August 2011- in pics

 Silver Dollar City

 Showing off their muscles! :)

 Meeting our sweet friends in Fayetteville

 We decided to add a fireplace to our house so while unpacking dealt with remodeling .....

 Silver dollar city

 Robyn, Lane, and Anna came to visit~ YEA!!

 First day of preschool at First Baptist Church

 Will decided he was a BOMBER and LOVED them!

 The Robnetts came to visit!!

 Lexi got an eye infection...the DAY BEFORE school started :(

First day of first grade  Mrs. King was a TRUE BLESSING from God as Lexi's teacher!!

 Lexi at Bomber fest....football scrimage game

 Another blessing from God- Melissa and her kiddos

 Lexi and Trey

 We already have friends!!! Answered prayers!

 My favorite room in our house hands down....Russ and my bedroom

 We BOTH made the sign at Knox Orthopaedics

 The McConnells come to visit!

 Got family pics hung up the stairway to the playroom- another favorite

 More FRIENDS!!! God has given us more than our wildest dreams could have imagined!! The kids with Tyler and Reagan

Russ' pic for the hospital and for ad campaign- SO PROUD of him!!

July 2011

That was a VERY busy month for us!! MOVING back to Arkansas~ I just looked back thru the pics I have from then and it made me laugh....they are from us on the lake and Andi and Emmy- pretty much the top on my favorite things list!! :) I have to share the craziness of our moving back story....It started the beginning of July when mom and Tiff met me in Birmingham, AL July 4th weekend to pick up the kids....we had decided we would let them stay with the grandparents for our final two weeks in NC for us to pack up, finish work, and them spend some time with the people they love the most but hadn't gotten to see except for a few times in a year! We finished up work....crazy but fun and we were packed up ready to head out.....
We left at 2:00 PM on July 20th- I had to finish up at work that day and just couldn't get away. We were both driving our cars and the moving company had all our stuff at this point. We were supposed to meet them at 8:00 AM the next morning......we had a 20 hour drive ahead of us!!! Yes, we drove straight thru and arrived at Mountain Home at 4:30 AM on July 21st- our TENTH wedding anniversary. I must admit that is not quite the laying on the beach relaxing trip my heart and mind had planned for our 10th anniversary over the last few years!!! :)

 Lexi and Emmy

 All the girls

 The kiddos were absolutely LOVING life at the time....the last few weeks of NC craziness were really hard on them!

It was record breaking hot in Arkansas that day....got up to 106 degrees that day!!

I started blogging when I first found out I was pregnant in 2004, 8 years ago!! I am SO afraid I will loose all my treasures on that site. Brady saved them for me and I am trying to see if I can just put the link on this site.....hopefully this will work!

Old blog


It works if you right click on the link "old blog" and copy it then paste the address...... yea!!

Where to start.....

I miss not being able to look back and see the kiddos stats or the letters I used to write to them.....I miss seeing all they accomplished, funny things they said, and what we had done.....all that to say I am going to start blogging again but not sure where to start it is SO overwhelming....do I go back and try to catch up or start fresh???

Day out with Mrs Jessica

 What started out as the BEST IDEA......

 we ended up more our style at Shorty's hot dogs :)

 there was a LINE

 Will couldn't have been any happier with our choice!

We had been wanting to go the this really neat tea room by Jessica's house and finally decided just to make it happen.....we show up- Will starts acting a FOOL and him and I decide to go across the street to a hot dog restaurant...(which was AMAZING) about 15 minutes later the girls show up???? I tell Jessica how surprised I am to see them to which she starts DYING laughing!!.....Lala got her HEAD stuck in a chair in the tea room!!!!! She was afraid they were going to have to call the fire department to get her out! Somehow she gets her head out while Lexi is crying because they don't have chicken nuggetts on the menu....at this point she decides to bail on the tea room and come eat hot dogs with us! It was a wise decision on her part!! We TRIED :) Love you girl!!

Best mother's day present hands down!

My cup runneth OVER

 my loot from Trader Joes

 some kind of weird dish....it was good

 all healthy.....

 more gluten-free, vegan food

 My sweet girl!!

 I'm beyond blessed with wonderful friends, especially this one right here!!

 My babies

 The fam!

This is NOT a joke....yes, we saw a horse getting hosed down in a car wash while waiting for Lexi's bday party to finish! It was SO FUNNY!!!


Aunt Andi's visit was closely followed by my bestie since the first grade, Danielle! I did not think I was gonna be able to stand myself I was so excited! We had the BEST time just being together.....who flies halfway across the country and needs NO entertainment???? :) We had a girls night and found this delish restaurant that was gluten-free and vegan.....D had just started her new diet to help control her auto-immune disease sarcoidosis....which it has been an amazing success....I made my first trip to Trader Joe's before her visit and stocked up on goodies....if you can call them that! It was quiet hilarious how stupid I was in that store! :) She went to Lexi's end of the year program with me and then a birthday party for Lexi's best friend....throw in some family pics and that wraps up our visit! It was just what my heart needed!! I knew at that point I was gonna make it and HOME was not too far away!!