Christmas Part 2

Tho boys wrestling before presents.

They also all gang up on Nolen after Drew'sIindian dance and him and Mitchell screaming "Merry Christmas!" and "Happy Holidays". :)

Royal Rumble from Chelsea Bates on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas!!

There are some very funny videos at the bottom!

Christmas Eve 2009

The Girls

We're so glad Jackie could join us for Christmas this year.

Merry Christmas!

William brought his Wii for everyone to play. As you can see, everyone was watching :)


Still watching...



Still...




Jess and Uncle Derek






William and his #1.





The boys playing.




Even mom played Wii. Her back must be better! jk




Miss Makyna

Drew decided to run naked after his bath because Daddy had to go get pjs. Good thing mommy made him out his big boy underwear on!

Little girl playing with trucks.

I love this picture!

Kisses!

Christmas Morning

Mom opening up her mp3 player.

Jules looking in her stocking!

She was exhausted from the holiday festivities. This is what she did all day.

Our favorite gifts from Santa. My small video camera, Jessica's Nook, and Maggie's netbook!

And my gorgeous new necklace from William.

It was on a self-timer so we had to get down low :)

His PS3!! He loves it.

The boys are waiting so patiently at Aunt Becky's house for her delicious dinner.
Trevor, Drew, Mitchell, and Nolen

WD40 Coming SOON!

WD40 Coming Soon from Chelsea Bates on Vimeo.

Drew kissing Shelby. So sweet!

HELP! Maggie is missing!

Help! Someone has stolen Maggie and put a look alike in her place!!

This stranger girl is doing laundry...

We never thought this day would come.

Mom is so proud.

I Heart Faces is an awesome photography blog that Maggie and I love. It's all about faces of course. Each week there is a photo challenge and anyone can enter a photo in to win. This week's category is sun flares. I know, I know, this picture doesn't have a face but I thought it was an awesome picture Maggie took of a sunflare. It was at Defeated Creek while we were camping last year. It is my favorite. Enjoy!

Another Painting

This is another one of my paintings. This one was for William's birthday.

Aww...look what I found

The little boys...They're soo little!

Mitchell and Jess summer 2007

Drew and Maggie summer 2007

Me and Drew summer 2007

Jess and Trevor Thanksgiving 2007

Craig, Nolen, Trevor, and Drew Thanksgiving 2007

And next will be our little girls!

Chelsea's Art

So I've been painting a lot lately and I thought I'd show a finished product. This is pappy's favorite bridge in Florida, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, and he mentioned he would like a painting of it. So, I painted it. Hope you enjoy!

This is another one of my works of art. Enjoy!

Baby Update! and other random things

Baby Shelby is here!!! 9-9-09 at 9:09 a.m.! just kidding not at 9:09 but that would've been neat lol. She's here, she's healthy, and she's beautiful!

Mommy and Daddy waiting paitently.

Beautiful Shelby Dianne with her first bow!

Mitchell checking out his new baby sister :)



Sweet hands with mommy's hands

Teeny feet!

"I am so excited I can't stand it!"

Mitchell and Drew celebrating

Yay! Cousin Maggie holding our new girl

A few weekends ago, Maggie, her friends Chelsea and Heather, mom, William and I went to the drive-in! It was so fun!

Here they are relaxing before the movie.

The next day we went to see the Broadway play Wicked. And it was amazing! Thanks mommy for taking us!

Waiting for the magic to start

Sweet Makyna smiling

Jules guarding her baby

oh...and kissing her!

Drew loves listening to Mag's ipod ;)

Drawing while Maggie does her homework. He's so cute!

Jessica came home the last weekend in August for a wedding. While she was here she decided to cook us dinner...

"Is it ready yet?"

"Yes, yes it is."

She and maggie cooked stuffed peppers and they were delicious! They had veggies, rice and ground turkey inside with melted cheese on top...yum!

I got a hammock for my birthday and I love it!! (Sorry cousins, I hope its not hard to cut the grass with the hammock there...just tell mom you deserve a big tip!) Me and Mag set it up and were quite proud.

Pappy stopped by to see Jessica before she left.

And here's the hammock! With Angel wanting some attention :)

Me and Jules relaxing

This video is hilarious. Drew decided he wanted to wear my backpack and it's really heavy!

Sweet girl