happy birthday to my Jakson Man!!!

happy 2nd birthday jakson :]

Wow, where do i even begin!?

i can't believe that my baby is two already!! My jaksonian is growing up way too fast.

Jakson amazes me daily with new things he learns and says. He still talks a whole bunch of gibberish but he will say new words and i just want to cry. i am going to be one sad mom when he actually starts saying full sentences. i love it when he talks gibberish and then looks at me like i should know exactly what he just said :) i love my little man.


I haven't done one of these in forever so i thought this would be fun...

Jumping bean. crazy boy thinks it is hilarious to jump as high as he can and land on his bum. He has even started doing this off of the couch. yup, he is fearless.

Awesome. he pretty much rocks my world. this little man is seriously awesome!

Kind hearted. He always says hi to everyone we pass even when he has no clue who they are and i love it. he always wants to give kisses and hugs to family and friends. he really is a sweetie :)

Sassy. yep, lets be honest. he can go from being the sweetest boy to throwing a temper tantrum in seconds. all i can say is he is a true two year old. i know that no matter what i will miss all of these moments one day.

Otter?!? Well, otters love water right ;) this boy would be in water constantly if i let him. any chance he gets to get in some water he will take. even if he is fully clothed :) just say the word "bath" and he darts for his tub.

Nuts. hahah. he is craaaazy at times. i always describe him as a mess and a wild man. its true, and we love him for it!

jakson is an amazing big brother.
it is adorable watching his love for his little brother
i LOVE:
 the constant hugs and kisses.
jakson cleaning up his spit up.
jakson saying, "you o-tay, you o- tay?" when henry coughs.
getting him his paci when he is crying.
henry is the FIRST thing jakson looks for when he wakes up
and is always the last one he kisses at night.

i love being his number one lady!

daddy and his boys!

He is such a daddy's boy. He is always wanting to do what daddy is doing. One of his favorite things to do is play with daddy's tools since that is what daddy does. Which is why i am SO excited about his birthday present that daddy made him. little man is going to LOVE it and i have a feeling that he is going to be helping daddy out a lot now. {i will do a post on his awesome gift after he opens it tonight}

I LOVE THIS GUY!

let's play a little game of catch up!

halloween. 

We took the boys trick or treating with some friends from church and had so much fun!

jakson was a lion!

henry was an adorable banana

This past weekend was our HalF MaRaTHon!! 


Thursday afternoon i took the boys to their Gran and PoppE in Alabama. I did fine until i was in the car talking to my sister after i dropped them off and I boo-hoo'ed!! But i knew they were in great hands and were going to have a blast! (and of course they did!)

I picked up the hubby and we started our trip down to tybee island!

josh and I in our ride for the weekend...SOOO fun!

We had a blast :) We did some karaoke, hung out on River Street, had some fun times with family and friends, ate yummy seafood, oh and ran a half marathon!!

Of course i missed my boys like crazy but it was so fun getting in some adult time the whole weekend.

This was Josh's first half marathon and my fourth. Josh and i had a goal of beating my best time of 1:53 and we did it!! Thanks to my awesome motivator, we finished hand in hand, at 1:46:06! I wasn't super happy with my performance during the race but i was very happy with our time! I have loved training with Josh for this half and can't wait for our next one! 

i stole our finish line picture off of the internet. hubby held my hand as we crossed the finish line. <3 my sweet man :) 

Here is a picture of our group ready to celebrate Saturday night after the race!

i know you are all digging my brothers mustache, hahha!

dad and his gals on River Street. ( and creeper bobby in the back)

my man!

momma mel and i with our medals

anne and chrissi with their (heavy) medals! 

Josh and i headed home pretty early sunday morning to go and get our boys that we were missing so much! We met up at Bass Pro Shops in Alabama. So of course we had to go inside to do some browsing :)

jaks and daddy. we missed this sweet face!!

p.s-- i can't believe that our jaksonian will be 2 in a couple of weeks!!

down by the river on a sunday night

Sunday night josh and i decided to go down to the river to take some pictures of our little cuties.

Apparently, the gnats had plans to hang out by the river too. i got some cute pictures but you can see the swarms of gnats in most of them, o well. 

it was still fun and we got some good shots, enjoy!

this little heartbreaker is going to be trouble  

can't believe he is almost 2!! 

i absolutely love this picture of josh and henry tate 

happy, happy boy!! 

brotherly love. 

my sweet henry 

ohh jakson, he is our wild man! 

see the gnats above our heads?!

MY boys. they make me so happy!!

dining room- before and after

A couple of months ago we finally sold our dining room set. It was a huge table with 8 chairs and a china cabinet. It was beautiful but totally not our style. It was shiny and elegant...and that's not us. We are rustic and imperfect kind of people :) Especially with our crazy little man. keeping something scratch free and perfect was impossible!

So we put it up on craigslist. A couple of people came to look at it that weren't serious buyers...ANNOYING. {if you know you aren't going to buy something from someone on craigslist don't waste their time coming to look at it. i now know why people always write serious buyers only on their ads!}

Thankfully the third guy that came to look at it was serious. He pulled up with a U-haul truck and two guys to help him load it! I did a happy dance when they pulled up at our house! They hauled it off and josh gave me the cash and told me that it was my budget for the new set.

Needless to say I couldn't find exactly what i wanted for the price that i wanted it~ so frustrating! For over a month josh and i ate dinner at jakson's mini table while jakson sat in the highchair.

i finally found the table of my dreams at a store in marietta. i went to look at it and it was perfect.

The next day josh and my dad picked her up and brought her home :) 

So now i was on the hunt for chairs. I headed to goodwill bright and early monday morning and found 4 of these lovely little things...

In great condition and super easy to recover and at 13 bucks a chair, you can't beat that!

So this past weekend my hubby worked so hard on our new dining room. He was up until 2am friday, saturday and sunday night working on our dining room. gosh, i love that man! He painted, hung up our awesome oars and recovered our chairs! All of his hard work paid off because it looks like a brand new room!

Dining room before--

We didn't get a picture of the room with the orange curtains and table. so here is a picture that shows the room before the new table and color (please ignore our mess and my huge belly)

the paint color before...

AFTER-

love my table!

{our pictures in the dining room are of canoes so we hung up some awesome old oars that the hubs had lying around}

New wall color, new blinds and no more curtains!

i love my new table :) can't wait for the bench to go on one side!

chairs that the hubs recovered.

i love it!

We still have a few things left to do--

-josh is going to build a bench for one side of the table and we will put the chairs on the other side. (the table is 8ft so we will have plenty of guest space)

-we have a hutch that is chillin in the garage for now waiting to be refinished! whenever we find the time to do that we will. we are just too stinking busy for that right now so it will have to wait.

But it looks like after he makes the bench i should come out perfectly on budget, wohooo!

Let me know what you think!

what the burfitts are up to these days!

Life at the Burfitt house has been crazy busy but oh so fun :) 

The hubby and i have been training for the savannah half marathon and it is just a few weeks away. We are SO ready for it to be here. Training can be really hard with 4 month old and a wild [almost] 2 year old. But i have loved our training team. josh pushes the double jogger and the boys just chill. Henry usually sleeps and jakson points out trees, dogs, the moon and "airpanes"! The weekend of the race we are staying in a house  on Tybee with 7 other couples{my family and some friends} and no kids! It will be my longest time away from the boys so i am a little nervous but really excited. i know it will be good to get in some adult time and we are going to have a blast! Plus, i am just ready to get this half over with now! Josh and I are hoping to beat my time from my last half marathon. We shall see :) 

Of course we have some house projects going on at the moment. Once our kitchen was finished we decided to start working on the dining room. We sold the old furniture and got an awesome new table and i scored some goodwill chairs that we are going to reupholster. Josh painted the dining room and we are taking out the curtains and putting in blinds. i can't wait to get it all done. It looks like a totally different room! 

Henry finally went into his room this past week. Josh was out of town until thursday so i let him sleep with me until he came home. Thursday night Henry went up in his own bed. It was a long night for me but he has had a little bit of improvement every night since then and last night I didn't get up to feed him at all. He woke up a couple of times but thankfully he quickly went back to sleep on his own. So there is hope!! i am hoping that it only gets better from here.

Here are some recent pictures of our latest adventures :)

this boy loves having fun with his daddy.

mr. handsome after preschool.

mr. smiley

 We took the boys to a pumpkin patch for Jr's birthday...

at the pumpkin patch with my little guys.

henry tate and his cowboy boots.

Pop loves his boys.

 my wild one.

Happy birthday Jr!

i will post on henry's room, the kitchen and the dining room ASAP...promise!