Bellingrath Gardens at night!!!

The night after Thanksgiving, Bellingrath Gardens lights their Christmas lights and it is spectacular to look at! Despite the rain, Granny, Uncle Richard, Blaine's mom, dad and sister and the kids and I went to see the lights!! The lights were so beautiful, my pictures don't do them justice! The kids had so much fun! Carter loved the choo choo trains the most and kept saying "choo, choo" all night long! Cooper wore himself out running the whole way! By the time we got to the car Cooper passed out in his carseat first sucker in hand!! Everyone loved the lights and we timed the rain perfect so we didn't get too wet. At the end I let the kids pick out ornaments at the gift shop to take home to put on the tree! It was a very fun way to end our Thanksgiving!!!

SO THANKFUL!!

This year I hosted Thanksgiving at our new home for Blaine's family! It was my first time to have such a big crowd to cook for, but with Blaine's moms help we cooked a feast and everyone was well fed! This year I am so ever grateful for my wonderful, extended family, my adoring husband, my entergetic boys, our new home in Mobile, and the gospel of Jesus Christ that leads our family through all that we do! It has been such a long, exausting, exciting, joyous journey to this place in our lives and I am SO THANKFUL to my Heavenly Father who has blessed our family with more than ever imagined!! It was so wonderful to be able to spend time with Blaine's family and to have the boys bond with their Papa, Grandma, Granny, Uncle Richard and Aunt Megan!!

Papa Jerry cutting the turkey and ham!

Papa and Grandma

Carter enjoying his Thanksgiving feast!

Megan and Granny
Megan, Granny and Uncle Richard

Cooper and Papa zonked out on the couch!
Carter and Daddy relaxing!

Uncle Richard teaching Carter to hit the ball!

Putting up the Christmas tree!

Carter putting ornaments on the tree!

Cooper was my big helper, he decorated alot of the tree all by himself!

The boys and Papa playing in the sand box, Papa built them! (Papa had to have something to keep him busy)

Residency SUCKS!

Okay, I try to keep most of my posts upbeat, but I just need to rant a bit tonight! Residency is HARD work for Blaine and he mostly has crappy days and is ALWAYS tired and is never home to spend time with the kids, so please Samantha or some doctors wife tell me why we are doing this? Obviously because we have too much school loan debt to quit now!!! LOL!!!:) No seriously we know there is reward at the end and Blaine loves what he is doing when he is not too tired to think, but the road at this point just seems every long! I am having a hard time as of late seeing the future perspective of this whole long process!! We have already put in 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of Medical school and now 4 years of Residency! CRAZY!, 12 years to become a Doctor and an in debt Doctor at that! But life rolls on and we choose this path to take so we are dealing with the long hours, late nights, and the two sad boys/wife who miss their dad/husband very much! By the way Blaine, I know you don't think I appreciate all that you do, but this post is really for you since, I feel so bad when I see you so dang tired and then you still have to keep going because your work is not done!! I don't mind all that I have to do at the house and with the boys, if it takes a little bit of the load off of you!!!!! :)

2x the FUN!!

Some days the boys fight all day long about everything, but then sometimes they have these wonderful moments where they play with each other and entertain themselves. These moments are AWESOME and treasured!!!!!

Pretending they were animals caged in the zoo! Carter just kept growling and laughing thinking it was the best game ever!!!

They kept fighting over this ride-on toy, so finally Cooper decided they could ride together! Carter though it was mighty fun!!!

Bellingrath Gardens

This week our book group went to Bellingrath Gardens for our book discussion! It was so pretty there! They have so many gorgeous flowers and a very beautiful scenic trail to walk along! Some of Cooper's friends were there so he had a blast running around with them! The kids LOVED the water fountains the best (what kid dosen't love to get wet?). It was a nice, cool, fall day so that made it all the better. Fall weather is so nice here right now, so it was really fun to enjoy the day in such a pleasant way!

Craigslist ROCKS!!!

I have been using Craigslist.com lately to sell some odd items around the house and to sell some of my embroidery items that I have done. Needless to say I have made a little bit of money that I have been able to call all my own! It is so nice to be able to buy something you really want but don't really need and not feel guilty about it! So I have been saving my money to buy something for the boys or me if I saw something we really wanted!!! Well last week I saw this awesome playhouse on Craigslist for a GREAT price! I thought the boys would LOVE it! They have this old ratty play tent that they haul outside and pretent to play house(this is honestly one of the few times that they play nicely together)! So I inquired back to the guy not thinking he would respond, but he did and he even offered to bring it to us for free (since we had no way to haul it and he lived about 30 minutes away)! The kids were ubber excited! They played in it all day today after church with no fussing!!! It feels so good being able to buy things every now and then with money I have earned!! Hopefully we will get MANY more wonderful days of play out of it!!!

Cooper and a neighbor playing house and making a picnic!




Carter checking the pretend mail!

Memories!

Recently I have been looking through old pictures and wondering where the time has gone? In December Blaine and I will have our 7 year anniversary and WOW is has been an eventful seven years! The pictures bring much joy and tears as I realize how fast time moves. It brings a humbling feeling of gratitude to my Heavenly Father for the time I do have with my family and that I should cherish every moment! So here it is 7 years of marriage in a picture story!!! :) (Sorry this may be a bit long, but I could have added a hundred more and I didn't add alot of our first years together since it took so long to scan them in from pictures in the non-digital age! :)

Wedding Dec 29th 2001 Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple (Yes, I had short hair, Don't laugh!)

Wedding Reception, in my hometown Liberty, MS (We were so in LOVE!)

Honeymoon to Six Flags Texas (We took a late honeymoon since we had to start school the week after we go married, so this is actually during Spring Break of 2002)

Going to the beach in Biloxi (Pre-Hurricane Katrina)

Again going to the beach in Biloxi, can you tell we LOVE the beach! (one of our first dates was to Biloxi beach, so we went back frequently since we were living in Hattiesburg going to school at USM)
Pregnant with Cooper

Cooper Dean Britt Born July 28th 2004

Cooper's First Halloween!

Cooper's First Christmas!! This was our first Christmas in our Jackson Home and Blaines first year in Medical School!

Cooper 1 Year Old

USM Graduation Dec 2005 (I am SO proud of this accomplishment, I went back to do my student teaching in August when Cooper was just over a year old, THANKS to Samantha and Blaines mom who kept him during this stressful time!!!)

Cooper 2 years old

Family Vacation Pensacola Beach June 2006

Sarah and Me pregnant( I was pregnant with Carter and she was pregnant with Twins Gatlin and Gabriel) May 2007

Family Vacation, June 2007, Pensacola Beach

(This is one of our FAVORITE beach spots)

Carter Reed Britt Born August 7 2007







Big Brother Cooper

Carter 1 week old

Carter 3 months old

Carter's First Halloween














Carter 4 months old

Christmas 2007 (Carter's First Christmas!)

Carters First two teeth, 6 months old!

Blaines Medical Trip to Peru, January 2008 ( He was chosen as a fourth year medical student to go with the UMC doctors to Peru to do a two week Medical Trip along the Amazon River to bring medical care to the small villages there)

Dr. Blaine Cooper Britt

Blaines Medical School Graduation, May 2008 (This was a wonderful, long awaited day and I AM very PROUD of Blaine for this accomplishment!)

Saying Goodbye to our Jackson Friends and saying Hello to our new home Mobile, AL

(I miss you guys!!!)

Dauphin Island May 2008

Carter 1 year old

Cooper 4 years old

Dauphin Island June 2008
Britt Family August 2008