George Washington is in the House!!!

I am one proud Momma! Noah has looked forward to the 3rd grade patriotic program since he was in kindergarten and he shone last night during his George Washington debut! Great job Noah!!

MeRrY ChRiStMaS, HaPpY NeW YeAr, EtC...

Another successful Christmas has come and gone...

 Ethan received the drums he has been asking for for 3 months...

 'Santa' came and ate every single sugar cookie...

 Noah received 3 castles, Batman/Joker stuff and every other toy he asked for...including a video/digital camera. Which ended up with a picture of me in a towel after a shower that was shown at Timmy's aunt's Christmas dinner...

 Daddy enjoyed the new Wii games more as much as the boys did...

 We took the boys to see Ice/Snow at the Opryland/Gaylord hotel in Nashville the week end before Christmas. Granny, Aunt Kim and cousins Braden, Makayla and Riley went with us! We had a great time!

 The ice sculptures were amazing!

The temperature inside was 7 degrees. That is why we got to wear these fabulous coats/parkas. Notice Ethan on the back left. He was so bundled up that he could not move. We literally had to pick him up and carry him up the steps. It was so funny!

We rang in the new year with several cousins at the house! We had a blast until 1:30 in the morning and have had an awesome week end of being hermits and playing UNO tournaments. I really, really dread Noah going back to school in the morning! One of his Christmas presents was a Legos alarm clock. He was so excited to set the alarm for 7:10 in the morning, so he can get up "by myself" in the morning. Noah has pulled 2 more of his teeth since my last post. Another bottom tooth and his front, middle tooth. 2 days before Christmas. Each within 24 hours of the next. He has become quite the tooth puller!

Timmy and I will celebrate 10 years of marriage Thursday. I cannot believe I just typed that. 10 years!!! Oh my goodness!!!! We are trying to come up with a quick get-away for just the 2 of us, a quick beach trip during Spring break with some close friends and then our fabulous week long beach excursion with Poppa, Nanna and the crew! I am so excited for vacations this year!

Will post soon ASAP! Love! 

P.S. The only New Years' resolution I have had for the past 3 years has been to lose weight. I have finally reached my goal weight and lost 30 pounds since March of last year! My New Years' resolution this year? Be more appreciative for what we've got!

Visit from the Tooth Fairy

Thanksgiving morning proved to be very exciting around our house! Noah got up extra-early and pulled his first tooth! I cannot believe my baby has lost his first tooth!!!! Due to inflation, the Tooth Fairy left him $5.00!! WOW! A few years ago, Noah decided on Christmas Eve that he did not want "that man" i.e. Santa Claus to come in our house. I thought that was so strange that I had never thought before that a big strange man entering our home during the night might scare the children! However, Noah soon got over that fear. When we talked about the Tooth Fairy, his fear came back! He did not want the Tooth Fairy to come in his house! We decided that the Tooth Fairy probably looks similar to Tinker Bell, so that seemed to make everything okay!

First missing tooth picture!

Fourth Fun!

Just another lazy, summer week end! Happy 4th!

Better watch out! You never know with this one ^ !!!!!

Let It Snow...Let It Snow...Let It Snow!!!

5 inches down, 2-3 more expected! Will post pics after we play in it! Woo hoo! Homebound for 4 days!!!!

129...

He counted to 129 tonight with NO help. He was counting the days until his 6th birthday. 133. He really counted to 129. I cannot believe it!

Christmas Break is Officially Over...

Christmas break is over, but we have had a great time being at home! Hope everyone has a very blessed and happy 2010! I know we sure are!

2009 Christmas Morning!

A little late....but, better late than never! Right? Right! Christmas was so much fun this year! Both boys knew what was going on and Noah got his new fish aquarium and Ethan got a tractor. All was good in the Burks home!

Below is the much-anticipated fish aquarium! The fish are:

1. Hearty (a bleeding-heart tetra)

2. Zero (this was the fish the nice lady gave us for free)

3. Mickey

4. Blackie (solid black fish)

5. Bruce (our freshwater shark named for Bruce from Finding Nemo)

6. Pinkie (hot pink glofish)

7. Tiger (tiger fish)

8. Zebra (black and white stripe fish)

9. Sucker (this one sticks to the side of the tank and eats off the algae)

And we cannot forget precious Ruby-Spencer. *sigh*

Happy Holidays everyone!

October Beach Vacation!

We had a good time at the beach last week! Here are several pictures from our vacation:

Noah and Ethan enjoyed playing in the sand and working on their castle!

The great sassy search...Ethan's sassy flew right off the 9th floor balcony, never to be found again...

Look closely and you can see Ethan underwater. He constantly jumped in! He is such a fish!

Noah chilled in the pool on the float...

The boys thought this lizard was pretty neat...me, not so much...

My beach hunks:

The boys are currently working on carving their jack-o-lanterns. I will post pics soon!

War Wounds and Such...

Tuesday night I was in Jackson. I had my cell phone on vibrate. Timmy tried to call 10 times. My friend Heather had my phone and finally realized it was vibrating. I was talking to ladies about jewelry and Heather excused me to the front porch and told me I needed to call Timmy. I knew something was wrong. Needless to say, while running from the bath tub, Ethan ran smack into the door facing and a knot swelled up the size of a softball on his forehead! I was up most of the night watching him and making sure he was alright. He was fine. However, his face is not. Two days later, his eyes started turning black. We took him to the clinic and Rick said he is fine, but that he will look worse before he gets better. Worse? Can he possibly look worse than this????!!! I asked Rick if he needed to get his camera out to document for Ethan's chart before he called Protective Services. I honestly feel people staring at us when we are in public.

So, that is the drama for our week! Isn't it terrible??!!! I cannot believe my almost-2-year-old has a knot the size of Montana and 2 black eyes!

Okay, moving on. We took the boys to a football game here Friday night. We had a great time! The air-vac helicopter landed mid-field, and some friends of ours' daughter sang 'God Bless America' in remembrance of 9/11. The boys thought the helicopter was great! They both enjoyed the game and we got through all 4 quarters without one fit/meltdown/incident!

Timmy surprised me this week end and mulched the flower beds. I surprised him with Tennessee/Memphis State football tickets for the week end of November 6. We then surprised Poppa and Nanna by asking them to come spend the week end at our house while we are in Knoxville so they can take the boys to Fall Festival at Noah's school. Poppa then suprised all of us by agreeing to do so!!!!!

We have also decided this week end to go with Joy and the rest of Timmy's family to Gulf Shores for fall break. We were not going to go, but Joy really wanted us to this year, so we are working on reservations. I cannot believe we are going to the beach again...and I am looking forward to seeing the ocean!

Okay, I think I have updated everyone on what has been going on with our little family this week! Hope everyone is staying well...I have never seen so much flu and strep throat!!!!

It's That Time...

Here are a few pictures of Noah's first day of Kindergarten. He did really well. So did I. He will go back to officially start on Friday...today was more of a 'meet the teacher' type of morning. I am really dreading it, but attempting to be positive about it! I will post more pics on Friday...

Noah and his cousing Trinity. Thankfully they are in the same class!

Awww...such a handsome boy!

Looks just like his Daddy!

I just love this boy!

And really...how cute is his back pack!!!

Beach Bums

We had a great and relaxing vacation at the beach this year! We arrived in Gulf Shores on Saturday afternoon (the boys traveled well, considering it took 8 1/2 hours) and stayed until Friday morning! Here are several beach shots...the ocean ones are just for you, Susan!

Daddy and Uncle Wes towing Noah in the ocean (I was only a little freaked out)!

Daddy waiting for the perfect wave...and Noah riding it out!

Beach Hunks!

Ethan finally moved around in the sand...after 4 days. For the first few, he stayed put. Must have been something about the texture...

Ethan 'hanging out' under the canopy in the kiddie pool...

This is when we know it is nap time...

Thanks Poppa and Nanna for another fabulous vacation! We miss you already!!!