Progress!

Progress my friends! Progress!

 They claim they will be finished framing and with the roof by tonight so we will see what happens. They better have some magic jumping beans hidden away in their little mexican pockets cause I just don't see it happening!

Proof that we haven't killed each other yet during this slow pain staking process! Please excuse our my appearance. We had just gotten out of the pool!

Starting Summer

 Our HoHo finished his year of Pre-K yesterday! He got up on stage with the rest of his class and sang a few songs and did most of the hand motions. Mommy was so proud of him! Afterwards, his class had their end of the year party at a playground next door. He and sister both had a great time but boy was it HOT!

It was a good day to play outside and get all wet while washing the mini cooper!

it's all squeaky clean now!

Hadley kept tying to climb up the slide at bubbas school party!

DooDa had to show her the right way to go down!

Pops helped Holdyn swing to the moon. Even though it was 100 degrees, he insisted on wearing his long sleeved fire badge shirt for the last day of school! Even though he has 2 of them, 1 is all stained up and faded and they both are getting snug on him and definetely will not make it to winter so I am hoping he is willing to give up this fashion soon!

Hadley had just been outside with her class when we picked her up. Her lil cheeks were so red :)

Today she has been wanting to play 'baby' a lot. She will say 'baby' and pass out DDs to whoever is in the room. She then will climb in the bouncer and not lay back but she has been standing in it trying to jump up and down! The girl has gone wild.

Good Morning!

Look at what I get to see every morning when I first open my eyes.....

I am the luckiest person on earth. Look at that bed head! Notice her 2 sippy cups?! Both my kids wake up V.E.R.Y. moody. Just like their daddy! They both have a very 'fussy' time for a few minutes after they wake up. The past few mornings giving her baby and TWO sippy cups have been seeming my trick to calming her down.

Sound asleep in her boyfriend's crib (Wylie) with baby near by!

A Boys Trip

*WARNING* Lots of pics in this post!!!

For Holdyn's spring break this year, we decided he couldn't just sit around the house and be bored. He likes to be very busy and go go go! Pops happened to have the same week off from work so they decided to take a 'boys trip' to the farm in Mississippi. Dad was so worried Holdyn was going to back out and refuse to go the last minute. No reason to worry about that because that boy was ready to go weeks before it was time to! He kept walking around telling me and my mom that we were NOT allowed to come because it was a BOYS trip only!

They decided to drive halfway on the ride down and spend the night in a hotel to break up the trip. Holdyn just thought that was great!

 Putting the boy to work on the farm cutting down fallen trees... he never forgets his eye protection!

 Next it was time to cut the grass!

 They did a lot of fishing and Holdyn caught SEVERAL bass! He was so excited! When he called me every night to tell me goodnight, he mainly would only tell me about all the bass he was catching!

 If you know Holdyn, you know if you pass a firestation that he has never been to, it is mandatory that you stop for a visit or the world might come to an end!

 He loves using the big water hoses! Thank you Hattiesburg Fire Dept. for letting my little man visit!

 Not sure what was going on here but I love this picture!

 Train ride with Great-Granddaddy!

 He had a great time riding the 4wheeler with Sissy!

 I bet those geese were trying to get far away from him!

 He even got to ride a horse for the first time! I can't believe he got up there by himself!

 He also went with Pops to pick out a 'gator' for his farm!

 I think Holdyn decided this one would be the best for the property!

Thank you so much to Pops for taking the lil man on vacation. He had a great time. Pops was worried how he would be in the car since it was such a long ride but dad said he did GREAT! (Gotta love the portable DVD players!)

Also, thanks to Great-Granddaddy and Sissy for showing him the ropes on the farm and being drug to McDonalds and all of the other places they normally don't have to go to! He had a blast!

House Update

Here are some updated pics of the house. It changes so much day to day that it looks nothing like this anymore! They have already brought all the dirt in and filled everything in...it's pretty neat watching the process! We took Hadley over yesterday and she had the best time climbing the piles of dirt. She got so mad when it was time to leave. We drug out a kicking and screaming filthy dirty kid! I was so mad I didn't have my camera with me but we are going back today so I am sure she will get some more play time in the dirt. Holdyn is having a playdate after school with his best friend so hopefully I can get a few things organized and finish packing away the winter clothes the kids have out grown. They are like weeds I tell ya! 

Welcome to the front porch!

The very front part is our office, the cut out to the right is Hadleys room (between the office and Hadley's room there will be a bathroom and the very back corner is the playroom. Holdyn got to watch them pour the cement.... talk about excitement! He is loving all of this action. He can't wait to get a view of his room. It's upstairs so he won't get to see that process until the framing which is next week. He is so proud about having his own 'space' and a closet and a bathroom in his room. He is already planning out where all of the firestations and emergency vehicles are going to go!

Here is the wide open land at the culdesac (I am standing on our lot taking this picture). I can see Holdyn living out there digging away and finding all the sticks and rocks. Hopefully he will be able to burn a lot of his energy out there! It's nice that the neighborhood maintains the underbrush and keeps it cut back but left all of the mature trees.

The begining!!

Here is our lot! Our builder closed on it and it is officially ours :)

 He started this week and they should be pouring concrete tomorrow and supposdly starting to frame on Monday.

In my opinion (and dad's) this tree is RIGHT in the path of our driveway to pull in to the 3 car garage.

The builder says it will be fine... but I'm not so sure.... especially with my backing out skills. Dad says we could just wrap the tree in padding (hmm... maybe a good idea!)

They say if your marriage can make it through building a house together, you can get through anything, so here is to the next 4 months (supposdly) of pure bliss and lots of decision making!

Can't wait to see Mike pull off the final product of our first home that we have built together as a family!



Atlanta Trip

Mom and I decided to make a quick 24 hour Atlanta trip to do some shopping at Ikea and a few other places. We took Hadley and left HoHo home with the boys. She was excellent in the car!

Mohawk baby!

Trying to distract her during a diaper change!

 Late night Ikea shopping! Baby sister all comfy taking in all the surroundings!

The girl had a long day and passed out when we got to the hotel

Mom is TERRIFIED of heights. I guess Robbie didn't know this when he was booking our room. We ended up on the 45th floor. You shoulda seen her walking down the hallway to our rooms. She was literally hugging the wall where the rooms were to stay far away from the balcony side. The bellman who helped us get everything to our room had a good little chuckle! The elevators were all glass and I don't think mom really liked that ride down the next morning. Those suckers were pretty fast dropping and then you REALLY got to see how high you were! Even sister grabbed tight on my arm going down. I don't think she was expecting that 'drop'!

All in all, we had a great time an got some good purchases for the new house!