House Update!

Our house is coming right along....we should be moved in by the end of October!  Crazy!!!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy 10 year Anniversary to Jamie & Bill!!!

Bedmaker

Carter made his own bed this morning!!  He did a great job and it was all his idea!

Sweet Owen

Welcome to the world Sweet Owen!!!

We love our new nephew so very much!

 Big Boy!  

Carter the Barber!

cutest little barber I know!

Reading

Mowing Time

Aaron let Carter help him mow a few laps the other day :)  Carter loved it!

Hugs

Carter hurt his leg and Caroline came over and gave him a hug.  After that, Carter said "that made my heart frozen & melt"  LOVE!

The bed

Carter beat me to Caroline's room the other morning and this is what I found!  

 he was just a little happy!

Big Boo Boo!

Carter & Will had a big collision a few weeks ago and Carter took the brunt of it!  Poor baby....he is all nice and healed up now!

Pretty Girl!

Shoes

I found Caroline with Carter's crocs on the other day :)  The girl loves shoes!

1st day of school!

I realized that I never posted a picture of Carter's 1st day of preschool!  He started on August 22nd and LOVES it!!  He walks right in his classroom and barely takes the time to say goodbye!  He has met some new friends and tells me all about his day when I pick him up!  

The house that built me....

Today is a hard day for me -- hard to see a for sale sign in the front yard of the house that made me who I am today because it was a house full of love...a house that has been a part of my family for 37 years.  It's the house that I was brought home from the hospital to, it's the house where I took my first steps & learned to talk.  It's where I climbed on the table and where I put soft scrub in my eye.  It's where I threw softballs in the backyard with my dad.  Where I first got my love of planting flowers with my mom.  It's where we raked leaves and made bike trails.  It's where I learned to read.  It's where we dressed up our dog and walked her around the backyard. It's where we celebrated birthdays & Christmases with family.  It's where we laughed uncontrollably over silly things -- like Kim saying "fork in beans" at Christmas dinner or Jamie & I getting so tickled at dinner one night that she had to stand in the laundry room, so we could control ourselves.  It's where my sisters & I played school & dentist.  It's where we argued over whose turn it was in the bathroom or why Kim got her own room & Jamie and I had to share.  It's where I learned to ride a bike. It's where we met great neighbors who have become life long friends. It's where my dad would stand at the front door & wave goodbye and give the I love you sign as I pulled out of the driveway.  It's where we sat at the table and played cards for hours upon hours.  It's where Mom & I would bake cakes & cookies & my grandmother's cornbread dressing. It's where my Dad told me everything was going to be ok when the prognosis was not good for him.  It's where Mom surprised me with my greatest Christmas present...my sweet Lilly.  It's the place where my mom & dad took their last breaths.  It's where I made a home for myself before I got married.  It's where Aaron got down on one knee and proposed to me in the kitchen.  It's where we came together and made the house our home. It's where I brought my babies home from the hospital, where they said their first words, where Carter took first steps & Caroline isn't far away from her's. It's where they celebrated their 1st birthdays. It's where I kissed their first boo-boo's. It's a house full of lots of firsts, lots of love and lots and lots and lots of wonderful memories, but the memories will always remain in my heart.  It will be a very emotional day when I hand over the keys to a new family...a family who will make new memories and hopefully a family who will enjoy this house as much as I have.  I love this house so much and I always will -- it's been HOME for so long.  I wish we could keep this house forever, but it's time to move out of the house that built me and make new memories in our new house.  I can only wish that our new house bring half the memories that this house has brought me.  There is something special about a childhood home.

Applesauce Fun

Silly girl

Caroline climbed into the back of the boat and made a little seat.  She LOVES to climb!