Christmas Review

We had a wonderful time at the beach for Christmas. Our favorite part spending time with Grandma and Grandpa. The whole family went for a swim after opening presents. It was Leslie's first time in a pool. She loved it. We are a family of fish. We all love being in the water. Above is a video of Bobby swimming with Grandpa, he is getting better every time he visits.

Leslie, Christmas morning, playing with her new ladybug book from Grandma and Grandpa.

All of Daddy's girls.

Leslie's first time in the pool. The hat and the little turtle are so cute.

Bobby only asked Santa for one thing, a water gun. Here he is shooting me as I took his picture with his favorite present.

Grandma and Bobby made two different kinds of Christmas cookies. Bobby had lots of fun helping her. The best part is licking the beaters. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the best Christmas. We love you.

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas from Delray Beach, Florida. We are having a wonderful time. We want to wish all of our family and friends a very Merry Christmas. May the Lord bless you all with many blessings. One happy girl waiting for Santa to come.
Happy Birthday, Jesus. Thanks be to God for giving us his only Son.

Happy Hanukkah from Delray Beach

We are spending the holidays in Florida with Grandma and Grandpa. Leslie's future is so bright she has to wear shades. We spent the morning watching the manatees feed in the inter coastal. Grandma and Bobby had fun playing with his new Diego fishing pole.

Right before dinner, Grandpa taught the kids about the Eight Nights of Lights and the Hanukkah miracle of the oil. Bobby helped Grandpa light the first candle on the Menorah. Leslie did a great job of supervising.

Holiday Week in Review

Leslie is starting early knowing the importance of always having your phone with you.
She looked so peaceful in this picture, I just had to share it.

On Wednesday, Bobby and I went on a date to the Bob the Builder exhibit at the Atlanta Children's Museum. We went with Bobby's cousin Drew and his mommy Christy and David and his mommy Andrea. The boys had a blast and the moms enjoyed the adult time together too.

On Thursday, Turkey Day, we went to my parent's house for a family lunch. Liz and Spencer planning their shopping for Friday.

My sweet family watching the parade together on TV.
Bobby loves Curious George, so this year we had monkey cupcakes for his birthday.
Cousin Drew eating his cupcake. After cake and presents, the birthday boy watched football with Uncle David and Emily. It was a great day.

Leslie loves tummy time and is very close to rolling over.

In other news my brother and his family now have a blog. Bleeding Red and Black. Check it out. My dad has also been blogging for awhile. His blog is for his deacon formation class. Check it out for some great articles and other stuff about the Catholic faith. Men of Ten

Happy Birthday and Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Birthday Bobby. We are very thankful on this Thanksgiving Day to be blessed with such a wonderful little boy.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends and family.

Early Birthday Present

Daddy is helping Bobby open an early birthday present from granpop. He thinks the tunnel for his train set is something else. Kids are so funny. Thanks Grandpop for the awesome present.

A New Blogger

Check out the new blogs added to my links. The Sims Family blog is written by my brother's sister-in-law ( Did you follow the connection?) Cindy. They just had a little boy. Carson is so cute. Go check out the pictures. The Sims Family



The other blog I have been reading for months. I just realized today that the author of the blog (KATY) is a good friend from college. We had lost touch. We went to VSU. She also just had a little girl. Go check out her cuties too. Derrick George of the Jungle with his Lady Leah

Leaf Pile

On Thursday Daddy made a huge pile of leaves for Bobby to play in. He was having so much fun that our neighbor Maggie joined him. This is one of the best things about being a kid in the fall.

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The Mountains and Halloween

We were very lucky to be invited to the Goodrow Mountain retreat for a long weekend. It is a beautiful place. The whole family had an amazing time with our friends. Check out the Royal Family blog for more pictures from our weekend.

Thanks Susie and David for opening your home to us and helping with the babies.

Susie is holding Wesley and David is holding Leslie. She fell in love with David and smiled at him all weekend.

Julie and I enjoying the spectacluar day we spent by the fire. Check out the trees in the background. We picked the best weekend to see the leaves.

As you can imagine it is hard to get a great picture with all the kids. Here is my best picture. From left to right it is Ethan, Elena, Wesley, David, Leslie, and Bobby. We should have taken a picture of the moms and dads of all of these kids.

The family spent Halloween night with our friends at Goodrow Gang home. Bobby was Curious George. (He would not put the hat part of the costume on his head. He wore it around his neck.) He is sitting on the couch with Lana,the pirate, and David and Will-the cowboys.

Papa borrowed Susie's clown suit for this picture with his grand kids. Boy does he look silly. Thanks GeGe for Leslie's jack-o-lantern sleeper. For more Halloween pictures go the the Goodrow Gang blog.

In other news, I have returned to work as a first grade teacher at Lilburn Elementary. Bobby liked having his sister with him at the babysitter. I will try to update the blog each weekend with the goings on of the family.

Come and See, Little Leslie

Leslie has been very lucky to have so many people come and see her in the last few weeks.

Great-Grammie
Aunt Denise
Uncle Jeff and Cousin Jack

Uncle David and Emily

The Baptism

Leslie Rose joined the church on October 12, 2008. It was a beautiful day and we were blessed to be surrounded our family and friends.

Aunt Christy and Uncle Matt have taken on the awesome responsibility of being the Godparents. Thank you so much for helping raise Leslie in the church.

The Candle symbolizes Christ, whose life was consumed out of love for us.

We would also like to thank the Goodrow's for lending us the beautiful baptismal gown Leslie is wearing. She was beautiful in the dress.

Having Fun in October

Last Thursday, we had a picnic lunch with the Goodrow Gang. It was a beautiful day in their backyard. I just love this picture of the 4 kids together. We did not plan it but Leslie and Ethan are both wearing green and brown outfits with an owl on it.

Early Saturday morning, I took this picture of Leslie. We were getting ready to leave for the fall festival at our church. She just looked so cute in her dress and hat.

Here is Bobby sitting in the hay at the festival. He had fun playing the festival games. He had to dig through the hay to find a bag of treasures.

Leslie hung out with GG in the afternoon and watched all the kids who were painting pumpkins.

Bobby and Leslie's papa is the guy in the hat and skirt. He went up on stage to learn how to hula dance. Check out the skirt and those great legs.

Jason spent the day at the festival volunteering for the Knight of Columbus. Bobby and I both got the chance to dunk him in the dunk booth. Bobby really enjoyed watching his dad fall into the cold water.

Bobby is following in the Beckman family tradition of learning to play golf early. This was by far his favorite game of the day. I can only hope that he will some day be good enough to beat is father and grandpop at their favorite sport.