Our 2010 Year in Review

January: 2010 New Years party at our house.

February: Our first snow. We also find out that we are expecting again.

March: We celebrated our 5th year Anniversary and take our family trip to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

April: Jack's first time visiting the zoo.

May: Will graduates K-3

June: Jack's 2nd Birthday



July: Cousins Elijah and Sophia(not in photo) visit Georgia.

August: Our annual trip to Charleston



September: Will completes his first Soccer season.

October: Our third baby boy is born, Luke Ryan Hopper.

November: We celebrated Daddy's 31st birthday.

December: Will turned the big 5.

&

coming this January we are continuing the process of Potty Training.

To

all of our friends and family,

Happy New Year!

Christmas 2010 from Nana's and Papa's

Here we are at Nana's and Papa's later in the evening (our Christmas day). The kids were super thrilled to have a Christmas with their grandparents and Aunts. We had a wonderful time opening our gifts early.
Nana's and Papa's beautiful tree. We were all excited to see so many presents under the tree.

Jack opening his first present from Aunt Amy.
Jack's favorite movie character... a cuddly stuffed Buzz Light year!

Aunt Angie gave Will and Jack the book to go along with it.

Aunt Amy gave Will a Where's Waldo book.

Aunt Angie gave him...

A Jackks Pacific Creepy Crawlers oven with goop. He absolutely loves the idea of making all sorts of bugs! I remember loving it too (-:

Nana and Papa gave Jack the real big Buzz Light year!

Aunt Amy gave Luke a book with cool pictures for when he gets a little older.

Aunt Angie also gave him a super cute outfit...forgot to take a picture )-:

Will opening Luke's gift from Nana and Papa

We had little Buzz sit in Luke's Bumbo. Luke will love it as much as Buzz does!

My chunky monkey wearing his first "My Beary First Christmas" outfit. Out of all the cooler days we've had here in Georgia, this day was the warmest. So do not pass judgement, we had to undress him just to cool him off a bit.

He is truly this stinking cute! and yes, he is always this

sweet!Aunt Angie gave the boys an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. They think is hilarious!
I was not left out.

Angie gave me this cute Apron(which I have wanted), Nana gave me a Ninja Prep for the Kitchen (It makes awesome smoothies*I love* and chops every veggie*perfect for me*) I also got a Body spray from VS with a lip gloss that I've been wanting!

Adam also received something he's always wanted...A smoker! Yes, I love it too! He will be doing a lot of cooking this summer. His siter Angie also gave him an all time favorite gift, a video game! His sister Amy gave him the board game Truth be Told( which he loves too).

Will loved this walking and talking Robot that Nana and Papa got for him!

Thank you everyone for all the great gifts! We are truly blessed.

Although this Christmas was different from all the others, only because daddy had to work on Christmas Day, it just served as a reminder that the day and time to celebrate has no meaning. Christmas is about being together with family and that is what we know and love to do best!

Santa Claus brought us an early Christmas.

Oh yes, we got to open our presents yesterday.

Christmas came early to our house this year. Daddy is scheduled to work Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the day after. So we decided on an early Christmas! The night before, "Our Christmas Eve", the kids made cupcakes for Jesus' birthday.

We followed by singing several songs and daddy read a couple of stories. We sang, Happy Birthday Jesus (a different version that Will learned at school), Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Silent Night (all the classics). We read, The Christmas Story and 'Twas The Night Before Christmas.

We had taken the kids to a pottery where they made these ornament beauties.
they hung them on Christmas Eve.

Now moving on to Christmas Day Pictures...

Will, Jack & Luke are up early and they dig into their stockings. Santa was kind to bring them both movies, How to train your dragon (for Will) and Toy Story 3 (for Jack) along with a favorite, a Super Mario car and other awesome goodies.

This year is Luke's first Christmas. It was wonderful having our Christmas with our newest addition. He loved all the noise and laughter coming from the boys!

Will and Jack underneath the Christmas tree!Luke loves to have conversations with his daddy (-:

Santa brought Jack food for his kitchen, a Batmobile, a dinosaur puzzle, a motorcycle and a couple of cars from his favorite movie Cars,
and also a small Buzz light year that he loves.

Will helping little brother open his first Christmas present from Santa

Will asked Santa for a Trio BATCAVE! a set of dragons, from his favorite movie (How to train your dragon), a map, a doctor seuss book(Theres a Wocket in my Pocket), a Wii music game, Super Hero comic books and

he loves maps!

this will go on his bedroom wall.

A special gift from daddy and mommy.
Will wanted a big boy bike with training wheels. So daddy and mommy got it for him.

My sweet little bear...Luke loved his first Christmas!

the boys gave daddy a mouse pad for his laptop.

also some nicer earbuds....

and clothes.

the boys gave mommy an awesome gift! My first Net book to take with me everywhere. Now, I can blog more often!

Our Amazing Christmas Dinner.

After eating dinner and playing with all our toys, we headed to Nana's and Papa's to open more gifts, Will also took his bike to ride up and down the drive way.

He's good at pedaling too!

I will be back for Christmas Part 2. From Nana's & Papa's House.