Precious Moment

My two blessings; holding a sleeping toddler and having a camera in arm's reach.

I love these two!

Strawberries and Campaigning

We picked strawberries for the first time this season last Friday.
The campaigning is in full force and that story will have to be another post all together. Cliff notes version is great support, busy schedule, lots of walking and knocking on doors, and I have managed to keep my sanity in tact. A local golf cart business donated Jay a golf cart to use each weekend to help with the door to door campaigning. Needless to say it has also been a hit with the girls too and Baby!

Wordless Wednesday: Laundry Induced Anxiety Attack Edition

Round here

Things round here have been crazy busy. I have fallen very behind on the blog but here are a few shots to tide you over.

I love this shot of the two girls. Such a sweet expression on their faces. One day Katie Jo caught a rainbow. She was very proud!
This occasionally happens and I thought it would be best to capture it on film.
Our resident artist, Katie Jo, painted this beauty today. It's a rainbow, sun, clouds, a unicorn, angel and flowers.
I mean really have you ever seen such a beautifully painted flower? She's going to be five in a few days!

Our Time

On Wednesday I don't have to work and since Katie Jo goes to school it gives Georgia and I time together. I'm glad to have this opportunity and it's nice for her to get me all to herself. Today was great since we could play outside. Usually she takes advantage of this time to play with all of Katie Jo's things since she couldn't get away with it otherwise! I love sitting and talking with her, having a snack, running errands together, eating lunch together, and playing.
Today she got a little haircut and here's her new look. Don't mind the peanut butter on her face. She didn't!

Good idea

I don't claim to be very creative but every once in a blue moon I manage to have a good idea. Even if it's a stolen idea I've learned that it's ok to share it! I saw one of the wives from Big Love do this and I thought "that makes so much sense." It may be something that everyone else in the world does but just in case someone doesn't here goes.
She was buzzing around her house with a laundry basket filling it up with toys. So now I do the same thing and man is it a great way to pick up. A lot of "stuff" collects downstairs and it's such a pain to take handful after handful upstairs so I love to collect it all in one basket and by all I mean toys, shoes, bows, books, my stuff, Jay's stuff and so on. Then when I get upstairs I go from room to room distributing the items.

Ta da!

Snow Day in the Low Country

At approximately 5:50 on Feb. 12th, 2010 the low country got it's first significant snowfall in ten years. I'm glad we were here for it and that my girls were able to enjoy snow at their own home. It'll probably be ten more years before it snows like this again and I hope as teenagers my girls enjoy it as much then as they did now.

This is Katie Jo when it literally had just started to snow. And already trying to catch a flake!

What a beautiful site and we had no idea where it would go from here.

Just to see this little bit was so exciting. When it never snows where you live it's like a miracle when it happens.

This picture was taken at 6:30 and as you can see we quickly had accumulation.

After dinner we got serious with our snow suits!

Snow angels were on order

The neighbors came over and we put together our first snow man. We even had a carrot, thanks to our neighbors, for the nose.

Keep an eye on this palm. What a difference a night makes.

To see our home doused in snow was a majestic site. The silence of a snow filled existence is such beauty.

Sledding on a boogie board. On the low country could come up with this!

Our friends came over and the kids had a blast playing together.

Now it's gone and I'm not too sad about that! It was a special day that we won't soon forget!