Labor Day Weekend

Miriam and Grace. The whole bunch.
The Hopsons.
Miriam and Grace in matching P.J.s.
I gave Obie a bucket with five blackberries in it to play with. . .after a few minutes I checked on him and he had eaten all of them and was covered in the remains.

What a weekend! I love three day weekends. We started it a little early. . .the Hopsons came down Thursday night with their little ones. Miriam who just turned 2 and Sophia who is 4 months. What a group. Have you ever tried getting 4 old friends, 2 toddlers and 2 infants ready and loaded in the car. . .its a job in itself. We had a blast. . .even with the mass amounts of chaos. Sara and I shopped and found super good deals, the boys babysat, we went to the farmers market, ate Gus's pretzels, went to the playground, played settlers, ate cheese and chocolate fondue outside in the dark, stayed up late, picked black berries, peaches and apples and just had fun. It was great and a weekend to remember. Here is a peek in at our wonderful weekend.

Update Coming. . .I promise

Things have been busy. My family has been here and I've had better things to do then blog. I will soon since things will be getting back to normal. . .I promise.

Gum

I'm chewing gum and its making my face sweat. . .that can't be a good thing!

7 Months and counting. . .

Two peas in a pod.

Life can't get better then this.

Here he goes. . .

Obie is offically 7 months today. . .pretty big stuff. . .He is trying to crawl and loving real food. He can hold his own when it comes to the dogs and loves to grab at anything he can reach. . .especially the large afro that often tackles him.

Gonna blow. . .

We went to Tanglewood park. Its the park my parents got engaged in and we always go for picnics and fun when we are in NC. In the past we had always feed the ducks so my Mom really wanted to take Grace. The only problem was the huge sign that said do not feed the ducks. Nana choose to ignore it and the ducks came running.
Here are the two twins, Daren and Thomas who are two weeks older then Obie. Four great grandkids and great Nana Poole.
Grace loved the 4th of July. . .until the fireworks. She hid under the blanket when they started. Nana felt bad and took her into the car to watch.
Our two little angels. . .well most of the time. Did I mention Grace is two???

Well, if my laptop wasn't going to explode at any moment I might have updated this a little sooner. . .thats my excuse anyways. So here I go. . .trying to apease all those angery people who want so see how we are doing and see the newest pictures of our two little rascals. . .Just so you know we didn't float away in all the flooding although it was actually only a few miles from our house. We are dry and well, except for the sweat running down our faces due to the extreme humidity and heat. Actually today wasn't so bad. Our latest excitment was that we drove to North Carolina for the 4th of July. Two kids, two dogs and two kind of grown ups. We made it there and back safe and sound. On the way there I was chasing a storm. It was quite impressive and it kept me entertained while the rest of the troop slept. Beautiful lighting across the sky. . .can't get better then that. Ok, one with the pictures. Here it goes. . .

Images of the Last Month.

Almost a month. . .

Boy its been awhile. . .all I can say it day camp and exhaustion. Day Camp at the park has started so I've been putting in a ton of hours and Obie had decided he didn't want to sleep more then a few hours at a time. . .which is a problem. Overall things are going well. I'm a little more rested and things are quieting down a bit. A lot has happened in the last month. . .the Hopson's came to visit (which is always a good time), day camp started, Obie is rolling like a mad man, Obie is 6 months, Grace is stringing 3 words together at a time, Mike turned 27, we celebrated our 7 year anniversary and today is fathers day. Time seems to be flying. Today I can hardly talk. I've been lossing my voice since Friday. I think its due to a lack of sleep and just getting worn down. What else. . .seven years, lets talk about thought. Pretty long I must say, kind of makes me feel old. Who would have thought this is where we would be seven years ago. Getting married in Germany, being sick on our honeymoon in raining London and going back to California to an empty apartment and no jobs. . .what were we thinking. We did have a blast and I'm so glad we got married when we did. I wouldn't change it for anything. I wonder what the next seven years will bring. . .