Save the Date!

Alice Marie will arrive on December 7th 2009!

Fenced In!

We put our fence up!

It took a lot of help and I have pictures!!!

The Weather did not cooperate or help out at all. Saturday was really nice and the guys got all the post set and then as if right on cue it starts to rain... errrrg. Sunday Torrential Down Pour combined with about 5 post that would need additional concrete made for a very cranky day. Jake and I added the concrete late in the day once the rain tapered off. Monday (labor day) The guys all rallied and got the panels up!

I LOVE IT!

It is beautiful and the babies are safe!

We are SO Blessed!

Special Thanks to Grandpa John, Papaw, Justin, Randy, Grandma D, and Nana!

Hooray for Gas Powered Augers!

Sam is hard at work removing old nails!

Pulling Nails really is So much Fun!

On Second thought maybe Pulling nails makes you Homicidal.

On to more peaceful work.. Avelynn is working calmly filling holes back in.

Wearing a flower skirt no less!

And Now the Fence is done but the final Pictures are not so

To be continued......

PS - out of respect for the Grandma's all picture of them have been excluded ! ;-)

Samuel's First Day of Pre-School!

It was so so hard to let him go... but just as God affirms all his plans for our lives... Samuel rose to the occasion and surpassed all my hope for him! He was So very excited all day waiting and waiting for time to go (he goes in the afternoon)! I was completely nauseous all day but managed to cry only when he could'nt see. We arrived to school right on time and met all his wonderful teachers! He found his cubby and his name tag all by himself, what a great reader! To Mommy's great joy the very first thing all the kids do when they arrive at school is WASH THEIR HANDS!! Yeah! So after becoming germ free we asked what we should do next and the teacher explained that I could stay and play with him today or I could go, whatever he needed me to do..... So right, of course I am staying! NOT.. he says in a confident big boy voice... " Well okay then I will stay and you can just go! Bye Mom" AHHHHHH What... leave you here all alone.. no no no... So I held back all the tears gave him my biggest smile and asked him if I could please, please just walk around and see the toys with him (needy I know) and then I would go... he allowed me this small favor, that is until he found the costume closet, turned and sent me on my way! I made it all the way to the car, after slipping the teacher another copy of my cell phone number (shhhh) before I cried... Partly because he should not be old enough for all this and Mostly because I am SO SO Proud of him! Way to go, SAMUEL!

Alice's Quilt Face!

Mom just emailed me these preliminary photos of Alice's Nana Blanket! We dropped it off to get her beautiful name "Alice Marie" embrordered in the middle! If you can't tell from the photos the middle of each pim wheel and the entire border is covered in Owls!

I can't wait till it's done!

Duct Tape Nature Bracelets!

Today for something fun we wrapped duct tape around our wrists with the sticky side out and went for a walk! Samuel and Avelynn had so much fun finding great bits of nature to add to their bracelets! We used everything from painted rocks found in the road, locust shells, pine needles, wild flowers, marking flags and so so much more! This is after we cut them off! We just used the rule that it had to be in the road or on the sidewalk and no creatures or bugs that were still alive!

Enjoy the Photos!