Walking In Water

Happy Memorial Day

These are some pics from Aunt Crystal. He loves it at the beach.

End of April

This is what we have been up to the last few weeks.

We have been going to the park before all this rain. Liam had his birthday party there. They are 1 year apart.

Hollis always eats every bite of his cupcake. As you can tell I let him eat it himself that day and he had green icing all over the place.

We had family friends come in town for the Marathon. Zach, his sister, parents & friend,Tim did the 1/2. I forgot to take pictures of the race. We had a great little dinner the night before with pasta. Here is Phyllis and Marla with their grandboys.

Here is Hollis and his Grammie. Hollis has found his tongue and touches is all the time.

Playing Ball

We went to the zoo. Crystal got Hollis a ticket for his birthday.

We went with the Ealy's. I have to say Luke is the best tour guide ever! He showed us all over the place. He gave Hollis lots fo attention and would say Hollis do you want to go see the tigers? Hollis is in love with Luke. Poor Hudson just got ignored.

12 Months

This is a picture taken the day after his birthday.

At his 12 month checkup he was:

25lbs (75%)

32 1/2 in(95%)

At 12 Months Hollis.....

must touch everything

takes one nap(except at his sassy's)

nods his head no when most people ask him a ?

can make the sound of a car and does often

loves to read books

knows where his belly and hair is

says da- da, pa- pa, ball, & balloon

eats lots

no longer takes a bottle

is wild

This was Easter Sunday. I love Hollis's expression on his face. We were at Zach's parents all weekend and went to his Granny's on Sunday. Hollis got to have his Easter basket on Sat. morning bc we would not have much time on Sunday and he would not know the difference.

We colored eggs on Sat. night and yes this was my first time to do that. Crystal, Zach, and I had fun doing it too.

The eggs

Granny Brown watching it all.

There is always a crowd at her house with so much going on.Hollis did not care what was going on as long as he was outside.
Hollis liked playing with all the eggs after the hunt

Birthday Boy

Celebrating Hollis's 1st Birthday.

We started the day eating out breakfast and then we got some balloons. He loves riding with his car seat turned around and thinks he is so big. Big Boy Tennis Shoes and Auburn Sweatshirt that was my dad's when he was little.We had a family cookout with hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill.

The weather was fantastic! We all just sat outside and enjoyed it.

No blow up bouncers, or petting zoos for us. The kids' entertainement was riding in the wagon in the yard.

and yes Hollis just has his diaper on bc it was after cake

Eating lunch

Opening gifts

Crazy cousins

family pic

Singing Happy Birthday
Most kids don't really like their cake....Hollis could not get enough of it. I think he might have eaten the whole thing if I would of let him. I even tried to give him some ice cream and he wanted the cake back
Yum Thanks to everyone that came. It was a great celebration. We have had a great 1st year with Hollis in our lives and look forward to many more together.

Blessed

This is Zach. Kim does the blogging around here, but her and Hollis are taking a nap and thought I would get on here to write a little something. The reason im writing this is because it's days like today that make me realize how blessed I truly am.

Today my little boy turned one. I am so proud of him and so thankful to God for his blessing us with such a wonderful little boy.

Thank you to Kim for giving me such a perfect little boy one year ago today. You are a great mother and we are both so lucky that we have you.