Project Life Tuesday

Sunday, May 22- This was the storm that rolled in. The clouds were moving so fast. We've had quite a few large storms like this lately!

Monday, May 23- Graham will start off sitting somewhere but more often than not, he ends up under the coffee table. :)

Tuesday, May 24- Grace has been playing restaurant. She carries around an Elmo pad of paper and asks you what you want and "what else?" It's cute. Her lips purse up like this picture.

Wednesday, May 25- A girls night! I met Jo, Jodi, and Courtney at Flat Top Grill and then we went to Debrands for these delicious ice cream desserts. Oh.my. They were so good and I promise there was not one drop left!

Thursday, May 26- I'm so happy with my garden this year! It's really coming along. Can you see the hummingbird hovering over these iris'? I need to find out what kind they are too.

Friday, May 27- Sophie and Oliver came to stay with us for a few days! This was Sophie's last day of school so we took some pictures.

Saturday, May 28- fun with S&O!

Wordless Wednesday

New recipe today on the food blog- I'll have a few more coming this week too. Check em out!

Project Life Tuesday

Sunday, May 15- getting ready for Church.

Monday, May 16- Graham helped me hang dipes on the line. :) He liked sitting in the basket better than the grass.

Tuesday, May 17-

Wednesday, May 18- He did this at Grandmas but I thought it was a fluke, but not now! Graham is now sitting up on his own! This is how I found him when I went to get him out of bed.

Thursday, May 19- snuggling with daddy after bath time (I think they were pretending to sneeze here)

Friday, May 20- I have a picture like this from January but Shane had pulled it forward for him to chew. This day he did it all by himself.

Saturday, May 21- A Date Night! We had a night out in Ft. Wayne with just the two of us. Lovely and much needed.

Siblings

Grace (5 months- I think?)

These two like to work their way out of their jammies! :)

Graham 8 mo.

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah is all I can say. For the past 10 weeks (minus our Florida trip) Shane has been driving down to Southern Indiana to work on a ropes course at one of the camps. He would leave on Sunday or early Monday morning and come home on Friday. The last two weeks he just stayed down there to get it finished. For the most part we were great. There were a few meltdowns (me) and a few tantrums (me again) but we kept busy and knew it wasn't going to be like that forever. We were able to talk to him on the phone lots and we video chatted as much as we could each evening. The kids were so good- Grace has some signs of missing daddy but she is a tough cookie. I have a great respect for moms and dads who have to leave for extended times for work or the military. It is difficult on both ends! But I also learned, that I can do it. I was more organized, and more on top of things since I was the only one to do them. I'm thankful for the help I did have (and for chocolate treats when the kids went to bed!).

But he is home and we are so very proud of him. I'm not sure if you can, but go to this link and you can see what he has been doing. And I'm going to brag a bit. He built every.piece.of.this. He chopped trees, climbed poles, used a lift, laid a road, all of it. He had some great help the last two weeks and I'm so thankful for them because they got him home to us faster! He says I will love it, but if you look at those pictures... I'm not so sure I will LOVE every part of it. Like that ladder? Uh, no thanks. :) We love you babe and are so happy you are home. You have done a great job and we are praying that God will be glorified through this amazing addition to camp.

(my two lovelies before church on Sunday)

Project Life May 8

Not a great week for pictures. We were busy and outside as much as we could. I need to try to keep my camera with me always.

Monday, May 9-I did a little rearranging and took this end table out- Grace grabbed it for her computer stand!

Wednesday, May 11- We have been playing with Ian! He's grown so much. He loves to play outside which is great because we do too!

Thursday, May 12- See this little coral bell plant? Not too much of anything. Yet some animal keeps digging it and a few other of my plants up! It's not eating them, just digging them up roots and all! Grrr. I keep replanting them and hoping they aren't too damaged. I've been spraying ammonia water around them. Any other suggestions? My neighbor thinks it's a wild cat.

Friday, May 13- Having a tea party with Ian. Tea parties are always better in a leotard and dance skirt. :)

GBH

Graham either loves playing by himself or hates it with a passion. There is no in between. He's getting close to going mobile. When he's on my lap he squirms all around, and he's just starting to get up on his knees!

He still loves his paci but he doesn't need it in all the time and if he's made he will spit it out faster than you can catch it!

and still no teeth!