love you both

well we have made it to september of 2011.  ha!  dad and sharon shared their marriage with us all in gatlinburg, tennessee over labor day weekend.  our family met up and we all crashed in a room, got dolled up (thus the lovely picture of me - rare to be in a dress and not gym clothes), posed for pictures and cheered dad on! these pictures capture my family well.  love my family! dad and sharon, we love you both.

was heaven

soon after eric returned from his week long road trip, i was finally able to run away with a friend to florida.

                                oooooooooooh how nice! 

such a good hubby to take care of the little ones and let me have a break.  for a week straight my friend chrissy and i did n.o.t.h.i.n.g.  we got up, layed out, swam, even body boarded!, walked in the warm sand and talked.  that was it.  oh we did eat! i love the ocean, the sand, the sun... it was heaven.

turned out nicely

this summer, driving home from swimming, we passed a yard sale (fun!).  i spotted this from the street and pulled right in.  ***disclaimer here, i was inspired from a friend, so this is not totally my idea***  really with any dresser you can make into something else.  this is what i needed to make a tv console!  i paid $20 for the dresser and less than $3 for decorative trim.  we used what we had for the rest (spray paint and nails).  ty helped me take it apart, then i put it back together!  i want to change out the baskets, or line them with a colorful fabric - i will get there soon.  anyway, minus the lack of wire hiding, it turned out nicely!

together too

my lovely sister and i were trying to have a serious picture taken together before we left for dinner.  wellllll.  she wouldn't hold still and was being silly.  ughhh little sisters.  I LOVE MINE!  you crack me up sister rae.  we went for cupcakes together too...

my kiddos

i love it when the kids all go and play (nicely) together.  here they were playing with barbies, a horse, a barbie chair, and the bed of a semi-trailer.  they tied the chair on the horse for barbie and got the trailer tied up too, and pulled a polly pocket car!  love my kiddos

along the way

right after the kiddos left for the first day of school, eric and his brother mark, jumped on their motorcycles and headed out on a long road trip.  they started here in clarksville and traveled to texas and back.  it took about a week and they were able to stop and visit family and friends along the way. 

gulp

here are the girls on their first day of school.  kambel started KiNDergaRTen!  yay kambel!!  kadence started second grade.  look out world!  my babies are both in school...gulp