Thanksgiving Treats

Inspired by something I saw on pinterest, Mary Jane and I set out to find the ingredients to make something for our cousins that we will see in two days at the lakehouse.  She was so excited to make them our turkeys and was so proud of her work.  It was a special memory for me too.  Here is the finished product!

Garage!

So here is the background story.  The spring of 2010 our house sold and we had to be out by April 30.  We moved in with my parents thinking that we would be moving into our new house in early June.  Well, to make a long story short, God had other plans and we ended up living with my parents till August 2010.  They took us in and loved us, served us, and let us take over their house for those 4 months.  We prayed and looked for the home that God would have us purchase and through a long series of paperwork and looking, we found THE house the we knew God wanted us to have.  It is and has been more of blessing with each day that passes and we feel so blessed and unworthy to be in this home.  All that to say, when we moved in I was 9 months pregnant with a very large baby boy and we moved and an basically just put things in places as much as we could to prepare for the arrival of Caden.  Our garage took the wrath of unopened boxes, my trailer full of teaching stuff, and all the leftover junk that hadn't been paid attention to for months.  Over the last year, Chris has done his best to reorganize the stuff in the garage and keep it somewhat walkable, but it was just easy fixes to the bigger problem of actually digging through and reorganizing every single thing in there.  This project was much larger than the time we had and it has been something we both have wanted to do since we moved in.  Well, here we are November of 2011 and we have actually started this process!  It is a work in progress but our goal is to have this done and completely organized and accessible by next summer.  Thanks to my hubby working a full day out there just starting the entire process we now have room to park a car in there!  This is a big deal if you saw it before.  :)  Anyways, here are the pix of the work we got done today.....and hopefully a finished product pic will be coming in the next few months.

Here is a sweet picture of my little dancer.  

And here is me with my babies while we watch Boz and cuddle.  Love my cuddle times with my babies.  So very blessed.  

Freddie the tadpole

Well we now have a pet.  He has no legs, lives in the water, and is not a fish.  Any guesses?  Yes we have a pet tadpole.  :)  Mary Jane has named him Freddie and he started out just as a little tadpole without any legs but now has 2 little legs sticking out there.  It is a big deal in our house now and Mary Jane loves to feed and take care of Freddie.  More updates to come!

Fun in Meme's Backyard

Today we went to Meme's house to take some pictures for Dude(Greg) and Papaw(Larry).  This is what we got and then some.....  The kids love playing in the 'jungle' as Mary Jane and Meme call it.  It is a perfect place to play for little ones.  Caden is also learning to walk and is doing it all by himself now!  Mary Jane is playing with the fish in the pond and helping feed them.  These pictures are what we gave the granddaddy's for their Christmas presents from the kids!  Oh and a side note--the guitar is in the picture because our Dude loves guitars and that is a reeeeeeeaaaallly nice guitar that we were playing with outside.  Therefore he is the best dude ever.  Really nice guitar, preschooler and toddler, mud, grass, dirt, outside.......:)  He is still the best Dude ever though, even if he didn't let us play with his nice guitars.  :)

Our 'Little Buddy'

This is our little guy....or as we call him more and more these days, our "little buddy."  He is now 14 months old and I count myself so very blessed to be his momma.  He is walking and starting to talk.  Saying things like mama, daaaadeeee(daddy), oauchieeee(ouchie), apple--referring to anything electronic, baba(bottle), ella(Bella), and niy niy(night night).  So incredible to watch him change every single day and learn new words.  We watch our kids and just watch the evidence of God's miraculous creation and creativity.  He is so good and I am overwhelmingly grateful that He saw me worthy to be a mommy to these two miracles.  Here are a few pix of our little guy right now at 14 months.

Mary Jane's First Haircut!

Mary Jane had her very first haircut today!!  It was a little bittersweet for me, but it HAD to happen.  Recently, the majority of my battles with her were over her hair and her not wanting me to brush it because of the tangles.  It was time and she LOVED it!  Here are a few pix from this special first in her little life.  Many more to come I am sure!