Mary James and Will come visit the newest cousin...

on Sunday, MJ (9) and Will (7) stopped by to visit little Pete. 

James Peter Edwards

On Monday, November 29th at 7:22 a.m., we welcomed James Peter Edwards to our family!  Pete has been with us just over a week now, and is doing great, along with his mommy.  He enjoys sleeping, eating, pooping, and more sleeping.  Big sister Emilie is also enjoying her new little brother, for the most part!

We're so excited to have a little boy Edwards, and can't wait to enjoy life with Pete!

taken by Ben, on his way upstairs and Northside.  He's about 90 minutes old here

Day 2, snoozing with mommy

another pic on the way upstairs at Northside

big yawn

here's the skinny on his measurements

about 5 minutes old here

getting cleaned up a bit

Random things going on over the course of the past couple of months...

I have a number of misc. little pictures that I've been meaning to put on the ol' blog, but none of them are worthy of their own post...so here they are in a mash-up blog. 

Emilie and Avery Podraza at Michael Hall's Halloween themed birthday party.  Em's was a 50's girl. 

Sometime early in Nov., Em was off on her way to school, sporting her backpack

This is not a great pic, but Em's hair has finally gotten long enough for pigtails!  She hates them, but her mommy and daddy don't.

At thanksgiving with the Dooley's.  Emilie sporting Uncle John St. Pius helmet

I took Emilie to Chastain for her first experience with her clubs, that were given to her by Aunt G and family!  She had a big time.  Her dad had an even better time.

picking out the Christmas tree...

Em, and a very pregnant Mommy, picking out the best one!

Crazy Weather out there...

Clouds heading N on Atlanta Road

Pat Kenny's wedding weekend...

The Mrs's decided to stay at home, rather than sit on I-16 for 5 hours, so I went to Pat's wedding hans solo.  It was a great time hanging with a lot of folks I haven't seen in some time.  The wedding was out at Epworth, and the reception was at a nice house just off the village.  Here are a couple of shots from the reception...

looking out toward the big bridge from the reception

Nice house.  This is the front yard (tent) and pool that looks out into the ocean.

of course I had to stop for ice cream on the way back



While I was gone, we had some work done on Em's room, as we got beadboard put in.  AM sent me a little video too.  Emilie is loving her new radio player in her room, as evidence by her fantastic dancing moves!

http://qik.com/video/75c85816b75c45eaa1fff29c26766486

Great story

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5789296

Clayton Kendrick-Holmes graduated from alma mater Springwood back in the late 1980's.  Pretty impressive story on Veteran's day. 

Willie Wright - Noseguard

After two gut-wrenching regular season losses to the same team, the Howard Sheppard's pulled out a miraculous win in the playoff finals of pee-wee football last night in S'ville.  Reports have been surfacing abound the Internet of a fierce 45 lb Noseguard who was wreacking havoc in the opponent's backfield all night. 

Congrats lil' Man!

Will on the bottom right