Look what we can do!

Ok, I know this looks like the same picture over and over but we are sitting up! She's not perfect and someone needs to sit behind her but she's really gotten steady in the past couple days. She is getting to be such a big girl!!!

6 wonderful months old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATNEY!!!
I cannot believe that Matney is 6 months old today. We go the dr. tomorrow and I will post her info after the appt. These pictures are from this morning. Once again we started on the rainforest playmat and, once again, we ended up across the room. We just got new furniture and haven't figured out how we are going to arrange the room yet so ignore the mess!

"Hi, Mom!"



I think she would have made it out the front door if there hadn't been something in the way!

I think this may be one of my new favorite pictures. What a happy girl!

5 Minutes in the Life of Matney

I snapped these pics of Miss M. during a 5 minute span while she rolled around upstairs. Isn't she the cutest??? Notice that she is already trying to climb the walls. Enjoy!

Look at our NEW new addition!

Nope, not the Pebble's ponytail. If you look close, since Matney was in such a good mood and big smiles in her cute bug outfit, you will see TWO teeth in that smile. (double click on the picture to make it larger) The one on the left came in last week and the right one starting poking through the skin on Monday. And can I just say that I LOVE teething! They really haven't seemed to bother her much. She is a little more clingy and tired but she's taking better naps! YEA for teeth.
Although, the sure make my little baby girl not look like such a little baby anymore. I may cry!

Where is Matney???

Our normal routine in the mornings is to come downstairs and Matney plays on her mt while I make a bottle, go to the bathroom or something similar. Yesterday I went to the bathroom (which is downstairs and next to the family room if you've never been here) and when I came back Matney wasn't on her mat. I found her a couple feet away playing with a box and the chair. Notice that she turns to look at me and then ignores me again. Little stinker. Time to baby proof this house!!!

And the award to goes to....

...the BEST LOOKING COUPLE EVER!!! Since life has become all about Matney I wanted to make sure Jared and I get some attention!

And, ok, so maybe we're not the best looking couple in the universe. Can you tell Jared worked like a dog all weekend and still came the reunion for me? We were tired but we're still cute!

Saturday Night Festivities!

We really did have a great time on Saturday night. It was fun to see old friends and really great to all be together again. We will have to get together as a group before our 20 year reunion!


If we just had a penny for each self portrait shot like this we (Meredith, myself and Kaci) have from high school the three of us would be RICH!


Rachel, Kristen and I were in school together since kindergarden.


Drew, Kaci, Whit, Meredith and I have spent MANY days and nights together getting into all sorts of trouble back in the day..."would you like a brownie, Whit?"


Whit and I grew up together in the neighborhood and at church. He is still one of my best friends...and has gotten Matney some of the CUTEST clothes!

KACI!!!

One of the best things about our 10 year reunion is that one of my best friends from high school had an excuse to come back to GA! Kaci's parents moved away when we graduated and she went to Ohio to go to college and then Indiana for grad school before heading to FL where she is now. No one else in the close group of our friends went that far away without parents in town to come home to so Kaci is the one I never really have gotten to see. She is also one of those friends who I could not talk to for a year and pick up just where we left off. So, even though we've only seen each other a handful of times since leaving Houston County, we had the greatest time being back together again. Jared would probably say it was a little like an I Love Lucy weekend with Lucy and Ethel into everything but we had a blast!
And I am trying my hardest to get her to move up to Atlanta so anyone else who wants to join me PLEASE email/call and bug her!



Not only does she love me but she loved my daughter. Does it get any better??? What a special friend!





If I knew how to scan a picture I would find some old ones a put them side by side of the two of us. It may be wishful thinking but we really haven't changed that much!

Just like old times!

I can't believe we were all back together! Sat. afternoon we all met at our old drama teacher's house. None of us had talked to her in years and she doesn't teach at the school anymore so I found the number to her husband's office and left my name and number to see if she'd call us back...and she did...and more suprising, was excited to hear from all of us! The group of us, Andy, myself, Whit, Kaci and Meredith had a blast catching up with her and reconnecting. Mantey enjoyed all the attention!

Friday night and the gang is coming back together again!

The next couple posts will be boring for those of you who only read for Matney updates. My (Stacey) 10 year high school reunion was this weekend and, after going back and forth about it, we drove down to attend. We actually had a great time (thanks to Rachel)and I am so glad we went! Many of the people I went to high school with I'd been in school with since kindergarden and it was great to be together again.


Most of the gang back together again at dinner. The guys in the back row are Whit, Alex, Andy, Ryan and Drew. Victor, me, Shelia and Kaci are in the front. Rachel jumped in the second picture and had us all laughing as usual!



Even though most of them stayed out much later than Kaci and myself we had a great time while we were there!