wanna play...

meredith came over to play yesterday! quinn had a really good time! they played...played and played! they both even got to go to gigi and pops' house last night for a slumber party! we had two excited kiddos!!!

playing "ring around a rosie" with meredith's duckie and quinn's monk

they do love each other...sometimes we wonder!!! :0)

playing with play doh

meredith was serving up some cookies and pizza...she is going to be our chef!!!

sweet qualls had sooo much fun too!!!

meredith and those blue eyes!!! a cutie!!!

they wanted to take a nap together...and they did so good! i was impressed!!!

playing + friends = fun times...

on friday, quinn's friend, gregory, came over to play for the day. they had a great time playing with every toy in quinn's room, riding on the cars trike and john deere gator and jumping in the jumper. they both even skipped nap that day!!! later in the afternoon...aunt abbe and memaw/granny came over and brought meredith. meredith then got to enjoy the jumper with the boys. aunt abbe also took them outside to run. lets just say by the end of the day...

we had 3 tired kiddos...

sweet meredith in the jumper...notice the static in her hair!!!

gregory having a ball!!!

all three kiddos through the sides of the jumper


qualls got to enjoy watching the bigger kids in his own jumper!

a sweet little boy with the prettiest eyes

do you think they had enough toys out?

notice gregory going for something under the bed! ha!

show us your life...valentine's dates or ideas!!!

over at kellyskorner this week...is tell us about your valentine's dates!

i was sitting here talking to J.Q. about our 1st valentine's day as a couple and is it sad that we can hardly remember what we did?!? it was 2003 which was also the year that we both graduated from college, moved to nashville, our 1st nephew was born, got engaged and married! crazy year for sure!!!

back to valentine's day...i was living in henderson, tn attending freed-hardeman university and J.Q. was doing his rotations for pharamacy school in mississippi. he made reservations for us at a nice restaurant in jackson...madisons. we also watched a movie...but the movie escapes both of us! we must be getting old!!! i do remember the gift that i got J.Q. i went around to places that had special meaning to us and got menus, movie tickets that i had saved, candy that we both loved, etc. and put post-it notes on each thing with why it had special meaning. i also got him a watch because he needed one!!! i mailed him all of these things in a box during the week. i do remember him calling me all excited about it. j.q. sent me the most beautiful arrangement of flowers (not roses...not a rose girl)!!!

my favorite valentine's day for sure...every valentine's day has been great and exciting but that 1st one as a couple is the one that is the most special (even though we can't remember it all!!!)

christmas at Granny/MeMaw's house...

A couple of years ago, we started doing stockings on Christmas morning at Granny's house (if you are wondering about the MeMaw...Luke started calling her MeMaw when he was younger so Meredith, Quinn, Luke and Noah call her MeMaw...and I am sure Qualls will when he starts talking). Quinn also calls her the Cat Lady because she has a cat named Tiger. That boy can come up with some things! Anyways, we go over early in the morning and open stockings with Granny, Uncle Tobey and Miss Jessica. I didn't get a picture of Granny this year but she got a set of pots and pans. She had been wanting them so instead of getting her a bunch of little things...she just got one present!

Uncle Tobey opening up his stocking! He gets the most recent season of Lost on DVD every year! I guess after this next year he will have to move on to some other show! He also got a bunch of movies with STRANGE names...Mister Lonely, Gummo, etc. I feel really sorry for Jessica! I just hope he watches them when she is not there!

Jessica and some of her stocking!!!

I didn't take many pictures this year at Granny's for some reason! I think I was trying to watch both boys and forgot about my camera! Here are just a couple...

J.Q. and Quinn checking out something Quinn got...I am sure it is something Lightening McQueen!!!

GiGi and the boys after opening presents! If you have not noticed...Quinn is a HUGE GiGi fan! If she is around...you will always find him close to her or on her lap!

Granny always goes way over the top with Christmas! She loves it so we just let her do it! We have complained for many years and it never makes a difference!!!

these boys must have been good this year...

Santa came for a visit this year and the boys must have been really good. J.Q. and I enjoyed watching Quinn get really excited! I am sure in the coming years both him and Qualls will be soooo much fun! Quinn's big present was his Lightening McQueen powerwheels car. He loves it! Qualls got baby toys that he will enjoy in the coming months!

We have a really cute Santa cookie plate but for some reason Santa moved his cookie and milk to the Lightening McQueen plate this year...I believe there is a theme going on!

Qualls and some of his toys that Santa brought him for being a good boy!!! It does look like a star is attached to his head in this pic...never noticed it till Julie Dilworth pointed it out to me on facebook! Ha!!!

Quinn telling us "bye" when he got in his car! He kept saying "me drive, mommy...me drive, mommy" over and over again!

a fresh start...

The Dickerson Family has decided to join the blogging world! We have kinda been in the blogging world already with our babysite for Quinn but decided with the birth of Qualls that we needed to do something a little different since we need to be documenting things for two instead of one! Please join us for this ride that we love dearly...raising two Dickerson boys!