Brotherly Love

In footbal that means lil brother rocketing (with Dad's help) into big brother and knocking him down!! HAHA Eric's playing football again this year, year 2! Well, Alex is a big boy for his age and the coaches are like just strap him down we'll play him! ( of course won't really happen my baby would put a beating on some of those 5 year olds at age 2 LOL) So, we did and let Eric and Alex go at it! They had fun!!!

Ivy's Dedication 8-16-09

We went to PA for Ivy to be dedicated. Aunt Kay called and said that the Church was doing a baby dedication on August 16th for any baby's that needed to be dedicated, well, we chose to jump on. We wanted to get Ivy dedicated at Freeport Road Alliance Church anyway because that is where we had both boys dedicated. Freeport Road does and always will have a special place in my heart because that's the Church I grew up in and where my mom went and family and so on. What made it even more special was to have Rev. Walborn there and say a prayer for our daughter. It truelly made the day perfect! Thank you again Rev. Walborn! The service was great! Ivy was fussy during the dedication because I was feeding her before we went up but then had to stop as as soon as she got her chow back she was a very happy girl! She did well tho! I slacked on pictures of the day:( but Aunt Kay will send some I'm sure as I only have 1 picture to share of my princess in her pretty dress. I am a lil sad that I didn't get more pictures on my camera tho.

2 Months

Ivy had her 2 month Check-up on Friday, August 14th. She did so very well!! She is a tall girl! She is 23 1/2 inches long and 10# 3.2oz. She is by far a petite lil thing still. I am starting to see her getting bigger but she is still so tiny to me! But o so cute!!!! She had all her shots and while I was aggrevated a little with the nurse (gotta love how they decide what's best when it usually isn't....a mama knows her kids! but anyway....) She did so well! I can't believe my lil love bug is already 2 months old! She is starting to bat at a couple hanging toys and i just love all her smiles!!! I love seeing both dimples!!!!

Kitchen Picnic

Since it rained out the cornfest for our lunch, we came home and had a Kitchen Picnic. lol. The kids loved it!!! Then we had a nice visit from Grandma!! Of course the rain finally stopped, so we went back to the cornfest for dinner! it was a good day!


Annmarie @ the corn fest...Eric gave her his hat cuz she was hiding in the shade...."I'm hot I have dark hair" HAHA Love ya girl!

Corn Fest

Eden Corn Fest was this past weekend. We went yesterday (Sunday) for the Military Appreciation parade. Tim was in the parade on the big ol float! We planned on staying for a bit but after the parade it started pouring so onto home we went! Here are some pics from the parade!kids waiting

Smiles!!!!!

I was trying to take the 'monthly Friday picture' for my Born in June board. Well, I wanted to get lil miss Ivy in her current favorite spot....the $5 swing I picked up at a yard sale last weekend. Well, I got even luckier...I captured her first real smile on camera!! I was so thrilled! I mean yea she's done smiles here and there but not from you talking to her have I gotten such a great smile! It was so awesome!!! I love those firsts!!! Anyway, enjoy!!!!

Sleep :-)

My daughter likes to sleep in some funny positions! The pictures say it all!!

Rain

Wow did it ever rain last night. Our roof leaked AND our basement flooded:( I swear we can not catch a break with the basement:( I'm still in the process of cleaning it up but we are now going to do something different with the floor so it's not so hard to clean up if it happens again. but i sure hope not. Guess the rain was just too much for our sump pump and the brand new back up we installed......AH well, but I need a new back anyone got an extra?? Off to clean up the mess again :(

Big Birthday Present

We put in a swimming pool for the kids! We told them it was a combined gift for all three of them! Even tho Ivy is still too little LOL. Tim installed it himself with the help of a couple friends and family members! It's not huge but big enough for our family! It is 12x4 foot. We got it off of craigslist. We were gonna build a deck for it, but decided to wait till maybe next year. And then found the ladder on craigslist too lol. I love craigslist!!!! Anyway here are a couple pictures!!



I just love this picture!! Look at Tim's face!!! Alex just tagged Daddy with the noodle!!! LOL