H: July 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

Hopkins' family home videos

Check out this HILARIOUS little girl! Gosh, I love her so! :)

Definitely a musican's child... Almost Famous??

Th song (Airplanes) came on the radio today while we were in the car and I hear her singing along with this part, so I had to film it! This is the funniest thing. Not to mention, additonal proof that she is ALWAYS listening...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

snazzy, jazzy new page

Ok it's really not all that jazzy! And it's pretty off centered but I love the pink and LOVE LOVE LOVE that picture. It's from Sherry's wedding. The amazing photographers were the Robinson's with http://www.rstudioanddesign.com/ The other pictures are just as great...I have no clue how Sherry picked! Anyway, maybe I will soon figure out how to center the banner... or maybe not. I like living a little to the left anyway! :)

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Does it get any sweeter than this??

Addison endured a long day of car wheeling and dealing with mommy today (more on that later) just because I promised her that we would go see Lucy afterwards. As we were leaving she HAD to buckle sister in her car seat of course, and after she was in Addy says "oh no sister, dont cry!" I asked what was wrong with sister and she told me that sister didn't want to go see Max! (Max is the maxima.. haha.. Lynard is daddy's truck.. crazy I know) I left the Maxima at the dealership while I test drove our new car and we were going back to finalize paperwork today. Well to make sister stop crying Addison started singing Twinkle Twinkle. I can't believe it but I actually had time to grab my camera and catch it! She just started talking and it got better and better!

p.s. NO I am not driving and filming... we were in the driveway :)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Happy Birthday JMH!

This weekend we celebrated Jamey's 32nd birthday! Jamey, Addison and I rented a hotel room for the night at the same place that the Hill family was staying to celebrate their youngest son's birthday. It's something that they do every year and seemed to be a brilliant idea. It almost felt like we were really on vacation, but the drive wasn't nearly as bad! Saturday Addison and Jamey played in the pool ALL DAY! I took advantage of daddy being the playmate and laid in the chair and girl talked with Renee! :) Sunday morning we got up and ate breakfast at the hotel and got ready to go back home. Addison was so funny at breakfast... amazed at all of the different food choices! HA We had a really good weekend, Monday came WAY too fast.

Poor thing was worn out after all of the swimming and playing!

This is what she was wearing for Jamey's birthday dinner... thank goodness we ended up going to Jamey's parents instead of out somewhere! POOF!

Daddy's girl!

7:11 on 7/11 :)

Jamey and I also went antique shopping! I found this cute wicker bench ($10 plus spray paint!!!!) that was PERFECT for our back porch. Addison LOVES it and it goes great with our new plants that grandaddy gave us!

Jamey's find ... a fork. He loves it so....

Yeah.... it is H-O-T!

LOOKY!!! Our eggs hatched!

Wells Fargo, this is Addison!

She was such a good little worker

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Let Freedom Ring!

I heard the Martina McBride song (Independence Day) the other day and now every time I think about 4th of July, it pops into my head!! We had such a wonderful extended weekend celebrating the freedom we possess thanks to many, many wonderfully brave men and women. This year I had a totally different feeling when celebrating Independence day. Jamey and I have been watching the History channel a lot lately and apparently I really was dazed and confused in high school because I just did not remember all of these things! I tell Jamey time and again that he needs to go back to school and become a teacher because he makes history and science so interesting to me and that's definitely a huge accomplishment! The last show that we watched was about Saddam Hussein and all of the horrible things that he ~~did to people~~ had done to people. Jamey then reminded me that, this kind of thing still happens in a lot of places as hard as it is to imagine (well it is to me at least) So, even though we may not like certain things that go on in our country or people in charge at all times, we should thank GOD that we are AMERICANS and we are free!

SOOO on to the festivities! We found out that week that our mom's mom (mamaw) was put in the hospital in Mobile with unexplainable "masses" and bleeding... so Friday, Addison and I set off - Mobile bound. This was our longest road trip yet, not to mention a "Potty Trained Road Trip". I was a little nervous but we packed plenty of fun and everything red, white and blue that Addy owned and hit the road. I could not have asked for a better little travel partner. The whole 5 hours down was just perfect! We only stopped once in Greenville for her to potty so I was super impressed! We got to the hospital and visited with mamaw for a little while and then headed to Ashlee's apartment where we stayed the night. It was really fun having a girls night w/sissy! The next day we headed to Monroeville to spend some time with the fam from LA. We ended up staying until Monday so I could take Addison to watch the fireworks. She and I went and had the best time!! She has never really watched fireworks b/c she's usually asleep by the time they start so I was really excited to take her. We oohhhed and ahhhhed for a while and then went back to Granddaddy's to stay the night... we were really ready to wake up early and get back to see daddy! here are some of the many highlights of our trip!

5 hour road trip... sleeping baby=happy mommy!