My birthday -- Ok Ok My 33rd Birthday!!

Ok I will begin this blog by saying for those of you checking I have not fallen off the face of the earth I just decided to take a little time off from blogging. I am going to try to get caught up so there may be lots of posting going on in the next day or so! Hope you enjoy!!

Chad is always wonderful about my birthday so way back on August 6th my day started when I received these gorgeous roses from my wonderful husband. I was very shocked when I heard the knock on the door.

Then he set up this wonderful dinner complete with lobster lasagna, salad and my favorite yellow cake with chocolate icing. The table was so pretty and it was such a wonderful dinner. He decided to let Jackson go visit MeMaw during dinner but he came back home in time for the cake. And he loved the cake too!!!

I got a new zoom lens for my camera for my birthday and I was so excited because I wanted this before we left for our cruise.

Jackson was not all that interested in taking a photo with Mommy on her birthday so this was the best we got.

However, I did get this cute little picture later and I love the face he is making!!

New Blog address coming soon!!

In a few days I am about to change our blog address the new address will be
http://www.thematthewsmatters.com/

I will be sending out an email with this info on it also but if you have any trouble please email me or facebook message me. I will also be adding some new interesting features and maybe even a giveaway to our blog so check back for frequent updates and changes!!! Thanks to all of you who read the blog and don't worry you will still see tons of pictures of our life!!!

Disney 2009 All Star Trip

We recently went on our Alfa All Star Trip to Disney and although we hated to leave Jackson at home we decided that a 1 year old + Disney + Hot July Days = an uphappy little boy and an unhappy Mommy so Jackson stayed home with my Mom. He of course had a wonderful time and was of course spoiled rotten!!! Here are some of our pictures from our trip, even though we missed Jackson a lot we did focus on having a good time and eating some great food!!

At Epcot after our dinner in the French Restaurant

At Epcot in front of "The Ball"

In France before we had dinner at Les Chefs de France and it was so yummy!!!!

We stayed at the Dolphin inside Walt Disney World. This is a picture from The Boardwalk looking at the Dolphin.

At Magic Kingdom isn't it beautiful at night. They had extra magic hours from 10 pm to 1 am and we did everything we wanted to do in those 3 hours. We got to ride 10 rides (including all the big ones) in 3 hours at Magic Kingdom I think that could be a record.On night we made our way down to City Walk at Universal Studios with Mike, Kelly, Eric and Jennifer we all had a good time socializing. At Animal Kingdom in front of the Dinosaur ride.On Kilimanjaro Safari we saw lots of animals but we saw so many elephants and no real Bama fan can post a blog and not include the elephants... RTR!!!!!

Our sweet little man was happy to be home and in his room and with his stuff it was like all new stuff!!!

Jackson's 1st Birthday Party

Our outdoor decorations

Jackson's Cakes

The food

Jackson with his cake

He liked his cake can you tell?

His sweet little hand
Jackson's gifts
Where Trip was during Jackson's gift opening Jackson with his wrapping paper Jackson decided to climb up on his gifts all on his own. He is so "all boy"!!!We wanted Trip to give Jackson a hug but they did not really cooperateHey Mommy I think there is something good in this one.....
After the party was over I put Jackson in his bed for a well needed nap but it turned into another playtime for the boys!!!

All in all this was a wonderful 1st birthday party. Jackson had a great time playing with everyone and everything. He is such a blessed little boy to have such good friends and family!!!!!

Jackson's Cake Smash

We decided to take some pictures of Jackson prior to the day of his party in his new "Jackson 1" shirt and his Bama shirt. Also we decided to take some of the cake smash pictures early too so we would have more time to let him play in the cake. And although at 1st he was not sure about the whole cake thing he quickly warmed up to it and let that cake have it!!!!

Jackson's 1st Birthday Photo Shoot

Our wonderful friend Ashley took Jackson's 1st Birthday party picts the night before his party. We decided we would just do some casual picts of Jackson in the yard. The last two pictures are also special to us. They are of our new puppy Denny and of our wonderful friend Ashley. I got her to let me take a picture of her with Jackson because she is such an important person to us I wanted to make sure she made it into the blog. Ashley has done a wonderful job with Jackson's picts this year. We have used her 3 times and loved every single photo she has done!!!

Preview of Jackson's 1st birthday photo shoot and cake smash!!

Ashley has been so kind as to email me a preview of Jackson's birthday pictures and cake smash session. She has also posted them to her blog check it out:
http://lifesmirrorimages.blogspot.com/

Ashley has been doing pictures of Jackson since he was about 6 or 8 weeks old. I can't believe how much he has changed as I got back and see what memories she has captured for our family. Thanks so much Ashley and if anyone needs a photographer get in touch with her you will not be disappointed!!!