Spring Update ~

       Walker with the Easter Bunny, Camden wasn't so brave!                                                                                          

At Trey's chili cookoff being a boy..

We had a wonderful last few weeks. Camden had a blast on Easter. His daycare had an easter egg hunt and they said he was a natural! They had to hide the eggs twice since the kids had such a great time. Then Trey took Cam with my brother and nephew to the church hunt that Saturday (I had to work Friday night so I was sleeping!) he loved it! 
Then they made a routine trip to Home Depot and they happen to be having a kids workshop, which we found out takes place the 1st saturday of every month, where he and Trey got to build a piggy bank together! It is so cool, and totally free, he got his own personalized apron with a pin of the project they worked on together. If he does more projects, he gets new pins for each project. I think we are going to try to make this a monthly tradition! I finished one of my classes, Advanced Research, and couldn't be happier with the completion of that one! I have one more final this semester then out until June! I am debating on taking only one class this summer so I can concentrate on spending more time with Cam and Trey plus work on some house projects I've been dying to get to (namely painting).

I took Camden to the zoo last week with a friend of ours and her baby and he had too much fun, we may have to buy a membership! He knows so many of the animals names now and it is so much more fun taking him to show him the animals.

Mommy & Camden zoo field trip

checking out the turtles.

abby and Jackson on our zoo playdate (he slept the whole time!)

Sacked out after a long day at the zoo!

He is talking up a storm and even shocked us by counting the other day. We routinely count as we slide down the stairs on our bottoms (our trick to keep him from tumbling down the stairs) and he just started doing it on his own the other day! He doesn't always get them in the right order, but I will say "one, two..." and he'll say "five, six" its really cute. He is becoming very outgoing and never meets a stranger. He loves to entertain (i.e. dancing in the middle of a crowded restaurant, running up to friends of ours and tapping there leg to make them laugh!). Also, Camden has become quite accident prone lately. I think it is the boy in him. 2 weeks ago he was staying with his CeCe (my mom) and took off running and dove face first into the concrete patio! His whole nose was skinned off and had a big scab for several days (he looked like a puppy dog costume ;( then the same weekend we went to the Lunsford's house and Trey was outside fishing in their pond and I wanted to get a pic of him and Camden together fishing and Cam took off only to loose his footing and fall completly under the water in the pond!! Scared us to death, but Trey jerked him out so fast that he was only in the water for seconds.

poor boo boo nose...

Then a few days later he decided to use the doggie door as his own personal portal and skinned his face on the door mat! And finally, last Thursday he found a hole in our backyard fence and was sticking his hand through the fence trying to make friends with the neighbors dog and the dog bit a chunk out of his little finger! I was at work and Trey called and said he was balling and had part of his nail missing. It scared trey pretty bad when he came in crying and had a bloody hand! He was crying and saying "dog bite" really pitifully.. I am hoping and praying that this is not a recurring theme. I know he is a boy and will get into all sorts of things but I just hope it stays with the scrapes and bruises nothing major!!

Some of our friends live on our street and they have a little boy almost 3 (Griffin) who Cam has had a blast playing with they have played together 3 times already and I suspect many more times this summer! Of course he always loves playing with my nephew Walker. They both beeline for my closet when they're together and pull out my heels, much to the dismay of their daddies :)

Other than that, We are gearing up for our family vacation in the next few weeks. Trey's sister is graduating from Pharmacy school in May so we are going to that in Corpus Christi, Texas with most of the fam and staying in a beach house on the coast (yeah!!). Then we come back and spend a few days at home then Trey and I are off to Pensacola, Fl and Gulf Shores, Alabama to visit our friends as well as attend another couple's wedding. We're pretty excited! Both of our works are stressful these days and we are need of a week off on the beach! Pray I can figure out my fall schedule. I will have to work weekends most likely so I can get my clinical hours in. I am sad to miss out on our family weekends together and possibly miss church some sundays. But it won't be for long and then once I finish school I won't have to work nights or probably weekends anymore. I am so excited about that so I guess the sacrifice will be worth it!!

At a surprise party for our friend Adam, the newest member in the "dirty 30" club! ha!

ALOT to update!

So sorry for the delay in my postings, the Lunsford family has kicked it into overdrive over the last few months. I guess I will start with February. Trey and I went out on Valentine's Day on a great surprise date orchestrated by Trey. He surprised me with great dinner reservations at Harry's Detour downtown which was a wonderful new orleans inspired restaurant followed by tickets to the Orpheum theatre to see the sold out Broadway show "Jersey Boys". It was so fun and I loved the show! We were singing Frankie Valley songs for weeks!

Snuck a quick picture of the finale!

Camden at a little gym open house he was trying his hand at pullups!

We had 4 showings on our house in 2 weeks and then had an offer with a closing date of 3/19! That gave us one month to find a new home and move! So after a few counter offers, we accepted the offer and began searching for our new home. It was divine intervention that the very next day we saw the house we wanted, it was a foreclosure that we just happened upon driving around and later our realtor showed us what he described as the "best deal in Southaven". It was HUGE, and only slightly more than what we paid for our small house. We went to see it the very next day and by lunch had an offer on it. We were one of 4 offers and by the grace of God ours was accepted!! We were so excited. Finally, we had some of the amenities we were looking for at well beneath or budget. This house has 3600 sq. feet, 4 bedrooms, tile and hardwood, granite countertops, game room, media room , huge master bath with a walk through shower and 2 shower heads, it was a dream come true. There are a several rooms I want to paint and there a few cosmetic things that need to be fixed, but other than that it is perfect :)

Hearth room connected to the kitchen and second set of stairs (we plan to paint this room)

Kitchen (will be painting the cabinets as well)

Master bath with walkthrough shower

Another view of the master bath Trey and I have our own sinks and closets!!

Game room upstairs with media room as well

Huge fenced backyard

God meant for it to happen this way and he was the reason it did. We closed on both houses as planned 3/19 and moved that same day so needless to say it has been a busy month! We had much help from Trey's parents, my parents and my brother, sis, and cousin and a friend moving everything. We used one the Bud Light 18 wheelers from Trey's work to move the majority of everything which was amusing to the new neighbors, but made us new friends! I couldn't be happier with the neighborhood, it is not far at all from where we were and everyone is very friendly and there are alot of families near us who have block parties, movie nights, halloween parties, etc. It has a walking track around a pond down the street and all the houses have nicely manicured lawns and noone parks on the street, which is nothing like the old place. I am already envisioning massive family gatherings with both the Cresswells and the Lunsfords. It is a great entertaining home.

We have been so blessed with help landscaping, furnishing and cleaning our new home from both sets of parents. Joan helped a ton the week of the move with Camden to keep him busy while we packed. Mom took him the first night in the new house so we could unpack. He loves his new stairs which we quickly installed babygates :) We hope to have our game and media rooms up and running this summer and will start the parties. I have been really busy with my 2nd semester in school, gearing up for finals. I am training a new graduate nurse at work for 12 weeks so that has been new and challanging. Trey has a new territory in Oxford and Corinth which means lots of traveling which I'm not crazy about but he likes it. Overall we are doing great. Looks like our summer will be filled with painting, installing and landscaping:)


Here is some funny pics of camden's newest obsession cars and he loves to line them up along the wall or on a table he can do it for an hour. He will put them end to end or nose to nose or side by side. But when he starts its like he's on a mission and in a hurry. He runs back and forth to the toy box grabbing ever car he owns and put them in formation! It is so funny :)

Getting the cars in line while Wrigley looks on, note the fleet of frogs behind him. He put them that way!

This day we had to put every car on the table, again Wrigs is helping!

And on this day they had to park against the wall...

And another funny thing about my kid is he loves pickles! I don't know any child that likes pickles but he will eat them like candy. He also loves tomatoes, bell peppers, green beans, even onions! He'll eat any kind of fruit. Dont get me wrong he loves his candy and junk food, but it is nice to know he'll eat some veggies too! I am keeping my fingers crossed he doesn't outgrow this!!

Lately..

Last weekend we took Cam to the bull riding at the Southaven Arena. Trey's company were one of the main sponsors so we were VIP and got to send ringside (meaning all that seperated us from those huge monster bulls was a small metal gate). It was pretty cool, camden was more interested in pulling his JoJo (Treys mom) around and showing her the cows and the bulls. The clown was really funny and Camden had a ball. We only had one scary moment when a wayward bull got a little too close for comfort and started charging towards our side of the arena and snorted at us, I sat paralyzed and Trey jerked Camden up off the ground in case we needed to make a break for it! The cowboy in charge headed off the bull and nothing happened, but it was scary for a second! Other than that we've just been super busy as always.

Trying to be like the cowboys...

Trey's been moved to a Sales Director position instead of Service Manager which has been really nice. His phone hasn't been ringing off the hook like it normally did from as early as 5 am until 9 pm at night. Last weekend we went to a fun Super Bowl party at our friends Carl & Rachel's beautiful house. And our team from the Who Dat? nation won!! We came decked out in black and gold and had some mardi gras beads as well. Also we had a ton of snow the next morning unexpectedly.

Who dat said they gonna beat dem Saints??!

This was the closest we got to the snow. Camden pulled his chairs up to the window when I wasn't looking:)

 I guess the weathermen were all watching the game so it was a shock monday am to awake to 6 inches of snow! Camden stayed home with me but never got to play in the snow b.c it was raining the whole day so we missed out on the fun :( School has been pretty stressful lately, I'm a little lost and trying to figure it out. My first test is 2/22 so pray for a good grade!! I'm hoping for an A!

We're looking forward to a movie date night this weekend for Valentine's Day while Cam takes turns spending the night with my parents and trey's on saturday! I am so happy to call Trey my Valentine for the 8th year in a row!! We met in late 2001 so we have spent 8 years together and I still have every card he has ever given me. We are boycotting candy this year b/c we are dieting but I am excited for special time to express my love for this wonderful man whom I call my Valentine!! I tried to find some old pics from Trey and I in the beginning but we are on our third laptop since then so I unfortunately don't have any I may have to take a picture of one or two for nostalgia's sake!. But here's a few pics of my other special valentine just being cute!

Trying on mommy's boots and looking like a lil Robin Hood !

With the "frof" that Cece got him for Valentines Day. Its his new BFF.

Eating a well balanced meal,all the food groups represented!

30th birthday party (80's style) and Camden's 1st haircut!

Our 80's inspired cake!

So, alot has transpired since our last post. Of course I hit the big 3-0 last year and so myself along with 3 of my very close friends from high school decided to throw ourselves a totally tubular 80's shindig. We all turn 30 w/in a month of each other so we decided to celebrate with a bang! We had the party at a bar in Southaven where they had booked the 80's cover band Aquanet in our honor! It was a costume party so everyone dressed in their 80's finest. It was hysterical! As my sister saids, "Pure D. Hilarium!" We had an awesome time and it was cool to celebrate in a big way. We had a photographer come and she had a photobooth set up where we could pose and be silly plus there were shots from inside the party as well. If you want to look at them in their entirity go to ramblinrosephotography.com and under proofing type in: thirty. Just please know we were having a really good time in many of the pictures ;) But here are a few of my faves:

The birthday kids.

With the lead singer of the band!!

Me as a Madonna wannabe, Tracy as an aerobics instructer

Mj.

The weekend before last Camden hit another milestone and had his first big boy haircut. It has taken his hair so long to get long enough to warrant a haircut that I wasn't sure this day would ever come! He has the headfull of wavy curls that I didn't want to totally get rid of and his bangs are still really short with just some uneven places around his ears and a stage one mullet in the back so we decided it was time! He did ok, we went to Sportclips and he watched Daddy go first and they bribed him with suckers and he was a little squirmy wouldn't wear the drape, but never cried and it went really quick and now he is so handsome!

Front view of his long hair b/f church

Mullet....

What's dada doing?

Finished product!

Learning how to spell our names

trying on Walker's big boy underwear (and sucking in for the camera!! haha)

Lately he has been babbling alot and even showing some interest in potty training (I think b/c most of the kids in his class at school are as well as Walker so it peaked his curosity) he will say pooh pooh and they I will put him on the potty and he will grunt like he's trying but nothings happened yet (sorry Camden for sharing your business!!) He loves the word "no" says it in response to everything, he says "I won moore" when he wants "more" or something, he can tell us where all his body parts are and he can make the sounds of a cow, dog, cat and horse when cued. He is super silly and cracks us up all the time. He likes leading you around and making you sit where he wants you to. He will pull me and trey both in the den and make us sit on his little couch and play cars, read books, etc. It's pretty funny. He loves baths, cars, sweets,most any food (even veggies), shoes (which he calls "soos") especially my high heels (red are his fav), playing outside ("ah-ha") and playing with animals in particular Wrigs! He is getting so big and independent and doesn't like us to help with holding a big person cup he wants to do it all by himself. He's gotten kind of bossy:) Other than that Trey and I are going through the "Love Dare" w/ our SS class. If you aren't familiar it's the book that the movie 'Fireproof'' is based on. It really great and we have enjoyed going through the first week and it's a 8 wk series meant to bring you and your spouse closer and kind date them again. If you haven't read it you should check it out! Below are some pics from our friends Jack and Abby's diaper/wipe shower we threw for them last weekend.

Pampers...A much needed neccessity!

They are due in Feb with their 1st but he has 2 brothers with a total of 14 children b/t them so hopefully the 15th grandchild doesn't get lost in the shuffle! ha ha!! pray for a safe and healthy delivery for them! And finally are some pics from Walker's 3rd bday at Bounz in S'haven we all had a great time, especially Cam!

He went down the titanic slide at least 10 times!

Daddy's chasing

Wrestling with Uncle Jimmy