My Sister

My sister looks sooo good! I haven't talked about this but she had gastric bypass surgery last Nov(06) and she has done such a great job being dedicated and is making changes in her life necessary to keep the weight off for good. Take a look at a before and after picture. Keep up the good work Jess!!

Dec 06 Dec 07

Coloring Pictures

Austin is still practicing coloring. He got these markers for Christmas, (Yes, I put markers on his Christmas list!) Tony did most of the coloring but Austin enjoys trying, and getting it on his hands. :)

Finally Snow!

Well, Snow finally came to our part of this country! We only got a little bit, Austin was very excited about the falling show, so over the weekend we went out in the snow and he did NOT want to stand in it! He wanted to go back inside! O'Well soon enough we won't be able to drag him away. Until then I have pictures like these!

Our First Show fall

The "Big" Snow

Per my dad's request, I won't be posting any more updates about his treatments on this blog. If you are family or a close friend of Jen and I, my sister, or my parents, I can send you updates via email or phone if you'd like. Send me an email at tony_mimms(at)yahoo.com. I am also looking into possibly either creating a password protected website for updates or finding a place on the web that provides a password protected section that I could put updates in. I'll let you know how that goes.

I want to thank all of you though for your prayers and thoughts for my mom and dad and our family during this time.

Happy New Year!

Christmas 2007

We had a great Christmas this year. It was really fun to watch Austin open presents. He didn't start out wanting to do it but once he figured out that there were cool things inside the paper he got into it. We've posted pics from the different Christmas celebrations we've had that started as of Saturday on our Flickr site. Below we put up a few videos from this morning of Austin opening his stocking and a couple presents. We hope you and yours had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Lights, Lights, Where are you?

Austin has been lots of fun so far this Christmas season. When we are in the car going to somewhere during the evening or night, he will start calling out for Christmas lights and when he finally sees some he'll cry out "LIGHTS!" He will even point at stoplights and car lights. It is so funny. I smile everytime. He has started calling out looking for either Tony or I and sometimes Annie (the dog). This is a favorite thing to do when he is in the bath. Whoever is giving him the bath, he will call out looking for the other one.

He is so funny we crack up all the time.

We had a tremendous problem getting our Christmas pictures taken but we finally got a great shot. Boy was that A LOT of work!! Austin was not having a good day that day. Look for it in the mail soon though!

Exploring the Tree

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Christmas in Georgia

Welcome to Georgia winter!

This is crazy it has been at least mid to upper 70's all week, I am praying for some cool weather for Christmas Day.
It is REALLY hard to listen to Christmas music, and get into the mood when we are wearing short sleeves and shorts!
Some boys across the street took matters ito their own hands and made the most of it!

New Look For The Blog

Jen and I have been wanting to change up the look of the blog for a little while now. We finally found a template that we both liked so we went ahead and used it. All the things that were on here before, like subscribing for updates to the blog, our links, and flickr pictures (in the sidebar) are all still here. We just wanted to update the look. Hopefully you all like it.

Giving Thanks

We have had such a great time with family and have enjoyed having John and Carol with us this long weekend. Austin took to them pretty quickly, seeing them Wed night after we got back from my dads house. We are so blessed to have such a great family here and afar. I of course took lots of pictures so please take a look at all the pictures on Flickr.


Give thanks to God for each day and all the things we are able to do!

My Cute Guys!

Beautiful Boy, I am very thankful for you!

Grandma Carol and Grandpa John

Austins favorite pastime- Reading as much as he can!

Mommies sunglasses

Atlanta Zoo

We had a bast at the Zoo last weekend. We all had a very busy weekend. Austin spent the weekend at Aunt Evelyn's and Aunt Fran and Uncle Dave's houses. I dropped Austin off Friday night, Tony and I went out, just the two of us. On Saturday we all met at the Atlanta Zoo and spent a great day visiting all the animals. Austin really is at a great age to start these outings. After the zoo, Austin returned with his Great Aunts' and Tony and I went home. I had a great night of scrapbooking and Tony a better night of peace and quiet (no one was home!). On Sunday we did some Christmas shopping and then picked up Austin, and STILL had time for church!!! A busy weekend! Enjoy all the pictures on Flickr. Here are my favorites.

Tree House Nest

Our Little Family

First time on a Carousel Train Ride

Halloween 2007

Austin had a great time 'Trick or Treating.' Really all he did was walk around with Emily and Levi. He went up to the door and said his version of Trick or Treat and then said Bye. He had soo much fun. We did have to carry him from house to house just to keep up.
Check out all the pics on Flickr.
Here are my favorites!

Getting Ready

Waddle, WaddleLove the Glow Stick!

Trick or Treat!

Happy Holloween!

Emily Levi and Austin setting out for Trick or Treating!

Austin did a dry run this year, he went up to the door with the kids and said "Hi! Trick or Treat," and "Bye!". He had more fun running after the kids! He did a great job! More pics to come.

Getting Ready For Halloween!

Yesterday, Austin's daycare hosted a Halloween/Fall Festival at his school. We went and Austin rode in a little train and seemed to really enjoy everything. He participated in a Halloween costume contest as well. The winner would win a free week of daycare. He came in second for his age group. We, of course, are biased but he should have won. Just this experience made me realize that I am so glad we don't participate in pagents, etc. Here are a couple pictures from that festival:

Riding the train

Austin in the costume contest

We even had the Pope show up!

Then today we visited the Washington Farms Pumpkin Patch. Austin had a really fun time. We got to see different farm animals, slide down a PVC pipe slide, go through a little hay maze, ride another little 'train', had a hayride, and of course picked out and played with pumpkins! Here are a few pics from that:

'I want THIS pumpkin!'

Sliding down the PVC slide

Getting ready, with mommy, for a hayride!

Riding the 'cow train' with daddy

Of course we put all of these pictures plus more of them up on our Flickr site.

A Music Video I Helped Make

At our church we have had a video production team that films short movies for use in Sunday services, etc. I've always been interested in working with them but don't have that much (read...ANY) experience in doing video production. Well, about a month or so ago a lady at church put me in contact with a new member of the staff who was forming a second video production team. Long story short, I'm now on that team and helping to create short videos/films. Below is a music video we shot about a week and a half ago and was shown in church last Sunday. Another video I helped work on will be shown this Sunday at church. Hopefully I can either get a copy of it or a link to put up and I'll share that one with you all as well.

Typical

Our Muscle Man

Austins new favorite thing to do to make us laugh!
He came up with this all by himself (we think).
One day I was angry with him and he looks at me and does this.
Then he looks at me to see how I am going to react.

Sugar Hill Fall Festival

This weekend we went to Sugar Hill Fall Festival, the school I work in is in Sugar Hill and our school had a 'float' and a Teacher of the Year car. It was a lot of fun. It was Austins first parade, and I think there were more people in the parade than watching it.After the parade we went over to the Festival and walked around. It was great weather and Austin had a great time, of course I forgot the camera in the car, so no pictures of Austin petting the animals at the petting zoo.

Our Teacher of the Year and her sons.

Our teachers and some students

A really neat tribute to our Soldiers (these are real boys/men!)
They stood still the entire time! They really did a great job!

My New Shoes For School!!

New Pictures Update

We've uploaded some new pictures to our Flickr site. With some of them I was playing around with a couple settings/features on our camera...you'll be able to tell which ones. ;-) Here are a few to get you started or you can click HERE to go on to all the pictures. FYI...if you are viewing this from work and your workplace blocks the Flickr site...you may not be able to see the pictures below. (edit...turns out that you may be able to see the pics after all. The school district where we work blocks Flickr and since I linked these pictures straight from our Flickr site I assumed I wouldn't be able to see them at work but I am here now (8:23am eastern, Sept 19) and they are showing up so that's cool!)

Austin loves trains and here is telling you the sound a train makes....Choo Choo!!!!

Here he is trying to ham it up for the camera.....CHEEEEEEEESE!!

He also LOVES planes and helicopters. We heard a plane and he was trying to find it.