Welcome back!

I knew it had been a long time since I made a blog post. But over a year?!? Sheesh! What a slacker! 

A lot has happened in our family in that year. But I want to share our most exciting news. We are expecting a baby this summer! RJ is so excited about getting to be a big brother. He swears it will be a baby sister, but we have to wait another month to find out. I have had a wonderful pregnancy so far. I'm already getting ideas about the nursery and all the DIY projects I want to do. Hopefully I'll be able to share those here. 

This is how we announced our good news to family and friends. I love the smile on RJ's face. He is going to be such a awesome big brother! 

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Once again, it's been ages since a blog post. This one won't be very long, just a recap of our Christmas season. This year was really exciting with RJ. He loved everything about Christmas!

We added Bebe the Elf to our holiday traditions. I wasn't sure if RJ would "get it", but he really enjoyed looking for him every morning. Bebe was a good elf and only showed up in silly places. He was not a mischievous elf!

Bebe the elf

Bebe left RJ a note. "Hi, RJ! Be a good boy!"

We did the traditional Christmas things like go to  parties and parade, see Santa and make a gingerbread house.

Rob and I at his work Christmas party.

Rob and RJ at the Trumann Christmas parade.

Making salt dough ornaments.

SANTA!!!

Our gingerbread house. The candy didn't stay on for long!

Christmas morning was so much fun this year! RJ had a great time opening his  presents and we had an even better time watching him. After presents and breakfast at home, we went to my grandpaent's house and did it all over again.

Ready for the Christmas action!

Trying out his roller skates.

I hope everyone had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did! Love to you all!

Welcome Fall!

I am officially the worst blogger ever! How did I let two months go by without an update?! Autumn is finally here. This is my favorite time of year! We've been staying busy with football games and trying to go to as many local festivals as we can.

Here is our "Happy Fall Y'all"handprint art that RJ and I made last year. It was our calendar page for the month of September. I'm pretty sure this was the first page we made. It started with a handprint in brown and adding some paint to fill in the tree trunk. Then RJ made leaves using fingerprints in the autumn colors of paint. I cut the text out using my cricut and added it later. This is definitely not the best artwork we've made, but I still love it!

What fall themed crafts are you guys working on?

My Sunshine

Has it really been over a month since a blog post? Where does the time go? We haven't really been doing anything exciting. Just busy with day to day life. We have finally got settled in our new house. There are still a few boxes to unpack, but it's all coming together.

I missed a few months of our handprint art. Now that we have internet at home and I can use my computer, I hope to get caught up. Here is our August page. It is by far my favorite.

You are my sunshine



We made this one by painting the palm of RJ's hand yellow and fingers orange then stamping in several times until we made a circle. I actually did that on a separate piece of blue scrapbook paper and cut around the sunshine design. I then glued that to the second sheet of scrapbook paper and added the wording. I again cut the letters using my cricut and the type candy cartridge. I love, love, love how it turned out!

Vacation

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Our family spent last week on the vacation. We drove down to Ft. Morgan, Alabama and enjoyed the beaches there. We also got to spend some time with our great friends, Chris and Jacenta. RJ wasn't too crazy about the sand and ocean at first, but by the end of the week he was loving it. Here are some of the pics.


Checking out the beach when we arrived.



Rob and RJ with the Father's Day card RJ made.

Ready to explore!

RJ trying to destroy a random sandcastle.

Ft. Morgan

Climbing the stairs at Ft. Morgan

Ft. Morgan

Love my family!

My favorite souvenir.

How does your garden grow

We finally got our garden planted! We probably didn't do everything right, but this year is a learning curve. Hopefully by next spring, we'll actually know what we are doing. We planted lots of veggie seeds and a few melons. I hope they grow into yummy goodness. Now we have to figure out how to keep them watered. It is so hot here already (in the high 90's) in early June. Rob is working on getting a sprinkler with a timer. We'll be on vacation next week and would hate for the whole thing to dry up. Here are. Few pics...

Home Sweet Home

A lot has happened since my last post. We finally got moved into our new house! We are finally getting settled in. We are still kinda living out of boxes, but it's all starting to come together. RJ loves having so much yard to play in. He has become quite skilled at driving his big wheel truck through all the mud puddles! 

I'll post more details about the house as we work on things and get them the way we want. But here's a picture of our little piece of the country. We're working on the garden this weekend, so hopefully I'll have pictures of it soon. 

Our family lost one of our fur babies yesterday. I never thought I would be so upset about the death of a dog. But Hoss was very special to me and we will all miss him a lot. I hope he is chasing tennis balls in doggy heaven!

Maybe I'll share more about Hoss when I've bad a little more time to process it all.