as promised...

I promised there would be more pictures from Charleston and A-A has delivered :)...

Kelly and her nephew the adorable ringbearer who is exhausted and sweaty!

Mommy and Nash dancing!

Emmie and Mommy all dressed up... and I love the bow!

Pretty dress on a pretty girl

The King family at Steph and Evan's party

Here she is again

Nash and Mommy at the Children's Museum. As expected he loved the watertable.

In action...

BURNING UP at Waterfront...

Strong girl

Daddy doesn't look so happy!

Cooper

Back in January during the Ice Storm Cooper ran away. Jon had let him out to go to the bathroom, and we think he got spooked because he always comes straight back... well needless to say we couldn't find him. I had always hoped that someone just thought he was really cute and took him, but right before we left the old house for the last time Jon asked me to come in the backyard. He showed me a spot under a pine tree and told me that's where the puppy is (that is what he always called Cooper). He said that after we put an ad in the paper a couple of different people called and said they thought they saw a dog that matched the description that had been hit by a car.... He found Cooper on his lunch break and buried him in the backyard. I know that was incredibly hard on Jon because he adored Cooper. As much as the dog hair drove me crazy... we all loved Cooper very much and will miss him.

In happier animal news... Nash has a feathered best friend that nests herself right in Emmie's window. We have to say hello to the bird several times a day and goodnight of course. It is actually really cute to watch!

New Mommies

So I know I am a huge sap... more so now than ever with my two babies...but I read a real tear jerker with Nash last night. With teaching I know all the good ones... A Kissing Hand, Love You Forever, and so on, but I found a new one! If I Could by Susan Milord is one of the sweetest children's books I have ever read. I think the reason I love it so much is that it hits soooo close to home. I have never heard a more perfect description for how I feel about my children.

"I couldn't love you more than I do. But if I could, I would." So Carmelle, Bridget... you have to find it pronto :)

my beautiful babies

frustration

A house in disarray. Make that two houses. We are literally half in one house and half in the other. You would think with me being "off" in the summer this would be easy but throw together two little babies, a husband missing, and grad school and you have one unhappy mom. I would love to be organizing my new space... if we could get in it.

Anyone have some strong bodies, boxes, and oacking material available?

House pictures

Here are some pictures of the new house!

The guest bedroom/office

Princess Emmie's room (we are going to paint the trim white!)

Nash's room where his big boy bed will be!

Our bedroom where the lighting apparently needs some work (it is a very pretty blue)

Front hallway

What will be the playroom for now but eventually will be a formal room

Family room

Eating portion of kitchen and doors to back porch

Kitchen

Dining Room

sorry for the neglect!

As you might guess life has been a little bit busy... Jon has been working out of town all week, leaving me to feel somewhat like a single mom and we have had a lot of other madness going on. For one we closed on our house (pictures to come!)... this began the endless process of beginning to paint and actually move our stuff over there. I have had grad school, which in itself wouldn't be so bad, but I was already overbooked. Within all of this madness we ventured to lovely, hot as heck Charleston for the Hilbert/Ahlstrom nuptuals. We had a blast! Nash and Jon spent some time at the beach, we went out to eat at several delicious seafood restaurants, and Nash was able to be the ringbearer in Steph's wedding. He actually was carried down the aisle by one of the groomsmen but he looked so stinkin' cute. He also announced a perfectly-timed "Uh-Oh" during the ring exchange that granted him many laughs.

I promise I will put up more pictures from the trip once I get them from Ann-Alan :). We have some cute ones of all four of us which is a first!