The James Family

Our Story

Marty and I met on a blind date September 27th, 2004 and it was love at first site! Shortly afterwards we were engaged in February and married on July 2nd, 2005. We live in Brent. We are the proud parents of Lily Grace and Cooper Preston. LG was born on May 8th, 2007 at 12:16 p.m. She weighed 7lbs. 14 ozs. and was 20 inches long. Cooper was born on October 11th, 2009 at 6:10 a.m. He weighed 9 lbs. 4 oz. and was 21 inches long. We have been blessed! About Peyton: My parents are Debbie and Randy Deavours (Grandmommy and Pop), Sister Kirsten, Brother Skyler, Nephew Tucker. My hometown is Berry, Al. I graduated from the University of Alabama in May 2007 with a BS in Elementary Education but as of now I have the best job in the world, a stay at home mommy! I also have a liitle business out of my house where I create and sell personalized gifts and invitations. See my website! About Marty: My parents are Dexine and Preston James (Grandmama and Granddaddy) and Brother Pat. Sister-in-law Brandi, niece Madilyn, and nephews Brennon and Braiden. My hometown is Brent, Al. I graduated from The U of A in 1999 with a BS in MIS with a Minor in CS. Also from Shelton State I have an AS in Business Administration and AS in Drafting Technology. I work as a Computer Office Manager at Scott Davis Timber Company. I really love my job. More about us: We are the luckiest people in the world because we have each other, the sweetest babies, a wonderful and loving family, and great friends. And we love our church family from Northport Church of Christ. We love life or our little paradise we have made together.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Dinner with the Townsends

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Last Wednesday night we met the Townsends for dinner at Tokyo of course! They are about to have a new family member added to their family, Emma Bess. Then after the baby is born they will be moving to Tennessee. This makes us so sad! We love spending time with this sweet, sweet family. And Lily Grace LOVES Eleigh Kaye so much. She talks about her all the time. She says her name so cute, too. Eleigh Kaye is about 7 months older than Lily Grace but they have always played so good together. I wish they could always live close to us so the girls could grow up together. Even their new addition and our baby will be close in age! We will miss them so much when they move. We love you Jon, Jenn, Eleigh Kaye and you too Emma Bess!

We are pretty regulars at Tokyo, as you all know. The sushi man (I need to ask him his name) loves Lily Grace. He always comes and talks to her and gives her some type of little present - flower, umbrella, some toy he has made (last time he even showed her a live little octopus!!!) and this time he made the girls little paper things that spun in the air. They had the best time with something so simple!

Lily Grace thought it was hilarious every time Eleigh Kaye threw hers in the air.

Bows, Bows, Bows

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Lily Grace has gotten into where she likes to where as many bows as she can get on her head! Funny and very cute!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Shaken Up!

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We experienced a first this morning! At about 5:25 am, Marty was about to leave for work and I was laying in the bed when all of a sudden the bed started shaking along with the whole house! We kinda joked about it being an earthquake and guess what? It was!! It was a 3.8 on the Richter scale! It was very weird though. Actually, Daddy said it was not my first earthquake because there was a pretty big one in Berry when I was a baby but this one I will remember. Also there was another one close to Brent in February but we did not feel that one. Very interesting there has been two in the past few months here! Hope you all have a great day!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Every Princess sleeps in her Crown!

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Weston gave Lily Grace a little Easter basket and with the Strawberry Shortcake movie there was a crown. She has worn that crown like crazy! She even HAD to sleep with it during nap time!

Cleaning up the Yard

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The other day, I was outside doing some yard work while Lily Grace was playing. She found all these little white styrofoam balls in the yard where the next door neighbor's dog had torn up one of his toys in OUR yard. Ugh!! Anyway, she worked forever picking those things up. For some reason she really enjoyed it. Then I got to wondering where she was putting them all?? And I found this. The she started riding her little four wheeler and you know how styrofoam is, all the ones she had collected started blowing everywhere. She started running after them and then the wind would blow them away from her. She got soooo mad, as you can see in the last picture. It was kinda funny to us though!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Sunday 2009

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This is a very long post with many, many pictures! We had the Happiest Easter ever this year! Now that Lily Grace is a little older and understands more of what is going on, it was a blast! She loved it all - hunting for her baskets first thing when she woke up, helping everyone else find their baskets, coloring the eggs, hunting for eggs, eating the eggs, you name it, she loved it! Marty and I truly enjoyed watching her all day experience it.

Good Morning Sunshine! She already found her basket from Grandmommy and Pop, now she is looking for the one from Mommy and Daddy.

I think she found it!

Yea! She found it!

Her basket from Mommy and Daddy

It may be too early in the morning for these!

Grandmommy still gets Mommy a basket...

and of course Daddy, too! We love Easter goodies!

Happy First Easter, Baby Tucker! We love you!

I think he is really excited about it!

Lily Grace loved coloring the eggs. She didn't understand how to just softly drop the eggs in the cups though. She would chunk them in and cause a big colorful splash!

You made beautiful eggs Lily Grace!

Lily Grace in her Easter dress

She likes the ears now!

Our Family

The Deavours Family

Pop and Grandmommy

With the Grandkids

Aunt KirKir and Tucker

Mother and Daddy with the three kids

All pretty in PINK!

Hunting eggs with Pop

She found some all by herself! She didn't really understand why some eggs had prizes inside and others did not!

She found 25 eggs in all!

Everyone counting their eggs. Levi and Houston found lots of eggs too! Levi found the prize egg with $10 in it!!!

Blowing bubbles with Mommy

Lily Grace trying to do it now

A mouth full of eggs! She found out that all the eggs DID have a prize inside!

What a wonderful Easter. We hope you all had one, too. Love to you all!

A Night out with the Camps

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Saturday night we went to Birmingham to meet the Camps for dinner at Chili's. It was so much fun hanging out with them! We miss them so much and wish we could do more with them. Lily Grace really warmed up to them and played with them and put on a show! We can't wait to see them again very soon! We love you guys!

Lily Grace with her Uncle Don and Uncle Lugg