November 19, 2009
She is ready for the game......


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We three are leaving out tomorrow, headed to Tuscaloosa for the game and then a week in Bama for Thanksgiving!


If I don't get a chance to blog this week, I pray you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and may we truly give thanks and be thankful for what God has blessed us with.



November 17, 2009
Happy 80th Granddad!
The week before Halloween, Jolee and I went home to Alabama to help get ready for Granddad's 80th SURPRISE party! We had a wonderful and fun packed week. Jolee got to play with all her cousins that week and she had a blast!

Abbie and Jolee playing with the blocks. These two are so much alike!

Weston has grown so much. Jolee was so excited he was talking this trip!


Jolee and Audrey
We had Granddad's party outside, complete with a jumpy house for the kids, we grilled out, had a bonfire, hayride, and watched the Alabama/Tennessee game outside on a projector it was pretty cool!

Family and Friends gathered around, for the telling of Grandad, that this was really a party for him and not the twins like he thought!




more family and friends





more family and friends,






and even more family and friends.







As you can see, he was very surprised and had no idea!!




Charlie and Jolee
The kids played and played all day!


Some family and friends watching the game!


Granddad watching the game!


Uncle Gary cooking!


Eating supper, there is no way I got every one's picture that was there that day. Family and Friends came and went all day, it was huge!




Grandad watching the video, the family had made for him of his life, his kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. It was a beautiful video, that brought back so many wonderful and fun memories.



And Grandad blowing out the candles on his cake!
Happy 80th Birthday Granddad! You have and always will be such an important and special part of my life. I cherish all of our trips we took, time we have spent together, funny stories you have told me, and the serious talks about life. You are FANTASTIC and I love you very much!
Thank you to all the family who worked so hard to pull this together for him and thanks to all the family and friends that came out to help celebrate his special day!



November 2, 2009
Halloween 2009!
Months and months ago, Jolee had said she wanted to dress up like Ariel for Halloween. And if I say so myself, she looked mighty cute as Ariel, maybe the cutest little mermaid out there!!
We had a fun Halloween day. We spent the day, evening, and night at the Crawford's celebrating John Anthony's birthday. They had a costume party, with all the food and games you could imagine! Sister Sherri, always does an outstanding job every year.

Sister Sherri and Ariel!



Daddy already going through her prize box, to see what candy he wanted and we hadn't even been trick-or-treating yet!


Jolee was some kind of serious, about playing "Boo Bingo"! She loved it and wanted to do it herself! We played and played and played, well until she won and got to pick out a prize!




Had to loose the wig to jump, jumping on the trampoline and playing with the bus, is her favorite things to do at the Crawford's!





Ariel and Mommy before going trick-or-treating!



After playing all day at the party, we ate supper and loaded up on the trailer for a hay ride and headed out to trick-or treat!



She absolutely loved getting candy!



Ariel and Nina trick-or- treating!



A family picture with our Ariel!



Happy Halloween!
She had a wonderful time and was so into the getting candy part. If the house looked too scary, she would say not that one Mommy. I was so glad, because I don't like scary stuff either. She wouldn't walk up to a door by herself, but when someone went with her...she would say trick-or-treat and thanks to them!


So far in her little life, for the past Halloweens she has been a... pumpkin, nurse, ballerina, and now Ariel. Another good Halloween to go down in the books! Now what am I going to do with all this candy, that she wants to eat, for breakfast, lunch, and supper and in between!



October 30, 2009
Pumpkin Patch 2009!
The lack of posting last week, was due to Jolee and I being in Alabama with family. We went up to celebrate and have a HUGE "surprise" party for my grandad who turned 80. Also, while we where there, we celebrated the twins 1st Birthday and we ventured on out to the pumpkin patch. Of course, there will be post and pictures on all those events later. But today, we are focusing on the pumpkin patch!
Pappy, Granna, and I took Jolee, Edison, and Audrey. We all had such a great time, and they where like 3 peas in a pod all week, these cousins had a great time being together last week!



A picture of Grandad and Jolee, before we headed to the patch!
Jolee riding "socks" the pony. This was her favorite thing to do at the pumpkin patch. They rode them 4 times that day to be exact!

Audrey on her pony!


The first hour we where there, Edison slept thru it! He was out!



Jolee and Audrey looking at the goats. Notice the same jeans on the girls, they are the same size as well. Jolee is 3 and Audrey is 4! That means my hand-me-downs are slowing down! ha,ha!




A girl who, the day before was in the car for 8 hours and no nap that day at the patch = A tired little Jolee, but after some Dr. Pepper (just a little caffeine) and a snack of fries and pizza, and some Pappy loving. She was good to go again!





Jolee riding "Trigger"



I told ya, after the caffeine they where good as new!




Granna, Pappy, Edison, Jolee, and Audrey in the Maze!


Pappy helping Jolee pick out her pumpkin



Audrey carrying her pumpkin


Granna and Jolee with her pumpkin!


The 3 Amigo's...Jolee, Audrey, and Edison!




Jolee on the 'Big" hay as she called it


Pappy, Jolee, and Granna!



Me and Jolee


I gave up on trying to get a picture, with them all looking at the same time!



Edison on his pony! He loved it!




We had a great day at the pumpkin patch!



October 29, 2009
95% Sure
I had a very exciting, Dr's. appointment yesterday. The Dr. said he is 95% sure, we are having a....BOY!!!! I 'am 16 weeks and everything is looking GREAT, Praise the Lord! We go back on the 20th and will have a definite answer by then, but 95% sounds pretty definite to me!
Silas is so excited, and Jolee is getting used to the idea, I think. She was pulling for a sister, so much in fact that everyone knew that, even the Dr. So this is how the Dr. told us, it was going to be a BOY...You might want to work on big sister over there, about the color BLUE! Silas actually identified it was a Boy, before the Dr. told us (little man, must be proud)! I had dreams, that it was a girl, but kept calling it HE when I talked about the baby or pregnancy. If anything is different so far, about carrying a girl or a boy.....When I was pregnant with Jolee, 12 weeks and 1 day, I was over the nausea, but with Little Man, I'm still sick!!
Drum Roll Please......His name will be.......
Brennan Silas Ford
This is the first little things, Brennan has gotten. Big Sister picked him out a little puppy and a truck book. She said the puppy he could cuddly with, and we don't have any truck books at our house, for him! I was trying to get her involved and letting her pick out boy stuff. She is calling him Brennan now, and seems to be very excited and getting over the whole wanting a sister thing!
Thank you all for your prayers, Please keep them coming for us during this pregnancy!


October 12, 2009
A "mini" Family Vacation
2 weekends ago, Silas was scheduled to be at Winter Garden Church, close to Orlando on Sunday. So we decided, why not take a day or two before and spend some much needed family time away. We packed up and headed down to Orlando on Friday morning, to the Fort Wilderness Campground at Disney World! We had a wonderful time being together and trying to fit in everything we could at the campground! It is the nicest campground you could ever imagine, I promise and that is coming from someone who really loves her family to go camping while pregnant in a tent! I packed the phenergan and double checked that I had packed it several times, and off we went!


Jolee and Daddy at the swimming pool at the campground!

water slide at the campground


We attended the pool party at the campground, they had...music, dancing, limbo, and hula hooping contest. It was so much fun. Jolee tried her best to hula hoop, it was hysterical. But what topped that, was Silas! He was in the hula hooping contest, to try to win Jolee a prize. Because I love him and don't want to embarrass him, I'm not posting any pictures of him hula hooping! But take my word for it, it was PRICELESS, he was a good sport and such a good Daddy!



That evening we headed to the Chip-N-Dale sing a long! We roasted marshmallows by the fire and we sang lots of songs!


Daddy and Jolee roasting marshmallows!


Mommy and Jolee roasting marshmallows!


Chip and Dale with Chuck Wagon Bill


Dale, Jolee, and Daddy!


Headed to Downtown Disney on the bus! She loved the bus rides, after all we did, done and was going to fit in on this trip, you ask her, what her favorite part was......riding the bus around,the one with the purple seats!
At Downtown Disney, we walked around and looked at some shops (of course, the princess stuff) and ate at the "Big Earth" or that is what Jolee calls it. It was actually Planet Hollywood!



The next morning, she got to go on a pony ride! The pony she rode, name was Levi. Now we have a couple of ponies around her named Levi!

Family picture!


Giving Levi hugs bye!


After the pony ride, Daddy had it all planned out. We headed over to the ESPN Club and ate lunch and watched the Bama game. How convenient and well planned out was that!!! After we ate, Jolee and I went for a walk around the board walk and looked at little shoppes along the way. When the game was over, we head over to the Roberts house. We had a wonderful night catching up and visiting with them. Jolee went right in and made her self at home. We had wonderful fellowship and wonderful food that night!

The next morning, we headed over to Winter Garden Church to be in service with them and had a wonderful time. We got to see people we haven't seen in like 3 years, since we had moved. Some hadn't seen Jolee since she was 4 months old. It was great getting to catch up with everyone. Thank you, Sister Becky and Brother Rodney for hosting us on Sat. night. We enjoyed it so much!
We also stopped on the way home, and attended a night service with a wonderful group of people. So as you can imagine, when we finally made it home and after fitting all of this in, in only one weekend. We where all exhausted! There was some swollen feet in the end, but what a wonderful good time we had!


**I had to fit in those last 2 pictures of me and Jolee, we don't get a lot made together, because I'm always the one taking them.**



Promoting her favorite store...

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