sisters

i was lucky enough to have my sister here almost the whole month of december!!! it was awesome! the boys love her to death and couldn't get enough of her. it was so nice to have a helping hand and especially another adult to talk to during the day. she helped me get ready for the whole thomas clan christmas, gave us haircuts, helped the boys with their reading, tried to get me to exercise with her, cooked, cleaned, shopped, babysat and even took a turn getting the stomach flu (the joys of having kids). i'm so glad my sister is only 6 hours away, but i wish she were right next door!!! thanks for all you did while you were here!!! i love you monica!

ps. thanks to monica's hubby rhett too!! he was here most of that time too and helped out a ton! the boys still ask when uncle wet and aunt monica (or monitah like nate says) will come play again!

have a very merry late christmas

well, i had good intentions of getting christmas cards out this year, but it just didn't happen. so we wish you all a very merry late christmas!!!

love,

johne, rochelle, jack, nate and asher

micro blog

johne set up a micro blog and i'm going to try to post 1 picture a day. this is for family and journaling purposes and will mostly be pics from my phone. it's nice because you can email pics from your phone and it will automatically post. for those of you who are interested (probably grandparents) you can subscribe to get emails when i post by clicking on about. you'll see the link.

family pics

sorry for the obscenity, but i thought it was cute

christmas

we had way too much fun over christmas break. the whole fam damily came, that makes 17 of us. there was lots of eating, some oven mishaps, lots of game playing and lots of movies watched. my boys especially had a great time with cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. we are still trying to recover from the lack of attention after everyone left. my boys talk about our fun times everyday and ask when they will come back. thanks everyone for making the trip to our house this year!!!

gran, papa and the grandkids

nate and "my guy"

our funny little bald guy. sometimes referred to as lex luther or elmer fudd

playing rock band for the first time

aj looking like a pirate in a do-rag

christmas family pic

obx baby

we went to the outer banks in north carolina for halloween weekend. we had a few really nice beach days and had a blast just hanging out with friends at the ginormous beach house! here are a few pics of our trip.

(that was a little anti-climactic)

nate's fav, throwing sand

i LOVE sleeping babies!!!