A little 'Roll Tide' to get the season started!

Summer life in pictures

Kep at beach

Last weekend before school started.  K, D, Charlie, and Preston.

First day of school, D starts kindergarten and K starts 1st grade.

Cousins at lake for July 4th.  They loved jumping from this rock!

Beach trip and deep sea fishing.

Family after boys birthday party.

Cutie patootie all-star boys! (June)

Nana and her boys!

The 3,486 (8) dogs I picked up off the side of the road in May.  Found homes for them all except one that we kept!

Beginning of June VBS Amazing Adventures at WEBC

Beautiful sunflowers on the farm in MS

Our Fowler who survived at huge rattlesnake bite at the end of August.

Maw Maw, Moma Bates, JoJo, and Kepler after one of his all-star games in June.

fun.ny team picture!

All of the Lively's at the lake during July 4th holiday!

Morgan, D, Michael

Our Family!

The boys love to cano at the lake!

My cuties!

Some time on the farm in Mississippi.

The boys at their 5th and 6th birthday party!

May- D graduating from pre-school.

Mothers Day and more pictures

My sweet blessings on Mother's Day 2012

 Dax with his bream

 Kep with his bream

 Two boys as mad as they can be.  DID NOT want their picture made at this old store.  (Weogufga)

 Best buds with their game balls

Sweet boys before church one Sunday morning.

Summer birthday babies, preschool party for them.   Dax and Preston, Dax blew their candles out!

 JoJo and Pops made it over for a ball game. 

 Dax with his homeplate slide that he does:) 

Saint Patrick's Day

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here! We took advantage of the sunshine and drove up to UM, where I am in school. The trees are so pretty right now so I knew it would make great pictures. They even got to play at a playground not to far away (bribery)!

Lake!

We are so excited to be getting to spend more time here this summer! We have purchased a SMALL piece of lake property and have been spending SO much time redoing EVERYTHING in the little house. (Wish I would have taken before and after pictures) I've been saying that it really needs to be pushed with a backhoe, into the water, but husband has reminded me that it is just a place to get away. I really do love it and can see how much fun it will be.

Baseball!

We LOVE this time of year! The boys are on the same team which makes life easier. They have yet to play a game together because they have been SO SO SO sick! First Kep was sick with a 6 day fever virus and then as SOON as he was healthy it was Dax's turn. Needless to say, we are all sick of being sick.

The first game Dax played, he was up to bat first and hit the first ball pitched, pretty exciting being his first time! Kepler's first game this season, he hit two home runs back to back, got a double play and received the game ball. Our sweet friends that have two little boys (Tucker and Henry) came to watch Kepler play that night.

Big Apple Adventure part 2

Part one was last summer and they did not get perform the songs they had learned due to a power outage the night of the performance. SO, they did it again in February! Motions and all! They even got to tye-dye their own shirts.

Babysitting baby Addison

My friend Tiffany needed me to babysit for her a few Saturdays back and the boys loved it! Especially Dax, he never left her side. All day he cared for Addison, held her, fed her, played with her. Very sweet! He has asked several times if he could have a baby for Christmas. This will be the second year he's wanted a baby!!!

Cowboy Birthday Party

Their friend Anika had a cute cute cowgirl party. The boys were all about dressing up and riding the horse. A beautiful day in early February!

Sweet boys

Photographer, I am not!

Ty and Crystal with baby Colton in belly! My cousin's wife asked me to take some casual pictures of them because she wanted maternity photos made. I love to take pictures but I am NO photographer. Some of them turned out good, they were pleased and I had fun. But I will never be good enough to call myself a photographer! I applaud those who are:)

Happy New Year!

Latest finished painting. December 2011. Dax is pictured at 3 1/2 years.

Kep was finished October 2010. He is pictured at 3 1/2 years.

These turned out better than I expected and I am thankful, I was thinking I may not hang them if I was not pleased. They are my first oil portraits.

Sweet picture I wanted to have saved on the blog from 2008

Christmas fun, celebrating Vivi's 7th birthday, playing with Anika, and K's kindergarten class.

The boys on their 4wheelers they got for Christmas

Christmas Eve

playing around with my camera

Making cookies with Chloe and Cresley

Maggie and Matthew, too cute not to post! We were looking at the eagles nest and they were having fun.

Pops at the eagles nest in the woods at Roundaway! The picture does not do the size justice. It has to be at least 5 feet wide.

Christmas in Mississippi!

Dax's preschool Christmas play. SO precious. We think Daxy pooh sang the loudest, what was funny is that he WOULD NOT step foot on the stage at church when he was supposed to sing with Kep but could not wait to be on stage for his at his school.