Our Christmas Tree Adventure...

December 5th, Michael, Hunter, and I along with Nana, Papaw, Josh, Amanda, Britt, Caleb, two of their friends, and then our friends Rebecca, Josh, Sam, and Troy all headed up the mountain near Highlands to get us all a Christmas tree! This was the first year that the Miller family joined us in our adventure and I hope they had a great time. I know we did, especially since there was snow all over the trees!!

These first three pictures are on here thanks to Rebecca. I have never thought about taking pictures on the ride up...I guess because I'm always putting my head down and closing my eyes as we make the adventure up the steep mountain. It's just a one lane road and when it is wet or muddy, you pretty much are going 4-wheeling the whole way up! It makes me a little bit nervous each year!! But then each time I get up to the top and see the view, I realize it is worth the drive! These are just a few tree patches along the way. Of course we don't ever stop at one of these. Sometimes as we are sliding around, I wish that we would!



The GORGEOUS view from the top of the mountain! The trees were beautiful all covered in snow!!

Hunter had a blast, even though it was soooo cold and windy at the top!

Nana and Papaw took turns holding Hunter while Mama and Daddy went to go and pick out our perfect tree! I'm pretty sure it helped Hunter, Nana, and Papaw all stay a little warmer! :)

Not the biggest tree we have had, but it is definitely pretty and perfect for us this year!!! After we cut down the tree, we headed back down the mountain for lunch at Fat Buddies with Millers. What a great day and I can't wait again until next year!!

Christmas with the Bowmans

The day after we got our Christmas tree, we went to Michael's "Bowman Christmas" party in Franklin. It is always nice to see the whole family each year. Hunter is really starting to open up and play with his cousins. It is really cute to watch him run after Britt and Caleb and try to be as big as they are!

Hunter was very excited when he got to open his Christmas gifts. Each year the kids draw a name and they buy for each other and then Nana normally buys each kid a gift as well. Hunter got a guitar that plays all kinds of songs from Nana and a handheld game/music/learning toy from his cousin Tyler. He really like them both a lot!! Great choices!!

Mama with her little man sitting and being patient before opening presents! :)

What a ham! :) We asked him to go and sit in front of Nana and Papaw's fireplace in the chair and he was ready for his picture to be taken. What a cutie!!

A couple of cute pics...

Before we moved from Tall Willow, our neighbors had us over for dinner. It was delicious and we had a lot of fun! We are really going to miss having such sweet friends living next door!! Hunter is already thinking he sees his "EEELLLLIIIEEEE" (Ellie) and "CARCAR" (Carsen) outside everytime he sees a kid playing. We were blessed to have known such a great family! We will definitely have to keep in touch with them!!

This is another cute picture taken about the same time. It was the day after Thanksgiving when we were in Fort Mill with Mimi and Pop. Do you think he loves them or what? :)

Birthday Tradition!

Last year for my birthday, Michael took off of work an we took off to Pigeon Forge to go to Dollywood. I was really hoping that we could do it again this year, despite the craziness going on in our lives from moving. Sure enough though, Michael took off of work and the three of us headed to Dollywood!! It was a little chilly but not too bad. Just enough to get us in the Christmas spirit! It was a great day and I truly enjoyed every minute of it!! Thanks Michael and Hunter!!

This was a big step for Michael and I....we let Hunter ride two of the kiddie rides by himself!!! I had always rode them with him but decided that he could do it himself this time and sure enough he could. You can see by his smile, how much fun he had riding the ducks and pig!

What a great birthday!!

The First Snow!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we took a trip to Franklin to go and get our Christmas tree with Michael's family. What we didn't know when we planned this was that the morning we woke up to go and get the tree....IT SNOWED!!! Hunter was so excited!!! I'm glad we took him out to play in it because it didn't stay on the ground and it didn't snow too long. It was however worth every minute of being outside with Hunter. He was so excited to see snow! I'm sure he doesn't remember last March when it snowed at our house.

Just the look on his face says it all!

This is the trick that Daddy taught him - so cute! Maybe we will get a lot more snow this year for him to enjoy and play in!!!

Halloween

This year we didn't really do too much for Hunter on Halloween. First of all because there was a home Clemson football game and secondly because we were out of town during our church's Fall Festival. We did however walk to a neighbor's house and then drive Hunter over to see his Great-Grandma Donald in his monkey suit! Surprisingly, he actually kept his head piece on most of the time!
During the week of Halloween, Daddy was gone to Dallas, TX so Hunter and Mama went to Fort Mill to stay for a week with Mimi and Pop. We missed Daddy a lot but we also had a lot of fun with Mimi and Pop! Above is a picture of Hunter the day after we got back from Disney World. He didn't have his official monkey costume but we wanted to take him to a local Fall Festival. So we dressed him like a Clemson football player instead! He had lots of fun and got to go and pick his own small pumpkin!
This was Hunter's official Halloween costume this year. Here are a few pictures of Hunter as a monkey and Hunter's friend Cai in his cow costume. They were soooo cute!!!

How sweet!!

This one is my favorite!

Catchup

So as you can see, it has been a while since I updated the blog. Things have been quite busy lately! Since the last time I posted, we moved to Greenville to live with Aunt Amy while we build our house in Seneca. So far the only time we have missed our house is when we are getting ready to go somewhere and Hunter says "Home?". Below are some pictures that we took around Clemson University in October for Hunter's 18 month pictures. They turned out cute but just haven't had time to really do anything with them. So here they are...

Those teeth sure do show up in pictures now! :)