Still more pics

Anticipation..... everyone was excited about sugar!
Emma and Sabrina kickin back on the turtle couch
Kory, Jacob, Jake, Kaden and Sabrina from left to right. Kory and Jake are the beautiful babies of my friend Jessica in nursing school, and Kaden is Kaleb's brother, and the other handsome fella that belongs to Kathy :) whew..
Here's Kaden again with Jake

Here's Jacob with his "girlfriend" Sabrina as he refers to her :)

More pictures

Any event when Alabama plays, my dad always has to listen to the game. He was updating the other Alabama fans on the score throughout the day :)
Here's my friend Jean Ann and her two sweet babies Sabrina and Joshua. By the way, this is Jakey's girlfriend as he told me.
Here is cutie pie Joshua :) he loved swinging!
Here is Kaleb, what a beautiful boy!!!! This is one of my friend Kathy's baby. Her other boy is Jake's age.
Fun was had in the tent on the porch!

Jakey turned 5!!

So Jake turned 5 on the 13th of October. I just now have gotten to adding some pictures from the awesome day! We had such a blast!!!! We had his friends come over, set up some jump n slides, and had a ball. Here is Leo, he was pretty excited, you can guess what the theme of the party was :)





Here is Miss Em getting goodies from Mimi, Pop Pop, and Nana :)

Here's my baby.. what a nerd! It was so awesome he could be here for his big day!

Magenta????

Here is the newest member to the Alcorn family-a 10-12 week old kitten named .... Magenta. Jacob named her and is so excited about her. Seems our pet kingdom is expanding, with the addition of 4 goldfish after the premature demise of the leopard fish. When I returned to Wal-Mart, I noticed the other leopard fish about to assume the same fate as ours, so at least I know it wasn't something I did wrong, just a bad batch of fishies. Anywho, this should do for a while at least. Scooter won't stop hissing at her, but is getting closer to calling a truce.

soccer pictures

Owen wouldn't take his picture by himself, so Jake took it with him, how cute did it turn out!

leopard fish

For Jacob's 5th birthday, he desparately wanted "Cheetah sharks." When asked from where does one purchase such beasts, he proclaimed, "Wal-Mart." Being unaware that Wal-Mart had expanded their product lines to included mythical critters from the ocean, I requested that he show me just exactly to what he was referring. Turns out, those are really called Pictus Catfish. They have evolved from cheetah sharks to leopard sharks, and finally to plain 'ol leopard fish. Either way, he is so terribly excited to have them. Owen is more impressed by the dinosaur living in the tank. I took this video a few minutes ago, and they are still awake watching the fish. It is almost 10:30, and when I tried to turn off the light to the tank, Owen let me know that he wasn't too pleased with that. I am actualy excited to be taking care of these little guys, but just hope they aren't promoted to glory too soon!!!

twinkle twinkle little star

i know it doesn't sound exactly like it, but it is so darn cute!

emma say hi.....

she just loves to say hi!!!

Pictures by Ya Ya

Just some sweet pictures of Emma from her b'day that ya ya took :)

A mighty lightning bug yet he may be..

So we started soccer on the 7th (practice) and had our first game today. Owen was a bit distracted by the trees, birds, ants.... but he did eventually get on the field and out of the net of the goal. It's the little victories that add up! We had a great time, and Jacob was very excited to run back and forth from one side to the other. I don't think his foot actually touched the ball, but he seemed to have a great time :)

EMMA TURNS 1!!!!

So my sweet baby girl is now 1 year old! Her birthday was the 13th, but we just finished having her party tonight, and it was a blast. YaYa took lots of pics so when she sends them along I will post them. This was from Thursday night when we just picked up a store cake and let her blow the candle out. She wasn't too big on digging into the cake, but did enjoy eating it when given with a fork.

Our trip west

So Miah and I adventured over 2000 miles to L.A. where Miah started his new job at Nickelodeon working on El Tigre. His first day was Tuesday and he is having a good time. It is awesome he is staying with some really dear friends, Steve and Sue, and gets to work with Steve on the show, so I don't worry too much about him being so far away. Here are a few pictures we took along the way, more to post later. We went through the painted desert, the petrified forest, and took a detour to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It was a nice adventure, but not so nice of an ending. We are all so very proud of him and love him very much!!!

retro video

So here is some footage i found probably from early in 2005. So Jacob was a little over 2 and owen was probably around 7-9 months old. What a chunker Owen was!!! I love looking at old videos and pictures, and was so tickled with both Owen and Jacob that I just had to share!

Spring Valley Beach

We went to Spring Valley Beach, located in Blountsville on the day of Owen's birthday party. It was SOOO much fun!!! It was also very reasonable, I think $15 for adults, and $13 for senior citizens and children. I would highly recommend if you have little ones, or just want to have a great time! check out www.springvalleybeach.com It takes about an hour to get there, and is located off of highway 79 which turns into 231... :)

This is about as long as these glasses stayed on her.. They sure were cute though!
Jake was having a difficult time having to be out of the water long enough to eat a small bite of lunch. He had an awesome time!
Here is our other handsome little cousin-Baby Sam who will be 2 on Sept. 6th.

Owen turns 3!

Jacob always smiling, and always with a ninja turtle !
Here is cousing Noah bear :) He was really into the birthday party, especially blowing out the candles :)

Here is the birthday boy scoping out Diego on his cake. He LOVES Diego, and was super excited to have this as his theme. The hats did not last very long since they were taken apart pretty quickly!

How big is Emma?? SO BIG!!

Whenever we ask "How big is Emma?" She puts her little arms up in the air as you say "So big!" What a sweet girl!

Little sunbather

Emma was ready for the sun in her little two piece and floppy hat!

Emma saying bye bye

What can I say, we just love videoing our little gal!

Emma blowing kisses

Here is little Miss Emma blowing kisses :)

Go Diego Go!

So Owen is really into Diego, I mean REALLY into Diego! Here is some footage of him singing, which he sings all of the songs in the show, it is so cute!!

Pigeon Forge, TN

Went to TN for a women's retreat for my church, and it was so gorgeous where we stayed, I wanted to share some pictures :) We stayed at a place called the Preserve, and the cabins were so beautiful with hot tub, everything was log cabinesque, and it even had a projection movie type deal downstairs with a huge screen!! I had never been before, but highly recommend going, it is near Gatlinburg.....

not sure what this is, but it sho is cute!

We've moved blog addresses

Since it has been a whole year since we moved back to good 'ol Bama, I figured we would go ahead and change the name. This way our family can keep posting, and we can have an official home, even if it be only on the internet :) New pictures to come soon!