Hooray!!

Well, we FINALLY got our new computer yesterday, so I'm not having to use Brian's work laptop anymore! I guess this is just my celebratory post, plus I needed an excuse to post this picture of my sweet babies. Sawyer's not smiling, but I still like it...even though they look a little bigger than I would prefer.
Anyway, we're honkered in waiting for our first big snowstorm for the year...I've got to admit that I'm a little excited!! We'll see how I feel about that after a couple of days though!!
Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with some snow pictures!!

Like mother, like daughter...

It was a really pretty day Sunday after church, so we decided to let Addie Grace go for a Sunday drive in her car. Bless her heart, she really does drive like her mother. Whichever way she turns her head, the steering wheel is going to follow. These are pictures from the event...I could have kept snapping and snapping pictures, and they all would have looked exactly the same. Her poor Daddy finally gave out...I wish I would've have taken a shot of the sweat dripping off his poor brow!

"okay, you're going straight, but let's get on the sidewalk"

"oops...a little too far to the right..."

"oops...now a little too far to the left..."

"oops...now a little too far to the right..."

"oops...now a little too far to the left..."

after about five more times of this, he gives up and she's left on her own to run into the mailbox (almost)...

Wish us luck in 13 years...

my sweet boy...

Well, I feel like my sweet Sawyer always gets the raw end of the deal when it comes to posts and pictures, so I wanted to do a post especially for him.
Most of you know that I really, really wanted another little girl when I was pregnant with Sawyer, but I can honestly and truly say that I am sooooo thankful that I got this precious, perfect baby boy. I am so eaten up with him that it is almost obnoxious, and even though he is verrrrrrrry clingy, it really is just fine by me!!
In honor of him being 7 months old, here are my favorite seven things about my sweet boy (in no particular order)...
7. his sweet giggle
6. how much he loves his bath (even though I have to squegee myself off when he's done)
5. how he rubs my arm and pats me when I hold him
4. the way his face lights up when Addie Grace talks to him
3. how he LOVES to snuggle
2. the way he pants when he thinks he's about to get to eat
and
1. how he grabs me by my head and yanks me to him to kiss me (gnaw on me)

Children's Museum

I don't know if I have mentioned what an incredible children's museum that we have here in Indy...so, if not, let me do that now. It really is great and if you are ever in the area, I highly recommend making a day of it.
Last week we went with our friends Suzanne and her little boy Jonathan. We had a great time! We got to check out the new Curious George exhibit which was really cute. Addie Grace's favorite thing was playing in the doghouse at Playscape. Brian has been thinking about building her a playhouse for her birthday, but we may just buy her a doghouse instead!!!
Here are some pictures from the day...

not the greatest picture of Addie Grace, but I like how Sawyer is trying to figure out the weird kid sitting next to him...

Addie Grace in the doghouse...

Addie Grace on Sparky (she named him our very first trip to the museum and now everytime we go, she has to ride him...)

Jonathan...don't you just want to eat him??

Merry Christmas...

Okay, Okay, a little late I know. I'll spare you my excuses and just get on with it...
The holidays were great...we all had a wonderful time. We did ALOT of driving, but it was still surprisingly enjoyable!! I LOVE Christmas...and I love it even more since I have kids of my own. It's so much fun seeing Addie Grace get soooo excited about all of it. Making cookies for Santa, reading Twas the Night Before Christmas, writing her letter to Santa, getting her letter from Santa (thanks Gram!), Addie Grace's preschool Christmas program...it was all wonderful!! Too many fun things to mention them all!! She did get worn out with all of it some and was just tired and cranky at times, but I guess that's to be expected with a three year old. One night that we were at my parents, I came into the den and she was sitting and crying...not just being pouty...true sorrow. I asked, "Addie Grace...what's wrong??" She looked up at me with her lip quivering and said, "My holiday cheer is gone!!" and just sobbed!! It was so funny! She has a flair for drama (wonder where she gets that from??) Anyway, we survived it...she wanted to go and pray about it, so she went to our room and bowed her head and said, "Dear God, my holiday cheer is gone and my family is lost (her cousins weren't there). Amen". After a few hugs, she was okay! She cracks me up!! I never know what's going to come out of her mouth next!!
Anyway, it was all so much fun, and I must say that I'm a little sad it's over. I can't wait until next year for Sawyer to be tearing through everything!!!
Here are a few pictures...

One of the TEN MILLION outakes from our Christmas card pictures...

Twas the Night Before Christmas...
Christmas morning...

WooHoo Santa brought me a car!!

Sawyer's first Christmas (thanks Uncle Todd and Aunt Donna!!)

Hope yours was just as special!!!

Happy Fall!!

I know you are wondering who in the world has seized control of my keyboard with all of these postings!! I finally transferred pictures from my camera to my computer and I now have 204 new pictures to blog about soooo get comfy!!! Don't worry, I'm not really going to make you look at all of those pictures, just a few!!
Last weekend we had our ladies retreat at church. It was a great!! As much as I love her, it was nice not having a three year old swinging from arms, jumping off of my head and making me play webkinz constantly. While I was gone, she and Brian had a date night. She got to choose what she wanted to do. Her choices were The Bee Movie, Toys-R-Us and get a toy, or Chuck E Cheese. Of course she chose Chuck E Cheese! It's her favorite place in the world. Brian was a little sad that she didn't want to go to the movie, but I think he secretly loves skeeball just as much as the movies. Anyway, they won 320 tickets and I now have almost as many little rubber frogs!!!! Oh well, I'm glad they had fun! The retreat was at Brown County State Park. It's a really neat place. Mine and Jill's other two roommates for the night were Sawyer and Jack. It was fun, but hard for me to fully participate with my little bratty-brat. To help us out with this, Brian and Chris came early Saturday morning to take care of the boys. After the retreat was over we stayed and hung out in the park for most of the afternoon. It was such a perfect fall day and we had so much fun! Here are some of our pictures from the afternoon. I wish I would've gotten more, but Addie Grace and my camera (hint, hint Brian!!) were over the photo-op rather quickly!!

one of her favorite past times
my two favorite boysher token pained look
our sweet girl

Halloween

We had a great Halloween, except my digital camera kept messing up. I took alot of pictures with my SLR camera, but I haven't had them developed yet. I'm hoping that I got some better shots of them with it than I did with my digital camera.
Sawyer really didn't mind having his costume on, he just hated being put down to have his picture made (he's a LITTLE (ahem) spoiled). I'm pretty sure that Addie Grace and Sawyer have gotten together and decided on a new theme for their pictures from now on...she smiles but doesn't look at the camera (or looks pained) and he screams and cries...cute huh?? I'm sure this is just a preview of what our Christmas cards will look like...anyway, hope you're Halloween was great!!! Here's my little pumpkin and spider...

stupid, stinking camera...

Okay, so we go to Nashville last week to go to my friend Julie's pumpkin patch, as we have done every year to take cute fall pictures of Addie Grace. I was sooo excited this year about getting to take them with Sawyer too. Well, having them all dressed for the pictures, I grabbed their costumes to get some shots of them dressed up too, prepared for a perfect day of picture taking!! The weather was beautiful, I had 5 great helpers (mom, dad, Mason, Macy and Brian), so I knew we could do it, get it over with and have some fun.
Well....we get there, Addie Grace is already itching to go and do all the fun stuff, but I start taking pictures, promising that I'll be really, really quick (right!!). I take about five and my camera messes up (I think Addie Grace put a hex on it)!!! I fight with it for about 15 minutes, but after Addie Grace whining (understandably) about wanting to go and play, I finally give up. I couldn't get Julie's camera, as she is dealing with an accident with one of the guests, so I just let her go and play. After playing for about an hour, she gets filthy, dirty and is having a ball! Well, another friend comes to the rescue with her camera but by this time though, getting Addie Grace to cooperate with sitting back down and starting the whole photo drama over again was almost impossible. Sawyer was worn out at this point too, so although I got alot of pictures of everyone having fun, I didn't get really cute pumpkin patch pictures. Here is the best one that I got with my camera right before it messed up...

Well, as mad as I was, I at least thought I would get a new camera out of the deal, so I was excited about that. Well, my precious husband fixed the camera a few days later (grrrrr!!)...so no cute pumpkin patch pictures AND no new camera for me!! Stupid, stinking husband!! (I'm only kidding!!)
Here are some of the other random shots from the day!

Addie Grace "milking the cow"














too bad she wasn't smiling OR looking at the camera...would've been one of my favorites!!












playing in the dried corn kernals...I think her favorite part of the whole day!

aren't they cute??? Macy, Sawyer, Addie Grace and Mason






see how happy my children were when I tried to take a few more posed shots before leaving?!?!



Nana and Sawyer











Nana, Pappy and kiddos

A little late...

Well, since Sawyer is going to be 5 months old in a week from tomorrow, I thought that it might be nice for me to post a couple of his THREE month pictures. In my defense, I only got them in the mail a couple of weeks ago and then I headed out of town for 5 days...then I got home and halloween and blah, blah, blah, well, anyway here I am. These are a couple of my favorites.
Believe it or not, I've actually had alot to blog about lately, just no time, so I'm going to do a few more posts to catch up on the last few weeks, so hang onto your pants, you're probably going to get about three posts in two days!!!

Aaaaah home...

Well, after a week in Nashville with my mom and dad, we are finally getting settled back into the Indy routine. It was great to be at home in Nashville and now it's great to be back at home here in Indy with Brian!!
We had so much fun in Nashville visiting with my friends and my family!! I always have such a hard time leaving and I always make excuses to stay just one more day!! I love to watch my mom with Sawyer...something about her just makes him want to talk and talk to her and when she sings to him, he just cackles!! It's so funny!! I guess he just knows that she's his Nana!! Out of all of the pictures that I took when I went home, I don't have ANY pictures of Sawyer and Nana!! Here is the next best thing though... a picture of Sawyer hanging out with his Pappy!!

While we were in Nashville they had a little carnival at church and Addie Grace thought that was just great!! She got to play with all of her friends all day and we all had a great time!

After getting home late Wednesday night, Thursday was open house at Addie Grace's preschool and that was alot of fun. Addie Grace loved being the tour guide and showing us all around...she loves any situation where she gets to be the boss!!
Tonight we went with Jill, Chris and Jack downtown to the canal and just walked around and went out to eat. Indy really does have a neat downtown area and we're all looking forward to going back and doing some of the fun stuff at the canal that we didn't have time to do today.

There really are alot of fun things to do here in Indy that would make a few hours drive worth the trip...and that's not even mentioning the wonderful company that would be included!!! (Are y'all getting the hint to come and visit?!?!)
Well...that's about all going on with us for the week. Sorry that there's not really anything more exciting to share...but that's really all that's going on...I'll try to be more interesting next week!!
(I'm including one more picture of Sawyer so that he doesn't feel slighted by there being two of Addie Grace!!)

I hope you all have a great weekend!!!

Made you do a double-take didn't I??

I know you scanned over my blog expecting to see the same old post, but ta-dah!! Something new! So, I'm a little behind...I've had a few things on my plate! I truly am going to try and be more faithful with this...I'm not a good emailer anymore, and so doing this more frequently really would simplify my life. We'll see how I do!!
Just a FEW things have happened in our lives since my last post in APRIL (for goodness sake!!)! We sold our house...Hooray! We bought a new house...Hooray!! We had a baby...Hooray!! Addie Grace started preschool...Hooray, Hooray!! Lots of fun stuff!
Things are going really well, Sawyer's doing great, Addie Grace is loving school and we're getting a little more settled each and every day. We're all starting to feel a little more at home here and that's good after being in limbo for the last year. Now if we can just finish painting our house and unpacking our last 20 or so boxes (yuck!) we'll be doing great!!
Sawyer will be THREE months old this week and he's becoming more and more fun everyday...we are having a great time with him and so far he is surviving Addie Grace!!
Addie Grace starting preschool was a huge production for us...from her especially requested breakfast of chocolate gravy and biscuits (it's not gross, I promise!!) on her you are special today plate to her first day of preschool cake that night with 10 million pictures in between!!! My favorite picture is of when I picked her up from preschool...she could hardly walk to the car because she was so tired and she could barely hold her head up on the way home. She didn't look quite as together as when she had left home that morning! After pictures of her at dinner on the you are special today plate (AGAIN) and then pictures of her with her cake, she quite understandably told me, "NO MORE PICTURES!!!!" So I reluctantly put my camera away.
Anyway, this is just a post to let you know that I'm back and to share a few pictures. Check back with me soon...I'm going to shock you with my stick-to-it-tiveness with this blog, regardless of how uneventful my life is!!! (And yes, I know that I made stick-to-it-tiveness up).

My life...

This truly is an encounter that occurs about every 3 1/2 minutes at my house!!!

a hodgepodge of events...

Well, it's been a busy few weeks. We've been in Nashville at my parents for the last two weeks. The week before, my neice Hannah came and stayed with us in Indy for the week during her spring break. We have gone to the children's museum, the Louisville zoo, had two birthday parties, spent the day (practically) at Chuck E. Cheese's, stayed with my sister for the weekend, had Gram and Grandaddy in this past weekend...lots and lots of fun stuff!!
And some not so fun stuff...last Wednesday, I started having some vision problems...after going to the opthamologist, I was diagnosed with central serous retinopathy. It's a condition not uncommon during the third trimester of pregnancy. Basically there is a build up of fluid and it causes a blister (essentially) on your retina. Everything looks all crazy out of my left eye. It's driving me nuts. The doctor said that 99% of the time it resolves on its own within a few months after delivery, if not, they would do laser surgery. Fun huh??
Anyway, enough about me...I can't believe that Addie Grace is THREE years old!! It blows my mind! I posted some of the pictures of the last few weeks of her parties and stuff...I'll do more later!!