Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Let's eat cake!!

Hello all! Sorry again for the delay between posts (although I'm sure no one lost any sleep over it). I've had to upgrade my photo storage with Google, imagine that. But now, here we go... The last week has been a fun one! I'm going to share mostly pictures rather than typing a whole lot (will be a looongg post). Thursday we had supper and swimming at Grammy Kay's and Sunday evening we had a birthday supper for Great Grandma Francis (84 wonderful years!) Dixson's volunteered to bring dessert for both occassions.
'Sweeping" in Grammy's newspaper basket
 
Handsome baby Lucas
(he looks worried, but he was chill)
 
Sweet smile Alie-boo!!!

Yum!!

3 girlies (& Grammy) jumpin' on Grammy's bed!
Pool time!

Grammy & Alie

Fishy baby Rhea!
(water over her head doesn't really bother her)

Runaway Mia & Sunny




Back to Grammy's for cake and ice cream!
Yeap, she had a full-on frosting beard! Yummy!

My swirl cake idea didn't turn out as well as I had hoped....
(no, this is not a belated red, white & blue cake. guess again!)
 



Sunday: Rockin' in Aunt Karen's chair

Future Blacksmith?!

Playing 'peek' around the corner

Reading up on the Blacksmithing....

Trying to feed a rail sign to Great Grandma - silly!

Skyping with Seth (currently in England)



Uncle Matt catching a few zzZ's (he works hard in a hot tin can)

Table set for a happy family gathering

Birthday Girl/Mom/Grandma/Great Grandma!

Helping her blow out her candles

Serving Birthday cake.... with a special surprise announcement


Yes, that is pink & blue cake!




So.... if you've followed me this far down into the post (I know it's like a mile).... we are happy to share our special news.... WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER BABY!

I'm still very early in the first trimester, but already beginning to show (I think). Baby ETA is March.Will share more details after the first Dr. visit. We're super excited and blessed! We're thankful for your friendship prayers! 

and Rhea doesn't really grasp the concept yet but she has thoroughly enjoyed eating all the cake!!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Back in action!!

As a follow up to my confessional post I'm super excited to announce that we got a new camera!! It's the Olympus TG1 - a tough camera. Joe, Rhea and I went out on the sandbar today and had a ton of fun playing with it... it's waterproof! So we could take some really cool pictures. I think today's picture count was 157, yikes! All the fam knows I'm a 'crazy camera lady' but I love having the snapshots of fun memories... and after being out of commission for 2 months, here we go!! And I have a new nephew to photograph! Yay! This camera has a ton of cool settings and takes fast, sharp pictures, perfect for us! Much thanks to Joe for his extensive research!! So here are some shots from today.... (click on the slideshow to see all the pics slower or individually)