Art Work on the Wall!!!

We did not do a very good job of taking pictures over the weekend, so nothing good to see from Blacksburg yet. Yesterday we had an interesting day. It was the first time Madalene had taken her art work from paper straight to the closet doors in her room.

These are pictures of what her doors looked like!!

They are beautiful H's, but not exactly where I would have liked for her to have written them. I found a little bit more humor in the art work than Dad did. I knew the day would come, but I was still a little suprised by the amount of damage she could do in a short time.

So of course the next thing to do was get it cleaned up. Don't think for one minute I didn't make her help clean up the mess.

With a little bit of help from Mom we got all the pencil off the walls, and had a very long talk about were we color at.

Good Morning!

We have a busy day ahead of us today. Madalene and Mom are washing laundry and packing while Dad is at work. We are taking a short trip to Blacksburg (were VT is) to visit some friends for the weekend. I took a couple of pictures this morning and as you can see we are not out of our pj's yet!!!

There should be plenty more pictures to come after the weekend!

It's been awhile!!

It has been awhile, I know!!! So I am going to update everyone today with several pics and little notes. Then I promise to keep up from now on!!!!

These two pictures are Madalene and Dad trying to catch a mouse that has run under the chair. The mouse is visible and they are putting traps all over the inside of the chair to gaurantee a catch. The mouse still escaped!!!

Happy Halloween!!

This is the pumpkin Madalene painted for Sara before we went down to visit in November.

Just a few pics from our trip to Florida. Kathy and I are going to have to dead bolt all the doors when these girls get older.

These next few pictures were during my fall break. I had the day off and took advantage of it. We started out at the library and ended at the park. Tons of fun!!!!!

Just another day on the farm. Madalene does not like to miss out, especially if it involves the tractor.

This is Thanksgiving in South Carolina. For the past several years we have made gingerbread houses. Madalene did a great job!!

A few pics of Christmas. The last one is our buddy Garrett in GA.

The picture below is the beautiful sight we woke up to on Sunday. I know it does not look like much snow, but it is the most we have had seen since we've lived here!!!!!

On to the important things. These next two pictures will officially have you caught up. I took these this morning before starting this project. Once again she is a princess!!!! Everyday we battle over what she is going to wear. If it was up to here she would be Cinderella every where she went.

What a fun weekend!

This past weekend was a fun one. Seth and I went down to Charlotte and saw the Foo Fighters and then traveled down to Anderson, SC to spend the rest of the weekend with Carole. We took Madalene up to Charlottesville on Thursday night so Becky could keep her while we were gone. Becky then took Madalene over to Blacksburg for the weekend to see "Uncle Bryon". Everytime we called to check on her she was too busy playing to talk to Mom and Dad. They had tons of fun. From what I understand Bryon spoiled her terribly. If she asked for it she got it!! As she gets older she is going to know who to see so she can get what she wants. This week has been another busy one. Seth and I are both taking classes and he is working hard as always. I have been doing some work for Carol (on my side of the family), and working hard at trying to keep the house clean and get all my studies done. I respect mothers who go back to school so much more now!!!

Have a great day and hope to hear from you all!

Hello Everyone!!!

I am hoping this will help out with my issues on emailing pictures from here. Katie and Jake both have blogs like this and I thought I would give it a try!

These are a few pictures of the fun we had with Christian over the summer!!! I must say he really enjoyed all of the pink shoes that Madalene had to offer!!!!! I love you Melissa!

Here are a few more images over the past few months, some before the summer started and some from this weekend.

This is Madalene working at here table while Dad and I try to get some homework done Sunday!

May of 2007! We went to Blacksburg for Grandpa's Graduation. Then we took Madalene on a two mile hike up to the Cascades.

Happy, Happy, Happy on the porch swing!!!!