Halloween/Fall 2011, Isabela’s first dress up day of play!
A happy pumpkin!
Not so happy…
A recycled bumble bee
And a recycled dinosaur
Treating in Dandridge
Party with cousins
Happy Fall y’all!
First Halloween, Part 2 Memories
First Halloween Fun, Part 1 Memories
The air is cooling and the leaves are falling. Throw in pumpkins and costumes and fall is a fun celebration, at least for us. We have had great fun watching them get in the pumpkins and struggle with pretending to be something else!
Jackson with Rudy
This cracks me up
October 2007
Turn around fuzzy lion Jackson!
Jackson with our dear Aunt Margaret, “Marnie” as he called her.
Abigail carried these two pumpkins everywhere
With Nana
Despite the smile, this flower wasn’t too happy with her big petals.
Happier being a bumble bee
Halloween 2010, an elephant and lamb
Always time for learning…
First with Fall Memories
Cool air shock, fun in the colors
October 2008, a couple of weeks away from Abigail joining us
Fall 2009
10 months, happy to be walking
Fall 2010
Isabela’s First Coastal Excursion
Traveling with three made me felt like we packed forever. Jackson and Abigail were so excited to have new baby sissy join us. This was the first year our beach trip did not happen in June. We started a new tradition in traveling after our harvest!
All three DID sleep in the tent right there on the ocean. It was so sweet!
First Beach Memories
The one place Stevie and I have always escaped to is the coast. Annually celebrating the calendar’s official start of summer as well as our June 24th wedding anniversary we have always taken this very important excursion. These three babies haven’t changed our feelings of the sand and surf. The last baby did however change our travel dates as she was born on the first day of summer.
I am taking a trip down memory lane to Jackson’s, Abigail’s, first beach memories before posting Isabela’s new experiences.
Love this photo.
A year of growth and back to the beach!
Look how this baby has grown!
Jackson loved walking across the flat sand! Hard to believe his sister Abigail will join him in a few months, June 2008
Always smiling, Abigail loved the beach! June 2009
I loved these two sitting together in the shade of the canopy.
Happy just being. Tooth showing, days away from crawling.
Happy to add her name to the sand!
This was a very quick visit to the coast but great memories were made.
Lucky to be at our FAVORITE spot.
Happy on his digger.
Treasure this life.
Isabela’s First Grape Harvest
The best place to be on a hot summer harvest day is relaxing in a stroller!
At nine weeks old, this is Isabela’s first harvest. She enjoyed the fast pace of us picking.
Always present, Nana and Papaw!
Jaydie and Elijah stopped by for a visit.
Abigail helping with buckets.
How excited he gets to almost hold her.
Love these little birds!
Sweet smile, blue Gatorade lips.
Finished the harvest of 2011, and we delivered our grapes on a rainy Sunday morning.
First Harvest Memories
Our annual day of harvest has been a huge part of our year since our first in 2003. Many things to coordinate and juggle without little ones, add the little ones, wow what an experience! We have always included them in this part of our work
Since the vineyard is pretty much the center of our life, I am looking back to their first harvest moments.
August 2007, Jackson’s first harvest
August/September 2008
Harvest Day with Jackson, Abigail, Nana, and cousins Jayden and Elijah
Delivery Day
Grapes 2010
They love carrying these buckets…empty!
Lunch break with cousins and Aunt Amy
Resting with Papaw
Empty grape bins are fun to play in
Delivery 2010
Announcing Our Babies!!!
Officially announcing and welcoming our new babies each to the world!
Isabela Jolie was born on the first day of Summer, June 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM, 8lbs 9oz, 22 1/2″
Abigail Julienne was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2008 at 12:49 PM, 8lbs 1oz, 21 1/2″
Notice Jackson’s big fold out announcement!
Jackson Sawyer had a due date of Mother’s Day/my birthday the 13th. He was born on May 10, 2007 at 2:31 PM, 8lbs 4oz, 20 1/2″
Twenty years total from the time we began dating at age fifteen.
By the time the third baby Isabela was born we have been together over twenty five years. Great history, better memories of a fulfilled life!
US! Stevie and Julie
High School Sweethearts, we’ve been together since we were fifteen. We dated for nine years before we married on June 24, 2005. Eloping, we only brought our cousins Amy and Amanda to witness this great event!
Looking back we recognized we had played together in our very early years. We on a few occasions were both at a beauty shop with my mamaw and his baby sitter at the same time.
Neat feeling when we recognized this many, many years later.
We could never tire of the sand, the coast, or this sunset! Great memories before babies.
I’ve always felt blessed to have my best friend in the world by my side. We have so many great memories. We are lucky to still be IN love after all of these years.
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