Fall Pictures 2009

Thank you again this year to Joanna for taking our fall pictures. Can't wait to do my christmas cards. They turned out great!

We dressed ourselves

Ella and Elizabeth dressed themselves today. Not such a big deal except for the fact that it is about 90 to 95 degrees today. Atleast they dressed themselves.

Summer Fun and Pictures to Prove It!

Here are a few pictures of our summer travels and fun times. We went on a little family vacation at Bugg Island in Virginia. It was a little over an hour away. We did some boating and swimming and hanging out. We also took the kids to Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh which they love.

Enjoy~Melanie

Summer is winding down

Hello. Again it has been longer than I had hoped for an update. With having the summer off the girls and I have been busy doing fun stuff. We have had many play dates and lots of swimming practice at the pool. Ella is a great swimmer now. I just hope she won't forget before our trip to FL in October. School starts back in a week and a half for Tommy so we are gearing up for that. The little boy I babysit starts back Tuesday. I am looking forward to getting back on a schedule as we haven't kept to one too well this summer.

We had a trip to SC this past weekend and took the girls to the beach with GDaddy, Nanny, and Aunt Tammy. The girls loved it. They have no memory of the beach so this was sort of like a first for them. They enjoyed it so much. They also spent some great time at the bounce house place with their cousins and were sad to leave Sunday.

Blessings, Melanie

Summer Slackers!

We really aren't summer slackers but just have been even busier and haven't been able to post much. Summer has been busy with Tommy working full time hours. We have been blessed with him occasionally getting a day off where we have been able to have a fun family day. Ella, Elizabeth and I have a summer pool pass for parent toddler time from 12pm-1pm. We have done a lot of swimming over the summer and I am happy to report Ella is not using swimmies anymore. Although she still have a way to go. That is mostly thanks to Grandpa's visit a few weeks ago and working with Ella for three days at the hotel pool. She was a fast learner mostly to do with her eagerness to be independent. Elizabeth is swimming very well also and enjoys the water.

We also have had a good friend staying with us some as he house hunted. We are excited to have the Stevens family only 10 minutes from our home starting next week. It will be such a joy to have old friends near by as we watch their family grow.

Also since I haven't been doing any childcare I have been able to weekly visit with friends for various play dates. Fun times!

And the final reason nothing has been updated is because I have been very exhausted because we are expecting our third child February 14th. I am 10 1/2 weeks along and feeling very well except for sheer exhaustion at times. We are all very excited about the new addition and thankful to God for choosing to bless us with another baby.

Summer is winding down but not without excitement. We have company this weekend for the guys to go out and do some open air evangelism. Then the first week of August Aunt Kaka and the family come for a visit. Three busy boys in the house. What fun. Then we are headed to SC the second weekend of August. Then we celebrate our anniversary and then back to the grind. I will be watching a little boy again fulltime and then Tommy will go back to work.

We are so thankful for the time this summer to be a family and enjoy a season without classes. I do think we look forward to getting back in school and a routine. Ella will start a kindergarten cirriculumn and continue to workon her reading. They grow up so fast.

Blessings~Melanie

Happy Birthday Tommy

Tommy had a birthday on Wednesday and the girls and I were able to throw him a party with cake and ice cream and all the decorations. Enjoy!

Dance Recital

Here are the pictures from Ella's dance recital on April 24th. Elizabeth ended up being part of it as well. Looks like she needs to get signed up for a class also.