House

We are about a month from being complete!!!! That is if all goes as planned. I am SO excited. Its starting to really look like what I envisioned. I am not posting any pictures till its complete. I want to surprise you all :) I know, like you care....but really I don't have time to take pictures right now. If I did take a picture tomorrow it would look different. That is how fast things are progressing. I love progress!!!

As far as selling our current house.....Well thats not progressing as much as I hoped. We had a couple to look at it last night. They made an offer this morning but it was MUCH less than what we want. It was actually cheaper than what we paid for it. I have a lady coming tomorrow and I am just hoping and praying she likes it and makes a reasonable offer! I am not as stressed as I should be though. I know God is in control of all things. He knows exactly what we need!!!!

Have a GREAT weekend! I know ours will be busy. I am loving this cooler weather though!

Girls Trip Destin 2011

riding the Train

Look a Sandcastle!!

"Stop" in the name in love!

Clear water!

She loves her Nana

Her "Cheese" Face! Notice she closes her eyes.

We had such a fun girls trip to Destin. Thankfully we changed our dates and missed Storm Lee. The weather was SO amazing. I have never been down to Destin when the weather was so perfect. It was only in the 80s during the day. We didn't have any rain and the water was crystal clear. Ava did great on the trip. She LOVED the water and sand. All we heard the whole time was "I wanna go to the Beach". When she would wake up from naps she would yell that. I am so proud that she got to enjoy it. We spent most of our days relaxing on the beach. We would go from playing in the sand to splashing in the water. She even took a couple naps on the beach. I was able to read a whole book in 3 days!! Its been a long time since I can say I did that. I read Water For Elephants. I got some yummy seafood a few nights. Friday was moms birthday so we let her choose the place for dinner. She hates seafood so we had Italian. We did some shopping at night and ate a bunch of ice cream. :)
Oh and we saw 3 sand sharks. I was very close to one. I was playing in the water with Ava and one started swimming down the beach parallel to the shore line. We saw some dolphins too!

We had so much fun!!!!

Mother Nature

Oh Mother Nature!! You are so unpredictable and mysterious. You change our plans when we think we are going to do certain things at particular times. BUT thats life!

First of all right now I am suppose to be in Destin laying on the beach getting some sun.....BUT you thought otherwise. Me,Mom, and Ava were taking a girls beach trip. Thankfully last Thursday when we realized this tropical storm was going to affect the gulf I called, and the WONDERFUL reservation specialists let me change my dates without penalty. And I got some money back due to rates going down :) SO YEAH!!!!!!!! So far the forecast is pretty for the end of this week at the beach. So excited!!!!

We were planning on going to Art Sunday yesterday after church but it was raining all afternoon. OH well maybe next year. I would have probably spent too much money on unnecessary cute things anyways.

And for Labor Day.....normally this day is full of sun, grilled food, and Friends. So far I am still in my pjs at 11 and I don't see me getting out of them for a while. Actually I am enjoying this rainy day!!

That buggy scared me!!

Just a little funny I wanted to share. We went to Lowes Saturday and they had their Halloween stuff out. There was a HUGE blown up type spider on a top shelf. Adam walked around with Ava while I was shopping. They approached the HUGE spider and Adam just had to see what Ava would do so he was like "Run, the buggy (her term for any spider or bug of any sort) is gonna get us." He said her facial expression was priceless. She turned and started running with all her might. He of course laughed and laughed. I walked up about this time and saw them running. I started walking towards it to check it out. I love Halloween. Adam said "Oh no the buggy is gonna get mom". So poor Ava bursts into tears and starts yelling for me to stop. I have heard about that buggy ever since Saturday. The poor kid is traumatized. The funny part is the spider's head would turn and stuff. She says "That buggy looked at me"...and she whips her head around like it did. You just can't help but laugh.

Oh and now she tells everyone that she saved me from the buggy.

I sure hope she isn't terrified of everything Halloween come October!!!

Finally some brick and our weekend

Ava swimming with her role model, Kyndall.

The master bedroom windows and brick.

Side view of the house bricked

Back porch area, without steps

So I finally have some pictures to show progress of the outside of the house. The brickers do an amazing job when they show up. They bricked the front areas of the house Saturday but I took all these pictures Friday night. So hopefully my next post will show the front completed :) Yeah right.

We had a crazy weekend. There is just so much to do and think about. Anyways, we took a break Saturday afternoon for Ava to go to a swimming party. She had a blast!! She literally walked around all week holding the invitation. We would get it in the morning and she would take it to moms. Then we would bring it back home and place it on the fridge. I thought it was so cute that she was that excited. It was fun to see her get that excited.

Our Anniversary dinner....and a sick baby

Just to let everyone know we went to Ruths Chris for our Anniversary dinner. OH dear!!! Thats about all I can say. It was amazing and pricey. We really did enjoy it though!

We spent Saturday morning running errands for the house, followed by a birthday party for a friend of Ava's. Then we ate dinner with some friends.

Saturday night Ava started coughing and feeling bad. We had a rough night. Sunday me and her stayed in the house all day!!!! It was much needed though. She was running fever and coughing something awful. She slept way better last night, but her cough is still lingering today. I really do despise summer time colds.

Happy Anniversary Adam!

Happy Anniversary to my husband! 6 years ago to the exact day of the week today!!!!! Crazy how time flies!!!

We are going on a date night tonight. Ava is staying with mom/dad all night.
I have a feeling Adam is up to something. I asked him if we were going to Conners to eat...that is where we usually go. He said he didn't think so. I began to ask questions and he wouldn't induldge me. Who knows where we will end up.

We have a crazy weekend ahead. There is so much to pick out for the house, plus Ava has a birthday party tomorrow to go to. Just not enough time in our weekends.