dallas...

We'll as we all know now the Cowboys didn't make the Super Bowl this year, but a few weeks ago Roger and I were in Stuttgart for a very sad day....my best friend Bonnie's mother passed away and we went to be there for the family and pay tribute to an amazing life....when you talk about death you realize that life is so short and we only get one go around, so in Debby's inspiration we were at I40 about to head back to Memphis and Roger looked at me and said "we could take a left here and head to Dallas for the cowboys playoff game...i thought...no way we can line up sitters, find tickets, find a place to stay and we were wearing dress clothes, no other clothes, toothbrush, contact case,etc...but as chance would have it... it worked! Katie and Ed babysat a couple of hours and our sitter Hannah was able to keep them for the night, and as for the clothes, we had a Supermarket Sweep through Target!!!! It was such an exciting adventure with my husband and we had so much fun on the joy ride down... being spontaneous.. and COWBOYS won their 1st playoff game in 13 years and we got to witness it in Jerry's House :) We are so thankful for all those memories we made and all the help we had from friends and family to make it happen! I would post pics, but we didn't have our camera and bought a disposable at Target but the pics were all so blurry (i.e. those camera's are TERRIBLE!!!)! We hope do that again in the future....Life lesson....you don't always have to have the perfect plan...sometimes the Perfect plan is no plan at all.....until next time....the coles

happy 2010

We had such an amazing 2009 and cant wait to see what 2010 has to hold for us. Since we have put our house on the market hoping to move close to the boys schools in east memphis, I'm sure we are in for a busy 2010 with a move and Airey starting a new pre-school and campbell starting his 2nd year at st. louis. We really hope to get more involved in church this year now that we feel we have a little more time. We are so incredibly blessed with amazing family and friends and we were able to celebrate the new year with them both. New Years eve we had a great dinner and party at the shelby's with a few other couples and actually made it to midnight! Friday night Katie and Ed hosted a delicious New Years' day dinner. We spent Saturday night out celebrating Rogers childhood friend Brian Johnston's bday at the Happy Mexican and then on to a little local bar. We had so much fun playing old G & R/ Waylon on the jukebox and hanging with friends. Sunday we were tired and super lazy and it was a perfect way to cap off the holidays! Happy New Year to you all!

merry merry!

Wow what a blessed and wonderful christmas we had this year! It was great to celebrate Jesus' birth and feel all the love and laughter with family and friends.....the week of Christmas roger and I had a fun wine and cheese party at the Kelly's Tuesday and followed that up Wednesday with a family Christmas at the Thomas' where we enjoyed watching lewis, airey, and campbell run and play together (that has really amazed us all how the 3 of them just play and play while the adults actually can relax a bit!) Cole will not be too far behind them either :) That really has been the best part of us having all boys. Thursday we headed to my family's christmas in Grenada and we all got spoiled rotten with a yummy feast and presents all around. Airey is so sweet and appreciative it just warms your heart, he gets so excited over anything he gets! Campbell is still really interested in the boxes of course. Well Thursday night we set out our cookies and chocolate milk and headed to bed as airey wanted to go to bed at 6 he was so excited but since we were on the road it wasn't until 10pm so they slept in until 9, which Roger and I would have loved any other day but we were up at 7am just so excited and counting the seconds until they woke up to see Santa came! They headed down the stairs and Airey just hung his mouth wide open with surprise.....WOWWWW......a Motorcycle, he REALLY got me a motorcycle! The boys loved their prizes! Airey worked all morning "building a house" for us on his workbench(thanks pops and kitty) and then switching back from motorcycle to tricycle (thanks mimi). Another big hit was a golf glove that he wore 12 hrs strait, haha....Campbell enjoyed his mower and loved rocking in his rocking chair mommy painted for him and He LOVES his stuffed animals, its so cute :) That afternoon we headed to Jackson and spent the weekend brunching and drinking and cooking out with the Tip Cole fam. We had our annual gag gift opening Saturday night which is always a good laugh...(see pics) Sunday headed home and hosted a birthday dinner for Mary and capped it off right! Hope you all had a blessed and Merry Christmas! The Coles

Pops got me.....Luggage locators for my keys and whatever else, haha....i LOOSE everything, LOL

We drew my inlaws.....what do you get them???....MATCHING snuggies of course, monogramed hot pick no less as BIG PAPPA and PRRRRR......

Pops sporting the snuggie :)

Lewis ans Airey helping uncle tippy cook fried green tomatoes

The entire Cole Family 09

last time we took a pic under Judi's tree was 5 years ago, my it looks different now....it was in 05 just me, rog and nelly....

Christmas morning wearing brothers shin guards eating reeces out of the work bench in his new chair, he knows how to use it all at once,lol

love my mailbox

watch out here comes the POLICE

blower!

My workbench

SANTA came :)

With our great grandmother GiGi

Airey and mimi

opening presents!