Thanksgiving Program at school!

Makayla and her friend Haley as Indians>>>

Nana even got to come...

The Martin's at the school...

a very small portion of the kids as Indians..Not sure what happened to her feather headband!

House update!

The kitchen...its a warm yellow actually called white raisin! Popa started on the cabinets!
Upstairs bedroom...Bramble beige with creamy white ceiling

Office...Copper Wire with creamy white ceiling

Dining room.. Bramble beige with cherry chocolate accent wall

Main living color... Taupe actually has a sort of green tint to it.. the ceiling will be pine tongue and grove from hurricane katrina!

Can't Wait for Christmas!!!

This past Saturday I took the girls to get their picutres made at Jenny Lynn's. I actually changed their outfits once I got there..but I loved these little outfits too..so after the shoot was done we changed back into these and I took some myself at the train depot area!

Mallory!

Movie Star, Fashion Model, or Ballerina?...

Just Becausee I love this Picture and These Outfits!

House update!

We are inthe process of painting! We are doing most of it ourselves! So we are exhausted...but it is coming along quite nicely.. these pictures don't really do justice, but the best I could do...

Mallory's Room! The ceiling is a light purple and the walls are called Key Lime Pie!

Makayla's room...Walls are a butter yellow and ceiling a pale yellow.

Laundry Room! It is called Aquarium! It has become one of my favorinte rooms..Popa has almost finished the cabinets now and dthe Countertop got ordered this weekend. I have had this room planned and designed for over a year now..so it is awesome to see it coming together...The whole inspiration started with some funky orange light fixtures I found and that I wanted it ot be my beach getaway from the country! I knew I wanted the walls in a turquise and orange fixtures.. I'll take more pics of this room soon..

Mudroom...the bench is now complete..all we await is the cabinet doors and hooks for coats.

The Front door! I finished staining and sealing it! Ya hooo! The porch painting is done...all we gotta do is stain the concrete... we may wait and do that in the spring when it warms up...

Halloween!

This year for Halloween the girls were Princesses again! Makayla insisted on being Ariel even though she was Ariel when she was 3! Mallory was gonna be Flounder from the Little Mermaid because she thought "that would be funnnny!" ha but we couldn't find the outfit so she decided to be Tinkerbell! She made such an adorable Tinkerbell. A BIG thank you to Granny who found these costumes on the coast! The Sat before Halloween we had a trunk or treat children's party at church! We had a great turnout of kids and lots of trunks too! They had a blast! For Halloween night we trick or treat out here in the country (which is weird because you get in and out of cars and just drive around to people's houses) Then we have made it tradition to go trick or treating in Brookhaven inthe neighborhood we used to live in. We always meet our good friends the Moaks and Makayla Cooper Mallory and Emry trick or treat together (city way of walking through the neighborhood! which is what I am used too!) We had a great time and ended the night with a meal with friends at Cracker Barrell. Brad's Trunk and the Girls.....

All the kids that participated! Makayla and Mallory are on the far left

Tinkerbell's wings! Notice the light up wand she kept putting between her legs using it to fly on! It looks like a tail! ha

Our little Mermaid and Tink!

Nana and her Princesses! Thanks Nana for helping getting them ready!

A Little Funny!

Makayla started back to dance today! So while we were shopping for leotards....We were in the dressing room and Mallory went to a corner to hide and I knew what she was doing, so I was trying to hurry. All of a sudden, VERY LOUDLY Makayla says "EW Mommy it stinks in here!" and just as LOUDLY Mallory replies "Ya, Makayla that's me!" The child has no shame!
HAHA...I can't wait till she's potty trained! She's just a little strong willed and says she doesn't want to go in the potty...I decided after a week of accidents, to just wait till she is ready!!

PARADE OF BOOKS!

SO, We really like this school Makayla is in, of course it is where Brad went so he is partial, but I really like it too. They had an event in August called the Parade of Books. It was to promote reading and go along with the book fair. Each student got to dress up as a book character and parade around the gym! How cute! Makayla was head set on going as Belle. I was worried it would be a little overkill, but was sooo not. There were some really cute costumes there and even the faculty participates! The Principal was Winnie the Pooh! ha.. While I am at it, let me talk about the book fair! I remember a time when you went to the book fair during class and bought a book with the money mom gave me. Not how it is now...They had a kick off event that corresponeded with open house at the school. It had a whole safari theme to it..There were refreshments all done as animals (ex zebra cookies and cakes). They had some of the older elementary students dressed up and performing songs in the hall way, they even had a real petting zoo in the school! With a live snake too ( I wasn't crazy about that part!) Anyways, so far we are liking it and Makayla is leraning sooo much! I am too; we have to memorize a bible verse every week that she has to say by Friday! Well enough running my fingers for now!! haha

Hanging on the Monkey Bars...Mallory and I got to go to the parade, lunch, and playground with her..Mallory thought it was Great!

My sweet girls!

A Very Small Portion of the parade!

OUR MALLORY! (9/26/08)

Mallory loves to look at the scrapbooks I've done. I hate to admit most of them are of Makayla..SO I took some pictures to make a page for her...I am about 20 months behind on hers, but I plan to catch up as soon as we are in the new house! Isn't she Adorable?

On Our Way to Church (August)

I have not updated the blog in a while until today... We have had some unfortunate and sad times in our lives lately. My Father passed away on Sept 12th. Please continue to be in prayer for my family during this time. We miss him so much, but as Mallory told me just last night "but mommy he's with Jesus".

House update!

We Finally Have SHEETROCK! We had some delays this month in getting the sheet rock hung. They finally started Wed. and are almost done with the downstairs. I can't wait to be able to start painting! It is coming along slowly but surely....

View from Dining room towards side porch. the door is the side porch entry

This is view of Kitchen from the breakfast room. you are loooking into the dining room

Mallory's room one side of it anyways

Popa hard at work in the garage...

view from in the kitchen through the opening where the stovetop will be..looks into the living room

View from the front door...sheet rock not quite done in this room
side porch! this is done except for painting!
Another view of front porch

Front of the house...
Back of the house
back of the house on the garage side
side of house....this will be where additional parking and guest entry will be through the side door..since we are in the country and no one uses the front door...haha