John Wells Rodrigues

On December 18th at 5:10am Manny and I welcomed our 2nd baby boy to this world. John Wells (yes we live in the south and are calling him by a double name) weighed in at 7lbs 2oz 20in. His weight was the exact weight of his brother. Only difference was the inches. James was 19 3/4in. We are so in love with him and can't imagine life without him!

Christmas Cookies

Last year we missed the annual Christmas cookie day at Mimi and Pop's but this year we made sure that we did it! After a week of James being sick and me feeling super pregnant I wasn't sure if we would actually do it. But by the time we got to Thursday after being couped up in the house all week it was time for a little fun with my sister, Stella and Mimi!

James didn't really want any help, so I gave him a pile of dough and just let him play with it like it was playdough. Ha! This year we decided to try a new dough recipe and it was AMAZING! We also decided to make Peanut Butter Hershey Kiss Cookies that were dynamite!!!

Here are some pics from our fun day!

It's fun making a mess

Sweet Girl

Big Mama aka Me making the dough

So fun

My handsome boy

Time to decorate

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I could eat him up

Flour Feet

The one rule is you have to have flour on your nose

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was spent here in Charlotte. My oldest sister came up from Georgia with her three kids (#4 is on the way!!) and her hubby! And my other sister was kind enough to host us all. It was such a wonderful day though. I love seeing all the kids together playing. Even though there is the occasional screaming fit they truly love being together. I was just thankful for us all to be together. If we were still living I don't think we would have been able to make the trip down due to my pregnancy. At the end of the night my Dad asked us all to talk about ways that God revealed himself to us or showed up. It was neat to go around and here what everyone had to say. It's been a hard year in our family for many reasons, but the one thing that has remained constant and true has been the presence of the Lord and the fact that the ONLY reason we are all able to feel thankfulness for anything is because of Him!
Here is our day in pictures:

The key to the yummy turkey

Loves Rocks

Stella girl

Love some Caroline Gray

Hunty!

It's normal for kids to want to play with rocks in neighbors yard right? 

Manny and Ware! 

The Fleming Boys

Indian Hats for the kids

We like to call him Dennis the Menace

Running Indians...on your mark, get set, GO!

My sweet Indian! 

Silly Goose

Loves these kiddos

Kel and G

Our little photographer

Mom and Michelle

Yup...he's pure sugar!

The end of a fun day! Stella loves her Uncle Silly