Summer Time Baby

Well...I just noticed it has been a LONG time since I updated our blog. All we have done for the past month is work work work. We are loving being homeowners, however it has come with a few challenges. I guess we expected that a brand spanking new house would come with no flaws, but we have had to deal a few minor issues and one major one....but we are getting everything worked out and the house is coming along nicely. We are a month in, and only one box left in the house. The garage is a different story....and there are pictures and wall art all over the floor...but, like I said we are getting there. We couldn't have done it without the help of our family. Everyone has come down and done their part to help us settle into our new home. We have had some good babysitters and laborers.

We have gotten go enjoy the beach some too. Of course all of our visitors want to see the beach, so we have gone several times with guests. We were able to go with the Mundies to see the Endeavor FINALLY launch after five (i think) attempts. We went out for three of them!

We have starting visiting a church here. It is a community church and we really enjoy it. I registered for a women's bible study there starting in a few weeks and I am really excited. Now that I am done with most of my unpacking, I am in need of making a few new friends. Savannah, poor thing, is really longing for some friends and it makes me so sad. I really do hope church and preschool bring her some much needed friend time. Luckily, Parker is getting a little older and they have started playing a little bit together. It is the sweetest thing ever as long as they are getting along.

Parker is growing like a weed, and just tonight, Savannah and Parker split a kids meal spaghetti right down the middle and they boy ate his entire plate! He is a beast. He is so active, however, that he is not as hefty as he once was. He is really growing tall. He is saying Mama, Dadda, Bye Bye, and UhOh. He waves bye bye to everyone and every thing, even his passy when we leave it in his crib after nap. It is precious. He is precious....I LOVE every little thing he is doing right now. Except maybe the whining due to his THREE teeth coming in at once...However, I would probably be crying myself.

Well, that is about it with us. I will leave you with several pictures from stuff over the last month. Happy blogging.



Sunset from our house

Savannah petting a lizard!

Memom and kids pretending to be turtles at the zoo!

Papaw and Savannah

Cousins

Watching shuttle launch!

Aren't they precious!

Bow girl

Mundie fam

Swimming at the pool

Parker meets Van.

Daddy and PTM on the porch

Grandpa Tom trying to get Parker to walk.

Pool!

The kids playing in their kitchen

Visiting Aunt Helen at the beach

Learning how to swing

Trying it out

Savannah showing off the fence

She loves her back yard.

Proud of my beautiful flower pots!

Last Day of Gymnastics!

Ring!!!

Rings are HARD to take pictures of...these are the best I could get.

Some Parker Stats

This is mostly so I will have documentation of this stuff:

Crawled: May 9
Pulled Up: May 19
First tooth (bottom right): May 30
Second tooth (bottom left): June 5

Ring followup!

For all of you who want to see pictures...you'll just have to wait! :) The rings are at the jewelers right now being "married" into one ring. They are currently replacing my old diamond (sad day :( ) with my new one. I should have it back in about a week....

until then....

WOW....ZING...A NEW RING!!!! ( I am so corny)

So my husband totally scored MAJOR points today! I may just have a new diamond for my ring that is double the size on my old one!!!!!!!!! and brent may have surprised me with it today! How, you ask???

It is a long story...but here it goes....he is leaving tomorrow for a trip, and he wanted us to go out to dinner. But on the way, he said he needed to go to springfield mall to get something for his phone...so we all went in the mall (which actually took quite some effort because both kids were screaming...but he got us in). Every once in a while, we stop and look at stuff in the jewelry store, so we went in and he said, "Lets look at diamonds for your ring"....so we did. I tried one on to see if I liked the size and clarity, etc. and the lady said, "Wait, I have one that is just a little bigger and better quality than this one, under the counter...." so she pulled out another ring. I tried that one on, and of course liked it. Brent said, "Do you like that ring?" and I said, "Yes, of course." and he goes, "Well, its yours." I was like..."Ha ha very funny"..and he was like.."It's yours." and they both started smiling. Apparently, he had been in cahoots with this jeweler for days and had gone in the other day to buy it for me. so..SURPRISE.

The funny thing is that my current ring is at the jeweler getting re sized because it fell off at the beach so...i had no ring to give her to put the new diamond into. Brent had forgotten I sent it off. So...she said, "Why don't you just take this ring (the one with my new diamond in it) home with you to wear until you get your old ring back, then we will do the exchange!" So i was like...HECK YEAH! So..in about a week, I will give her both rings and she will send them off and get the new diamond put into the old setting!

WHAT A SURPRISE! It almost felt like getting engaged all over again!

He is a pretty sweet guy, if I do say so myself and I think he totally deserves me bragging on him for thinking up such a sweet way to give me my super sweet gift!