Update:

Our family has been through alot lately good and bad but we are excited to back on track for now anyway. I guess you could give me the worst blogger award for this year..lol but I am going to try and make it up to all of you. I am gathering some pics and info to update you all on our last few months, so I will be doing a blog soon on alot of updates from a family vacation to birthdays so stay tuned for the action.

Braydon's stapled head....

okay so the kids had a great visit with family last week and Warren and I had a well deserved break, but of course we missed the kids like crazy, so we decided we would take off from work on Wednesday to do something fun with the kids during the week which they aren't use to since Mommy and daddy both work but we picked all of the boys up from their visit and headed to Aunt Brenda's to swim, the day started out great, mom came over to swim, Aunt Brenda was home and Jaylen was there to swim with Tristan, everyone was having a blast but soon it would all end with a trip to the er...oh no yes the big boys were doing back flips off the diving board and Braydon thought he could manage it too, but as we all motionless and speechlessly looked on we saw the disaster unfold in front of us, we couldn't even say anything it was to late, he gets to the edge and perfectly manages a back flip but as he came down his head hit the diving board, I could barely look on as Warren ran to get him out of the water, all I could see was blood and I freaked out, ran inside through my clothes on told the boys to get out and we headed to the er in Shelby, everyone else was convinced he was fine just a minor cut but when he threw up I knew we had to get there fast, as we signed in Warren and the other boys waited in the truck, they got us back pretty fast and the doctor came in to see us, he examined his head and off the top said he would have to have staples to close the wound, he wanted to watch him close for several hours to make sure a cat scan wasn't in order since they do not like to preform them on three year olds unless it is life threatening, Warren and the boys went on home while Braydon and I waited, for the doctors decision, they finally came in and said they believed everything was fine and it was time to staple him...I was freaking out at first but it wasn't as bad as I had pictured, the nurse came in and numbed his head, I tried to keep him occupied while the did the rest, we said our numbers and sung our ABC's before we knew it, it was all over with and he didn't even realize it, so Warren was there to get us after having a neighbor sit with the other boys and we were headed home with 2 staples in the top of Braydon's head..don't worry he is back to his old self and the staples come out in 10 days, but to close I have always had the fear of someone hitting their head on that diving board and after about 10 years my theory was proven true, so my kids will not be enjoying that feature of the pool anymore...end of discussion!! lol

Summer Time Fun....

Summer is finally here...yah, and Although I love the Summer I hate the heat crazy huh, but anyway it has really been hot but also really rainy, I know I haven't blogged since our weekend getaway to Alabama Adventure but we really haven't been up to anything exciting and I have been really busy with the kids, but I am going to try and update you on the little activity we have had going on around here. Of course you all know School is out so Tristan is home all day, he has really been bored and he is already saying its to hot to play outside, Mom has took the boys swimming and camping so they are having some fun, Tristan has school friends that live close by so he plays outside alot with them, the little boys play outside alot also, Mom takes them to the park a few times a week and I try and get outside with them in the afternoons and weekends. Memorial Day we grilled out and let the kids play in the sprinklers, My best friend Tiffany met one afternoon last week and took all the kids swimming, we have grilled out several times and we bought the kids a "kiddy" pool as Tristan says and we bought the big kids a slippin slide, the kids have really enjoyed them. Warren and I switched cell phone service from Nextel to Sprint, we got really cool new phones, I got a cute little pink blackberry and Warren got a touch screen, so now we are all into texting and its been fun catching up on technology..lol,we also have the same phone number just no two way, I also got a recliner..oh yeah I ask for one for my birthday that is coming up in July but I ran across a really good deal on the perfect recliner that matching and was a really good price so I bought it for myself lol and I love it, I have always wanted one and I have been really enjoying it. We are also planning a trip back to Alabama Adventure June 26 if anyone would like to go, We are also trying to plan a beach trip sometime this summer, if anyone knows a great place at a reasonable price let me know, well thats about all we have been up to lately hope everyone has a great weekend, love you all!

Our weekend getaway...Fabulous!

We took the kids to a hotel that had a indoor pool and lots of nice commendations, we had a really nice time and we took them to Alabama Adventure on Saturday it rained alittle when we first got there but it cleared up after about an hour, the kids had a blast and really enjoyed themselves, me and warren had a great time also, after Alabama Adventure we went swimming again and had a blast the whole weekend it was great, from the nice hotel with great breakfast, the indoor pool and of course Alabama Adventure! We had a great time....More pics to come...love you all!

Happy Mother's Day!

So first of all let me say Happy Mother's day to all the mothers, being a mom is one of the most important jobs in the world and it sometimes gets looked over but believe me I know all about what you go through and we definitely deserve a day for us Mom's!
I would also like to take a second and say thank you to my mom for all she has done for me and always supporting me and loving me no matter what, she is a great mother and I love her with all my heart! I am also so thankful to have so many mothers in my life that help support and guide me and inspire me as a mother, you all are such a inspiration and you are all hero's to me! I love you all...


My Mother's Day weekend was great, we didn't do much but that was do to alot of planning lol...me planning to relax! On friday we had art day with the kids and they made mother's day cards and lots of art work, alittle messy but they had a blast, after work the kids and I went over to my Aunt Brenda's house to help my cousin Angie with her Mother's Day gift for her mom, which was a digital photo keychain and she needed me to help load the pics, so she had several memory cards full of pics of our whole family, My grandmother who past away, My uncle who also just passed away and miss them all so dearly but actually seeing all the pictures didn't make me sad it made me realize how blessed I was to have them in my life even if I would have like them to be here longer the time I had with them was so memorable and the photos I now have are priceless! I will post a few at the end of this blog...

While at Aunt Brenda's the kids somehow managed to talk me into letting them swim or maybe it was the idea that Aunt Brenda kinda dunked them in but either way they had a blast, eventhough they had to wear wet clothes all the way home, I promised them a trip back soon and it was really nice to visit with the family, after we finished with the pictures Angie went ahead and gave her mom her gift and she loved it we loaded it with pics of everyone in the family and she was just thrilled to have it to show off to everyone...it was great just seeing her face light up!


Saturday was less exciting, we had planned to take the kids back to swim but the weather was just so iffy, instead we just relaxed watching movies, cleaning house and enjoying the time off with the family.

This morning Mother's Day morning was great! Warren and the kids made me breakfast and gave me their gifts which I loved, Jaxon got me a digital photo keychain also, Tristan got me a new picture to go over my bar, Braydon, Zander and Lucas got me new candles for the living room and they smell so good, I was really impressed by all the great gifts I got, Warren also paid for me and mom to go play bingo on Wednesday night for our Mother's Day gifts since that is her favorite thing to do and it gave us alittle alone time which was nice, Warren also grilled dinner for me he had bbq chicken, hamburgers, hotdogs, baked beans and potato salad, we even made a homemade peanut butter cake, talk about eating alot and doing alot of relaxing, but we had a great fun filled day with family and friends! We are now just laying in bed relaxing he is playing his video game, I am online and the kids are tucked away, time to get ready for a new work week and I know its going to be great! God is so good and I am so blessed and thankful for all I have and the family and friends that are in my life! I hope you all had a great weekend and a wonderful Mother's Day!

I have posted some random pics of my family, hope you enjoy!




My beautiful cousin Melissa and her son Keegan!



Ivalee my nanny's twin sister, she passed away also...



The greatest man ever...



The twins Jontae and Dontae



My Aunt Brenda..



We miss you uncle Smokey!




My beautiful cousin Tara with Dontae



My uncle Smokey, God I miss this man so much, he is irreplaceable!



Christmas at my Nanny's a few years back, she has passed away now and we miss her so much and miss having Christmas at her house every year, she was awesome, I love you Nanny!

Update:

I know I haven't blogged in awhile but I have been really busy and just couldn't find a minute to blog so I have added some new and some old pics that I thought you all would enjoy trying to update you on some of our recent activities, Our life is full of excitement and love but it takes hard work to manage it all, so if sometime I don't blog it means I am truly busy with the family but I will try and update more frequent love you all!



This one is for you Aunt Darlene! I love you!




Aunt Darlene and Dc dancing..





My beautiful Mom on her wedding day!





Big Daddy (Warren's dad) and Braydon at the community yard sale!





Jaxon & Zander at Art Day!





Swimming at Aunt Brenda's house!




Karlee, my cousin Breanna's little girl..





chucky E cheese PLEASE...





They had a blast...





Jaxon & Zander





The kids at the doctor for checkups, Brady 36lbs, Jaxon 40lbs and Zander 44lbs!





Lucas at his 6 months checkup weighing in at 18lbs and 26 inches long!






The kids playing uno...






The boys with their new toothbrushes...

Lazy Weekend....

Well maybe lazy for the kids considering we didn't really go anywhere but never a full lazy day for me! I have to cook breakfast for everyone, then clean up, cook lunch, clean up, cook dinner, clean up lol, and this doesn't even include laundry, dusting etc; but the weekend was pretty nice. Friday night mom watched the kids so Warren and I went grocery shopping and then just stayed home and relaxed, I cleaned house and did laundry on commercials and between myspace and facebook lol. Warren just kinda hungout helping occasionally, it was nice though we really enjoyed the quality time and I was able to catch up on some housework. Mom brought the kids home pretty early saturday morning, we had already planned to take the kids to the park in Montevallo to have a picnic, so we packed up our lunchables, snacks and drinks and headed out but our adventure ended quickly when it began to rain, we were all so disappointed but we decided on plan b which would be a picnic on the living room floor, so we laid out the blanket, enjoyed our lunch and watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie and it is so good we really liked, I thought it was going to be really girly but it actually had a good story line. After the movie the little boys had nap and Tristan went outside to play with his friends, Warren and I cleaned up and started dinner prep, since we had a big menu, we made up the meatloaf, started the cabbage, later on that night we cooked mashed potatoes, fried green tomatoes and cornbread. It was so delicious and we were all completely full! After dinner we cleaned up and the kids got baths and watched a movie. Sunday morning(this morning) did not go near our plan, we had planned to go to church but we woke up late and since we have to drive so far to church we knew there was no way we would be able to make it on time considering I forgot to iron church clothes last night. So anyway things just did not go as we had planned it to but we did enjoy just being around the house, I cooked and cleaned all day as usually and even shampooed carpets, Warren watched movies most of the day with a few gentle words of kindness and offered his hands a few times lol, Tristan played outside most of the day and was distraught when he had to come in lol, Braydon pretty much hung on to my leg all day, getting into everything and messing up as I cleaned up, Jaxon and Zander played video games most of the day went they weren't wrestling and telling on each other, Lucas hungout with Warren most of the day, trying to get whatever he can, he is eating alot of baby food now and is really spoiled, he wants someone to hold him most of the time but he is a sweet baby. After dinner we cleaned up again...and the kids got baths and are now relaxing in their beds either alseep or watching tv. Warren and I chillin in the living room. Its been a nice weekend, I wish it would last longer..hope you all had a good weekend!

Dentist visit...

The kids go to the medplex pediatric dentistry in Hoover off of Valley Dale Rd. I love it there and so do all the kids, they are so fast and the kids get prizes, get to play games and get new tooth brushes, so anyway we had a appointment yesterday at 9am, I don't know what made me make such a early morning appointment with 3 kids but we made it finally! The kids had a great visit, it was Warren's first time to go back with the kids and he was so excited, he was like why didn't we have dentist like this when we were kids? I mean they have tv on the ceiling so when the kids are laying down they can watch tv, they have a big xbox so you can play video games, they give the kids coins to buy little toys out of machines and they also have all kinds of toys laid around to play with, they all got to go at the same time since they have 3 little chairs in the room, Jaxon picked the blue chair, Zander the green one and Braydon the red one, they love to play with the water piece and love giving the women hugs and smiles, everyone is always bragging on how handsome they are and Warren even dressed them in the t-shirts the dentist gave them so the staff was real excited about that, we had a great visit and the kids had a really good time. After the dentist we stopped and had breakfast/lunch at sonic and the kids really enjoyed, we then came home and dropped the kids off with mom and we went to work, after work we played with them outside and had a great afternoon. I forgot to take my camera with us to the dentist but I did get a few pics of the kids after bath time with there new toothbrushes, I will post them soon!

Favorite Pics from the weekend...

Here I wanted to share with you some of my favorites pics from this weekend, hope you enjoy!



Daddy and Lucas going to church looking all handsome in blue!



Braydon's little cute self...



I absolutely love this one...Baby Lucas 1st Easter



Our niece Tia, I love this one, it looks kinda vintage!



Zander going to church...



Jaxon going to church...



The kids with their Easter baskets..NOTICE..Braydon is covered with chocolate!



Sentoria and Lucas at Church..



I love how beautiful the fire was in all the pics...Vicki go VHS!



They always go the extra mile to make Warren feel welcome...Brenda & Wayne with Warren



Kim posing on Bonnie's bike...



This is a friend I went to school with Maurice & his son..I love the way the pic came out.



We called her "the caution girl"



This is Warren's cousin Bonnie, I zoomed in & got him riding his bike...



This is the same bike and helmet that Warren has...



I liked this car...



Warren at the race track!

Happy Easter...

We got up this morning and we baked a bunny cake and green bean casserole for church. Warren cooked breakfast, it was really good, bacon, egg and cheese biscuits and hashbrowns. Jaxon and Zander were still at Curtis's house so we decided to let the Easter bunny come after church since the other boys were going to meet us there. We got Lucas and Brady ready for church, and Tristan got ready also, then we loaded up the truck and headed to church. We got to church a little early so we waited outside for Jaxon and Zander , so while we were waiting we snapped a few shots, which I will share with you my favorites, service was really good, we put on a play with the children and I was the MC today, I also sang with the youth choir, Warren and Tristan both lead songs for the youth choir today and we had several visitors, after service we all had lunch in the fellowship hall, Warren's mom made her famous dressing and it was delicious as always, Warren's sister was also down from Georgia with her daughter. We had a great lunch as always. Thanks Big Moma and Big Daddy.


After church Warren had to pick up the bike since he left it at Bonnie's house last night, so the boys and I rode home together and Warren rode his bike, we had a good plan set up and it worked out perfect. Warren would head straight home and set out the Easter buuny stuff since we weren't able to do it this morning because Jaxon and Zander weren't home but the boys and I would take the back roads home which takes a little longer and I drove kinda slow and we just enjoyed the scenery, when we got home the Easter bunny had came yah...the kids were super excited considering they got 3 baskets each by the end of the day...talk about sugar rush! We let them indulge a little candy and then we let them play outside. They really had a great time, we had dinner and now we are just hanging out watching movies, Tristan is out of school tomorrow so he we will be allowed to stay up a little later to play video games with Jaxon, the boys have been really good tonight I guess they were wore out from all the playing and eating, Hope you all had a Happy Easter!

Bon Fire...

My mom with her gifts...


After the races we went to a party my mom and her new husband Dc were having, when we arrived I got to visit with alot of my family that I don't see very much, Aunt Darlene and Uncle Doy were there, I love you guys and all the shoes fit and I love them, I wore a pair to church today...thanks again. Uncle Bo was there with his new girlfriend which I still haven't had a chance to properly introduce myself to her how rude am I, my nephew Logan, who I call Loggy Bear was there and he has gotten so big and he is just adorable, I love that kid! Well anyway since Warren hadn't arrived yet he missed all the reunions, but he did arrive later, he brought Bonnie his cousin and good friend of ours there and I had brought a friend of mine Kim, we are trying to hook them up you know so anyway we all hung out around the fire, talked, had a couple of drinks and a really great time!




I love all the faces in this pic...

MotorSpeed Way Montgomery, Al

As most of you know Warren is really into street bikes now, and most of his friends have them and they all ride as much as possible but usually limited to maybe one day a week if that much, because like us most of his friends also work so it is hard for them all to get together to ride. So about two weeks ago we started hearing advertisements about a race which would include cars, bikes etc; so we all decided to go. We had tents set up, grills going with plenty of food and we had a great time. None of us knew anyone racing but it was a blast watching the races. We will definitely go back and hopefully next time take the boys, they will love it!

Prayer Request:

My sister April is having surgery Friday morning, well this morning I can't sleep, I am so worried I may over sleep and want be able to make it to the hospital to see her before she goes in, but anyway I would really appreciate it if everyone could say alittle prayer for her she has been in alot of pain and the doctor says she has alot of blood built up in her lower abdomen and from what I understand they have not figured out what is causing it so please keep my sister in your prayers this weekend and our family would be very thankful. She is a mother to one 7 year old little boy, Logan and he is her world, so we need a full recovery for her. We love you April!


Please keep the Dennis family in your prayers also, they lost their grandmother today and I am they sure are having a hard time dealing with it, this is a family that lives at one of the properties we manage and they are also from Clanton, my hometown.


Please keep Shonda Hudson Yates in your prayers also, she lost her 15 year old sister to suicide in March and now her mom to a heart attack, she has been through alot and is having a hard time dealing with it all at once.


Please keep my little cousin Breanna in your prayers also, she just had a 8lb little girl. Miss Karlee LaShay, she is doing good but since she is so young I feel she is going to need alot of support and prayers. Her mom cannot be with her at this time and I know that is hard for the both of them and we hope she will be home soon but in the meantime her grandmother and aunt will be helping her and I know that has to be a life changing selfless compromise they are making on their part but it will be hard adjusting so please just say alittle prayer for them.

Also please keep our whole family in your prayers, we are still dealing with the loss of our uncle. This has been one of the hardest deaths I have had to deal with in my adulthood and it is still hard today coping with the fact that he is gone, even though we know he is in a better place, he is missed so much and our lives will never be the same, I know I will see him again oneday and I pray everyday I am making him proud of his favorite niece..lol..maybe none of the others nieces will read this..I love you uncle smokey RIP.


I am sure I have left someone out and if so I am very sorry, I will try and keep you posted on everyone and their progress.


Your prayers will be greatly appreciated...love Nicole

Hot wheels for dinner...lol

Braydon and Lucas went to visit with my mom this week since the other boys were visiting with Warren' parents and it had been a pretty nice and peaceful few days but we missed them dearly, of course when mom brought them home Braydon had to give us a big welcome, so I had to let you guys in on his plan for dinner. It was Wednesday and most days that we attend church, we all try and pitch in to bring something for dinner, lunch or a snack whatever the case maybe, on this night we had decided to let the kids cook homemade pizza and a cake to take and share with the members. Since mom is getting married this week, she has been busy so we gave her the rest of the week off to get prepared, so Warren has been taking over the housework and taking care of the kids while I work, so anyway he was getting everything ready to cook the cake and the pizzas, so he preheated the oven and soon started to smell something odd so he goes in the kitchen and opens the oven and noticed a pan inside, so he thought maybe I had put it in there but when he pulled it out, there they were four little melted hot wheels, I guess Braydon thought we could eat those for dinner, lol. It was so funny to me because he had only been home for a few minutes and already had found a way to destroy something, he is our little wild man but we love him more than he will ever know, he is so sweet and is always wanting mommy to give him a hug and he always tells me he loves me, I really have been blessed with 5 of the sweetest children ever...I love you boys! Hope you enjoy the picture!