Look What I Did!

No much going on for us to post but I thought I would post something about Rhett:)

Rhett is my Mom's carousel horse. He lives at the Coolidge Park Carousel in Chattanooga. My Mom carved him several years ago. Last night, on HGTV, on a show called Look What I did! The carousel was featured with a story about the operator Bud Ellis. They interviewed my mom for the show but I guess she didn't make the edit. But, she said she saw Rhett in the background several times and also saw the beginning of a Rhinocerous she is carving for Chattanooga's next carousel.

The show will air again at 1:30 p.m. on Monday Feb. 12 if anyone wants to see it and if you are ever at the Collidge Park Carousel in Chattanooga, you should ride on Rhett:)

here are some pics from Christmas. This was Eli's first time on Rhett.

Eli with Grammie and PawPaw


All of us at the park


Eli and Josh at the Park

Better late than never?

So these are pictures from Christmas... It has taken me so long to post them I almost didn't post them at all but it's nice to have them all here as a diary for me... like a digital scrapbook:)

First we were in Chattanooga to celebrate with Grammie and PawPaw, Uncle Burt and Aunt Christy and extended family
Eli had a great Christmas and was adequately spoiled! Here he is ith his loot on Christmas morning... minus all the clothes he got:)


Here is the rocking horse Grammie refinished and painted for Eli:


Some special time with Grammie


Eli is the youngest of my grandmother's 9 great-grandchildren


Then off to North Carolina for time with Gram and Grandpap and the Scoggins


Eli and Quinn together


Trip gives Eli a kiss


Amy has even more pics of all the boys on her website:)

Everyday's a photo shoot

Since Eli started walking, it's mostly been too cold to be outside, but since the weather was so nice this weekend, Josh and I spent some time with Eli outside in the yard to practice his walking skills. Poor child can't enjoy any of his time without Mom turning it into a photo shoot... I'm always afraid I will miss the perfect picture... anyway, here are some of the pics.

Weekend in North Carolina

This last weekend we took a tript to North Carolina to visit Josh's parents and we had a great time. On Sunday night we went on a tour of the Biltmore House in Asheville. I was a little stressed on how Eli would do through the tour but he was great. I was very proud.. Here are a few picks from the weekend.

One of Ei's tricks when you ask him to show you his toungue:)


Here we are outside the Biltmore. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let you takes pictures inside and strangely the front of the house isn't lit up after dark.


Eli rides around the driveway with Grandpap


We also go to see Josh's baby cousin Gwen for the first time. She is 3 months old and slept through our whole visit:)

It's about time

I feel horrible that it has taken me this long to post Eli's birthday pics. . I had great intentions on posting one of his pics from the hospital on his birthday morning but he woke up with a 102 fever that day and was sick the entire Thanksgiving weekend so I am just now getting to it.

On Wednesday November 22, 2005 all 9 pound, 6 ounces of Elijah Finley Puckett was born.





The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we had a birthday party at our house. We had so much family there, I felt so blessed and actually teared up when we sang happy birthday. I can't believe my baby is one year old.


Here is Eli's Itsy Bitsy Spider cake, that I am proud to say, I made myself. (Eli had his own cupcake to eat)






The classic cake-in-the-face



Here is Eli with all his toys(including a tricycle from The Scoggins:)

Following Quinn's footsteps

Last week, in honor of Eli's birthday, we went to a salon to get his haircut and boy was it cut. It looks great but I was not prepared for how much was coming off. But it is so much easier to fix now and he looks great. Here are the pics

Before the haircut


During...he actually only cried this one time...when she cut around his ears.


After..

Eli's 15 minutes

I decided to post the page of the newspaper with Eli's picture from Sunday so those who don't live here can see what it looked like too. He was a pretty good model although he wouldn't really look at the books for very long. At home, his books will entertain him for an hour but I guess in the studio he had alot more interesting stuff to get into so he had a hard time concentrating:)

Favorite pic

So this morning, Eli got to be in a photo shoot for the paper for a story on children's books. I had to take the pictures so after the shoot, I decided to take advatage of the studio and take some pics of my own. This is one of Eli and his "lovey," which he never lets go of practically and it turned out to be maybe my favorite picture of Eli so far:)

BTW: For those of you in Gwinnett, Eli will be on the front of the life & leisure section of Sunday's Gwinnett Daily Post.

Hunka, Hunka Burning Love

Eli as Elvis Presley!



When Eli was little when we would brush his hair, Josh and I used to think he had Elvis hair so that was his Halloween costume...Plus, they have the same initials, which we put on the suit. Most of all, I was very proud that I made the costume myself. Even though I have a very crafty Mom.

I've never been crazy about Halloween but this year it was so much fun. First, on Saturday my brother and sister-in-law threw a party at their house and we had a great time.

My dad has the nickname "Queenie" for Christy so that's what she was dressed as.


My brother was a CSI guy :complete with the shirt:


Then, on Tuesday we got to trick or treat with our friends Will and Kelley Hammock and their children Bryn(AKA Snow White) and Dylan(Clown) through their neighborhood

Cousin visit

Two weekends ago, we had a great visit with the Scoggins and I took so many pictures that I have been putting off posting them because of the time it would take. So, I am only posting a few, but here's a link to my shutterfly account (copy and paste into a search engine. I tried a link but it wouldn't work) if you want to see them all:)

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AcuWjdw1aMWLCNg

We had a great time and loved every minute we got to spend with Trip and Quinn.

Pumpkin patch

Last weekend, we finally found a little time to go to the pumpkin patch. Luckily the Methodist church in downtown Buford was having one so we could walk to it and back home. Josh, Becky and I took Quinn and Eli with us (Trip was napping). Here are the pics. Eli hates the baby backpack but Quinn loved being carried by his uncle Josh.

10-month photos

These are pictures I took for Eli's 10-month photos. We did the outside thing because I am running out of places for these monthly portraits. More posts later this week from the awesome weekend we had:)

Eli walking 1

He's been taking little steps for about a month and everyone keeps asking if he is walking. I have been saying no because it was very unstable and, to be honest, I am trying to keep him little as long as possible. Anyway, last week he became very independent and now I say he is officially walking:)

The Playground

This weekend while Josh was in New Jersey at a family wedding, Eli and I traveled to Chattanooga for my grandmother's 80th birthday party. When I got ready to post some pictures, I realized while I was busy documenting Eli's first time playing at the playground I forgot to actually take pictures of my grandmother or her party. Oh well, the rest of the family has photos thankfully. These are of Eli playing at the park, which is kinda cool because this is the park I played on as a kid, also:)



Eli rides down the slide with his cousin Madison