Chocolate chip cookies

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Monday

This I what my monday starts with, laundry! And bathroom cleaning! What fun! I can't wait for the new baby to arrive because it will just make this mound grow even more.
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4th of July

Pictures from Jen's Wedding

Elizabeth and Caleb waiting patiently before the ceremony.

Handsome Caleb in his grown up wedding outfit, complete with clip on tie. Can't beat it!

Elizabeth in my sister Emily's dress from my wedding and Madeleine in my dress from when I was her age....Might remember it from a portrait made of me by a big tree

And what every girl in a beautiful dress does.....!!!

This is how work got done this week without Elizabeth here

So first, Madie decided that playing with onions was a better idea then toys. I think she liked taking the peeling off of them. When I tried to get it from her she just ran away, I should have followed her, like any good mother would have, however, it got her out of the kitchen, aka " my office" so I was happy. Caleb found the onion a while later, laying in the hall, thankfully not eaten.

Then my ever favorite cardboard box. But not just an empty box but one filled with Styrofoam! I'm sure Madie ate a few pieces behind my back. Both Caleb and Madie where using it as the car ramp/garage/launching pad, you name it, they were having a good time. Not a quiet time by any stretch of the imagination, one can't be expected to play with cars and a box and not make all sorts of lovely car engine noises. Luckily, I was able to talk over the noise, another perk about being a mom....a loud voice and the ability to tune things out.

Madie's favorite TV viewing

So I come around the corner to find Madie sitting in a toy bin, on a chair, 1 foot from Sesame Street! She sure is creative!
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this week

So this week my oldest, Elizabeth, has been away enjoying time with my family in Memphis. I heard she's been treated to countless dinners, fishing, singing and building a tree house.

Meanwhile, we are back home in Atlanta missing her. But I think it has been a good thing for Madeleine and Caleb. They really have grown to be better buds this week. Caleb has been really good to play with her and include her in what he is doing. This morning they snuggled in bed together. Too cute.

Madeleine is infatuated with her baby doll currently. She carries her around everywhere she goes and has to have a blanket for her. At first we where using Madie's yellow blanket, that it 2,000 times too big to be wrapped around the baby doll! Boy, did Madeleine throw a fit when that thing didn't stay around the baby. Luckily she found a substitute, a dish towel.

I have spent most of this week moving back into our house. We officially took it off the market since we are about 7 weeks away from baby #4's arrival. Last night I brought our wall calendar back inside. Both David and I were glad because now we will know what's going on! I filled it out (Its one of those dry erase kids with 4 weeks) and I got kinda sad when I filled out the last week and had to put in Ts.....T stands for teaching. Summer is almost over.

We got the crib set back up in our room, David put it back together in record time. Like 5 minutes flat, he's a pro at it now! Caleb's on the top bunk now, he's so excited and Madie is on the bottom bunk. Elizabeth got our, well, my old full size bed. (David never really fit into that bed so I won't burden him with having to claim it) All to herself in one bedroom. That was the only thing she has sad about leaving this week! She does have to share the room with David during the day though, it's where his office is set up. But all in all it feels good to move back home!

Other then trying to get things organized and doing a ton of paper work for Refuge and Project Dance, we haven't been up to too much since Elizabeth has been gone. (Though we told her we would be having tons of parties without her!!) I must say though it has been hard to get things done without Elizabeth here, just another set of eyes is so helpful when you have daredevil Madeleine around. We went to the park last night and Madeleine climbed up the bar stairs at the play ground, you know the kind you were all worried about falling through when you were little? yeah, she scaled it in a minute flat. She wanted to slide down the big slides not the baby one. But only a few more days then Elizabeth will be home again. I hope she is having a great time, we miss her a lot but are so glad she is able to go have a good time with family. Thanks to everyone in Memphis making her week spectacular!

A walk down memory lane

So David and I took a little side trip on our way home from Birmingham on Saturday. We were there for my dear friends wedding. It was such a beautiful wedding too. It was wonderful to watch two people so much in love and dedicated to God promise their lives to each other...it brought back many memories for David and I. This August we will celebrate 7 years of marriage (and for the second time I will be about ready to pop with another child!) But we took a drive to where it all started Saturday. Back to David's apartment in Birmingham where he asked me to marry him. On the Futon couch I helped him carry in he said those wonderful words the day after Christmas 2001. And here we are almost 7 years later and I am so glad I said yes. Neither of us could hardly remember what it was like before we said I do. It took David a moment to even remember how to get to the apartment! I can only wonder and wait excitedly to see what the next 7 years will hold for us. If is anything like the past 7 years, it will be amazing. Here's a picture of the outside of his old place. Top window was his.

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Fun with kids and a video camera

our newest purchase

so, child #3 has proven to be our most mischievous child yet....

we actually had to buy our first baby gate just to keep her contained so I can get things done!

Today, after somehow she opened the front door and ran out into the rain...BY HERSELF.. she was gated into the "play room"

Don't be fooled by her cute little grin...she can do some damage!!! And if she's quiet, you better run fast as lightening because something is about to be spilled, eaten, broken or destroyed...!!!

A creation from Elizabeth

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