They're Here!

Harper

Taylor

Me hogging Taylor

I'm sorry I am just getting to posting pictures and as Christie mentioned my blog is now centered around Hunter so here I go adding another post to pay homage!

Joseph Taylor (Taylor) was born at 7:43 am yesterday morning weighing 6 lbs 14 oz and 19 3/4 inches long.  His squirt of a sister, Caroline Harper (Harper) was born at 7:44 am weighing 4 lbs 10 oz and 17 1/2 inches long.

I busted out of school at 2:50 yesterday (after a long day of itching to see them) and got to hold them both for forever---And as if Joe and Hunter didn't get enough of us earlier, Graham and I took Joe dinner later (Hunter is on a liquid diet and was probably hating us for eating in front of her) and watched the first half of the Clemson basketball game with each of us holding a baby! It was their first Clemson game of a million to come and they were definitely the good luck charms that whipped our team back in shape!

They are so precious and I am so proud of Hunter, Joe, and my darling niece and nephew!

February 17th...

there will be new kids on the block! (quite literally since we all live in the same neighborhood). My sister-in-law Hunter will be having a c-section to deliver her twins (boy and girl)!!! I absolutely cannot wait! Side note-It would have worked out better for me if this could have happened on the 16th since I do not have school but Hunter has always been hard-headed and stubborn so...If they don't come before the 17th I will be busting out of school right when the kids walk out the door!

Please pray for Harper and Taylor to have a safe delivery into this world and to be healthy little darlings!

This is for you Hunter...

Awful I know...I should be punted from the blogging world.  It has been forever!

My sister-in-law Hunter is pregnant with twins (they will be here soon!) and she is on bed rest.  All she can pretty much do is lay on the couch or lay on the couch.  I think she is quite bored and admits that she checks my blog for updates and can quote the day, time, and title of my last post.  SO for her reading pleasure and to waste 10 minutes of her long day stuck on the couch here is  a small update!

1. January and February are just plain boring.  It's cold ( I hate cold), and all my favorite holidays plus football season is a year away. Thank goodness the twins are getting here soon...I am counting down the days!

2. One of the only things that have made these months tolerable is tv:

The Bachelor: One of the best seasons yet...I have 3 favorites Hot Dog Jillian, Dallas Cow Boy Cheerleader Melissa, and Make-out Molly.  If you watch it or you just need a good laugh that will make you cry and your stomach hurt go to http://www.ihategreenbeans.com/category/bachelor-recap/ 

Kudos to my friend Emily who discovered this blog...you rock.  I am also in a little competition with girls I grew up with and I am currently tied for second place because I accurately picked 3 out of the 6 girls that have been kicked off.  Hmmm... I need to step up my game.

Gray's and Private Practice: Graham is actually watching these as I type and I'm not happy with him about this since I asked him to wait...BUT that's why we have DVR.  I have and always will love both of these fabulous shows....BUT if Denny doesn't remove himself soon I am going to scream!

American Idol: Can't stand the auditions, they make me hide behind couch pillows.  Will be glued to the set when they finally put together the group that can actually sing.

3. Clemson Basketball: Well, we won 16 straight and then lost 2 games to top 10 Wake Forest and UNC...I'm over it...we will bounce back ( no pun intended).  

So t.v. is all I really have to report on...I'll do better after the doldrums of January and February...and then I get to love on my new niece and nephew!  

Clean Sweep

It never gets old beating Carolina...especially when it's in football AND basketball!  I'm going to bed once again proud to be a Tiger and almost feeling sorry for those who have to put up with losing to Clemson all the time...

Happy New Year (early) to everyone, and I will be back on January 2nd to report on the outcome of the Gator Bowl!  Graham and I are leaving early Thursday morning for Jacksonville on a bus with friends and family...GO TIGERS!

Holiday Happenings

I am definitely in the Christmas spirit with only one week left before Christmas break!  I am so thankful to be in our own house this year, I love watching tv with our tree lights on, and snuggling on the couch with Graham and Riggs!  Wondering what those beautiful tulips are down there for?  Two years ago yesterday Graham proposed!  He surprised me with this beautiful Christmas tulip arrangement....too sweet I know!  He's going to hate me for writing this but the card said "here's 15 times thank you for saying yes 2 years ago today"!

Enough mushy...life at school has been crazy...My kids are literally bouncing from wall to wall and breaking out in spontaneous Christmas carols in the middle of math....BUT they do make me smile with every "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "you better not pout, you better not cry!"

Graham and I have been busy, busy bees and its going to pick up even more this week...we went to my bunko group's cocktail party last night, we just got back from Graham's dad's birthday party,  I am going to the Nutcracker with my nieces, sister in law, and mother in law tomorrow night (the Cracker Nut as Sanders calls it), Graham's cousin is throwing a party on Wednesday, teacher party Thursday night, and off to Florence until the 23rd to do Christmas with my family.  My middle brother "debuts" this Saturday in the Florentine Society.  Yes..I know its weird the girls debut and the sons are honored...Graham thinks this is totally wrong and can't get over Michael Ross "coming out" so to speak, but I can't wait to see him all decked out in his formal Citadel uniform.

We will be back home for Christmas Eve and then there will be some serious relaxing until we go to the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville New Year's Day!

I have been an awful blogger lately so if I don't get back before all the festivities, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

31-14

This is a week late but that's because I still have not come down from CLOUD NINE yet!  If you follow Clemson or heard anything about the football team this past season it is has been awful to say the least...

So...as usual USC decided that this was gonna be the year that they were going to beat us...

Well, I was at the game...having the time of my life and all I have to say is sorry your Hall of Famer, Heisman winner, All-American, sent from the lord himself coach couldn't even touch our wide receivers coach not to mention tackle James Davis or CJ Spiller!  31-14

Please watch this video it is HILARIOUS and it pretty much sums up the game if you didn't catch it.  (Carolina fans should watch it as a re-cap since they started leaving Death Valley at the end of the 1st quarter....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WshOJXEWqQ

Nervous Nelly...

That's me right now.

Graham and I have been in Clemson since Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with my family (my extremely devoted grandparents live a stone's throw away from Death Valley) and I am getting so EXCITED/SICK about the game!

Wish us luck...I think we are about to go the Esso (yeah i know its 3:30) and then to the basketball game tonight.  Win or lose I am so proud to be a Tiger and so glad that I don't root for the chickens. 

64-37-4 (series record).