2010 Christmas Portraits

When Tools and Trains Meet

Found this orderly table of chaos when I got home. Jack had left this, each tool got to ride... perfectly spaced out by one car. It amazes me the things he comes up with, I had to ask Stuart if he had put the train together but he had not Jack did all of this by himself...

Now that's just cuter than a pound puppy!

Waiting on Pop to come pick me up...
Watching "Happy Thanksgiving Charlie Brown"... (New haircut)

Small pit stop while out looking for trains.... (Before new haircut)

Congrat's To Andrea and Brett

Happy Halloween 2010

It's just to sleep in I swear!!!

I bought this shirt for jack to sleep in becasue, well Jimmys' a legend and one day Jack can look back and tell his buds he's been rockin out to Jimmy since he was 2....

Stuart sent this picture to my dad in a text titled "Are you exeperienced"
to which my dad replied
"He's a voodoo child"

I loved the play on the Jimmy Hendrix song titles and thought I would document this at least for my dad, I know he got a kick out of it.

side note: If you see my child out ANYWHERE public and he is wearing this shirt you have permission to call me out becasue this was stictly for play (at HOME) and sleep.

It's about time for another look

The last one I did of these was when Jack was around 10 months and he looked more like me I couldn't be happier with this result...

Jack's Day Out With Thomas

Although Jack was super sleepy he did fairly well in the rickety train (that had a Thomas at the very front)

GAME O-V-E-R!!!!!!

And of course I had to spice things up a little bit by breaking through the yellow chains and climbing on Thomas no one was aloud to touch... Me and Thomas are now tight (but don't tell Jack that he may start requesting autographs....)

More to come, this is all I had time for tonight :)

Our Baby Boy Turns Two

Today I wrote this for you:

Happy Birthday, now you’re two.

You love the park, you get boo boos’.

Words come out in sentences now,

Always learning, show me how.

ABC’s, your S’s and T’s,

You saying “love you” to daddy and me.

You now have learned the power of “no”,

And you use it often to tell us so.

You love cartoons like all kids do,

Dogs and books and Thomas too,

Bathes in the sink to swimming classes,

Baby bottles to sippy glasses.

Hot dogs you love to eat,

“Gummies”, “Sgetti”, and Milk Shake treats.

Playing trains, with “Sir Topham Hatts” service.

Backyard climbs make grandma nervous.

Sarah Laine and William are your friends,

Aunt Bissy sets your clothing trends.

And all of these things make you, you.

Happy Birthday Jack now you’re Two!!

Playing in the pasture

Jack and Cousin Steven Jammin Out

Lazy Summer Days

Jacks' new favorite song

Jack experiences Decaturs' one claim to fame

Aunt "Bitsy" took Jack on his very first visit to Point Mallard today... he loves to swim Mom and Aunt "Bitsy" have done such a great job teaching him to love the swimming pool. He will jump off the side of mom and dads' pool into my moms' arms with no hesitation... She has also taught him how to kick "hard"....

Apparently kicking "hard" to Jack means making the cutest pain face and grunting the sweetest little grunt I've ever heard. Seems summer 2010 has and will be a huge turning point in our little mans' life...

Is it just me or does the skipper come to mind when you see this picture :)

Decisions, Decisions

Jack couldn't decide on which was better, so he went with both...
He has taken on mommies moto she uses while shopping.

Fun Times in the Summer

Here is our Jack enjoying his summer days with Aunt "Bissy" (aka Sophie).

Jack Jams To Dave

Most people know how much I like Dave Matthews Band and how much Stuart dislikes him, well now that we have a cable box we have music channels and Dave happened to be on the channel doing a concert in Atlanta. So I turned it up and boy did Jack boogy. His dad wasn't so happy but he definitely has some of me in him.

Jack's Little Space

Well we are all moved in, with the help of family and friends (I have full intentions of posting pictures... very soon!)

Until then, I have to tell you that in our "play" room we have stairs and their is aproximatly a 3 1/2 foot door that opens under the stairs. PERFECT for Jack a little fort. The front of the door has a train with "Jacks Room" painted on it that his Grammy had made for him.

On the inside of the door I am going to paint it with chalboard paint and asked my friend (my very creative friend) Eva to some up with some ideas of vinyl art for the inside and I could not be happier with what she came up with.

As soon as I get it all up I will post final pictures of his fort, I just couldn't WAIT to show everyone what she had done for me (and Jack). I'm so excited Jack is going to LOVE it!!! I will post pictures as soon as I get them up.

Thanks Eva, you are the best: here is her scrap blog (scrap carzzzy) she is amazing!!!

1 Day till moving

The Lamps Are Movin On Up

Latest news in the Lamp household: We have bought a new house!!! Nearly doubled our square footage, we have been growing out of our current home for a while now and it was more than time to make the plunge. Within 2 weeks we both bought (and sold) a house (thanks to my mom and family friends who found us a wonderful buyer!) Now we are just sitting among boxes and waiting for a closing date... I will post better pictures as I get them, the video is a little hard to tell what things look like, but I couldn't resist.

Our new address is 2002 16th Ave SE... Enjoy the show:


Well we're movin on up
to the southeast side
we grew out of our house and thats no lie

movin on up
to the southeast side
We finally got a piece of the pie

Huge don't describe our kitchen
but I don't cook anyway
our new square foot is much bigger
so jack's got more room to play

Now we live across from the Vickerys
New owners of a sweet corner lot
But don't get us wrong, our house on Canal
It's not one to be forgot

Well we're movin on up,
To the southeast side
We grew out of our house and that's no lie

Movin on up
to the southeast side
We finally got a piece of the pie!

In Loving Memory of Grandaddy

March 19th, 1923- March 23rd, 2010

You will forever live in our hearts and memories, memories that would never have been if it weren't for you.

Our Little Pooper

Guess who pooped in the potty last night???

He isn't quite ready or even close to ready for the underoos but I couldn't resist!

Hong Kong????

Jacks' attempt to say "Hong Kong"

Yet Another Scrap Project

This project was done to mainly make space and make our house less cluttered, it just so happened a drawer I wanted to use to stick trinkets in was FULL of Jack's DVDs.

My friend Marsha took a scrapping class where they made DVD holders so I took the opportunity to use her example and empty a drawer for other things. Marsha used metal rings to bind her book but once we got all of Jack's DVDs in sleeves I was very unsure on how to bind it bc there are no rings large enough for this book.

I feel like I must explain the bow on the side of a "Boy's DVD Book" I had Marsha punch holes in the cover and backing then threaded a ribbon through them, the ribbon will allow me to add any future sleeves.

We got rid of all the DVD cases except the Disney ones and placed them all his discs in alphabetical order, also it was so big I had to use an elastic band to keep it closed. It turned out to be a much larger project than I had expected.

But I was pleased with the outcome.

*I added a "J" to the back of the front cover in the event we have another little one, I didn't want the book to say "Jack's DVDs" but the "J" gave it a little personalization*