Eight is Great.......

For Baylee at least! My baby girl is 8 years old now! She turned 8 January 3rd! The family took her out to eat but her party will not be until the end of the month at the indoor swimming pool! It was the closest date that we could get :( Baylee and her friend Haveyn always combine their parties! Haveyn turns 8 January 9th! I can not believe how fast Baylee is growing up. It seems like every year just keeps getting so much faster! I am so proud of Baylee! She is in Second Grade and works really hard at everything she does! Like I have said before she is a busy girl...She is dancing and playing basketball right now and softball tryouts are January 23! There is never a boring moment with Miss Baylee! She is getting so excited about her upcoming role.........BIG SISTER!!! And I know that she will be a great BIG SISTER!! As everyone knows I was not blessed with a sister but instead two MEAN BROTHERS (Only half the time were they mean :) But really I loved growing up with two boys but I think it would be great to have a sister and now I am married to a man that has 3 sisters and a sister in law!!YAY!!! And I have a sister in law myself!! So I guess it works out! Baylee I hope that you had a wonderful day!!! We love you!!!


This was last year Party.....
A few pictures from this year....

This year at lunch with the Family...

We Love You, Baylee Elizabeth!!!!!

Happy New Years

I can not believe it is 2010!!! 2009 went by so fast and was such a busy and WONDERFUL year for our family!! I can not wait to see what all 2010 brings us but I can already say that I think that it is only going to keep getting better!! I hope that everyone has a great and healthy year!

Christmas fun 2009.........

I couldn't believe that Santa really came.......Baylee said that Santa is getting a little older these days and his sight is not so good anymore and that is why he came to our house!!!! We had a wonderful and busy Christmas once again! I loved getting to see family, talk, play games and of course eat a ton of food!!!! Here are just a couple pictures of this year.....





Our Beautiful niece Amber...

Our Nephews Will and BradyBaylee and Aunt Grace

Baylee and Aunt Jess and Baby Wright

Baylee, Paw and Papaw

Cousins.........

We hope that everyone had a WONDERFUL and SAFE Christmas!!!

Love The Melton's

Where does time go????

Sorry I have not been the "Best Blogger" and I apologize.....I seems like we are so busy all the time! But I am going to try and do better. 2 Days Until Christmas!!!!!!!!! Baylee has started playing Basketball this year, this is her first year playing and she is loving it! Her first game was this past Saturday and she got a "basket" (I never in my life even attempted Basketball so I am not 100% sure what the term for that is....please forgive me) We had taken Baylee and her best friend Haveyn to the men's UT game the last Tuesday to get them ready for their big game and they LOVED it! Baylee couldn't even talk after the game! I think now the only sport Baylee hasn't played is soccer and I am sure that she will try that soon! She has cheered, loves dance, fast pitch softball and now basketball and I wonder why we are so busy!! Here are a few of her pictures in action.......

Sunday I met up with some friends and ate at Soccer Taco in Market Square! It was so good to see everyone and especially Lexie, Brooke's little girl!! I had not seen her since the hospital, which was a month ago ,she is getting big and is so gorgeous!!!

Last night Baylee and two of her good friends, Haveyn and Keyona (and Moms) met up for dinner and a movie and exchanging Christmas presents!! We had so much fun! Baylee loves her gifts!!!

EVERYONE needs a Snuggie for the movies!!!!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!!! I can't wait to spend the next few days with family and friend!! We will update after Santa comes to town!!!!

Thanksgiving.......

Sorry this is a week late.....But I do want to share a few pictures. I forgot my camera on actual Thanksgiving Day but I did get some pictures from our early thanksgiving dinner with my Mom. This year my mom's family gathered in Florida at my grandparents house! I really wanted to be with them but it was too hard to travel right now......but Mom and Greg got to come to Tennessee a week early so we had a dinner! It was Great!! Thank you Mom for all the cooking that you did!
Thanksgiving Day was still a very busy day for us!! We decided; along with my Dad; that this year we would go to Knoxville and hand out some dinners for the homeless people. So we ended up with $300 and bought 30 meals at Cracker Barrell (the meal was great deal 8.99 for everything including drink and pie) and everyone loves Cracker Barrell!! Thank you everyone that help us with the $300!! We hope to make this a tradition and who knows how many dinners we can purchase next year! This year it was just my Dad, Matthew, Baylee, Me and Rick (my dad's friend and his brother). This was a great thing for Matt, Baylee and I. We really enjoyed helping the people and they just made our day! They were all so nice!
After that we went to Misty and Brad's for Matt's Family Dinner! The food was great! Then to my Aunt Diane's for more food......and finally Dovie's house for some soup!!! Thank you everyone for making our Thanksgiving so special!!!! We love you all!

Girl Cousins!!!

Group Shot!!

Mom and Greg

Ricky and Stephanie and Baylee

Ray and Katrina

Mom Baylee and I

Ready for the next 30 years.......

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY RICKY!!!! Yesterday my BIG BIG brother celebrated his 30th Birthday!! Offically out of his twenties and into his thirties!! Must feel great!!! I am not too far behind and I know the years just keep flying by faster and faster! Hope you had a wonderful 30th Birthday!! We love you!

Happy Birthdays and Birth Day..........

Welcome Alexis Jayne Jenkins!!!! Brooke had her baby November 20th!! Lauren and I went up to the hospital Saturday morning. We were so excited to see Lexie...She is so gorgeous! And Brooke and Bobby are doing great! Congratulations!!

Happy Birthday Jess!! We had a great time at dinner!! We love you!

I want to say Happy Late Birthday to Aunt Shelly!! I hope that you had a wonderful day! We love you!