Who thought I had given up on Blogging???

No...We have not fallen off of the face of the earth, but we have been busy!!! This is sweet Baby Jacob's 11 month picture. It is so hard to believe the he is 14 months now. He love his "track-tor" and is going to be country boy!!!


Yeah Ben!!! This was the first time that Ben ran the Gum Tree and he did great!!! Finished that 10K in under and hour!!!



So Cute and Hot!! Love you Benny!!!

Ben and Joe after the race! So sad I had to miss it due to training for my new job. Thanks for taking good pictures Mrs. Becky and Mr. Bill.

I was worried about a lot of things going off to training for my new job...like leaving my baby boy and husband...like will I pass all of my test....will I have sweet friends to study and play with as we prepare for our new jobs. Guess What???? God totally provided and gave me sweet friends at my new company!!! By the way, I love my new job!!!

More of my sweet friends at training....umm...hmm!

Happy First Birthday Baby Jacob!!!! I got to come home from training on Baby Jacob's actual first birthday!!! It was such a special day!!! Ben and I are so grateful for this little life that God has entrusted us with!!! He is so special

and such a true joy!!

This was the picture that we used on Baby Jacob's 1st birthday invitation. Isn't it so cute. He really does love cake!!! He gets that honest because his momma is a birthday/wedding cake expert!!!

So sad to say that we had to cancel Jacob's First Birthday Party due to Hand, Foot, Mouth ( another illness) the day before his party. Oh well..I was sad for a while, but I did not want to get all of his little friends sick. Next year we are going all out and getting a pony. Ha, Ha.

First ride in his big boy car seat!!! He loved it!!!

Happy Birthday from Memomma and G-daddy!!! He loves his wagon and fusses anytime you try to put him in a stroller. What a fantastic gift.

Chet and Ben played in a Memorial Day golf tournament in Clarksdale. We decided that we needed to go and cheer them on...all was going well until too old farts fussed at us because Jacob and Kendall were "cheering" too loud for thier Da-Da's.

Jacob and Kendall love each other so much. It is precious to watch them communicate.

Ivey Kate and Baby Jacob at the Elvis Festival. So cute!!!

Finally...a semi-decent family picture. They are so hard to get now that we have a little man.

So Fun!!! We rode the big kid rides while our little kids watched.
I love that my friends and I can enbrace the inner child within us.

WHAT A SURPRISE FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ME???? I AM ONLY ONE!!!

We were having dinner at the Brand's house one night and all of the sudden we were having a surprise party for baby Jacob. It was so sweet and I was thankful that my sweet friends wanted to celebrate Jacob's little life!!! Ben and I are so thankful for such precious friends. God is good!!

I love Cup Cakes!!! Can you tell???

Sweet Kisses for my Mama!! Is there anything sweeter???

Got my 1 year shots and my Doctor gave me my first sucker!!!

My daddy (Daddy Mac) has a boat and we all wanted to go out for a little ride. Therefore, we must have a life jacket for the baby. Guess who hated it at first?? Isn't this picture so cute??? I love the look on Ben's face. Priceless!!!

Daddy Mac, Baby Jacob, and Ben in the boat on the Tenn-Tom. I wish Mac was in this picture and it would be perfect.

Driving the boat...notice that Jacob likes the life jacket better.

Daddy Mac and Momma Mac

Such a great couple.

Our first little hair cut....sorta.

We only took a little hair off of the ears so that it would stop tickling the baby.

I got tired of taking him to the doctor because I thought he had an ear infection. Nope...it was just the hair.

My heart!!!

Practicing my walking abilities...maybe one day I will be able to do it without my awesome dump truck. Thanks Granny and Grandaddy!!!

Oh I love my DADA and the "track-tor" especially since it is "out-siiiide"

I prayed he would look like Ben and act like me....Prayer answered. I should have prayed that he looked like Ben and acted like Ben too.

Still Practicing on July 4th at the Parrott's house!!! My MaMa and DaDa sure hope that I learn how to walk soon...Or so they think!!!!

Baby Jacob's favorite word is "out-siiide" and "pup-pee" So needless to say, was spend a lot of time outside no matter if it's hot, cold, or rainy and Maggie is his best friend.

Mimi and Buddy (Bup-pee) invited us to come the the beach with them for the entire week. We had the absolute best time and enjoyed ourselves so much. It was such a gift!!!

Please don't let this picture fool you....our baby is a pool baby and not a beach baby....yet!!

I will not give up hope.

I love this picture....minus the goldfish hanging out of his mouth. Why are good pictures so hard to come by???


Life is Good!!!

Told you he looks like Ben but acts like me!!!

This picture makes me smile!!! His joy for life is contagious!!! I am so thankful for is sweet spirit!!

Love my DADA and our matching swimming shorts!!!

This is a good family picture and of course we would be in our swim suits. What??

Baby Jacob loves a toothbrush!!! Maybe he will be a dentist?

Also-the outfit that Jacob has on is one of Ben's when he was Jacob age. So precious!!!

Cute Aunt Winnie and Baby Jacob
Why are my pictures going the wrong way??? I am not a good blogger!!

Playing under the tent for approximately 3 minutes before I have a melt down and want to go to the pool.

BEST FRIENDS...notice there is a "Pup-Pee" and that we are "out-siiide"

Yummy!!! Too bad I have more on my face than in my belly!!

Buppy (Buddy) and Mimi would take Jacob for a walk every morning that we were atv the beach and while Ben and I got to sleep in a little. I know...aren't they wonderful!!!

Family Beach Picture

These two men are my heart!!! I really could not be more in love!!! I am smitten!!

Jacob liked the water but only in spurts. Isn't this such a precious moment!!!

Family Picture...no Ben is not wearing his hair like Dennis the Menace.

Baby Jacob and his Mimi have a very special relationship!!!

Not walking yet, but getting pretty close.

35 years in December and they've still got it!!!

This was the name of a beach house close to where we stayed. I think it speaks volumes!!!

Baby Jacob and Papaw eating an ice cream sandwich together!! They are rotten!!!

Allie ( my step sister) got baptized on Sunday and we could not be happier for her and more proud!!! You can tell that she really knows the Lord and truly trusts in Him!!! I was such a blessing to watch!!!

Happy Birthday Westin!!! Guess who is waking? BABY JACOB!!

I dropped him off at day school one day crawling and picked him up walking!!! It is amazing how he just up and walked. Needless to say, he has not slowed down.

Jacob's first time at the Fair Park fountian!!! He loved it!!

Did I tell y'all that Ben and I went to the American Idol Concert in Memphis!!! It was so fun!! It was not exactly Ben's idea but he went without one compliant!! We really did enjoy a night out together. I loved that I got to be a teeny bopper at almost 30. Go Go Danny Gokey.

Please don't call DHS. I promise we feed our child. I guess he would rather eat Maggie's treats than Gerber meat sticks????

BBQ Milk bones....mine and Maggie (Gigi's) favorites!!

What we are sick again??? Not Possible!!

Where in the world do I begin??? The last month has been a world wind. First of all at the beginning of April baby Jacob had pneumonia, a six day stomach virus, and an ear infection all at the same time. We were all sick!!! However, God is good and we all made it though. Baby Jacob has even gained the two pounds that he lost back. Most recently (Tuesday night) Baby Jacob was running a 103.5 due to tonsillitis. Thank the Lord for our awesome doctor, Dr. Sheffield. We love her, her partner Dr. Godi, and her precious staff!!!

I have also been training for my new job. I had forgotten what the Lee County Library looked like on the inside, but now since I have been there all day for the last 3 weeks, I am quite familiar with the Mississippi room located upstairs to the right. I even have a librarian friend. I also realized that I don’t remember the faintest thing about searching card catalogs to locate books. I am so excited about my new job, but I hate to leave my sweet husband and precious baby boy for 3 weeks. Boo.

Multiple times people have asked me if I am nervous about leaving Baby Jacob with Ben for three weeks, and let me be very clear….NO I AM NOT!!! Ben is as capable and can do anything I can do. He is very involved and for that I am so thankful. He is so intentional about letting us know how much he cares and loves us.
So to Ben….You are such a good Dada and I am so blessed to have you as my husband. God could not have given me anymore.

Oh yeah--- WELCOME TO THE WORLD

Baby Girl Mason Eaves White
And
Baby Girl Emma Caroline Bailey

Until next time…(which will probably be in a month)…I hope you all have a great day!!!

Sweet Sick Baby Jacob taking his breathing treatments. He was such a trooper!!!

Nite Nite Baby Jacob and Georg-E!! Sweet Dreams!!!



What a sweet little face..so curious!!!


Kendall came over to play with baby Jacob one Saturday. They had a lot of fun!!! They also play together all the time at Mrs. Jackie's and Lala's House.

Baby Jacob attended Maggie’s first birthday party at the park and had a ball!!! It was his first Easter egg hunt. Okay let’s be honest….I carried his Easter Basket and Baby Jacob for most of the party. It was still super fun!!!

Maggie did an awesome job on savoring her first birthday cake!!!

Deeelish!! The cupcakes were fantastic too. Look at Jacob's face...I think he wants a little bite of Maggie's cake.

"Mama....I don't know about this???"


"Look Mama...No hands!!!"

I wonder what they are so excited about??? Could it be that Jacob is so impressed that he is in a wagon with an beautiful older girl??? That has to be it!!!

Fun in the dishwasher!!!

Baby Jacob loves to look out the window. He is such a studier/observer.

Jacob is always taking in his surrounding. He and Ben have that in common.

I love it.

Hunting Easter Eggs

Hunting Eggs at Mamaw and Papaw's house. Jacob found that really large pink egg with the help of his cousin. It was under the church bench in the new storm house....just in case you were wondering.

The Easter Bunny came the the Barnes Crossing Mall!!!

Our first Easter as a Family! Easter was such a great weekend. Ben and I watched the Passion of the Christ Saturday before Easter Sunday and although tough to watch....it made Easter Sunday so special and truly touching. Thank you Jesus for saving us!!!

I am definitely an outside kind of guy!!!

Playing outside at Memomma and G-daddy's house

Memomma (Ben's grandmother) has a gift for gardening...as you can see in the picture.

We had a great time playing at their house and eating wild strawberries.

Sweet Picture out at Ben's grandparents farm

We finally made it to the Alluvian in Greenwood Mississippi for our girls trip.

It was so nice.

. The food was delicious, the spa was fantastic, and the fellowship was best of all.

Every time Jacob sees his Daddy Mac there is always SUGAR involved. Jacob loves to have his paci dipped in sugar. Thanks Daddy Mac...this coming from parents who don't even give him juice. The child is deprived.

WHAT'S UP?????

Really...I wonder what he is thinking?

Aunt Winnie...My Favorite!!!

THIS PICTURE REALLY DOES MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!!

It's been a long time....

Yep!!! That is dirt in my mouth!!!

I am all boy!!!

Okay…so I never promised to update regularly, but I had hoped to do better than 5 weeks. In my defense, it has been a very long, stressful, and blessed 5 weeks. I (Liz), with much prayer and encouragement decided to take a new job. Baby Jacob has had and is just beginning to recover from pneumonia and a rotavirus like bug….which by the way has infected Memomma, Mamaw, Ben, and myself (the bug not pneumonia). I know that it couldn’t possibly be the rotavirus because we had that two weeks after we had RSV in January. Thank God for our super fabulous pediatrician, Dr.Mary Ann Sheffield. I don’t know what we would do without her and all of our sweet family. When they said that it takes a village to raise a child…they were not kidding.
On a lighter note, Baby Jacob is changing so fast. He has recently learned to pull up and is crawling everywhere. The other day I caught him half way up the stairs and not five minutes later I was fishing out Maggie’s dog food from his little mouth. Yummy!! Needless to say our little man is very busy. He wants to talk so badly, and I just can’t wait to hear what he has to say. So far our vocabulary consists of 1. Dada 2. MaMa 3. Bye Bye 4. Poofs (which really means puffs, but in our unique family we call them poofs) We really are so so blessed!!! God is so good!!!
Have a great day.

Look...I am learning to pull up on any and everything!!!

Baby Jacob loves to be outside in his walker!!!

Bye Bye Mama...I got a long road ahead of me!!!


BEST FRIENDS

You have got to love a bath in the kitchen sink!!!

What is this thing that squirts water all over MaMa and the kitchen? Fun!!!

Our house on the one and only snowy day in Mississippi!!!

Baby Jacob's first experience in a dish pan in the snow....

Guess who did not want to stay in the dish pan??? Who could blame him for wanting to go head first into the snow!!! Maybe he will love to ski like his DaDa. I hope he is better at skiing than his Mama!!!! Bunny slopes for me!!!

Just a few more..

Wonder what they are thinking about each other???

Jacob is learning to pull up.
I can imagine it goes like this in his little head.

Step 1 Grab onto the little table that sings

Step 2: Pull up with all the strength I have in my little arms...my legs help too.

Step 3:

Woo Hoo I did it!!!

Meet George-E, Baby Jacob's best stuffed friend. He loves him very much. Ben will ask Jacob to find George-E and Jacob will stop what he is doing, find the stuffed monkey and give him sweet kisses. It is a precious sight!!!

My baby is growing up right before my very eyes!!! How is this happening??

Visiting with our sweet family that we only get to see every few years!!! We love you!!!


More family pics...aren't they precious???

Sweet baby Jacob playing outside while we were doing some sprucing up in the yard. Thank you Big Buddy and Mimi for coming and putting your green thumb touches on our yard.

Y'all are the best!!!

Dada got a brand new ride!!! A lot of people in our neighborhood drive their golf carts around the circle and chat with all the people that are out and about. Well, we don't have a golf cart so I asked Ben if we could ride our new RIDING lawn mower around that circle and visit with our neighbors. Guess what he said. ha,ha.

For the last 9 months...

I know that I am a little behind on the entire blogging world!!! So I decided I would upload some pictures of baby Jacob from day 1 until through 9 months. It is so crazy that my sweet baby boy is 9 months old. Where does the time go?? I have tried to make a point to savor every moment with him because I know one day he will be 18 years old and off to college.

Side note-he better go to college!!!

Then Ben and I will look at each other and wonder how it went so fast. What am I saying...we already do this!!!!
So here are a few or many of my favorite milestone pictures. Hope you enjoy. There are tons...but 9 months of life has happened that I have not been blogging about. Just consider yourself caught up.PS- going forward with this blogging thing...a few things you need to know about my writing style.
1. I write like I talk!!!
2. I am a terrible speller. 3rd grade spelling bee at South Pontotoc made that point very clear!!!
3. I hate grammar rules and will probably break many of them with this blog...mostly because of number 1.

One of my dearest friends is an English teacher in Southaven and I am going to go ahead and apologize to her publicly. Sorry MKR. If she knew my password I guarantee that she would break into my blog and correct my writings. True story.Hope y'all have a great day.

PS-There is the sweetest picture of baby Jacob’s Mimi (Ben’s momma) and it will not load. It is one of my favorite pictures.
I will figure out this “adding pictures” and in the right of order…sometime.

Dada is the Funnest!!!!
Sweet Kisses...for ME!!!

God has blessed even our little ones with such great friends.

Yummy...this Coke is awesome!!! Just kidding..it's just water!!!

Fun Times!! I love a puppy hat!!!

Why does my Mama do this to me every month??? When will it end???

Does everyone like my ears??

Merry Christmas!!! I am 7 Months old.

Such a sweet and happy baby!!!

Don't let the face fool ya...Baby Jacob know what he is doing when it comes to his "POOFS"!

Having fun with Dada

Potting soil is so yummy...I think that I will taste it multiple times a day.


How in the world could I not be head over heels in love with this child??

God is good!!!

Guess who is crawling????

Maggie wants to get in the tub with Baby Jacob. Every night when we give him a bath she comes in the bathroom and hangs her head over in the tub. Silly dog.

It is pretty obvious that I look like my Dada, but I am silly like my Mama.

8 Months Old and Crawling!!!!


This is an older picture, but I love those two bottom teeth.

Sweet Love for My Mimi

Daddy Mac and Momma Mac gave me my first pet dinosaur for Christmas!!! It roars, sings, and best of all I can ride on him.

Mamaw and Papaw Gaddy are too good to me and everyone else for that matter!!! Just salt of the earth kind of people

Maggie (Gigi) is so patient!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Today was Baby Jacob and Kendall's first date. They had a great time holding hands and playing. The menu for the night included milk, apples and apricots, and mashed potatoes. It was super fun. We had a great time cooking out at Kellye and Chet's house. ps--I'm being tutored on this whole blog thing...hopefully, there will be more to follow! Happy Valentine's day to all!