Friday, January 30, 2009

Claire & Emma

Claire & Emma came to meet Lauren last Sunday! We were so glad to see our precious friends (and their parentals)! We had a fun visit. William rightfully thinks Claire is so funny and he is in love with Emma. He dressed Emma in a new outfit Aunt April gave Lauren...Emma just smiled, as always. We can't wait to see ya'll again soon!

Darcy & Lauren
Emma, Darcy, Jenn & Lauren
Jeremy, Emma, Eric & Lauren
William thinks Claire is so funny! And she is!
All dressed up!
Sweet Claire

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Catching up

Some of our favorite pictures from last week...

Eric & Lauren


Beignets & Coffee
"Look Mommy....
...I woke her up!"
"Big Boy" pants
Helping out at bathtime

Sunday, January 18, 2009

1 Month!

Lauren is one month old today!



Family & Friends

Lauren has met some of our special friends and family over the past few weeks.
And she misses them already, so hurry back to see us!

Mr. Van & Sarah Northcutt

Miss Margaret Blessing

The Blessings made us this sweet cake!

Aunt April

Kevin, Tara & Kade Rollins

Aunt Sharron
Aunt April & the boys
Alyssa, Caroline, Lauren & Baby Kate Northcutt?
Ginger & Ms. Pat
Ashley Hopewell (Our adopted college student!)

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Christmas Day

What a blessing it was to celebrate our Savior's birth and see Christmas through the eyes of William and with sweet Lauren. William opened way too many presents, we ate way too much food and Lauren slept through it all!

"On coming to the house,
they saw the child with his mother Mary,
and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Then they opened their treasures and presented him
with gifts of gold and of incense
and of myrrh." Matthew 2:11









Merry Christmas!
Lauren & PawPaw
Santa brought alot of Play-Doh!
Some boots like Daddy's!
William wanted Daddy to read 'Goodnight Moon' to Lauren.
Happy Birthday Jesus!

PawPaw & MawMaw with Lauren
One week old today!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Christmas Eve

Lily Grace, Rodney, Mr. & Mrs. Speaks

Lily Grace & Lauren
Mrs. Speaks, Lauren, and "Buddy"

The Speaks & The Allisons came to visit us on Christmas Eve. Lily Grace was so excited to introduce Lauren to her very own "Buddy" with her name on it. And William proudly opened Lauren's presents for her!

Eric's Dad & Ms. Charlene travelled to be with us for Christmas. We went to the Christmas Eve service at our church and it was such a special time together. We enjoyed some fabulous cajun cooking while they were here, too! William was constantly entertained by his PawPaw and MawMaw and they were such a big help to us!
Cooking with PawPaw & MawMaw
William LOVED more Thomas the Train
from Aunt Laurie!
Laughing with MawMaw
A taste test for Santa...
All ready for bed!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Celebrating Christmas!

We kicked off our Christmas celebrations with Poppa & Grammie and The Speaks the first night we were home with Lauren. While the boys passed around presents, the rest of us passed around Lauren. William got a Thomas the Train track from Poppa & Grammie. He recently was introduced to Thomas at a friends house and loves to go to the bookstore to play with their train. He kept saying, "My Thomas!" over and over when he saw the train. The boys gave him a box FULL of really cool cars and a car mat, which he loves! Lauren wasn't left out...she got some really sweet gifts, too. April & Grammie did some fast shopping! We were so glad and thankful to be with family on our first night home!
"MY Thomas!!!"



Cool cars & a car mat


Sullivan in William's Tiger sleeping bag

Uncle Tim
Aunt April
Being silly

New boots