Showered With Gifts!

January 31st my dearest oldest friends threw Laura, Jamie and myself a joint baby shower to celebrate the upcoming arrival of our second children. Laura has a girl and is expecting a boy, I am expecting my second daughter and Jamie is expecting her second son. We are all so excited and it is a wonderful excuse to get together with those that are closest to us.

Laura, Jamie and Me

All the preggos: Meredith, Lisa, Laura, Jamie and me!

Me opening some of Demi's sweet gifts!

Snow February 2010

So.....doing a little catch up blogging today!!!! Wanted to post Daley's snow pics, even though it was a couple of weeks ago. She was really excited to be picked up from school early to come home and build a snowman with her Dad! She named him Frosty (original I know) :)

Daley and Daddy building their snowman


Frosty is finished


Daddy was really proud of his snowman

Daley eating some snow

Daley's playground covered in snow

January

Still a little slow at blogging even after my "computer not being hooked up" excuse is gone! So....I'll use my "9 months pregnant excuse" and then next month I'll use my "brand new baby" excuse and then maybe I'll have run out and I'll get better at this.

I the month of January we celebrated my Mom's and Zach's Birthdays. Their birthdays are within the same week, so it is always a busy one! Friday night me, My Aunt Cathy and my Mom went to Carrabba's. My Mom's favorite dish is there and it is called something that sounds like Picchi Pacchu, but I am sure that is not spelled right :) Then we headed off to Sips N Strokes to paint a "Woman on the Beach" which I must say was one of the more difficult Sips N Strokes classes I have been to yet and I have been to quite a few. This has been the case with my mom the past two times we have been though. She always picks the tough ones!

Then, for Zach's Birthday we went to Kinomi, the Japanese Steak House in Trussville on Thursday. Then his parents came in town Friday and took us to the Melting Pot. This was a first time for his parents and I think they really liked it. Of course the cheese and the dessert are the best part, but it was so yummy! Overall I think Zach had a really great birthday, at least I sure hope so since it will be his last in his 20's!!!! :)

The month of January was a busy one for us and the month of February looks like it will be even more busy!!! We are getting so excited abut the upcoming arrival of Demi Sophia!!!

Love,

Lindsey

Since we last spoke.....

A lot has happened! Our computer was out of commission for quite some time. We turned our "office" into Daley's new bedroom over Christmas Holidays and therefore had to take out our computer. Since then I convinced Zach to bring it back into civilization until our bonus room above our garage is done being built. We also have since finished Daley's new bedroom and are working on Demi's nursery and our bonus room. Believe me I will be so proud of our accomplishments I will post many pics as soon as we have it all complete. I feel like so much is happening around us right now. I will try to be brief since there is always so much to say about Christmas!


First, we were able to go and get Demi's 4D ultrasound! This was such an exciting experience! We did not do one of these for Daley because they are awfully expensive, but luckily we have a loving Mimi who was dying to see a 4D ultrasoud and was generous enough to take us to see this miracle. It truly is a miracle that technology has advanced enough to perform these types of things! I was in awe!

Second, we experienced Daley's first Christmas program! This is a mother's dream! I was so proud and so surprised. For months she had been singing Jingle Bells and I assumed this would be the only song her class sang, but little did I know that when I arrived she would be listed as a SOLOIST in the program! Her class sang 3 songs and she had a solo to Jingle Bells and it was the most beautiful rendition of Jingle Bells I have ever laid my ears upon :)

Third, we went and had our picture made with Santa! This was quite the accomplishment given that she has all but hated him in years past. We literally offered her anything she wanted in the mall if she would just not SCREAM! She did not scream.....she doesn't have the most lovely expression on her face, but there was no crying. She ended up getting a ginger bread man from the Cookie Co. and a sucker and a new Christmas book from Books A Million. She really did all she could not to cry and I was happy to get her what I promised.

We had a snow day somewhere in the middle. Sadly, I don't really even remember when this was, but pregnancy brain will do that to you. And, living in Alabama these happenings are few and far between so you had better get a picture! Believe it or not, it has snowed both years of Daley's life so far!

And at last we had a a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior! We of course spent a wonderful time with our families and were spoiled, spoiled, spoiled by their kindness and generosity. We are truly blessed and look forward to holidays in the future with our ever growing family!

-Lindsey

Thanksgiving/Iron Bowl Weekend

Or Iron Bowl/Thanksgiving Weekend, whichever is more important to you :) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Iron Bowl weekend. I started my vacation off right with a visit to the "Iron Bowl Sips N Strokes" Wednesday night with my friend and next door neighbor Dana. We painted AUBIE hanging Big Al upside down with paw prints all over him. For those of you who don't know, I just love AUBIE! 2nd to Daley (and quite possibly Zach depending on how he has behaved that week :) By the way, I had no business going in the first place for all the Thanksgiving food and tailgating food I was supposed to be preparing. But I did do that when I got home and most of it turned out quite well!

Thanksgiving Day was a blessing as always to spend time with the people we love the most, OUR FAMILIES! We started it off my going over to my Nana's house where we had a slightly larger than usual crowd, but with family is never tooo crowded, right??? We had a wonderful lunch prepared by all (even ME)! I am also fortunate enough to have such a talented cousin Kelsey who took some pretty awesome pics of Daley (posted below).

Next we were off to Yia Yia and Robert's where Robert prepared a delicious Thanksgiving meal as well. There was a slight hang up in that the Turkey Fryer went out of commission for a couple hours, but once it was ready we enjoyed a delicious Cajun Fried Turkey! My Aunt Cathy and my cousins Spiro, his girlfriend Courtney, and Jimmy came in town. It was great to see them! Especially Spiro and Courtney since they live in TX and don't get up to Alabama much! It was also wonderful to spend Jameson's first Thanksgiving with him, I really love that baby!

After Yia Yia and Robert's we headed down to Auburn to spend time with Zach's family and to see our beloved Tigers play the hearts out in the Iron Bowl. I must say I was disappointed not to get a win, but proud of my Tigers for giving it to the #2 team in the country! By the way, GO GATORS! I just had to post the pic of Zach below that was posted in the Birmingham News. There were several pics posted but I felt like none showed his true "game face" as well as this one. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and I wanted to sign off in saying that I am so Thankful for my family! Zach included, even when he is not behaving!

Love,

Lindsey

Dodiyos!!!!!!!!!!

Last Thursday me some of my favorite friends from church went out to eat at Dodiyos. I have but 1 word for this place.....MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! It was wonderful! The company and the food. Dodiyos is a Mediterranean Restaurant so it has so many of my favorite foods. For appetizers we shared Hummus and Saganaki. If you have never had Saganaki it is cheese that comes out flaming and you spread it on bread. A.K.A. a little spread of heaven! And for my entree I ordered vegetable Moussaka which is like a vegetable casserole with topped in a cream sauce layer. Am I making your mouth water? I want to go back and eat just as am typing this.

My friends and I had a great time hanging out. We do not do this often so it was great to get together outside of church with just the girls. It was actually kind of funny because the three of us that arrived first were all pregnant, and some lady asked if we were all members of the same Lamaze class? It is funny to me because so many people around me are pregnant right now. Not just in this group, but I bet I can name at least 15 people that I am either related to or very good friends with. I am so lucky that both my girls will be surrounded by my wonderful friends and their wonderful children!

Mary, Brooke, Helena, Angela and Me

-Lindsey

Halloween and Baby Jameson

Have not been on my blog in a while so I thought I would double update! First of all we had a great Halloween. We did several things to celebrate throughout the month of October. First we went to the pumpkin patch and then we were invited to a Halloween Party at Will Vakakes's House. Will's Halloween Party was a great way to get the kids together and allow them to wear their costumes an extra time. We also had Daley's school Halloween Part and the kids were dressed up there too. They were sooo precious! On actual Halloween we did not celebrate much or trick or treat. We were down in Auburn for the Ole Miss Auburn game which was a SWEET VICTORY!

Daley and I with our church friends at Will Vakakes's Halloween Party

Daley and Caroline (Tinkerbells) at Daley's School Halloween Party

Most importantly November 4th was the birth date of mine and Zach's first nephew, and Daley's first cousin! We are so in love with him already and we are so happy for Tiffany and Philip upon the birth of their sweet baby boy. Jameson Foster Bolen came into the world weighing 8lbs 9oz and was 21 ans 1/2 inches long. He was born Wednesday November 4 at 8:15 p.m.

Jameson Foster Bolen

Tiffany Me and Jameson



Aunt Lindsey and Jameson

Hope everyone has had a great couple of weeks and has a great Thanksgiving Holiday! Happy Holidays and War Eagle!

Love,

Lindsey