Team Woodard: Christmas 2010- Mamaws

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Christmas 2010- Mamaws

After a long day of playing and naps for my boys, we headed out for Mamaw’s house. It’s always packed full of people at her house…let’s just review who all was there:

Mamaw

Daddy and Liz (my parents); Will, Karen, Abby, and Sydney; Seth, Vanna, and Reid; Deanna; Lance and Chelse; Matt, Me, Trigger, and Campbell

Uncle Ivin and Aunt Liz; Jenny, Brian, Meredith, Brannon, and Caroline; Kim, Daniel, Josiah, and Andrew

Great Aunt Evelyn (Mamaw’s Sister) and Great Uncle Sonny; Donna (Evelyn and Sonny’s daughter)

Sooooo, it was PACKED! :) Mamaw put this sign out on their main dining table…I thought it was funny!

We took a few pictures while waiting on everyone to get there!I thought these family pictures turned out pretty good…probably the best we are going to get! Notice that Tyrone is in out picture! :)

After supper, Jenny had the kids come together to sing happy birthday to Caroline…she just had her first birthday. AND, the toddler boys were just a digging in! I’m sorry, Jenny!!!!! Thankfully Jenny has three children and is pretty laid back!

When we arrive, we always eat first! Afterwards this year, we changed the kids into their matching pjs…then, the three toddler boys (Trigger, Brannon and Josiah) ended up on Mamaw’s bed

We were trying to get a great grandkids picture…and the teacher in me wanted to start a transition or sing a song or SOMETHING…anything! because it was mass chaos!And both of my boys have their fingers in their mouths…imagine that!

It was present opening time…Mamaw really wanted the great grandkids to take turns so she could see everyone. This is my attempt at keeping Trigger from opening the gifts sitting right there in front of him.We gave Mamaw a bracelet with charms for each Great Grandchild.Trigger telling Mamaw “tank-uu” (thank you!)Uncle Lance and TriggerTrigger (in Uncle Lance’s hat) and Josiah wrestlingJenny started a book for Mamaw of memories from our time with her and Papaw…half of the grandkids have already written in it…It was really neat to read everyone’s memories and I know Mamaw will enjoy it too. It was rather sad that Papaw was not with us this Christmas…this is our first Christmas without him…I know it was very hard on Mamaw!

That would be the LAST of my Christmas posts!!! I can’t believe that I got them all done this quickly! I am a little proud of myself! Just a few more posts of the boys that I have taken recently and I will be ready to print out my 2010 blog book! By the way, I just figured out last night that (when using Windows Live Writer which is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME) you can us CTRL and choose more that one picture at a time…I mean I knew you could use the CTRL button to do that with other things but didn’t think it worked when blogging…this has made my posts go SOOOO much faster! YAY! I love finding ways to save time!

1 comment:

Lisa Dupree said...: Trigger looks like Mamaw!; January 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM

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The Woodards

My name is Garson Woodard. I'm a wife to Matt. He is the most incredible husband a girl could ask for. We met in Kindergarten at Cedar Creek (the school we attended for 13 years). Matt and I started dating our Jr. year in high school and dated for 6 years. We got married on June 26, 2004. I am so thankful that God brought us together! I am a mother to Trigger, Campbell, and Larkin. We worked hard to have all of them. After 2 miscarriages, two years after trying to get pregnant, a 2 week hospital stay, and a short (didn't seem short at the time) NICU stay, we brought home our first precious miracle: Trigger! He was born on July 29, 2008. Trigger's completely spoiled rotten! He is full of personality and definitely shows some of the same tenacity that his namesake had!

With our second child, Campbell, we made it to 38 weeks. He was born on June 3, 2010. He still had to stay in the NICU for 5 days for breathing issues. Campbell is absolutely precious..shy but such a little clown. I can't wait to watch our two boys which are 22 months apart) grow up together. I know they are going to fight constantly but be BEST of friends at the same time!

I just thought my boys were our miracles...and they are...but, at the end of May 2011, Matt and I found out that we were expecting the biggest surprise of our life. We were having baby #3 after being told we could never get pregnant on our own. AND, to add to the excitement, we were having a GIRL. After dealing with my medical issues, a two vessel cord, and IUGR, Larkin was born on January 6, 2012. She came here ruling the roost and I am sure that is not going to change anytime soon.

After what seemed like forever thinking that I would not have any children, God has blessed me with three beautiful babies all within 3.5 years.

After having Campbell, Matt and I decided I would become a stay-at-home mom. In alot of ways it is more difficult than teaching because I am with OUR children all day...and OUR children don't seem to listen like my students would. HOW DOES THAT WORK? Haha! Seriously though, it is the BEST job in the world and I feel very blessed to be able to be home to witness each and every minute of our boys' lives!

I started this blog when we found out we were pregnant with Trigger and have continued to document our crazy lives with a toddler and a baby since I don't have time to scrapbook anymore. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you visit again!