday and included the family and a few close friends to join in the fun. Lindsey and Clayton have been together for a little over 2 years...they actually met while I was in labor with Ava (April 10, 2008)..crazy! They started dating not too long after and are such a lovely couple! Clayton planned the whole day out...with a little help from my mom and me.

Clayton and Lindsey have date night EVERY Wednesday night (boy would that be nice to have a date night every week) and each of them takes turns planning something fun and special for the other person. Well this past Wednesday I think tops them all...thanks to Clayton! When Lindsey got off work there was a rose, a room key to the Crescent Hotel and a note...I won't go into details but it was a very sweet letter. It said to not call Clayton but to drive to the Crescent and valet her car and someone from the valet would walk her up to where she needed to go. Lindsey was taken up to an amazing suite that Clayton was in waiting for her. He played it off like this was just date night but a very "Special" ONE! He told her to go shower and freshen up...he had packed her bags with a change of clothes and everything she would need...so sweet! Once she was all ready he told her that they had dinner reservations at 7 PM with his and her family to celebrate...she said to celebrate what?? And that my friends is when he asked her to be his lovely wife and partner for life.....so sweet!! So they went across the street and we were all waiting anxiously for them in a private room at Coal Vines. Then we spent the night celebrating, laughing and drinking wine! Congratulations to a beautiful couple and we are so very excited to welcome Clayton to our family!!

The future Mr. and Mrs. Fisher

Clayton's Parents

Clayton and Lindsey's close friends (Rachel, Marisa and Justin) and Clayton's brother Chris

Celebration shot after dinner

Landon's One Month

I am a week behind but our sweet baby boy is already one month!! I can't believe how fast time is flying by and I only have 3 1/2 more weeks at home with the kids before I go back to work!! Landon is such a sweet baby...super relaxed and calm! He is the biggest snuggle bug and LOVES to be held and sleep right up against me or Tyler. He is sleeping most of the night in the bassinet but sometimes gets grumpy around 6 AM and just wants to be in bed snuggled up. We can't help but to enjoy this because Ava never wanted to snuggle. He is eating 4-6 oz each feeding and is sleeping anywhere from 3 1/2 to 5 hours at night. He smiles all the time and loves it when we make owl noises. Landon loves getting kisses and opens his mouth especially for them! He loves his big sister and just stares at her in total amazement. Ava is so good with him and is such a big helper. We love this boy so much and feel like we have been a family of four forever!

Weight: 10.05 lbs....50%

Length: 21 1/4 inches....50%

Head: 15 inches...50%

Landon 5 weeks

Shared Spaces

We have decided to stay in our house for a bit longer since we love it so much even though it is small and we are about to grow out of it. We bought this house 4 years ago and completely remodeled it in hopes of staying here for about 5 years. Well little did we know 4 years later we would have TWO kids!! When we found out we were pregnant a part of me hoped for another girl since the kids were going to share a room. I had so many great ideas for a room that Ava could share with a sister. How would she share a room with a boy?? Well...when we found out that the little peanut in my belly was a boy this created many challenges for us.

Tyler's mom was so kind to make all of Ava's crib bedding so my first thought was to see if we could get her to make Landon's. I spent countless hours on various websites looking for kids bedding that would work for a girl and boy...I even researched shared spaces on websites to see how I was going to coordinate this. We asked Tyler's mom if she would be so kind to make Landon's bedding....and she said YES! I picked out Ava's bedding first and then went to fabric store after fabric store trying to find fabrics for Landon's bedding that would match. I finally found fabrics that coordinated perfectly with Ava's and I was so excited! Christine yet again made the most beautiful bedding for our little boy and I could not have imagined anything more perfect! So now that the bedding and furniture were taken care...my next project was art for the walls.

My girlfriend Amanda has a very talented sister, Mary, who is an amazing artist. I was super excited when she agreed to do some artwork for the room to pull it all together. We decided to do canvases over the crib versus paintings on the walls since this is a temporary situation. That way we can take the beautiful artwork with us wherever we end up. She truly pulled everything together and put the icing on the cake. The room turned out so beautiful and ended up looking nothing like I could have imagined....it turned out even better! I have to give a special thank you to my mother-in-law, Christine, for all the time and love she put into making the bedding and to Mary for the beautiful paintings she created!