More construction!

It's starting to look like a house!

View from the drive way entrance!
the back porch!
putting up the insulated panels...

the garage....

WE HAVE WALLS!!!

I got home from work last night with the surprise of having walls! We are using insulated panels for the exterior walls so they should go up pretty quick now that we are to that point! The front right side- Makayla's room

The back sunroom and living room area.

The girls were sooo excited!

This is what I drove up to...the girls looking out Makayla's window!

Happy Easter

I Know it has been a while...but we have been super busy around here with Easter, building the house, and daily life...not to mention work...haha...here are a few pics from the Easter Season..The girls had a Easter Egg hunt and puppet show at church, Mrs Sandra hosted an Easter gathering with egg hunt at her house for the family, so they got to hunt eggs with the 2nd cousins...and then we dyed easter eggs which they LOVED and had blue and green hands and arms (ps Baking soda gets it off) Then we celebrated the resurection of christ at his church...How blessed we are!!! Happy Easter from the Children of Calvary Baptist Church!

They LOVED the Easter Bunny!

The cousins - minus Carter who is just a few months old! ha

Mallory with one of her many eggs...notice the whole hand holding the egg and the egg dipper in the other hand! ha

Our Sweet Precious girls Easter Morning!!!

Dance Recital Costume

Makayla got her dance recital costume for this year! They are sailors dancing to "Good Ship Lollipop"...She looked so cute, and is soooo exicted!

Update on House

Mal Mal's Dirty Face!

The House from a distance...

The Front Porch

The storm shelter!

We have Wonderful News to share with our Family and Friends!
Makayla was born with a heart murmur- A Patent Ductus Arteriosus- All babies have one while they are in utero, it allows the blood to bypass the lungs, but when they take their first breath of oxygenated air it is supposed to close. There is a percentage of babies that do not- some are symptomatic in which treatment is necessary then and others are not in which they just monitor them. They sent her at 6 months of age to a pediatric cardiologist and they did an ECHO to diagnose it..They told us at that time that if it was still there by age 1-2, that is would be very unlikely to close on its own. This type of murmur/opening can put her at risk for endocarditis if she had dental work or and infection in the mouth. So for every dental appt we have had antibiotics prior to going...It was still there at 1 and 2 and 3 1/2. When she was 2 Dr Braden wanted to do a procedure where they would do a heart cath and go in and close it..well I cried so hard when he suggested it, he decided we could wait one more year. So when she was 3 1/2 it was still there...once again he wanted her to have the procedure but I was 8 months pregnant with Mallory so he said we could wait. Well I have been putting off the appointment for months..but I finally scheduled it for yesterday. She had another ECHO done and after Dr Braden reviewed it he turned around with a smile on his face and said "It looks like someone has been praying! The opening is closed, she is cured,she will not need surgery and she no longer needs antibiotics or to be followed. Her ECHO was perfect!" PRAISE GOD! We of course had tears in our eyes when Makayla said "so did I do a good job?" YES BABY YOU DID, and SO DID OUR LOVING FATHER!

We have Concrete!

They came to pour the footings on Mar 2! And we got 2 1/2 inches of rain the next day! HA! The concrete survived, but it is a nasty mess! There is a 60% chance of SNOW tonight! GO FIGURE! It may snow twice in one year here...I wonder if this is a sign.....
This is the storm shelter my loving husband decided to put in..I had no idea about it until I asked what the big hole was for! We had some terrible storms the other night in which we were in Mallory's closet with a tornado warning in Bogue Chitto...Any time we make the news out here in the boonies we adhere to it! ha...Anyways, I thought at that moment that a storm shelter is not such a bad idea! It will be under our closet in the ground.. It freaks me out a little to be underground, but I am sure Mr.Prepared will have escape routes in mind! ha...
We are building a conventional floor...the loving husband wants to be able to get under the house to fix problems as needed...Yes he is a handyman..kind of like Tim Allen in Home Improvement! Of course I am Very Glad he is Mr Fix it! Anyways, that is why the concrete is in rows like this..there is not a slab.

Update on House!

So the progress has been REALLY slow because IT HAS RAINED EVERY 3RD DAY FOR A MONTH AND A HALF STRAIGHT! WE EVEN HAD SNOW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! But, finally the clouds parted for 5 days and we were able to get a driveway and the footings dug out..then it stormed for 5 hours straight---I am talking about STORMED..haha..so now we have big puddles of mud...but they assure me they can pump the water out and pour the concrete on Monday! Keep your fingers crossed for sunshine!

Happy Valentines Day!

On our way to Dance.....

I love this Dress....Aunt Heather bought this for Makayla and Now Mallory can wear it!

Makayla's Valentine party at school...Notice she is sitting around all the boys...She told me the other day that Benjamin kissed her on the cheek..but that she wiped it off and didn't kiss him back....I also saw her walking from the playground holding his hand the other day...of course she said she just did it because he was getting out of line....haha...what are we going to do with her!

Matching Valentines outfits....

Mallory's Bruise!

So it was a hectic morning...and Mallory was playing in her room...then decided she wanted to brush her teeth! Not sure why at that moment, but she wandered into the bathroom..crawled up on the toilet...reached up real high for the cabinet where her toothbrush is...and crash and crying is all I heard! She fell between the toilet and sink onto the garbage can..you can see the circle shape of the can on her face! Luckily it didn't cause any permanent scarring...

Has she learned her leason? No, I still find her climbing on EVERYTHING!!
Yes...She is only 1...she loves telling everyone that...

I love this outfit because of the hat..she actually wore it for a good length of time!

Happy Mardi Gras!

We went to Granny's in Gulfport this past weeekend. We went to the Pascagoula Parade with Granny and Shane, Jana, and Cooper...We had a blast and the Kids Loved it too.....It was a beautiful day with lots of warm sunshine...we actually got sunburned!

Throw me somethin Mister!

Mal Mal Waiting for the floats!!

Jana's first time at a parade...I had the kissing man come give her a paper rosee for a kiss..haha...

One of the floats

Us at the end of the parade!

Makayla- ready to say "throw me somethin mister"

Mal Mal taking it all in!

Me and Jana!

Granny! Thanks granny for bringing your camera...and taking all the photos...I did manage to get from you so we could have a pic of you too...

Cooper- preparade playing with the wagon....

Mallory at the end of the parade...ready for her nap!