where do i begin...

wow a month has flown by and our heads are still spinning..what a whirlwind month packed full of fun. after we had terry and whits wedding we headed out to cleveland,ms so the big boys could participate in the annual 6 man scramble, man do they have fun together and the girl didn't fair too bad either; with a weekend full of shopping, laying out,eating and a few adult beverages in between. they didn't win this year, but in 115 heat, you cant blame em'. there is always next year ;).

after that we had a fun weekend at the river with my family. it was the 1st time my mom, dad and gram had been to heber and we did it up right with lots of fishing, relaxing and cooking GOOD food. the boys took the boat out one afternoon and the girls hit the banks with a bucket of crickets, guess who caught the most....hmmmm LADIES win!

after that we geared up for sweet baby campbells {not so much anymore} 2nd birthday! since we were going to florida the next day it was only fitting for a beach themed bash! we had a small get together with close friends and family and let the babes run wild. it was so cute to see all the kiddos up around the birthday cake digging in at the same time and later all 7 of them hit the baby pool in their diapers {major blackmail /bribery for those photos one day...} campbell was showered with love and tons of gifts and the best gift of all is his brother...the two of them are completely inseperable and have become best friends and enemies all at the same time, but the enemy part is all in good fun. i always said i wanted one of each, one boy/one girl, but seeing the two of them have each other for life as best friends is amazing and i cant imagine if they didn't have each other. what fun the years up coming will be. campbell is stringing together 4 or 5 words together at a time and loves to call airey bruh-bruh. he sips from a real cup now, runs at full speed, can count to three, he does{tries} everything airey does, some with success and some with knots and boo boos after, but he keeps up. He twirls his hair like his momma and says everything twice....i.e. wa-wa..for water. He has really developed his personality this year and is still as dramatic as always but is MUCH better at communication now. He tells us what he wants instead of meltdowns. He is so darling and adorable with his bowl cut i literally could eat him up. He loves to cuddle and is just a sweetheart when he wants to be. He is obsessed with Pooh and sleeps with him ,talks about him and watches pooh movies non stop! We are so lucky to have our little "camels"/"merca"

I cant wait to see what the 2's bring!

The morning after the party we headed out on what we thought would be the longest journey of our lives {12 hrs in the car with a 2 and 3 yr old} most would agree, but to our COMPLETE amazement they did fantastic! not a fuss or meltdown...i have to give a shout out to RCA for the dual car dvd player who gets ,lets be honest about 99% of the credit for the peaceful ride. boy oh boy did we have fun in orlando. mommy shopped, mom and daddy sipped by the pool and watched our boys play and swim and the whole 9. we played putt putt, we swam, we went to the arcade, we did the beach two days, downtown disney, lego land and numerous dinner outings....whew we packed it in, but at the same time we did totally relax and just enjoy our family. it was really the first time since campbell was older we could all enjoy it all together. roger and i are so completely blessed and amazed at this family we have created all thanks to the many answered prayers of the Lord and our amazing Family and friends...life is so good, we have to pinch ourselves, a busy life but a great life.

On that note roger got a promotion at Fedex and is a BDA- business development analysts for Global Sales now for Dell. he had a great 1st week. He said is was like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose but he loves it! A complete new adventure and we couldn't be more proud of him. He has also joined the Men's club at St. Louis and is looking forward to getting involved with all the programs for the church and school. I am Airey's 3K room mom and cant wait to plan all these parties, everyones knows i love a good party. Well that brings me to school. Campbell started in the 2 yr old room at MDO and just loves it, they tell me he is their fav and they want to just eat him up. Airey is in the St. Louis 3K and has the most adorable teacher and the program is just amazing! I know he will learn so much. He is with his bestie from MDO Elliot so he is right at home. He cant wait to go this week.

I think that about does it....sorry for the LONG post, frames are getting on a much more workable schedule now, so hopefully it wont be so long between post, take care! much love,

the coles

rog and i enjoying a night out with the 6 man team at crawdads

the family in orlando

another shot

silly brothers!

before church one week :) i love how grown they look!

HAPPY 2nd birthday CAMPBELL!

airey took soccer camp! He is a pro.

the 6 man team

river fun with gigi and mimi

terry and whits wedding, our little ring bearer

Terry and Whitney's Wedding Weekend!

This past weekend we had another great wedding in the Cole family as Terry and Whitney were married at the Collierville Methodist Church.

The weekend was jam packed with fun activities. On Friday, we had rehearsal at the church. Airey was so excited to participate and carry the rings down to Uncle Terry with Lewis. They both did so well in the rehearsal and we were hoping it was a sign of things to come on the big day.

After the rehearsal, Tip and Judi hosted everyone down at the rendezvous for the rehearsal dinner. It was such a great time! They rented a huge party bus to take everyone from Collierville to downtown Memphis. Then we ate, drank and caught up with a lot of good friends and family. Good times were had by all at the vous as they always do! Thanks Tip and Judi for such a fantastic evening!

We decided to host an after party at our house Friday night since the groom, Terry, was staying at our house. It was a rare late late night for SE and myself.......staying up til 1am talking and catching up with a bunch of old friends and cousins we dont get to see often enough.

After a few hours of sleep we were back at it again on Terry and Whitneys big day! First things first, at 7am before golf we celebrated uncle Terrys birthday (yes he also had a birthday on his wedding day....what a big day for the mayor) with a poodle cake picked out by Airey and Campbell. They sang happy birthday and were so excited to get cake for breakfast.

The wedding was later that night and it went great. Lewis and Airey were fantastic ring bearers and with a small nudge from Aunt Katie, Airey made it all the way down the isle to drop the rings off and get a hug from Uncle Terry. The rest of the ceremony was beautiful and went off without a hitch.

The reception followed at Equestria and was a blast. There was plenty of good food, dancing and catching up with old friends and family. Another late night was in order and we stayed around to send Terry and Whitney off to their honeymoon in style! Congratulations to Terry and Whitney and we wish yall the best as you start your new journey!

On Sunday we tried to play catch up with the time we missed with the kids all weekend. We woke up and took Airey and Campbell to one of their favorite places ever......Putt-Putt. Airey has become quite the golfer and loves to go hit balls on the range. Campbell played on the putting green while Airey hit and they both enjoyed the game room after range balls were over. We followed up Putt Putt with a lunch at Central BBQ! It was a great Sunday family afternoon.

Now its on to the river with mimi, grandaddy and Gigi this weekend. Hopefully this heatwave will go away sometime soon!

Until next post,

The Cole's

a month gone by!

airey running to his best friend elliot...cutest moment ever! we got to have a play-date with his friend from school last week at the big back yard

rog and his boys

st. louis hole in one

Roger and I at the Pat Green Concert!

my sweets boys bribed by cookies for a pic!

well followers of the cole fam, i have to apologize for a month long hiatus on the blogging. I have been so blessed to be super busy with frames and we have been going non stop since airey and campbell got out of school, we had two full weeks of swimming lessons and then a week of VBS at St. Louis, so about 3 weeks after school we finally had a moment to settle down and then we started heading out of town and celebrating 3...yes...3 cousins weddings and wedding festivities! Paige and Brad tied the know on May27th in Jackson, our cousin Shane captured the most amazing pics at the wedding! Congrats Cous, and welcome to the fam Brad! We loved being a part of your beautiful day!

we hosted such a fun fiesta couples shower for terry and whitney and oh my did we have fun; one it was so great to see them celebrate good times ahead with fam and friends, but it also fell on the same week as the st. jude golf tourney { which is one of our most favorite weeks of the year}. airey loved catching lightening bugs, practicing his golf swing and playing with all their grandparents,cousins and godbrother too :) Campbell was surprising good as long as he had a bucket of ice water and plenty of random things to put in it...We thought this year we might actually see a live finish with the boys in tow when it went to a 3 man playoff hole on #12, but they all par the hole and finished up on 18, oh well.

as for fathers day weekend we kicked it off by celebrating our cousin Meredith and her new hubby Nick Canale's wedding with a beautiful bridesmaid luncheon at Memphis Country Club and a Wonderful rehearsal dinner at Chickasaw (thanks for including us Murf!, and BTW we had no idea that was your nickname, but we love it!) . The wedding was completely over the top with the most breathtaking flowers I had EVER seen! The ceremony was beautiful at St. Peters downtown {where Pops and Kitty tied the knot ;)}. It seemed all our friends and family were at the festivities, therefore we all took advantage of the great food, drinks and band until after midnight, which for all of us with kids, we patted ourselves on the back.

as for our actual fathers day happenings, we cooked daddy breakfast in bed and took the boys to putt putt and airey and roger got to hit balls together. we then hit up the vinyard vines fathers day cookout and hung with papa and fam for a bit over burgers and beer. on saturday we took airey and campbell downtown to the flying fish for lunch and strolling downtown and then to a REDBIRDS GAME....airey is on the verge of complete and utter OBSESSION....it was most definitely the hottest day of the year but Dr. Bill our pediatrician had given us the best seats int he house! We were in the 1st row right behind home plate!

as for the last couple of weekends we have been in town and enjoyed some much needed family time. we have just hung around and cooked out a lot on our green egg and enjoyed the last week of nice weather. we have 3 big 1st birthdays, one 4th birthday, and one 3rd birthday to celebrate this past couple of weeks and oh what fun! georgia (little miracle 2 lb 10 oz when born) turned 1!!! We had mucho fun at her fabulous and i mean fabulous 1st birthday party! This week our sweet nephew Cole turned 1 and we celebrated with tacos and cupcakes at Aunt Katie and Uncle Ed's! I won't get into the funny story of Katie's worried head of the candle on Cole's cupcake.....funny memory caught on video...haha! We celebrate our little god-sister Hazie 1st birthday this weekend and....This week will party at Lewis' and Cole dual celebration at Pump it Up....And last but not least we will be traveling to Chatty to celebrate cousin Jacks birthday!!! Whewww....did I forget anyone! I am already so forgetful and senile I feel like... so im sure in the years to come I will get all the birthdays confused and mixed up so I will apologize in advance...We hit up the St. Louis Hole in One this past week and that gave the boys hours on entertainment and of course Airey had to have his own bucket of balls to hit. Later that weekend all the girls made our way to Beale to Whitney's bachelorette party....i will not blog of the happenings....aka...boxers.....chest hair....but fun watching whitney and her "to-do" list!

as for the 4th, we are so thankful for the freedom we have and this amazing country we live in....we thank thank our service men and women and God enough for all they provide for us that we all take for granted to often...help the day remind us all what we have and to be grateful for our country. On Friday Rog and I headed to Pat Green for a fun concert and even sat by him at dinner :)....we ran into lots of peeps from Memphis and it turned into a big party! The next morning we had the Jamison family reunion were Airey has officially started swimming underwater half the length of the pool on HIS OWN! We are so proud! What yummy country cooking and catching up with family. The boys love their MiMi and GiGi! On Sunday we got a Slip n Slide and boy of boy.....the kid came out in roger and i and we couldn't help from making at least 5 trips down it ourselves {to show airey what to do course,haha} until that is...I ripped the slide when i flew out the end and into pine needles and the street. The patterson gang had our whole fam over a 4th celebration yesterday and the boys loved the fireworks {non flammable of course} Yummy burgers and blackberry cobbler topped the weekend off just perfect! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend....until next time{hopefully not a month} enjoy the pics....

The hubby and I at Paige and Brad's wedding reception!

my boys on fathers day...

uncle kevin and airey catching lightening bugs

4 boys and a golf cart....can we say share....

great shot of airey and his daddy on 17 fairway

the couple! whit and terry, hola

the newlyweds! paige and brad

couples fiesta shower for whit and terry with our buds, marybeth and brad

we hit up a cool concert for date night at the levitt shell with the Johnstons

swim lessons with mrs. donna

the girls and i had a sex in the city premiere par-tay!

a wedding and the weekends

really one day they will LOVE each other....ie campbell

the smith gang!

rog and his cat daddy!

rog and his "REAL " catch!

we had the most fun last weekend as we paired up with my bff and her fam and headed to stay with Terry and Whitney at Lake Caroline. Its always great when we can get our four boys together because i know one day they will all be so close. Uncle Terry got the boys worms and fishing poles so this was airey 1st experience with fishing and rog just couldn't contain himself! He loved showing him how to cast and how to put the bait on and of course how to reel in the big one....(on a side note there were no big ones, but thats what dad told airey anyway...see pics for proof). The adults has mucho fun out on the lake and Mama even skied for the 1st time in 12 years and lets just say i had to go have a professional massage to get the muscles in working order. What we do to impress our kids....well never again....another note, brad actually broke a rib knee boarding to impress his, so i guess I came out on the better end of injury at least. i have always loved going out on the lake and i loved sharing that experience with my boys in hopes they will have the same passion one day.

this past weekend was a biggie too! aunt paige got married! rog and i headed down for the weekend (alone...thanks mimi and gigi) which we always enjoy..... nice. we love going to weddings to remind us how much we love each other silently repeat our own vows. we loved having the chance to cut a rug together on the dance floor and celebrate great times with our entire family and many friends that made the trip down! The rehearsal dinner was great and we even snuck out with Katie and ed to a fun underground blues bar 911. Saturday after the bridesmaid luncheon ,before the wedding we got away for a nice day lunching at MINT and laying by pool....so . Fun adult times :)Congrats to PAIGE and BRAD MCCORMICK!!!! We enjoyed every minute!!!

oooooouuchhhhhhh....

terry and airey drivin the boat

me and my lil one...

the boys 1st fish

airey had his beer goggles on...root beer that is....

lately...

We have been uber busy at the cole household these days. Frame business is "a boomin" and we are so blessed that I am able to stay home and raise my boys and still make our family some "fun" money and doing something I LOVE!

As for the kiddies, Campbell is just a MESS! He is so dramatic these days, we swear he is going to win an academy award one day. A friend actually said to me the other day "see, you DID get one boy and one girl, haha!" He is saying so many more words now and is finally getting a little better at communicating rather than fit throwing ...(fingers crossed). He says Play,Juice,Read Book, Thanks, Help and Please. He is just cute as a button and he steals my heart everyday, after all he is my baby and my last baby so I love I can still hold him on my hip and rock him like a baby :) I know there is a reason he challenges me so much and I know he was meant to be my little "merca"..what i call him for Mercy Me as he makes me say about 10 times a day! For right now, Im going to enjoy that I can still wrangle him and dread what he will put me through as a teenage boy!

Airey has gotten into his treacherous 3's we call them...one thing about the two's is they are learning and doing so many new things everyday and you are watching them become a big boy, well...the three's come with testing and no fear and smart comments and they think they know EVERYTHING now. It has been very challenging and we have come to a winning method to control the authority finally ;) We have started a GOLD star chart that Airey has and he earns one gold star per day that he checks off good behavior on the chart (Saying YES Mam, NO sir, Sharing, Minding, and NOT Arguing back to every command ...thats the biggie!!!!, he says, but...but...but I...I...but I....haha! So as of today he earned his 10th gold star and before you ask, no he missed 4 days w/out one because he didn't check off the Good list, so he would work extra hard the next day to make sure he earned it! Every 10 earned stars he gets to go pick a prize so we know are the proud owners of our 1st scooter (Lightening McQueen of course). He holds the door open for girls, which i love and shakes a mans hand and looks him in the eye of course. He is now into fads, silly bands being the NEW thing and he is just a real BOY now, no more toddler, he is a inquisitive,learning and leaping little man!

I had the most most blessed mothers day and cant believe I get to have these two boys all for me, they truly are a GIFT from God and I keep reminding myself of this in crazy days at home and know I will look back and cherish even the hair pulling moments with them. The family and I spent the weekend as a family and headed to Greek festival for fun and I enjoyed breakfast in bead from my boys and my hubs grilled me a delicious steak. On Sunday we headed to spend the day with Mom, GiGi, My brother,sis in law and the cousins. Jack had a blast with Airey and Campbell and we just loved all getting together. Its so rare these days, so its MORE than nice when we do. Hope you all have been well and we will be in touch....until next time

-the cole patrol