Our Happy Family

Sunday, January 25, 2009

A Day With Daddy

As many of you know, I am not a glowing beauty while pregnant! I am thankful for this blessing and know that it is all worth the end result... a precious life! However, daddy does such a great job while I am pregnant ( as well as when I'm not!!) of stepping up. He cooks and over looks the messy house so well. One of his and the children's favorite thing is to take an "adventure" on Saturdays. I love this too because it gives me catch up ( or sleep!) time. This weekend they went to a popular spot of theirs... The Museum of Life and Science in Durham. Here is just small glimpse of the fun they had.

What a pose... I have one of her doing this in December that I will have to add.

The huge sand box is always a hit!

They took a train ride. He actually didn't want to ride. You can see his hesitation and her look is because this was not the seat she wanted ( they stopped her b/c the conductor offered to take a picture!)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Change of Heart

I have to admit that I went to sleep last night praying for NO SNOW!!!! Once I saw the excitment on my children's faces I quickly had a change of heart. They were very excited to see it ( it is only the second snow for each of them and he wasn't even walking last time!) but only wanted to play a short amount of time... which was perfect!

I "forced" a pose on the porch to capture the scence behind them... it was awesome!

He liked it but was pretty careful.

She was all about the snowballs.

After 15 minutes of getting dressed we finally got out... then the playing lasted maybe 20 minutes!!! I think daddy will take them back out for snowman building when he gets home.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Fun Saturday

I finally found the camera!!! YEA!!!!!
Today we went Marbles Musuem for a birthday party and spent the afternoon with a dear, sweet friend we hadn't seen in over 2 years! ( None of those are here for privacy of the other child!) But it was an awesome day!!!!!!

Oh my, this is a "trick" mommy would never try!!!!!

She had her faced painted and enjoyed "controling" the fish with her mouth.

I never knew firemen were so darn cute!!!

The children remembered the pirate ship which was amazing because we hadn't been here since his second birthday party! The swing was just her speed.

He enjoyed dressing up like a pirate! It was interesting watching him get into the dress up things because he doesn't seem to interested here...maybe its because our stuff is mostly princesses and fairies!!!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Exciting News

Today we heard the third most precious sound ever - the heartbeat of our third child!!! He or she is due to arrive July 31, 2009 (or sooner :) !) . We are all thrilled!!!

We also recieved the official offer yesterday for our girl to attend the school we were praying for. She will begin kindergarten in August at North Raleigh Christian Academy.

We feel very blessed to be able to share this wonderful news with our friends and family!!!

Friday, January 2, 2009

2008 in Review (part 1)

This was the fifth year of giving calendars to family memebers that recapped the previous year. Here is 2008's version... sorry about the order... I REALLY tried to get it to come up right but it didn't!!! Enjoy!