Thursday, February 2, 2012

My Beautiful Sister Amy

Today I am linking up with Kelly's Korner to tell the world about my beautiful sister Amy! She is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside!Amy and I grew up in Sheridan, AR and after graduating from High School Amy attended Ouachita Baptist University where she served as Student Body President her senior year and continues to stay involved by serving on the Young Alumni Advisory Board. Amy graduated in 2005 with a major in Mass Communications and a minor in Business. Amy went on to get her Masters in Public Health and now works at Arkansas Children's Hospital as a Motor Vehicle Project Analyst (lets just say you better always wear your seat belt with Amy)!
Amy and I were raised in a Christian home and Amy now attends Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock where she is also part of a weekly bible study group. First and foremost God is the center of Amy's life and through her faith she knows that the Lord has a perfect plan for her life. Amy loves all things fashion and is always dressed perfectly! She also loves to read, watch movies, and is an amazing cook.
Amy is very involved with the Miss AR pageant system and serves as pageant Director for several of the local prelim pageants. Here she is with Miss AR 2011, Kristen Glover.
Amy is also the BEST Aunt in the world to my two precious little boys. They are so lucky to have her! She is always willing to help out and keep them any time we need her and always makes them feel special with the perfect gifts. She will be an amazing mother one day!
Not only is Amy and amazing sister, my best friend and someone I couldn't imagine my life without! She is also a very devoted friend and few of them also wanted to share what they love about Amy!

Amy & Brooke

Brooke wrote....Amy and I have been friends for 7 years now! We met at Ouachita Baptist when I was a freshman and she was a sophomore. We instantly clicked and were inseparable those three years! I am so blessed by her friendship. She is a woman of God with great integrity. She is funny and beautiful and silly and I could go on and on!! Seriously though she is one of the best people I know...I know you will love her too!

Amy & TK

TK wrote....Amy and I have been best friends since the 7th grade. There isn't one single memory of my life that Amy hasn't been apart of. She is my most dedicated and faithful friend. I am truly blessed to have her in my life. Amy is the most beautiful person I know. You can take one look at her and see her beauty. But the best part of her is her amazing heart. She loves the Lord and seeks to serve His kingdom with all the gifts He has blessed her with. She is fashionable, fun loving, dedicated, hard working, positive, and trustworthy. She has two precious nephews that she loves so much and has continually shown that she will be an amazing mother. Amy deserves a man that will treasure her above all else and one who isn't afraid to pursue her precious heart. She has so much to offer her future husband and would make a true help mate in His life.

Amy & Leslie

Leslie wrote....I have known Amy for almost ten years and she is such an awesome person and friend. She is smart, has a great personality and so much fun to be around. Amy's bright smile and cheerful attitude are two of her best qualities and very hard to go unnoticed. I feel so blessed for my friendship with Amy and I hope that any of you, that do not know her, will have the chance to see what a wonderful person she is.


As you can see Amy has a great life! She is very involved in her community, good job, fun friends and a great family! Now she just needs the perfect guy to enjoy life with!

Monday, January 30, 2012

Fun at the Park!

We have had some very unusually warm weather this January so I decided to take advantage of it and I picked Reed up from school early so we could head to the park. Ashley had just picked Deacon up from school too and they had the same idea so the 6 of us met at the park!



It was a little crazy to say the least with 2 infants and 2 little boys that both prefer the baby swing! We had a great time and the boys took turns swinging in the baby swing!




Here is Reed waiting his turn! There were only a few tears shed by Reed, he is STILL learning to share, but we made it. These 2 really are best friends! Even though Reed spends the majority of time away from Deacon with other kiddos at his school, he still ALWAYS says, "Deacon is my best friend!"


Reed was standing on a hill in this picture, it looks like he is taller than Deacon, but he really isn't! :)Deacon wanted to swing with his baby sister. How sweet! Then Reed wanted a turn, unfortunately Finley wouldn't fit with Reed! :)


I hate that I didn't get a picture of Graham, he slept the whole time in a carrier on my chest! I just can't wait for summer when he can swing too!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Projects with Daddy

Lately Reed and Daddy have been doing some fun projects together! A couple of weekends ago Josh thought it would be fun to put up a squirrel feeder in the back yard. Something they could build together and then enjoy watching the squirrels out the window.


Josh and Reed gathered up the scrap wood they needed out of the garage and put the feeder together. Then it was time to paint! We have TONS of paint samples (due to me taking 4 to 5 options every time we pick out a paint color). Reed picked out green and blue! We laid down some plastic in the kitchen and Reed and Daddy went to town painting. The idea was for half of the feeder to be blue and half to be green, but had you will see Reed had a different idea and enjoyed painting a little to much! I think it turned out great! Now if we could just get some squirrels to come eat the corn, maybe eventually! :)The next project, was painting and assembling this little car Reed got from Gigi for Christmas! This is a Melissa and Doug set that comes with the paint, brush, glue and all the car pieces. Reed loved it! He loves painting as you can see, unfortunately we don't do it much because it is so messy!
He was really in to it and so serious the whole time he was painting!

Daddy helped very little, just there to supervise!


Once the "colorful" car dried, Daddy glued the wheels on!The finished product! Reed loves this little car and carries it around every where! Thanks Gigi for the great gift! :)