Monday, March 5, 2012

our home sweet home is for sale or rent! Beaufort, SC





SINGLE FAMILY, Ranch - Port Royal, SC

Rental Information: Availabel 4/1/2012 Southern Living at its Best! Excellent condition, with a fantastic open floor plan to include 4BR, 2BA. Hardwood floors, carpet in the bedrooms, screen porch & privacy fence. Minutes to military bases & Beaufort's many amenities. House is wired with surround sound, has a centralized CD system, & IPod docking station.
For more information you can view the listing !!!

Visiting Mimi & Poppie's Feb & March 2012

When Jacob left on January 22, 2012 for OCS, McKenzie and I were a little lonely and wanted more than anything to be with family over the next long 10 weeks. McKenzie & I made a chain to represent the days until we would see daddy!


For the first 3 weeks we had no communication with Jacob other than a handwritten letter.
OCS has a website that (I thought frequently) updated pictures of the platoons. On the very first one, just when I think we needed it the most there he was running his initial PFT!!!


Finally, on February 11th we were able to hear his voice and see his face thanks to FaceTime.
and that made everything better !!!


Facetime on Daddy's Birthday!!! Happy Birthday Jacob!!
McKenzie showing off her chain now!!! almost time to see daddy!!!

so, during our time here thus far we have definitely stayed busy, many park trips, many day trips to indy , trips to west lafayette, celebrated birthdays and just enjoyed family time!!! oh and the snow!!









Sledding today with Poppie ! Deming Park Terre Haute , IN

March 5, 2012
After weeks of wanting snow...just enough per Poppie to go down the big hill at Deming Park, WE GOT IT!!!! McKenzie & Poppie were so excited to go down the big hill! Lucky for us no one was there so they had fresh snow!!! I love the SMILES on BOTH of their faces!!! It was priceless!









our little family over the last 4 years !

Our little one is ALMOST 4 !!!

I can't believe our baby is ALMOST 4 (APRIL 3) !!!! Here are some pictures I took for her birthday invitations!!! I can't believe how fast time flies by!!!!




YES...this is really how McKenzie acts!!! :)







Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Mom's Birthday Party :) Feb 15th 2012


Since Pinterest is so popular...and YES I have fallen in to its trap...I used pinterest to inspire me for my mom's birthday party !

I started off by making these super easy & very yummy chicken bundles.
I used this recipe above. I didn't have any sesame seeds but they still turned out perfect!!


Mom's pinterest inspired bow & gift !

Mom's Pinterest inspired magnet chalkboard that McKenzie helped make !
Pinterest inspired Frame inside Frame !




My Wonderful Mom!!! And the Birthday girl!!! Happy Birthday Mom!!! I love you !

Friday, February 3, 2012

Our Today show Appearance

While visiting my parents we thought...."how many times are you this close to the super bowl and the Today show not to go" On that Thursday night February 2, 2012 we bought some glitter & poster board and decided to make some signs! McKenzie & I made one for Jacob since he is currently gone to OCS and we miss him so bad we thought we would put that we love & miss our daddy. Holly on the hand put her tweeter name on hers and I drew the Tweeter bird on it and we completely glittered them up! That Friday morning we had intentions of leaving by 5:00 however we didn't get on the road until closer to 5:30. All down in the dumps because we still had an hour left to go, we figured we would never get a good spot yet alone get on TV. We got to Indy about 6:30 and parked got our signs together and headed out. Tons of people were everywhere leaving no spots to see the band or the Today crew. Then out of no where we saw an opening and took off. We where there, right smack behind the band!!! We had an amazing time listening to Adam Levine warm up and then perform on LIVE TV. We watched Al Roker zip line in and over all had an amazing time. We even ended up on ESPN! It was crazy!!! So here is our national TV debut !!!
McKenzie and her sign !!! She was so proud!

Holly and her sign !



Click the video below to see us!!! We are in the left hand corner nearly the whole video!!!



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a few pictures from our trip to Indy !!! February 3, 2012


ADAM LEVINE!!!!!
AL ROKER