My new addiction!!

Anyone that knows me very well, knows I have a huge shutterfly addition. My favorite memory growing up was sitting in my Grandma V's basement and looking through all of her photo albums. Scrapbooking is awesome, don't get me wrong, but I love being able to create an entire book in one night and have it shipped to me in less than a week.

Blogging is something that I enjoy doing, but hated that I wasn't able to "keep" it or be able to print it until now, I found a website called Blog2print.com and received my first book on Friday. The book looks like a shutterfly album, the website uploads all the pictures, text and comments and even puts the original date of the posting on it. Super cool!!

Check it out bloggers, you won't be disappointed. Great way to "keep" the postings for your kids! So yes they will know what we thought of parenthood and all the successes and mistakes we made :-)

Toby suffers terrible lawnmower accident

So as I posted my last blog entry I looked up to see that Toby the Talkbot had apparently fallen suddenly out of favor. Fortunately the only thing damaged was Toby's pride... this time...

Toby keeps on teaching

Just felt like mentioning that Toby the Talkbot still gets a grin and has begun teaching that the same button may give different results with multiple pushes...

Just a cute picture Aunt Cara took...

Living with Pa and Barba

So we have been staying with my parents for the past two months while we settle things with the house, aren't going to go into details on the blog for varies reasons.... anyhow....G has become very attached to his grandparents so much in fact that he is on first name with my mom. It is rather amusing hearing a little guy running down the hall calling out for her - Barba, Barba...

In around about way it has sorta been nice being back at home, I am not going to lie I hate the sofa bed and I hate even more the drive from Washington to St. Louis, but it has sorta caused me to slow my life down. I miss my friends, but I do enjoy the time I have gotten to spend with my parents. I tease them that G is going to have major withdraws once we do move, but I think I will too.

Thanks Mom and Dad for being so great to us the past month!!

Vacations are the best!!

We are in Florida at the moment and having a WONDERFUL time! Do I need to say more ??

Packed and Camping!

So we are officially packed and have closed on our house on Crescent. Thank you to our awesome friends for all your help!! I am not going to name names, but you know who you are! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To say that I appreciate all you did is an understatement! Thanks to the parents for entertaining the little one the past two weekends while we where packing!! We so owe all of you!

We are camping with the parents until we can close on the new house so if you need us, call our cells or email us.

We have a new home!!

We officially close on our current house on June 29th and we close on our new home on July 8th. Our new house is located in Fenton and it is gorgeous, it has an awesome backyard, 3 bedrooms and a family room upstairs and the downstairs has an open floor plan. It is about 3 times the size of our current house so to say that I am excited is an understatement. It was a foreclosure so there are a couple of things that need to be done, but nothing that we can't handle.

More pictures will be posted once we are moved in! Sorry to say there will be no 4th of July party! We are thinking of having a "Paint Party" if anyone is interested in attending, please let us know!

Like father, like son....

Happy Father's Day to the "Great Men" in my life!

I have been very blessed in life to be surrounded by "Great Men". My grandpa's where both the most loving men I have met in my life. My Grandpa D would never let us leave without kissing him goodbye, most of the time he wouldn't even talk to us unless we hugged him first. Grandpa V was the same way, he would smile as soon as we walked into the room. My dad is a mirror of his dad, he is kind, gentle and loves his kids, and adores his grandchildren. I can never remember a time that my dad has not been there when I needed him.

I have been very blessed to marry a man that has some of the same qualities, Josh is patient, strong and loving and I couldn't ask for a better husband or father for Gideon... Jim or should I say "Dandy" has outdone himself as a father and grandfather. He has gone out of his way to be involved in G's life even if he is 10 hours away.

If I had one wish for my little boy, I hope he inherits the following qualities from his grandpa's and his dad and I hope he becomes a "Great Man"