Isaac and Eli

Sunday, September 27, 2009

A Baby Shower for Eli

For all of you who are worried that we won't take as many pictures of Eli as we have of Isaac, here are some pics of the baby shower that our church gave us.
(We're really trying!)

Grandma and Grammie were both able to be in town for this shower (it's a long story), and it was great to have them here!

(Eli's) Mom and Grammie

Mom, Grammie and Eli

Opening presents (this pic shows off the ring that Garin got me for having such a tough couple of weeks!)

When will Eli get here? Who knows!!

Baby booties cake

Thursday, September 24, 2009

These past few weeks have been pretty miserable - I (Rachel) have been in the hospital twice with kidney stones, not to mention being 8.5 months pregnant and exhausted all the time. HOWEVER, we have amazing friends and family who have jumped in to help. Garin's parents were here over the weekend (on 2 hours notice), and my mom came for the week. The following are pictures from Isaac's impromptu sleepover with some friends from church last Thursday evening - he had a GREAT time and didn't seem to miss Mom and Dad at all!

Matt and Isaac (Matt is 3yrs old)

The kids had a "flashlight scavenger hunt."

Isaac, "Papa Al", and Matt

Singing "Pharoah, Pharoah" sent both Isaac and Al into fits!

Isaac and Papa Al

Matthew, Jacob, and Isaac - like brothers from another mother!

Thanks for taking such good care of our boy!!!

Friday, September 4, 2009

Photo shoot...

A friend from church took some pictures of us (204 pictures, to be exact!) on the campus of Gardner-Webb University, which is nearby. Here are a just a few of those:

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

While on the topic of sugar...

...the boy LOVES it (sugar, in all its forms!), and this is the aftermath of Dad's birthday cake last week!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Roberts' Family Bakery

There is a yummy new bakery in Gate City, where Grandma and Grandpa live.

Isaac really liked his cookie from the bakery.

Whatcha doin', Isaac?

Sorry, Briley - I think I'm going to eat my whole cookie!

Isaac's first Braves game

Dad's birthday is coming up, and since we live much closer to Atlanta now (about 3 hours), we went to a Braves game one afternoon. It was Isaac's first major league game, and he really had fun! He sat through the entire game (with a few concession stand breaks, of course...)

Even Charley was ready to go to the game (though he waited in the car)!

Dad taught him how to watch the game - it's a very serious endeavor...

Go Braves!

A really big baseball

He enjoyed watching the game on the field, but he REALLY liked the jumbo-tron (which he called "Baseball TV")

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Isaac's "prayer"

We are trying to teach Isaac the "God is great, God is good" prayer before meals. So, this morning after breakfast, Isaac said, "Let's pray, Dada." This is what he said.
(We think it's something about "Mama snake," spoken in rhythm to the "God is great" prayer. He has since done this a lot, repeating, "Mama snake" an indefinite number of times, and then saying, "Amen.")

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Mowing the lawn

HUGE new lawn that Garin has to mow (heheh)

Dad and Isaac on the mower!

Water night with FW Friends

On Wednesday, they had "water night" at the church. They put a huge sheet of plastic on the hill, and let the kids slide down it. The kids seem to have fun!