We are participating in a one day contest with Cheyenne Schultz Photography (her husband does video work for our church). Below are the contest rules and prizes - there is some great stuff on the line for us to win. Anyways - we are in a voting situation and need YOU, our faithful readers, to vote for us on Wednesday Februrary 18th before 11:59pm - click HERE. Our pictures won't be up until Tuesday at 11:59pm so don't expect them before then. Thanks so very much for doing this for us. I think you will recognize us in our picture. By the way - take some time to look around her site at her wedding stuff - it is amazing!
We need YOUR help for a contest!
New Flower Beds
So after almost 2 years of having nothing in our flower beds - we finally decided to do something about it. This turned into a 3 day project - but the end results makes us feel like we actually care about our home. Our next door neighbor's son came over and said, "So you guys are going to have more than just dirt in here now huh?" We laughed pretty hard. We are pretty pleased with the outcome. Here's what we did:
1. We leveled out (as much as possible) and weeded the beds.
2. Spread out weed fabric and re-set the border.
3. Planted some Indian White Hawthorns.
4. Replanted some other plants that were there previously.
5. Laid down some mulch.
BTW - for those that are doing this sort of thing: mulch does not go as far as you thing. Someone take a guess as to how many bags it took to fill this in - I'll even tell you that each bag was 2 cubic feet (Mike - put down the calculator you math nerd).
Big announcement for Sophia:
Sophia is going to PRESCHOOL! Starting in August, Sophia will be going to a three day a week preschool. We are so very thrilled for her. She will be a part of a great program that will include Spanish, Computers, Math and Science! We feel very blessed for this opportunity. If anyone would like to know where - e-mail us!
the piper report.
Alright - so other than the amazing picture - here are some things about piper:- She is now walking like crazy. She no longer needs to pull herself up on something - she is good to go. The crawl still gets her there faster and more stable - but the walk is slowly taking over.
- She is using a sippy cup.
- She loves Macaroni and Cheese - we're talking mad love.
- She is a climber.
- She can run a circuit in the bouncehouse - including sliding down by herself, letting herself down from the slide and crawling back into the house.
- She loves to wrestle sophia.
- She pretends to talk on the phone - or anything that looks like it. She will lift it up to her ear and grunt.
- She does not do well with others at night (Sorry Tonya).
- She is hit or miss in a nursery still - Mr. Chris at Butler campus can calm her down like no one else - come to find out he is a neo-natal nurse.
- She likes frozen vegetables just like her sister did/does.
Adventures in three!
Sophia has been very helpful lately. It is not the kind of helpful that is totally helpful though. Lately it has been a series of test of quick-minded reactions for both emily and I as Sophia has tried her best to do things for us but ended up doing somewhat frustrating things. The picture above is one from a couple of mornings ago. Sophia's new routine is to get up and go downstairs to watch some movies before emily gets up. There is usually a period of about 10-15 minutes between when I leave for work and emily gets up. During that 10-15 minute period, while the Soph was supposed to be watching Martha Speaks, she decided to pour all of us some milk - and make some chocolate milk for herself. What a sweet thing to do...and btw - the milk was salvaged.
Then just last night I brought home a bag of chips for salsa. em and I were catching up on the day and holding piper. We had the back door open because it was a beautiful night and Sophia likes to go out to the porch to look around. Soph got quiet for a little while and soon I figured I needed to check on her. When I went out, I found Soph doing something that she and her mother do quite often - take leftover food and put it out for the squirrels and birds. Only - this time it wasn't left-overs - it was the brand new chips. What a sweet girl - just trying to help out.Tomorrow we have some good news to tell you about Sophia. For now - just enjoy our pain.
Snow day!
So...rumor had it that we would be getting flurries last night...and then we weren't...and then we were. Off and on, off and on - I kept refreshing weather.com and it would change every couple of minutes. Last night at about 9 or so the news started reporting that the mountains were getting snow but that it was going to go all around us and miss us completely. I stayed up until 11:30 watiting to see what was going to happen and went to bed being told that little if any snow was coming our way. Then, magically - as if in a dream when Piper woke up at 1:30 for a bottle and I looked outside - everything was covered in white stuff!
At 6 am I got up for work and called our number and it said school was still on. I got ready for the day and was about to head out when Em told me to try again - to my surprise they had changed the message and school was cancelled - SNOW DAY! Enjoy the pics!
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