www.WhoisJoeHilton.com

Last night Uncle Joe, Grandma and Poppa got into town. Uncle Joe is Joe Hilton, aspiring Country singer here visiting from Nashville. We all wanted to hear Uncle Joe sing so Jon found an open mic night and we loaded the family up to go watch Uncle Joe sing. Here are the kids having a pre show jam session, they were rocking out to some Christmas songs.

At Puffabelly's in Old Town Spring waiting for his turn.
Garrett was a busy little boy, he got passed around all of the adults to try and keep him content.
Uncle Joe's turn on stage, he did a GREAT job.
The kids were so excited about getting to see Uncle Joe sing, and when we get there all they want to do is play on the phone.
I loved the rustic decor.
Addie is learning how to play more games on the phone and it is so fun to watch her concentrate.
A proud Mom recording her son.
Garrett was so happy when we finally let him have a phone.
Joe sang 4 songs, and it was so fun.
Addie had brought her guitar with her and when Joe was done she grabbed her guitar and went up on stage with him.
She was so nervous, but she wanted to be up their with Uncle Joe so bad.
I love this picture!
When we left another person walked out with us to talk to Joe. Addie ended up singing a song for the man and he pulled out his wallet and gave her a dollar tip. It was really sweet, until Ben walked up to the man and asked "Can I have a dollar?" I was mortified, but it really was sweet. The man was very nice and played along. We are going to have to work on Ben a little more.
It was so fun to here Joe sing, he has been working so hard on his music and he did a great job. If you want to hear some of his music you can check him out at www.whoisjoehilton.com

Pictures before church

I found these matching shirts for the boys, and then I found the dress and jacket combo for Addie. It is harder to dress everyone alike or coordinating these days, but I love the challenge.

I thought everyone did a pretty good job, at first.

Ben doing Kung Fu, like he learned watching Kung Fu Panda. It is cute, but kind of dangerous.

Trying to get all three of them together is getting harder and harder. Ben does not like looking at the camera, Garrett is crawling and about to start walking so he doesn't hold still unless he is in his booster seat, Addie is the only one that will sit sweetly for me to take a picture.



Garrett is such a funny little boy. He loves to have his picture taken, Jon was able to get these shots of him at the table the other day. I can never pick which expression is my favorite.


We went for Garrett's 12 month well baby check up. He weighed in at 21 pounds 4 ounces and 29 inches long. That puts him right at the 25 percentile for both. He is a healthy little boy and we are so thankful.

Family Resemblance

My Mom put this picture on Facebook the other day. It is a picture of me the morning of my first birthday. We were living in England at the time and my mom was baking for my party that evening.

This is Garrett eating his blueberry pancakes the morning of his 1st birthday.


And just for fun, here are pictures of Addie and Ben on their 1st birthdays.
Addison


Bennett

Celebrating Gare Bear

This little birthday boy was so happy to see Daddy!

Addie was very anxious for Garrett to open his presents.

Garrett had lots of help opening his gifts.

Just looking at the wrapping paper was pretty fascinating for him.

Yay Balloons! Nannie, GeeGee,and Aunt Laura sent a cookie bouquet. They do this for the kid's birthdays and it is always a big hit.

The cookies, beautiful

and delicious.

We let the kids have a cookie upstairs while we watched Garrett's new Veggie Tales movie. The big kids did okay with their cookies, but Garrett decided that he wanted to make as big a mess as he could.

He was just to cute I couldn't stop him.

He loves to put on a show for the camera.

He was laying on his back saying "Mmmmmmm". It was hilarious.

Addie and Ben both loved their cookies, thankfully they didn't make as big of a mess.

The next morning we got ready for a playdate we were holding at our house. It was a Christmas Pajama play date so I washed Addie's Christmas PJs for her to wear them again.

They were watching a movie while Garrett took a little nap and I finished up some of the fun snacks we had.

Snowman donuts with orange frosting noses and chocolate chip eyes. The 'snowballs' in the middle were a big hit.

The snow man cupcakes were so fun. They are stuck together with white frosting and more orange frosting for the noses.

I thought the little snowmen were so cute.

Here is Garrett's cupcake. I saved this 1 from Ben's 1st birthday.

I did try to have some healthier alternatives.


Build your own snow man with bananas, blueberries and pretzels.

The Birthday Boy!

Getting some love from big sister, Addie.

You can't see it here, but there were about 30 people there, most of them able to sing, Garrett loved all the attention.

I love Garrett's frosting mustache in this picture.

Thanks to my friend Amanda for getting some family pictures.

Garrett did not want to share with Daddy.

He really liked his cupcake and marshmallows.

He loved the balloons that came with his cookies, the kids are still playing with the balloons!

Thank you to everyone who helped make our Little man feel special. I can't believe he is already 1. We go tomorrow for his 1 year check up so I will have all the stats for my long and lean Garrett.