fun in VA Beach!

keeping herself busy on the car ride. She did so good!

making herself at home with all the animals
sweet kisses for mommy's sweet friend!
the Bit and Mr. Matt had a blast together....well at least according to Abigail!

Ok here's the little new angel addition to the family, miss Madeline Ann, Isn't she beautiful!?!?
yes, she did just have a baby 6 wks ago. Nothing slows this woman down. And look how happy Dave is to have that hot chick on his bike!

yes, there they are all on the motorcycle, I promise they only went up the street w/o helmets.

my big girl, and by big kid hubby having a good time
Abigail was really taken w/ the baby
Mr. Hamilton was less then thrilled when his mommy drove away on the motorcycle, so we walked around to find them together.

so fun to catch up w/ my wild Sue
Abigail wasn't sure about Alexander's driving skills yet

Alexander was thrilled that cool uncle Brian knew how to play his game
these two trouble makers were at it pretty quick. partners in crime for sure
meeting my sweet niece for the first time, oh she was a love!!!!!!!

I think she was actually trying to kiss it
She loved all the "pishies!"

Best seat in the house

Abigail loved the nature walk!
imagine that, Bri finds a fish tank! I know dear...soon baby soon!

ok I know this looks like child abuse but he just accidently dinged her head on the way into the fish. kinda funny though, it just made her mad for a minute. :(

Well we just had such a great time in our mini-vacation last week in Va Beach. We headed down Tuesday night to my friend Amanda's house who luckily only lives 20 minutes from my Sue! We hit the aquarium early Wednesday morning. Abigail and Brian were all about the 'Pishies'! Abigail is going to know all about coral reefs and shrimp soon when they show up in her living room. She'll be able to teach those other kindergardeners a thing or 2 about the ocean by then. She's getting to be quite the expert. After that we were off to Sue's that night for a quick baby squeeze and some burgers. It was such a good time. The kids had fun playing together. Meeting little Madeline was so great, she is such a love!! Hamilton and Alexander are just growing up too darn fast but they are such sweet boys. Abigail is facinated by them all but I think this trip felt safest hanging out w/ Madeline. She was a little tired from the long day and those boys move fast!! Amanda and Matt (and kitties in toe) were great hosts and it was so good to relax at their house for some good catching up. Abigail really took to 'Mr. Matt' and followed him around everywhere. He was soooo sweet to let her do and to show her 'tuurr tuurr' over and over again (their pet turtle). I wish we could have stayed a week and played more with everyone but duty called back at home. It was well worth the trip though to get out of town and get some new thoughts for a change. Bri just liked not being a work for a few days. It was a good week and here are some pictures.

"Wa-Wa....Beeeeeeeeease"

Which translates...."may we go to the water please". Ok, this kid gets it honest from her mommy and daddy but she is one serious water bug!! The pool is officially open for the season and we hit it daily! As requested above she begs and begs for the 'wa-wa'. And the days we get to go w/ daddy are even more fun!!! She shows no fear when he's around and we all have a blast together. She's making friends and trying desperately to keep up w/ the big kids in the water, she'll be swimming in another couple months. She's got the doggy paddle down but she can't quite keep her own self afloat yet, but not for lack of practice! Her favorite games are the 'sthairs' as she calls the ladder and jumps off into our arms....and as daddy showed she can do ....letting her plunge below the serface and kick back up. She eats it up though, obviously. Another skill we thank her Mi-Mi and Ba-Ba for, she has spent a lot of time at the lake w/ a certain oversized golden retriever named Elle. Who has shown her the adorable act of shaking her little booty evertime she gets out of the water like a dog to get the water off. It's so stupid cute!! She giggles and shakes her whole body we love it! This week should be fun. We're headed to VA Beach for a very quick visit of my sweet new niece Maddie-Anne. I promise pictures! Always kodak moments to be had!

serious slacker..

Well, I know I'm seriously slacking on my blog. I just haven't done much other then clean, sit and 'wait on the pee pee' as my angel trys to potty train, and clean some more. Our house officially listed on Tuesday morning. And yesterday they put us on the property tour for local Realtors so I had to get ready for 10 agents strolling through . Then we had an actual showing last night at about 5. So, it's going good. The place looks great so now we wait , pray, then pray some more. We're still working on putting a contract on the house we want but are having a hard time getting up w/ that realtor. Grr. But hopefully soon. It's been a wild week but now that we're up and sparkling Abigail and I are hitting the pool on a regular basis. My little water bug is so smitten w/ the 'wa-wa' and screams like we're causing her physical pain when we call it a day. She's into pulling herself up on the ladder, I only spot her, I don't help once she touches the edge of the step. And then she turns around and "one, two, freeee's" and jumps into my arms w/ glee and giggles! We did this ritual for about an hour yesterday. Then we climb out and go "nigh-nigh" in the chairs and discuss important world events like....'toes' and 'twees' while we dry off. So stinkin fun. Tomorrow we're going to play w/ Natilie and little Katie so that should be fun. Hopefully we can include daddy tonight before small group converges on our living room. At least the house is already clean. :)

What a finale....

Mmmmmmmmmmman that was a good season!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so proud of David Cook I just want to squeeze him! It was a wonderful finale minus the stupid feathered Asian man. Why do they insist on thinking we want to see more of these idiots?!? Although Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey were an absolute hoot! Loved that! Anyway, I am absolutely tickled to death with the winner this year. Little Archuleta will have a wonderful career ahead of him regardless of the results but I think David Cook just out did him with deep heart desire to be in the music business. He just oozes his love of it. His maturity and soulful song won me over for sure and I'm proud as peach a rocker actually pulled it off! I didn't think it was possible. I just thought America would prefer a pop prince to a rocker for this show's audience. America got it right this year I think. I love that Simon apologized to David Cook for his premature judgement and predictions the night before. He was almost likable! Both guys totally deserved to be up there and they'll both do fabulous down the road. I cried like a baby when Cook won and his mamma came up to hug him. He was so moved and humbled it was just precious. Abigail did NOT understand what was wrong with her nutty mother crying at the TV. Poor kid, she's doomed w/ me as a mom. But you know what... Gosh I love this show... I HATE that I have to wait until January for more. Grrrr. Brian's probably thrilled to not have to discuss it and analyze the contestants anymore. Well it was everything I'd hoped it would be this season. Great contestants, enough Simon drama to keep me drooling for more and I can't wait for all those new albums to hit the shelves this next year. Go Idols! If that crowd comes to my town to tour I'm soooo there!

one motivated family!

We are working like monkeys these days trying to get this house on the market. Ya know, it sucks, to be the type personality that just doesn't see the mess until you know someone else is going to look at it. We have our house looking just plain perddy these days! I've got half our stuff boxed up and in storage and I'm actually achieving some organization! This is not like me! I hate that we're just going to get our place looking real top notch and then we'll move out. Oh well. Maybe it won't take 4 yrs to get our next place like we want it. :) This is us painting the master bedroom. Brian's been in charge of new floors and me and the Bit have taken to organizing and painting. This was a big mommy mistake though, you other mothers can laugh at my ignorance and inexperience...I thought it'd be cute to give the Bit a dry roller to 'help out'. Cause you KNOW my girl hates to be the baby who doesn't pitch in like the big people. She insists on pulling her own weight around here. So we let the girl play. Well, dumb me, the next morning I had the now wet roller wrapped up in the room, you guessed it, I had that instinctive mommy gut feeling that she'd been WAY too quiet and went to check on her. She'd pulled the saran wrap off and was painting my grandmothers all wood handmade dressers a lovely shade of antique white. With a big Bit smile though mommy! I couldn't even fuss at the poor kid. I'd let her do it the night before. Ok, lesson learned. Luckily it was wet latex paint that wiped off easliy w/ a wet rag and all was fine. Mental note, careful what you teach these boogers, they catch on quick and you may not want them too!!!

Princess Bit..

It's been a great week this week. We've gotten so much done to get our house ready to sell. Those of you who know us well, know we'd rather sit on our deck eating ice cream w/ friends or snuggle up and watch Smallville together as a family. But this week we are a motivated marriage! The house next door to ours sold less then a month after it listed. We are hopeful to get into a house with a yard for our wild woman this summer. So, my sweet handy hubby's been laying floors and putting up new trim and chair rails while I paint and pack. We're doing good! It's left the Bit a little left out even though she trys so to help. Last night she found the brush attatchment to my vaccume cleaner and 'painted' my bedroom wall along side her mommy. So fun! I'm aware the above pictures have absolutely nothing to do w/ my write up. But hey, I'm a nurse not a journalist (unlike my brilliant journalist published sister Honey!). I just wanted to put these pics in cause she was so cute trying mommy's shoes on after church Sunday. Bri took these while I was asleep. Such a big girl, loves her some shoes and sparklies and "bubblezzz bash!!". When we get the house looking perddy I'll post some pics of the finished product. I told Bri, made him promise me....next house we'll fix up looking nice BEFORE we are moving out of it!!! :)

Thump Thump

One of Abigail's favorite things to do is find when I accidently leave my nursing bag with in reach and play with all mommy's gadgets. She loves my stethascope! We talk about how our bodies work under our skin and she was all about learning about our hearts. Her little eyes just lit up when I put the ear pieces in the right way and let her hear her own heart beat. She listened very intently and looked pretty darn cute doing it. My little nurse! Mommy was so proud!