Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to our sweet daddies! We love you both and appreciate the lifetime of prayers, encouragement, and support you have given us, mostly importantly modeling to us the Father's love for us as his children.

And also a Happy Father's Day to Robert who gets to have the officially title of "Daddy" is 10 days! Can't wait to see how the Lord uses him in this new role!

Mother's Day

What a special blessing is the gift of a mother! Robert and I are both blessed to have mothers who love the Lord and have faithfully modeled lives dedicated to Jesus for us over the years. What great examples for me as I transition to the role of mother to little Trey.

They are faithful prayer warriors (probably more so than we will ever know), servant-hearted leaders, wonderful hostesses and providers, "keepers of the family" so to speak, gospel-reminders (preaching and living out the gospel to their children and families faithfully), committed to serving the church body, great listeners, and long suffering with our fathers! For which we are all very grateful! :)

I am sure my appreciation for them will increase 100 fold once baby Trey comes and they are my lifelines for the first two weeks. I am so thankful for such family support and their willingness to take time off their jobs to serve us in this way.

But even now and in the previous months of pregenancy they have been so encouraging and supportive. Faithfully praying for Trey's salvation, sending encouraging emails, marveling at the baby God is growing in my womb and reminding us to enjoy each and every stage of the process.

And then of course Robert's mom has spent countless hours of her free time (who really has "free time" when you work fulltime as a nurse/office manager and are also a fulltime wife, mother, grandmother, and daughter?) in her sewing room making Trey's bedding and drapes, monograming blankets and making cute little outfits for him. Not to even mention the dozens of phone calls, emails, and texts to me to discuss fabrics and everything else we've talked about in prepping the nursery along the way.

And my sweet mother has sacrificed her Saturday to come clean my house - all with a joyful heart! (Who does that???) - to help give it a good scrub down before baby comes. Robert was out of town this weekend visiting an old college roommate in Memphis (last man trip for a while), and it was so good to have my mom to keep me company and help me around the house. We laundered all of Trey's clothes which are now hanging so cute and pretty in his armoir and closet. Instead of cleaning, we decided to re-plant the mailbox flowerbed with some beautiful summer blooms since the warm weather had taken its toll on my pansies. They'll always be another day to clean, and I know when that day comes she'll be there to help!

I am so very thankful for our moms!! For these and so many other reasons.

And this Mother's Day I was also thankful for the opportunity to be a mother. And even though Trey's not visible, apparently it's apparent that I'm his mom. Everyone from experienced and seasoned moms and grandmothers at church to the cashier at Publix wished me a happy mother's day this year. Most of them caught me by surprise, but what a sweet gesture nonetheless. I am, technically, a mother....with a whole lot to learn!

April recap

I'm a little behind on blogging the non-pregnancy-related events from April. (Let's face it, these days most of what I, even what we, do is somehow pregnancy-related.) But I wanted to be sure and capture some of the fun memories from this month and the good times we have had with family and friends.

First off, we had a wonderful trip to Lexington, Kentucky to visit Robert's younger sister Liz and her husband Mike.

We managed to halfway surprise Liz with our visit, and she was a great sport about taking two last-minute visitors in stride. It was so fun to see them and celebrate her 27th birthday. We also timed our trip with Keeneland again this year after we had a blast at last year's race. Our betting was definitely off this year, but it was just as fun. And the weather was gorgeous. I love visiting Kentucky in the spring. Everything is is bloom.

This will probably be my last big (six plus hours in the car) trip until baby comes. I like to think that I've gotten pretty good at traveling in long car rides now that I've married into the Adams family, but this time around it was definitely more difficult with an ever-growing baby sloshing around in there and positioning himself on your vital organs without warning and at random intervals in between heated kickboxing sessions.

We also had a great time with my brother David and his girlfriend Emily at A-day in Tuscaloosa.


Emily and David scored us tickets in the Ivory Club courtesy of the generosity of Emily's sweet dad. Let's just say I could get very used to 50-yard-line tickets and buffets that last four quarters.



April also marked my baby brother Ryan (white tux jacket and Bieber hair, center) attending his senior (and hopefully last) prom. Unless he becomes one of those sketchy old graduated guys who gets invited back by the younger girls. Here's hoping he doesn't and instead upholds the family's honor.



Doesn't he look sharp in his tux though?



And of course we had a great time with my immediate and extended family celebrating Easter and Christ's resurrection. For many of my cousins, it was the first time they had seen me (or rather very visible Trey) since we announced our pregnancy at 12 weeks on Christmas Eve. Let's just say I got a few comments about having grown. :) If you missed the customary Summerville family Easter pic, check out the short but sweet Easter post.

Adams Christmas 2010

The Sunday after Christmas we traveled to South Carolina for Christmas with Robert's family. I'm so glad we got a family photo. Sometimes we forget to do those when we all get together, and it's not very often we can round us all up in the same city! This was our first Christmas with our new nephew Tate. He has grown and changed so much since his birth in August.

His sweet big sister Tess actually had a visit to the emergency room Christmas Eve night after a rough fall from a bar stool that knocked out her front teeth and knocked some others loose. Needless to say, the family had quite an eventful Christmas Eve in the hospital, but Tess had a successful surgery and great check up appointment with her pediatric dentist. By Sunday, she was still a little swollen from all the trauma, but you can see from the pic above all her Christmas presents were helping her to feel much better.

Big brother Tallon got a present from Mimi and Pop that was almost as big as he is! He had lots of fun driving his remote control truck in the snow all weekend.

We also got to share the news with Pop and Mimi that they were going to have another grandbaby. We surprised them with a photo calendar like we did with my parents. Not sure if they suspected or not, but I definitely know Liz had a great inclination I was preggers. She and Mike stayed with us for Thanksgiving and I took a ridiculous four hour nap that day. Definitely not normal for me!

Tess loved the purse Mimi gave her.

Poor Tate fell asleep during all the festivities.

With Baby A at just over 12 weeks.

Summerville Christmas 2010

Christmas day we spent with my parents at their home in Clay and were surprised that morning by a fairly significant snow fall. I can't remember the last time I experienced a white Christmas morning in Alabama, if ever. It was beautiful. We took a nice walk to take in the view before Kyle, Allison, and Isabella came over that afternoon to open presents.

Ryan made his famous snow ice cream!

Dad's gift to mom this year was a new ring. She loved it.

Once Isabella arrived we had tons of fun playing with her toys. I think the pic below is so funny with dad holding up her compact mirror so she can put on her fake lipstick.

Between Cooper, Oscar, and Buddy, the house was definitely for the dogs! Oscar survived the weather by sitting on a heating blanket all day!

Isabella loves giving hugs, and passing out Dad's famous popcorn.

Haskew Christmas Eve 2010

This year was our year to stay in Birmingham for Christmas, so we were able to go to my Big Mama's house for her annual Christmas Eve shindig. All my cousins and family on my mom's side were able to come, and it was great to see everyone.

Big Mama was so glad my Aunt Cathy was able to come this year. You'll see she made a very special appearance....

Kyle and Alison had a special Christmas costume for Buddy. Poor guy couldn't sneak up on anyone all night. You could hear him coming from a mile away with all those jingle bells! As Kyle's dog (though Isabella claims he is her dog!), Buddy is the newest addition to the family, and everyone loves him.

Robert helped Dad fry a turkey to go with our cutomary ham, cocktail shrimp, and all the fixings! The shrimp is one of the traditions my Big Daddy started years ago for this family event. I remember going to their house with Kyle when we were little to help them peel the gazillion pounds he always bought and prepared. This year Robert and I handled the shrimp, and six pounds just covered what we needed for the crowd. So thankful to Robert, Dave, and Ryan for helping me peel shrimp for what seemed like all afternoon. I forgot how much work that was and what a labor of love my Big Daddy performed each year for us to prepare so much shrimp.

Presley is growing into such a big girl!

Maddie, Joseph, and Hannah...with Christian and Victoria below.

Even Santa made a surprise visit! Aunt Cathy did such a great job as Santa. I even believed it was the real deal! It was so hard not to with her great belly laugh and enthusiam. Since Victoria was little, her dad Clay always played Santa on Christmas Eve. She is getting old enough to recognize her dad, so this year we needed a less noticable Santa. Aunt Cathy was perfect!

The kids were so excited to get their gifts from Santa.

LOVE the Price family! Can't believe how grown up the boys are.

Victoria and Robert during our Dirty Santa game - another Christmas Eve tradition.

I swear there is a picture just like this of David from Christmas Eve two years ago and he is playing with one of Victoria's barbie dolls.

Of course, the best part of Christmas Eve for us this year was being able to tell my mom and dad that they will be grandparents in July 2011! We made a customzied family photo calendar for them. This is something I give my dad each year, so it wasn't out of the ordinary, only this time our ultrasound picture of Baby Adams was the photo for the month of July since Baby A is due July 6. I would say we did pretty well with the surprise, though mom definitely already had a hunch we were expecting. My brothers were so cute at how excited they got about being uncles, and Big Mama is excited to welcome her 10th great-grandchild into the family this summer. It was great to be able to share the news with all my cousins and extended family too. Below is the photo we used of Baby A for the calendar - at 10.5 weeks. He/she is now 15 weeks! More Baby news to come in a future post. Must finishing posting all of Christmas and Julia's wedding first!

Summerville Extended Family Christmas 2010

We had so many fun Christmas gatherings with family this year - so many I decided to just blog each one seperately to keep everything nice and organized for my OCD self. The Thursday before Christmas we got together at my cousin Christina's house with cousins and my aunt from my dad's side of the family. My cousins have the cutest kids, and we had so much fun playing with them and catching up.

With my Aunt Cathy at the best spot in the house - around the appetizer table!

Alison and Hannah

Loved Harmony's and Hannah's cute matching outfits.

Little Caleb had gotton so big, and now looks so much like his dad, Eric, to me.

All the Sorrell/Dick cousins with Solomon and Elijah this time. Thanks Christina and Jonathan for hosting!