Georgia the Bunny!

Ding Dong...

THE TRUCK IS GONE!!!




We are happy to announce that we finally sold the truck!


Bye Truck!

Halloween

Optimus Prime(Transformer), a Mermaid and a Cheerleader!!!

The kids had fun carving their pumpkins this year. They helped clean out all the goop and then both Brady and Bethany drew their own face on their pumpkins. Brady carved his out all by himself! Georgia thought the pumpkin was interesting!! :)

They were able to load up on candy in the neighborhood and see some friends and teacher s along their journey.

Daddy had to take care of a lot of the festivities. Mommy was very sick with bronchitis(she spent 4 hours in the Urgent Care to get some meds on Sunday-not fun!) :(

Mommy is feeling better now and we have one more place to wear our costumes one more time. Church is having a little kids festival tomorrow. It should be fun.

P.S. Does that cheerleader look familiar? I bet if you go back a few years you would see another one just like this cute one! ;) You should take a peak!

Little News...

I recently started as the Preschool Children's Church Director at church. I'm very excited!! I had never really ever thought about doing anything like this. I just didn't think it was my calling and it never crossed my mind. But after our previous director left, little nudges kept creeping into my mind. I had talked with my my mom and talked with Kirk and prayed a lot. I decided that Kirk and I would work a Sunday and see how I REALLY felt afterwards(I mean these kids could drive me batty, right?).
After that Sunday I felt this is truly what I wanted to do!! It is a volunteer position, basically just getting the curriculum together, taking care of the classroom, lining up teachers, etc. As I said before I'm so excited. My heart just leaps every time I think about it!!
I'm looking forward to this new adventure God is taking me on!!

9 months

Georgia is 9 mths old!!

Can I just say S T I N K E R!!!

Helllllloooooo 3rd child!!!

Wow, she is super fast. She hasn't started walking yet. But she crawls fast! She is gone before you know it. She has 3 favorite spots that she usually heads to first 1. Dog's water dish 2. Dog cage and 3. Bathroom. These seem to intrigue her the most right now. :)

She is starting to babble. She's says "mamamamama" quite well which makes Mommy happy! No dada's yet! ;) She also says "bababababa" well too. She knows where here food comes from! haha

Oh! Big news! She has 2 teeth!! The bottom two popped through a couple weeks ago. There are a couple on top that look about ready to come too.

She is loving wrestling with the kids. Bethany thinks it's so funny. One of these days she really going to be able to push them down!!!

She's doing well, staying healthy. She's a little more than 20 lbs. So she's evening out a little but not so much rapid weight gain as what was happening.

Here are some more pics:

HIS Love!

After a really hard week, struggling with lots of different things. Praying for answers. God showed himself to me so vividly! This morning we sang this song in church and it was just an affirmation of HIS love for me! AMEN!

Bethany's 4!

Bethany turned 4 years old today!

We had a wonderful time with our little girl today. She was able to pick where she wanted to eat after church and she picked Applebees. :) The servers came around and sang Happy Birthday to her and gave her a Hot Fudge Sundae! She thought it was really special. We then went home and had a PINK cake that mommy made and opened her gifts. She is so sweet! She loved every one and thought they were the greatest thing ever!
We didn't have a big party for her this year, but we did invite a few friends from church and their mommies for a Mommy/Daughter Mani/Pedi Party! The girls were so excited! They each got to pick out their own nail polish and their own lotion. The moms made an "assembly" line, they each got to soak their feet in a bubble spa, then get exfoliated, cleansed moisturized and finally beautified with color! The girls then ate CHEESE pizza of course and mommy made a fancier dinner for the other mommies. I think everyone had a great time including the mommies!! :)

Ok, lets catch you up with a little bit of info on Bethany!
She has started preschool! She goes 4 days a week, half day. She LOVES it! She's doing really good and I already can tell she's learning so much! She is still into dance. She is taking tap right now. But she has informed us that she wants to be a cheerleader once basketball starts. ;)
Here favorite color is still dark pink, but she also says that purple is ok too. She loves to wear dresses. She's still a girly girl! She loves Polly Pockets and her Barbies. She loves to help us cook. She is getting more into coloring, which makes me very happy. She loves to sing too!
She's a good little girl and we love her very much!!

Apple picking

We all went Apple picking today! It was very wet but we still had fun. We were able to get a lot of apples so we can make applesauce and other yummy appley things. Our kids love apples, so we get them as much as we can.

Bethany's a Preschooler!

(The sun was in her eyes)

Bethany and Elena

Today was Bethany's Official 1st day of preschool(aka no mommy). She was ready to go! No hesitation, no goodbyes-off she went! Although, it did make me a little sad when she trotted off it also made me happy and relieved that she is so excited. I was a bit worried, becasue sometimes Bethany is a bit timid. Her friend Elena is in her same class, it nice to have her there and also Erin and I can swap pick up times and help each other out! :) It seems like yesterday I was bringing this little bundle home from the hospital and now she's off to preschool! Bethany will go 4 days a week, 9am-1pm. She eats lunch there too! She's super excited about that. We decided to send her to the same preschool that Brady went to, Epworth UMC, we had such a good experience with him. He was also super prepared for kindergarten, his kinder teacher said you can definitely tell a difference. That seals the deal for us! It's awfully quiet in the house this morning, it's going to be an adjustment. :)

1st day of 2nd grade!

Today was Brady's 1st day of 2nd grade! He was very excited! We were able to go to his classroom last night and drop off his school supplies. We love his teacher Mrs. Strine. (Kirk actually taught with her at Ridgedale for a short time) He has quite a few friends in his class and a couple from his baseball team too. Mommy can't believe how fast the summer flew by!

Georgia is 7 months!

Our sweet Georgia turns 7 months old today!
She is changing so much! She is little miss speedy! She is crawling all over the house. Pulling herself up and has started to move around the furniture! Yikes! She has started eating a good amount of baby food(which Daddy and Mommy are making homemade!) She LOVES her food! ;) She has just recently started the "fake cough" she l thinks she's pretty special when she does it. Her favorite noise is still the raspberry though. She lights up when brother and sister walk in the room. She loves the animals! She will pet them an pull their hair too.

She is such a joy! She is such a happy baby! We feel honored and blessed to have her apart of our lives!