Tuesday, September 27, 2011

20 years

20 years ago my family moved from phoenix, az to raleigh, nc because God had led my parents to start a vineyard church plant here. still can't believe it's been 20 years. God has done so much in that time and it was a joy to reunite and reminisce with friends (most of whom i consider family) that i haven't seen in awhile. on sunday seth and i took the kids back to my old church to celebrate with everyone...we had a great time! i wish i had been able to capture pictures of people i grew up with but with 2 small kiddos it just didn't happen. i'm sure i can get some copies from others there who had cameras:)

lj and milana went searching for little baby sheep in the haystack...quite the challenge but lilly jo was all in for it!

binanas dancin' with nana!









they rented a moonwalk which john and seth took the girls in before we left. let's just say we might be renting one of these for lj's birthday at somepoint. she and milana had an absolute blast in it!
gettin' some air under those feet!











the girls loved it so much they each went down the slide on their own (without respective dada's)! couldn't have asked for bigger smiles...

but when it was time to leave, both girls made this face -

and the boys were ready to go home as well but they weren't shedding any tears...just showing their cute monkey butts:)


Friday, September 23, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

handsome little men



hmmm, not sure why these turned out sideways...



Sunday, September 18, 2011

Saturday, September 17, 2011

date night!

last night my mom watched the kiddos for us so we could have a night out...it was wonderful! seth bought me some beautiful flowers (and some gerbera daisies for lj that i forgot to take a picture of) and then we went and had some jersey mikes before going out to southpoint to see 'the help'. i had heard lots of great reviews so i was eager to see it. it did not disappoint. pulled lots of heart strings and we walked out with a crowd of sniffling women:)
on our way back to raleigh we grabbed some starbucks for the road....yum city.
it was a great night out, baber!

Friday, September 16, 2011

arctic tundra cold

ok so it wasn't quite that cold this morning, but it was downright chilly and windy so i bundled up the kids as we went on our walk to see the buses.

if you'll take notice, lj is doing just fine in the winter hat department (with room to grow). jackman however...well, i guess the newborn beanie is too small for this 8mo old with a rather large noggin. might need to get him a new one...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

girls, beware

i think we'll have our hands full with this heartbreaker:)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

big 5-55

just completed my first BIG 5-55 tonight with seth. took me like 26 min to do it. and that was with cheating on the sit-ups and doing girl pushups.
a few observations...
-honest truth, i'd rather give birth. with no epidural.
-seth is a beast and i don't know how he does this all the time.
-there's a good possibility i won't be able to move any part of my body 2 days from now.
-that will probably pose a problem seeing as i have given birth 2x. (which i loved much more than this exercise)

if you've never heard of the BIG 5-55, just google it. too tired to type out the description.

that's all. adios.

Friday, September 9, 2011

buuuhhh

i've now figured out the exact time that 4 school buses come to pick up kids at the street behind ours. amazingly 3 out of the 4 come at just about the same time. lilly jo is quite facinated with buses, so this something she looks forward to each day. she used to look at me and say, "bah, bah" as she referred to the school buses. now, as she's getting older, her southern twang is setting in, and she now says, "buuuh, buuhhh", with the accent on the "uuu" sound. can't help but love it.


and a HUGE thanks to the Faircloths for giving us this amazing radio flyer wagon...the kids love it!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

for seth

because it's your favorite picture and your peanut misses you:)


photo taken by the wonderful and talented matt and meredith railey...check out their blog -mjrailey.wordpress.com

i've got lots more pics to post from when they came and photographed the kiddos. problem is my comp takes too long to upload a whole bunch of them bc they're such good quality:) but i'll put up more later!

Monday, September 5, 2011

let the record show...

saturday while at my sister's place, we put ALL 4 KIDS { lj (19mo), binanas (17 mo), jackman (7 mo) and baby matthew (1 wk)} DOWN FOR A NAP AT THE SAME TIME.




we then enjoyed our lunch kid-free.

that's gotta be a world record or something, right?

Sunday, September 4, 2011

go pack!!

nice to see our new nephew matthew has the right allegiance from the start!






Saturday, September 3, 2011

when i was a little girl...

this was my dress.


now it's lj's dress. thanks for keeping this mom!

Thursday, September 1, 2011

my sweet pea

sometimes i look at pictures and i'm amazed and blessed that God gave me (and Seth) a daughter. he gave us lilly jo.

isn't He good?!



james 1.17 - "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."