October Fun

October festivities begin with a very, very cold trip to the pumpkin farm in Rockmart. We ventured out one Friday morning to visit the pumpkins and the animals. Malachi loved petting the cows. He was getting frustrated with us for not letting him get in the cage with the chickens. He will thank us one day for not letting him. Needless to say, Marc and I were done about 15 minutes into it. It was soooo cold! We had fun though.My girlfriend and I decided to match our kids this year. Lord Vader and Queen Amidala were so cute! I am sure next year they will be wanting to pick out there own costumes, which won't be as much fun. We really had fun dressing them up. They did not have as much fun. Ha! We took them to the Halloween church function. It was rainy and cold so we went to Waffle House after to warm up. The ladies at Waffle House gave Malachi a waffle instead of candy, ha. Graceland goes Hollywood was a BLAST! We had so much fun dressing up with our friends. Marc and Josh were dumb and dumber. Jenni, Krista, and I dressed up as the Power Puff Girls. Adam was our creator/professor. This was the best Halloween yet. Not sure how we are going to top this one!

How does your garden grow?

We tried our hand at a garden this year. Marc did most (all) of the preliminary work. It rained so much this year we were late getting it started. He tilled the area 4-5 times! Of course, we had to start from scratch. We planted carrots, broccoli, okra, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, purple peas, corn, cantaloupe, and watermelon! We have had success with some things and failures with others. Okra, peas, cucumbers, cantaloupes and watermelon are doing great. We picked our first watermelon today. We weren't really sure when they would be ready. I think that we picked it a little too early, but it still tasted good. We will wait on the next ones a few more days.

Beach trip #2...Perdido Key, FL

Our second trip we went with the Plimpton family to Perdido Key, FL. Grandma and Papa John's beach house. Malachi loves the ocean. He has absolutely no fear when it comes to getting in the water. He actually wants to swim by himself. He gets frustrated when you try to hold his hand to make sure that he does no fall down from the waves! We had a great week with my family. Mom cooked every night. Our week included shrimp, crab, and fillet minion...YUM! Mom also took me shopping for my birthday.

Back from the beach...

We had 2 great weeks at the beach this month. We went to Grayton Beach with the Dewberry clan first. Malachi loved being with all of his cousins. He had no fear of the ocean. He absolutely loved playing in the sand. He sat in the sand and shoveled sand into a bucket for hours. He played in the fountains with all of his cousins. Running around trying to keep up with them. We had a blast.

5 years

It is hard to believe that it has been five years since I walked the aisle. In some aspects its seems as if it has flown by, others...not so much. Lol. We are celebrating in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland hotel. It is absolutely beautiful. Here is a picture of the view from our room.

This hotel is huge. It is separated into sections, almost like a theme park. But all the sections look alike. Its kind of like a botanical gardens. There are several restaurants and shops. The little restaurant that you can see from our room rotates in a circle every hour. Its like the sundial in Atlanta. Very cool.

Last night we went on the General Jackson Showboat. I takes you down the Cumberland river. It typically goes right through downtown Nashville, but the water level was so high that we could not get under the bridge to make it downtown. Marc was really bummed about not seeing the lights of downtown. I have to admit I was too. It was really nice, but really long. 3 hours. We haven't seen any stars yet. Haha, I will let you know if we do.

Rain, rain, go away...

Well, last year we prayed for rain. I think God heard us! This was the last tornado that came through. It just brushed right by us. I think that it eventually touched down in Cartersville somewhere on Grassdale Rd. Every time there is a tornado warning we go over to mom's house and get in the basement. Marc stays upstairs watching the tv. Waiting for the weather man to give the exact countdown. It is funny to me that now we can know exactly when one is going to hit. I know that we can usually count on a call from Marc's dad, Dennis to forewarn us about the weather. On this certain day he was in the bed with a migraine :(.

The worst fiasco that we had this year happened at about 1 in the morning. The wind was so strong that it woke me up. It sounded like a tornado was going through our house. I jump out of bed and found Marc still watching tv. He had jumped up also. I said, "What do we do?" He said "You get Malachi and I will get the car." Well, at this point I thought that we were right in the middle of a tornado. So, I ran and got Malachi out of the bed and covered him with a blanket. Marc helped me down the stairs outside while it was raining so hard I slipped on the step and scrapped the back of my ankle pretty bad. We get over to my parents house (because they have a basement) and I am soaking wet in my sports bra and panties (half naked). My whole body is shaking from nerves and the cold rain. My sister says, "Would you like some clothes?" Hahaha! So, we waited for the storm to pass with my sisters and eventually made our way back home. Oh, if you didn't already know, we live in the same cul de sac as my parents. We have visited many a time this year with all of the storms that have been coming through. We are blessed to have not had a bad one though.

First Beach Trip 2009

About two weeks ago Jenni and I drug our kids down to the beach to enjoy the absolutely fabulous weather. It was sooooo nice! 80 degrees with the slightest little breeze, it really was perfect. If it weren't for the church kid sale I'm sure that we would have stayed a few more days. Malachi enjoyed his pool, even if he had a 104.7 temp the day before. Poor kid. Apparently he had the flu, but that didn't stop us from having a good time. He thinks sand is food, which is funny. I had to stop him from eating too much. Jenni and I were just glad to get away for a few days and enjoy the beach!

Wayyyy behind...

Malachi is ten months old now. Crawling around EVERYWHERE! He has learned a new trick. He can wave bye-bye. We think its the cutest thing in the world, but of course we are the parents, haha. He is also clapping and standing by himself. I am not ready for him to walk yet. We are not encouraging it. I am sure it will happen on its own. I don't want to have to be running around after him any sooner than I have to! These pictures were taken at church last Sunday. Everybody loved his little tie :) Malachi and Kip are so cute together with their red hair.

Marc and I are doing well. We hired a babysitter for two days a week to help up out with Malachi while we work. It is harder than one would think to get any work done with a ten month old around. This way I can get all of my work done while she is here and can concentrate on Malachi on other days. We love Miss Erin!

9 Months Old

Malachi is 9 months now. He is crawling everywhere and getting into everything. He has also cut his top two teeth so well will have to be careful when breast feeding! :)

Cosette is finally here!

I got to witness my second live birth on Friday. There is nothing like watching a baby being born. It is so amazing to me. What is more amazing is how well Jenni did...8lbs 14oz and she only pushed for 21 minutes! Cosette is healthy, beautiful, and already sleeping longer through the night than Malachi does at 8 months. Lets just say that I am going to do things much differently on night time feedings with my next baby. On a happy note, Malachi is crawling now. Last night Malachi and I were playing in his play room. I was on one side of the room and he was on the other. He just got up on all fours and crawled across the room like he had been doing it forever. Crazy kid. He has been laying flat on his belly for the past few months just looking like superman, I thought he was never going to crawl. I guess it is time to put the baby gates up. I have not been looking forward to the running around after my kid stage. It is fun to watch them grow up and learn new things though.

Blessed with more than enough!

Christmas is officially over and Marc is putting together his I pod speakers as we speak (thanks mom). I can't help but be overwhelmed with the amount of gifts that we got this year. Malachi has enough toys to last an entire year. God has truly blessed our family in more ways that I could ever imagine. Not so much the gifts this year as it is spending time with our families. Marc and I are truly blessed to have a large, loving family on both sides. We are blessed to have a family of our own now. I simply do not know how we used to live without our Malachi. We just got done putting him down for the night a little bit ago. We just stand there and stare, Marc whispers "I love him." It makes my heart melt. What a blessing Malachi has been to our lives. There is nothing like Christmas to remind you of what really matters in life...family. Thank you Lord for the things that you have given us, Love, Joy, Peace and Happiness.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Malachi cut both of his teeth last week. We have had an enjoyable time with this whole teething thing. I was so happy to finally see the things that have been causing grief. Hopefully Malachi will choose to be a good little boy and not bite mommy while breast feeding! Malachi had his 6 month pictures done. He was actually 7 months, but we had to re-schedule twice becuase he was sick. Here is the link http://www.darrahphoto.com/jdewberry-6mos/index.htm

Cookie Swap Hell...

Our church held there annual cookie swap yesterday. I was so excited this year, I was not going to try and do some fancy, nasty tasting cookie. I got Grandma Dell's good old fashion Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. How hard can it be, right? Wrong. I decided to make the dough the night before so that I could go to church and just come home make the cookies and be at the swap at 3. Well I got home and put in my first batch of cookies. To my dismay they came out looking like this...

Flat as an ironing board! I kept looking at my cookies and looking at the recipe. I had doubled the recipe so I thought that maybe I had put too much butter. I thought maybe I cooked them too long??? So, I cooked another batch...that turned out exactly the same. Then it dawned on me. I had used baking soda instead of baking powder!

It is amazing that 1tsp of something can ruin and entire batch of cookies! I was so mad. I tried adding baking powder to my dough and re-cooking them. That did not work. I was forced to make an entire new batch of cookies. I only had semi-sweet morsels for the second batch so they weren't as tasty, but at least I was going to the cookie swap with cookies. 30 minutes late and all.


I did save the cookie dough from the first batch because the cookies did taste great, they just didn't rise, lol. There were a lot of great cookies at the swap this year. I had a great time despite my occurrences earlier in the day.

Horse Ride

Some of our neighbors like to ride their horses through the neighborhood. We took Malachi out too see the horses the other day. My video was running low on batteries so I didn't get much. He thought they were pretty funny.

I want my baby back...

Poor Malachi. He is not doing much better yet. I just took his temperature about an hour ago. 102.5. Gave him more tyl and motrin. He has got to be sick of medicine. He has had his 2nd dose of the new antibiotic so maybe things will be looking up soon. I just want my happy baby back. He is trying so hard. He must feel awful. He does crack us a half smile every once in a while. The little red bags under his eyes are just pitiful.

103.6 degrees

Goop from the eyes, crud from the nose...these are the things that I have been dealing with. Malachi went to the doctor for the second time in 2 weeks yesterday. Apparently the first antibiotic did not do the trick. He has full blown ear and eye infection. Last night around midnight I discovered that he was burning up...103.6 temperature. We striped him down gave him a luke warm bath, which he loved (not). Gave him Tylenol and Motrin (per Heather) Poor Heather, She is our go to person in the middle of the night. Its not like she has her own FOUR children to deal with. She also has Marc and I calling for advice at an ungodly hour. I called the doctor again this morning beacuse he cannot keep the amoxicillin down. Yes we have also had to deal with projectile vomit. Hopefully he will be able to keep the new medicine down. I am waiting until he eats well before I give it to him. Fuss fuss fuss. OK I have to get back to my baby. Poor kid.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Marc Benjamin Dewberry is turning 26 today. Only 4 years away from 30! ahhhhh! Getting old is funny. You dont realize your getting old and then one day it hits you. It happen to me last night. We went to visit Simone at college. She is cheering at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. I was looking around at all of the students and found myself saying how young they looked. They seriously looked like freshmen in highschool. I know that they only looked like this because I am getting OLD! Oh well, what can you do. College was a lot of fun, but it is only for a season. I do not wish to go back. Anyhow, I am off on a tangent. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARC! I LOVE YOU!!!

Christmas

Well, tis the season. I found a cool website (thanks to one of my friends). wishlist.com. You can put everything that you want for christmas from any website that you want. I have created a wish list for our family www.wishlist.com/plimpton01. Of course these are just ideas for everyone to go on. On a side note, Marc and I were driving to a friends house on Sunday night and there was a house with Christmas lights already up! Wow, that has got to be the earliest I have ever seen lights up.

VOTE! (for Malachi)

Our county (Bartow) Is doing a beautiful baby contest. Malachi has been entered and he needs your votes! He will win cool prizes such as a target gift card, a photography session, and much more! He will also be featured on the cover of our county's magazine. If you could take a second and fill out the form on this website:

http://bartowbuzz.net/BartowsBeautifulBabies.html

You have to pick one baby for every category. Write the category and the baby name in the comments section at the bottom of the page. There are 8 different categories. You can choose the same baby for different categories. If you want to only vote for Malachi in his categories he is in:

Cutest Smile - Malachi G

Sweetest Cheeks - Malachi G

Funniest Expression - Malachi G

You can just copy and past this into the comments section if you like. If you have multiple emails you could vote twice :) Please forward this website to anyone that Knows Malachi!!!

Malachi's friend Kipton is also in the contest, if you could throw him a vote as well (or you could pick your own)

Cutest Dimples - Kipton N.

Prettiest Eyes - Kipton N.

Ha ha, This is appropriate since tomorrow is election day...pray for our country! Get out and vote...every one counts.

"Candy Gathering"

Tonight was Malachi's first Halloween. As Marc says "We do not participate in sataninstic trick or treating, we participate in candy gathering." We dressed him up as Charlie Brown and walked around Nana Sue and Papa D's neighborhood with his 6 cousins. He lasted about 20 minutes. It was a little chilly and past his bed time. We got some good pictures of the kids though. Micah and Jonathon were Iron Man. Laura and Jessi were Barbie princesses and little Jase was a lion. It was so cute.

Marc and I went to a 70's wedding theme Halloween party last week. I wore my mom's bridesmaid dress from the 70's and Marc wore a polyester suit. It was a murder mystery party which we had to figure out who killed the bride. It was a lot of fun. Marc's character "Ken Kruger" used to be in love with the bride. He introduced his friend (the groom) to the bride and they ended up falling in love. So, he no longer trusts women and is a womanizer. He had women hitting on him all night, it was funny. I was the sister to the bride who had always been in her shadows. My parents loved her more than me and was going to leave the entire inheritance to her. My character "Gina Giovanni" had a lot of motive, but I was not the killer. :( We had a blast.