Welsey's 5!

We love our Wes! He is funny and energetic and does some pretty amazing cartwheel tricks! He fives the best bear hugs and can brighten the gloomiest day with his smile (especially the Kool-Aid mustache)! I can't believe he's five already! Wesley recently made some great goals for 2009.

1. Learn to tie his shoes.

2. Save $100. He picks up any spare change he can find! So watch out for your money!

3. To swim across the pool.

4. Learn to ride a two wheeler.

5. To write his whole name, first and last.

6. Play T-Ball.

He's going to be having a very busy year. Wesley is doing pre-k this year, but when he's home he can get carried away with tv and video games so we recently started Mom's School. He loves it and I love my special time with just him. Happy Birthday Wes!

Thanksgiving in Atlanta

We finally had a Hammond Family Reunion this year. Aimee graciously hosted all of us. Being that it’s been 4 years since we’ve all been together at the same time, it was a much needed visit. All the kids had so much fun playing together. Never a dull moment with 12 kids running around! Thank you Aimee for cooking a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Thank you Amy Lynn for my personal training session before dinner! It kept the extra pounds from sneaking on.

We were able to hike to a beautiful waterfall and the kids just loved it. Somehow Wesley beat everyone to the top! We also loved being there for Kirsten’s baptism. She’s growing into a lovely young lady! All in all it was just a wonderful trip.

My favorite moments were the conversion stories of my parents. I found out more details than I’d known before. Thank you Mom and Dad for your testimonies!! I just feel truly blessed to have such a wonderful family!

Now that the holidays are over I finally have a little time to work on my blog. I know it's sad, but here are some fun pics from Halloween!

The whole gang! Allie, Larissa, Kailey, Smores, Wesley, Braden, Devon, Damian and friend Tanner.

Allie the pirate cutie and Larissa as Sharpay

Watch out for our little ninja!

Devon the white ghoul and Damian the warewolf

What a hunk! I just love me a good redneck!

Cousins!

We're so lucky to live by Bryan's brother Greg and his family. The kids have grown so close and are best buds! Love you guys!

High School Musical 3 Movie Party!

Allie and I got to go see HSM3 with some friends and their moms! It was a blast, until the moms got a little crazy for Zac Efron. The girls were a little embarrassed, especially my niece Larissa! They just don’t know how cool their moms are!!! But we had so much fun. We are so lucky to have such great friends!

I promise they made me pose for this one!

I promised pics from Devon’s bday. I know it’s just a little late! ;) Devon has always brought so much fun and life to our family! He’s growing up so fast. He’s a very sweet big brother to his 2 sisters and brother. And he has the tenderest heart when someone’s sad or hurt. He’s always been very smart and good in school. He’s recently joined the Squire Choir at school. He’s now a senior brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. We’re just so proud of him! Love you Dev!

Helpful Allie

My little Allie is always the helpful one. And as you could guess a little 7 yr old helper would be she just loves the gloves, cleaning that is. It's always about wearing the bling of cleaning. The other day I even caught her cleaning the cleaning gloves (with hand sanitizer no doubt).

At dinner tonight she was her helpful self and helping little sister Kailey eat her mashed potatoes. Which is her favorite. Allie thought she'd see if Kailey could feed herself. So she put some potatoes on the spoon and handed it to little Sis. Kailey did great and had fun feeding herself. So Allie kept on scooping food onto the spoon for her. Well, of course the spoon and Kailey got pretty gooey. Allie of course had a fix for that and got out the gloves. I love my little helpful Allie!! I can't imagine my family without her in it!

We had a big birthday on Tuesday. My oldest boy, Devon, is 10! I'll be doing a post on that soon!