election day

get out there and vote people!!! let your voices be heard! god bless the USA!!!!

GO McCAIN!!!

Halloween!!!

i can't believe it has come and gone already. next thing ya know its gonna be christmas, my goodness! we had a great halloween this year. nic is starting to understand the concept, so he really got into it this year for the first time. lincoln could have really cared less, but there is not many things that are cuter than a baby in a costume!

nic is obsessed with thomas the train right now. he wasn't too sure about actually putting the costume on though, so we had to bribe him with a lolly pop : ) after that though, it was game on!! let me tell you a secret, candy goes a long way with a 2 year old! all aboard : )lincoln was dressed as a little lion, its actually the same costume nic wore as a baby. he looked so cute! rawr!my boys all dressed up!

halloween family shot : )

hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween!

lincoln on the roll

yesterday was a big day for my little lincoln. he rolled over for the first time! this was very exciting for me because nic did not accomplish this task until at least 7 months. something tells me that linc is gonna figure things out a lot sooner than nic did. which in turn means he is gonna be into everything a lot sooner than nic was, which means i am gonna be a lot busier a lot sooner than i had hoped : ) anyways i have tried a couple of times to get lincoln rolling over on video to post on here, but he isn't being cooperative (must be hanging around his big brother too much!) seems that as soon as i turn the video off he is rolling over! oh well, i'll just post a couple of pics of him instead:

isn't he just so sweet???

here he is wearing the pumpkin bib that aunt wanie got for him

oh, and here is a bonus story for you all. has nothing to do with linc rolling over, but it is about linc. when i started to type this post up, i was holding lincoln, and he projectile spit up all over my keyboard. yep, it was quite pleasant, lol. i think i got it cleaned out pretty good, but hopefully it doesn't start to smell like spoiled milk! so my tip of the day: don't blog and baby hold : ) it could be hazardous to your keyboards health!

a day at the beach

while we were in NC we took nic to the beach for the 1st time. it was cool to see his reactions to the new environment. he was a little leery at first, as he is with most new things : ) but after a little coaxing and him seeing his cousins having fun, he loosened up. the weather wasn't very cooperative, it was windy and a little bit rainy, but still a good time. we really only had intentions of getting our feet wet, but it turned into a lot more than that : )

there really wasn't a good beach day the whole time we were there. we went over there 2 times. the day we got to NC, joe and i took the boys over by ourselves. we weren't there long but got a couple good pics of the family(thank you to the nice couple who took the family pic, whoever you are):

the second day we went to the beach we went with the rest of the family. this is the day that nic played in the waves. it was so much fun to watch! wish we could have had a nicer day, and actually put on our suits. but it was still a good time:

trevor and ashton's wedding

last wednesday we set out on a long road trip across the eastern half of the country to wilmington, NC, to celebrate trevor and ashton's wedding. it was a pretty long road trip with two kiddos in tow, but we survived. thank god for portable DVD players!!! we stopped in WV on wed. night...i think the name of the town was scareyville : ) we stayed in the no tell motel, well actually it was a days inn. we got the last room in this hotel, after trying to get rooms in 3 or 4 others. i guess west virginians like to stay in motels : ) the room was a suite too. had a jacuzzi and all, we liked to refer to it as the west virginian honeymoon suite, lol anyways, it was a dump, pretty dirty, and just gave me the heebie jeebies. i must admit though, ever since i saw that movie wrong turn, i have had a very bad perception of the state of WV, lol but we survived, and left early the next morning to continue on our voyage to NC. we arrived in wilmington around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. we stayed at an awesome beach house with much better accommodations than the no tell motel :) let me tell you, there is nothing like waking up to the smell of the salt water air, i just love it!

here is a picture of nic sitting on our awesome jacuzzi in the WV honeymoon suite, a pic of our beach house in NC, and nic and his DVD player.

on friday, we had the rehearsal in the morning, and the rehearsal dinner that night at our beach house. it was a little bit of a rainy day, but it all went pretty good. here are some pics of the wedding rehearsal:

the rain held off for the rehearsal, but unfortunately it did not hold off for the wedding. the wedding was supposed to be held out doors on the steps to the mansion, but it poured the day of the wedding. on friday night we had the rehearsal dinner. it was alot of fun, just ask my mom. she probably had the most fun of all, but she probably doesn't remember much of it, hahaha never in my 28 years have i ever seen my momma so intoxicated, and let me tell you it was quite humorous! lets just put it this way, she took a dip fully clothed, and i have the pictures to prove it:

yep, she had a great time, and provided great entertainment! the rest of us had a great time as well:

the happy couple

the first one is of the andrews clan, second one is my aunt (got a lil captain in ya?), and the third is joe and jami

first one is joe and ryan, second one is of some cool pirate carved pumpkins, and the last is of me, my momma, and my pops

saturday was the day of the wedding. it was a rainy day, so the wedding was on the porch of the mansion instead of on the steps. it was a little unorganized, and i was sure that nic would not fulfill his obligations as the ring bearer. i was actually convinced of this before we even left for NC, since nic has been such a stubborn little terd latley : ) well i was totally wrong, he did great. he took that ring box right to brett (the best man) just like we told him to. i was so proud of him!

here is nic running the ring box down the aisle, you can see faith the flower girl in the back. she didn't quite make it : )

he was looking so darn cute in his little tux and faux hawk!

here is nic and faith together...they looked so cute. as you can see faith has a bit of a sassy attitude : ) apparently she didn't want her picture taken!

like i said the wedding was a little bit unorganized due to the rain, but in the end it turned out just fine. oh yeah someone passed out at the reception and was taken away by an ambulance, so that was kind of crazy. we left not too long after that, because the boys were getting cranky. it was actually pretty exhausting chasing after nic and trying to keep linc happy too. i wish we could have stayed a little longer and enjoyed ourselves a little more, but thats part of being a mommy and daddy : )

here is a pic of the bride and groom...i wish them nothing but the best!

the wedding party

the groom and groomsmen and nic

on sunday morning we were back on the road again. we had intentions of driving straight through, but wisely changed our minds : ) we stopped in lexington, KY for the night. and it was much nicer than our stay in WV! i did get nailed with a speeding ticket on the way home though, so that really sucked! if anyone would like to contribute to my "betsy got caught speeding in KY and now has to pay $175 fund" just let me know : ) and oh yeah, to the state trooper who pulled me over and ruined my trip to NC, you can suck it buddy!!!

a trip to the pumpkin patch

on saturday, the family (me, joe, and the kids) decided to go out to the millennium farms pumpkin patch. we had a great time. there is a lot of different things for kids to do there besides getting pumpkins. of course, nic was too scared to try any of them, but thats my boy : ) they do hay rides, pony rides, a bouncy house, and a petting zoo to name a few. we did walk through the petting zoo, but nic was pretty leery and i think joe may have held him the whole time we were in there. we didn't even bother with the ponies...i knew that would never happen : ) the tractor for the hey ride scared him, but i was optimistic about the bouncy house. but he even chickened out of that. oh well, maybe next year he will loosen up a bit! this is nic with his little pumpkin

here is lincoln posing with some pumpkins and gourds

my little pumpkins

daddy and nic in the animal barn

me and lincoln with the pumpkins...i wanted to get a pic with both the boys, but surprise, surprise, nic wouldn't cooperate : )

a day at the depot

yesterday i took nic and linc to the depot for a visit (we were there today too actually). it is always nice to go visit grandma and wanie, and nic gets to play with other kids too. i am sure i have mentioned in previous blogs that nic is becoming quite the handful these days. it is so nice to have someplace where i can take him to play with other kids and run off some of that extra 2 year old energy. i don't know what i would do without the drop off depot!!! we love you grandma and wanie...you guys are the best!!!

lincoln likes to sit in the big lunch table and check things out...he is getting so big already!

this is nic eating his lunch at the big boy table

time for stories...this usually doesn't last too long for nic : )

dancing at circle time...for now...

standing in the time out corner...he had the choice to finish circle time or go to the corner (he decided a couple songs in that he wanted to play with toys) well, he chose the corner...lol he is quite stubborn these days!