Long time no blog!!!

Hello everyone! It's been forever since I've blogged and I'm so excited to say that I actually have some pictures to post! Scott moved all of our pictures over to another computer and I've had the hardest time accessing them for blogging. I will post them very shortly!

Love all of you!

A new arrival in the Henry family!!

Well, it's been a long time since my last post and I do apologize! I've been busy with keeping the house clean and all of the fun things that go along with selling a house!

BUT, we have had a very special arrival that I must tell you about before I catch up on us...

Our sweet baby nephew Corbin Jackson Henry was born July 22nd at 2:16am, weighing 8lbs 12oz and he was 21 inches long. Blaine and Steve are doing wonderful and enjoying "Baby Bootcamp"! Corbin was a big little fella and last Monday morning, after doing a sonogram, they felt it was time to induce (conveniently on her due date!). They began the induction that morning at 11. Blaine was determined to have little Corbin without having a C-section and labored until about 1:30 Tuesday morning (including pushing for two hours!!!) until finally they decided to do a C-section. Corbin had his first pediatrician's visit yesterday and he's doing great! He's already gained back a 1/2 pound of the pound he lost before leaving the hospital. Blaine and Steve are wonderful parents!! We're so happy for all of them!!

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Daniel turned 17 the day we arrived at the beach so we had a little luau for him to celebrate complete with leis and "lanterns". It was so much fun! I can't believe my Daniel is 17!

Our trip to Edisto Beach

We went to Edisto Beach with my family last week and had such a wonderful time!! We couldn't have asked for better weather and the boys absolutely loved the beach this year! They both loved playing in the sand and water and as we thought last year and confirmed this year, Ethan has no fear of water...he would run straight for it without any hand holding. We definitely had to keep a close eye on him! They both loved "hopping" over the waves and splashing, and one of their favorite things to do was stand on boogie boards at the very edge of the water and "surf" when the waves came in. It was too cute!! I didn't get too many pictures on the beach because those little fellows kept us hopping, but my Mom was able to get some so I will share those with you when I get them. Thank you Mama and Daddy for a wonderful week!!

"Cickle!"

The boys had popsicles for the very first time a few days ago and LOVED them! There's nothing like sweet little purple and red mouths and chins! It's so cute how they will always look at eachother and grin when they're trying something new and exciting like that.

I Nine Video!

My cousin Matt is in a band called I Nine (he plays the bass guitar). They recently performed for a Fox morning show in Dallas. Here is a link to the video!

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=6494567&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=5.2.1

The Tough Questions...

I was so heartbroken when I heard that Tim Russert had passed away last week. He was always one of those people that if I ever had a chance to meet him, I'd want to go and give him a great big hug...just a nice guy who's loving and caring nature showed through all he did. I was reading up on a blog of an author that I've read a couple of books from...a South Carolina girl (GRITS!), and she had some great thoughts on this...are you willing to ask the "tough questions" to others, and just as important if not more so, to yourself? I've attached a link to her blog if you'd like to read it. Hope everyone is doing great. Much love to all of you! I'll be updating the blog on our trip to Edisto Beach soon. :)

http://www.denisehildreth.blogspot.com/

Scott's car accident

Scott was in a car accident last Tuesday...thankfully he's okay!! Just a little sore but no scratches or bruises. He was coming home from work when a car coming toward him was stopped to turn left and was hit from behind, then forced into his lane...he almost hit them head on but luckily was able to react quickly enough to swerve before impact. (Scott's car is the black car) The driver in the white car (a Mazda Miata!) had a mild concussion, but as you can see from the photos was lucky!!

Just some cute pics from the boys' birthday-day

Especially notice the icing on Mitchell's face when he's eating cake...Captain Jack Sparrow?! :-)

Happy 2nd Birthday Ethan and Mitchell!

The boys and I traveled to Aiken to visit with family on Friday while Scott stayed home and did some work around the house. We missed him so much and he missed us so much too!! My sweet baby boys had their 2nd birthday on Saturday and we had a wonderful day full of celebration. We began the day with lots of Happy Birthday singing on the porch swing...as you can see from their expressions...Mitchell enjoyed it somewhat but Ethan thought we had lost our marbles. He had that look the entire time we were singing (Ethan is pictured on right)!! :-) Daddy called to wish his precious boys a Happy Birthday and they didn't quite know what to think when they heard more singing on the phone. Grandmama Sharon made the boys a special pancake breakfast which they thoroughly enjoyed, and then we played, played, played.

They have changed so much this past year...their vocabulary has really increased and they're beginning to copy many things that we say like "ready" and "alright" and "okay". Ethan calls Mitchell "baba" and Mitchell calls Ethan "be-be". They love eachother so much...they actually gave eachother a kiss today for the very first time. Happy Birthday boys!!!