Our Marine Comes Home!!!

So as most of you know my big brother has been in Iraq for the last 7 months. The Tuesday before thanksgiving he came home. It is so great to have him back and enjoying family time. He and Reilly have become fast friends and Uncle Chris, "Unc" as Reilly calls him, has been showing him new and amazing things. Uncle Chris has been doing a lot of babysitting and he is so good at it!!! we are so glad to have him home safe and sound!!! 

Non Turkey, Turkey Day with the Wynne family

The saturday after Thanksgiving we went to Yorktown to celebrate Thanksgiving with Josh's family. so much fun... instead of turkey and stuffing we had Chinese.

Grandmaw & Granddaddy....still a young couple in love!!

Four Generations of Wynnes

Aunt Roxanne showing Reilly the HUGE Sesame Street Book

Look how big my little man is getting!! Hangin' with the cousin's!

The start of the holidays!

sorry it has been a while i feel like we have been running around with our heads cut off. I have been decorating, shopping, cleaning and just christmasing it up and I feel like i have been running myself ragged. So, when I was talking to Josh's Aunt Roxanne the other day and she really had me stop and remember the it is not the decorating, shopping for people, the cleaning, and the craziness  that we should get caught up in. Jesus is it!!! I have to stop and remind myself of that when i feel like i am going crazy.  It is He who is celebrated this time of year. Not that Jesus shouldn't be celebrated all year, but now we get to share Him even more with others. so this Christmas season just remember the Reason!! He IS the reason for the season.

Reilly's Birthday Party

Last Saturday we had our big man's 1st birthday party. We had a blast!! and so did Reilly. We totally went over the top for a first birthday and had all our friends and family there, so we had like 50 adults and 10 kids. It was great! Of course we had a theme...what else but Georgia Football. there is the slideshow of all the pictures my friend Melanie took on the side here so enjoy. I still have to get pictures from my mom's camera. so there are more!  

Reilly's 1st Year

So Monday the 10th, marked a year since our beautiful little man was born. I am really starting to feel very nostalgic and just wanting to spend as much time with Reilly while he is still a "baby", even though he is closer to a toddler now. God has just been so good to us this year. As most of you know i did not go back to work after Reilly was born and The Lord has still provided for us. We, like all, have felt the effects form the Market crash but have still been able to stay afloat and i have been able to spend such a wonderful year with my little man. He really is such a joy in Josh's and my life. We look at him and he just smiles back at us and he melts us all over again. He is really starting to walk and talk and show us his sweet personality. He knows want he wants and is not afraid to let us know how he feels. I just can't believe how fast it has gone. everyone says it goes fast and i didn't believe them, but now all i want is for him just to stay a baby. Today i went and got him out of his crib and he just laid his head on my shoulder and just loved on mommy. what more could a parent ask for. I hope that this next year will be just a amazing, challenging, and fruitful. I thank the Lord everyday for the time i get to spend with both of my men. I wasn't too sure about being the mother of a boy at first when we found out...but being the mother of a little man is just the most amazing, wonderful gift God could have ever given me. 

Please enjoy reminiscing over the last year with us.  Sorry that there are so many pictures...I couldn't decide on just one per month.