Luke is turning 7

I am posting this unedited invite because I thought it was pretty cute. David was fixing it for me...mainly the spelling. But we are excited about the party. Luke had his very 1st bday at Pete Taylor.

I can't believe he will be 7!

Welcome to our crazy world!

John Patrick Lyon at Pete Taylor Park on the field after the game on April 5
Luke throwing with Greg after a game at Southern Miss
PawPaw with JP after his very first baseball game ever!
Easter 2008 with the boys and their eggs.

I have gone back and forth on starting a blog about our family. I have attempted a couple of times but never follow through on it. So, today I am starting this blog with a delayed new year's resolution to keep it up!

We stay so busy that it is hard even in this world of facebook and myspace and email to keep up with everyone. So, after checking out other friends blogs and realizing that it was possible...here we are!

Just as a catch up this first blog will give a brief run down of where we are and where we've been the past year.....

We moved back to Hattiesburg area last February after spending almost 9 years in Memphis. Our boys are 4 and 6 (John Patrick and Luke) but about to be 5 and 7.

Greg is working for Georgia-Pacific Paper Division and got transferred to Hattiesburg in October of last year....yep that's right he lived in Germantown for 8 months without me and JP...Luke stayed til June with him to finish school. But thankfully, the week he was to transfer we sold our house in Germantown!

He mainly works from home but has to travel for meetings since his district is centralized in Atlanta. He enjoys his job and his counterparts throughout the Southeast so its a good fit!

I work for Big Buck Sports...www.bigbucksports.com....shameless plug! as the Chief Operating Officer. We have several divisions (Retail, TEAM, Ecommerce, Production) and I oversee those areas. It has been very over whelming but I was warned it would be. In addition to all that I am overseeing the future developments which now include a 60,000 sq ft flag ship store here in Hattiesburg and 3 satellite stores coming to an area near you this June!

Luke is finishing his kindergarten year with Presbyterian Christian (PCS). He has been so involved as always in sports...soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis and golf! He is begging for football next fall but we will have to talk about that!

John Patrick will graduate from Junior Kindergarten at Parkway Heights this May. He will begin at PCS in the fall. JP is still always playing his video games but has gotten excited about soccer and baseball this year. It has surprised us he would leave his wii and ninetendo DS for enough time to play but he does!

Ellie (our dog) is still living in Columbia with my parents and every time we try to bring her back my dad says "next time" So I think Sharon and Bubba enjoy the company!

As most of you know, my grandmother Byrd passed away January 3rd. I was so happy about the move during that time since I was able to be here and visit with her more than I had in the past. She was such a driving force in all of our lives it is still an adjustment not having her here.

that's about it... I will start tomorrow with new news...and I am sure there will be something exciting that happens in the lives of me and my boys!