We Have Grass!!!!!!!

It has been a long time coming, but we finally have grass in the backyard. We as a family now can play in our backyard. Next to come is a picket fence so I can trap my lovely children into the yard and to prevent them from being enticed by the pond that sits right behind my house :) But that wont come until next year is my guess.

So two weeks ago we, let me correct myself, Caleb (with lots of my help) started this journey I like to call grass. We started by mowing down all the gorgeous weeds and pulling out all the wonderful debris left by the crew that built our home. Caleb then tilled the ground which was a long, huge, painful, sore task. You got to love clay ground! Caleb and a friend then leveled the ground the in true Southern Red Neck style. It was hilarious to watch. Then the fallowing week we had the sod delivered and had a sod laying party were lots of Caleb's Navy buddies came and helped us lay it down. They started around 7:45 in the morning and were done by 9:45 am. It only took them 2 hours, whoo hooo! We then had a celebratory cook out. All I can say is who knew you could be so giddy about grass :o)

Valerie and Daddy working on mowing down the weeds.





The debris we found in the ground and Caleb having fun taming the tiller. That thing has self propelled and had a 8 hp engine.




Caleb and his friend leveling the ground.


All 9 pallets of sod being delivered.




The sod being laid.



Backyard finally with grass !!!!

Strawberry Fields Forever

I love the South, especially Charleston. One of the many reasons why I love the South is all the fresh produce you can buy strait from the farmer themselves or you and your family can have fun picking it. A few weeks ago that is exactly what we did. I took Valerie and Henry strawberry picking. We, well Valerie and I had lots of fun picking and eating them. Once we came home we also found out why little Henry boy was so cranky! He wanted a strawberry. I let him have one and quickly found out that the boy LOVES strawberries. I have never seen a baby devour or be so passionate about a piece of food in my entire life. I have to give him props. The boy knows what he likes :o)

Happy Birthday Princess Valerie!

I know I say this all the time but I can’t believe how fast time passes by. Today 3 years ago my little girl made me a mom. Being a mom was and still is one of greatest desires/joys of my heart. I would be lying if I said every minute has been blissful. But those trying times make the precious memories even sweeter, and I wouldn’t change one moment.

For Valerie’s birthday we had a “Princess” party last Saturday. It was so much fun to plan, decorate, and host, and the kids had a blast. Every little girl we invited came dressed like a princess. I lined both sides of our walk way with silver painted dowels and strung pink streamers from dowel to dowel. The front porch was lined in pink streamers and pink balloons, and we had our bubble maker on blowing bubbles as the girls came to the door. Once they got inside we had princess music playing and they got to choose a princess picture to color and a princess necklace, while we waited for everyone to arrive. Once everyone arrived we decorated princess crowns, played pin the crown on the princess, a princess scavenger hunt, and had a beauty salon were we painted our nails, got to put on glitter lip gloss, and perfume. It was lots of fun and Valerie is still talking about it!!!!


Valerie all ready for her party to start



Standing in front of the balloon bouquet Daddy spoiled her with.



All the friends.



Blowing out the candles on the cake I made for her :) She was very, very clear on the fact she wanted a pink crown cake with roses!



Birthday girl cutting the first piece of cake.

Easter

We have had a busy last few weeks. But here you go. I finally got the Easter pictures posted. We had a nice quiet Easter this year. Valerie had loads of fun finding her Easter basket Saturday morning. We had a picture of her with big wide eyes and a huge smile on her face, but sadly the picture got erased by someone in our family who shall remain nameless...cough, cough, Daddy. Henry also loved his Easter basket.




We had fun dying eggs between Conferences. Ok fine the truth is Valerie liked dying eggs but Mom and Dad took over after Valerie decided dying 2 eggs was enough fun.






Here is Valerie in her Easter dress I made for her. She loved it. As you can tell she thought she was a princess in it.





The last picture is a picture is Henry, Easter Sunday, doing his new favorite thing. . . playing with his tongue. He is only 4 months old and already a clown :)