Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

This is the newest member of the family, Lola. I hope to put her to good use!

Lawson was so excited when he saw that Santa had stopped at our house!

Our first white Christmas...what a blessing!

Liam's new ride...a 2010 red radio flyer coupe convertible.

We had a fabulous Christmas this year and couldn't have asked for more.  We woke up to snow covering the ground and toys from Santa beneath the fireplace.  My mom got me my first sewing machine which I am thrilled about learnig to use.  I can't wait to turn into Martha Stewart and be all crafty! Lawson was so excited when he saw his toys.  That excitement in his eyes is the greatest!  We had such a great holiday and an even better 2010.  Happy New Year and we hope you all have a blessed 2011!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Where has the time gone???? This year is almost over, and it seems as though it just started yesterday.  We are very busy preparing for the Christmas week ahead with school parties, work parties, and bunches of gift wrapping.  Lawson wakes up every morning to see if it is Christmas yet.  Pete the elf arrived the Friday after Thanksgiving to get an early start on inspecting Lawson's behavior to report back to Santa.  So far Pete seems to be pretty satisfied with Lawson.  Lawson and Liam have gone to see Santa to tell him what they want this year.  You can find their lists below.

Lawson's Christmas 2010 list

a real big bike like Cole's

a 4 wheeler that cranks (not a 'mote one)

a little Fatman (better known as Batman)

new fast running shoes

Christmas socks

a bull dozier

Liam's Christmas 2010 list

anything I can chew on to help ease these teeth

new fast crawling shoes

an ab lounger to work on this big belly

big boy toys like my brother

more BB time (my mom thinks she can wean me but she's crazy)

Liam will be crawling really soon!

My silly boy!

The boys in their matching Christmas pjs before the Christmas program.

Lawson with his friend Lila Grace at their program.

One of the pictures we took for the Christmas card. (Next year I will shut the bedroom door and try to center the photo much better....you live and learn.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS!



Say hello to Barkley Fortner!

Barkley is a Bullboxer (1/2 American Bulldog and 1/2 Boxer) and the newest member of the Fortner family! We welcomed Barkley into the family in November.  Lawson was so excited to get a puppy, and Liam just laughs at him all the time.  He is a sweet puppy and has added a great aspect to this household.  He is a very smart boy already, but we are pretty sure he is deaf.  The white color is a recessive gene and being deaf usally comes along with it. I did some research and learned some of the common hand signs to use with him so that we can train him well even though he is deaf.  We have high hopes that he will be a good family dog even with his disability.  We will love him just as much as we would have if he could hear!  

Down...set...Halloween!

Being the football fanatics that we are, Andy and I thought it would fit us perfectly if we dressed our little bambinos as a football player and a football for Halloween so that's exactly what we did!  They were the cutest football player and football we've ever seen too!  They had many opportunities to wear their costumes between their Harvest carnival at daycare on Friday, Trunk or Treat at our church on Saturday night, and then for Trick-or-Treating in Oxford on Sunday night.  Lawson probably should have played with his team Saturday at Vaught Hemingway stadium because they seemed to be lacking a player or two by the way that they played against Auburn.  Hotty Toddy!

Liam's first Halloween!

                                        This was the best picture I could get of the two of them!

A Fiddlin' fun time!

Last weekend we took a trip to the Fiddlin Rooster pumpkin patch and corn maze in Water Valley.  Andy's brother and his family went along also.  All the boys had a fantastic time!  I can't wait for next year so that Liam can join in the fun. 

Liam starts eating solids!

Liam Asher is now 5 months old so he began eating baby food a couple of weeks ago.  His pediatrician recommended that I start him a little early on solids since he's "a big boy"!  He was so excited the first time I brought out the spoon and food. It was the funniest thing so of course I had to get lots of pictures!  These are a few from his first baby food experience.  Butternut squash is so far his favorite vegetable and pears are his favorite fruit!  He is such a sweet baby, and he loves watching his big brother Lawson play and jump around the house! I can't wait until they are closer in age so that they can play together!

Lawson's 3rd birthday bash!

We celebrated Lawson's 3rd birthday with a huge Spiderman party at our house!  He was so excited to see all his friends from school there!  I can't believe my baby is 3 years old!!  We got Lawson a John Deere gator, and he was thrilled!  We also celebrated my 26th birthday on October 8, but my party was not near as much fun as Lawson's was! :)  More posts to come on other October happenings!