another fun play day

cute kids


heather's turn!


auntie heather makes me happy!


fun!

derek & i have been cleaning our old house for our friends to move in on friday. whew, its been alot of work but derek has done most of the cleaning while i've been caring for diedre. its finally all done :) thats why we've been around for play days with miles.

cousins have a play day

cousins





lets see
here...


check this out diedre


here comes miles!

almost moving on

could this be trouble?


she looks like she wants to crawl...but she didnt :D

a sweet moment

7 months old!

diedre is doing great :) her first tooth has made another appearance, this time it is more noticeable, sharper and sticking out (it was just a tiny white dot a few weeks ago that went away until saturday).

she has the new habit of holding onto things and swinging her arms wildly. example: teething toys, blocks, what have you...the only problem is, she punched me in the cheek and the eye today. she has quite the strong punch!


i am trying to teach diedre to clap. here she is doing assisted clapping--the hard part is teaching her to keep her hands flat together when she claps, rather than to squeeze her fingers (clasping). the next step is for her to gain the motor skills to make the clapping contact herself.


just like daddy--mesmerized.

taa daa...the project to sand and stain this change table began when i was pregnant...we finished it today 

our new home

living room. needs new flooring. we'll probably put laminate down.


dining room


kitchen. it has a good amount of storage with a full pantry--i've always wanted a pantry :)


master bedroom. nice big closet, like we've become accustomed to. all the rooms have nice big windows.


diedre's room. it was purple when we last saw it, they painted it a nice baby yellow.


bathroom


other room. large "bedroom" with sliding glass door that leads to the back yard.


south facing backyard. very private. it has tall cedar trees along the back and some bamboo over to the right and a big walnut tree on the left side.


back of the house & hot tub

the big move

moving day. diedre played very nicely among the boxes while the guys got things loaded on the truck.


sparky helps derek load the truck


diedre plays well on the porch


all packed into the car and ready to go


helpers--thanks guys!

rose's baby shower

here i am, making up for not posting pics of our little darling--i've been busy with packing, mortgage stuff and garage sale prep--we are moving this coming weekend to our first house--ok, back to little darling!


look over here!


oh ya, sitting up is so fun!


what did you say??


hi y'all


oh stop, stop, i can't keep up these cute poses forever!


i'm done. its naptime mother.

our last day at church

diedre is getting watched by the twins and their older sister. they have a little sister who was born february last year.

hanging with some friendly bears

i needed a moment to pack some things in diedre's room, so i placed her in good company.

miles' first birthday party

finally sees his cake (he was distracted by brent & david)


here he is opening our gift with his parents & craig


miles goes for a walk


cool chainsaw from the hetzlers


the sisters & little cousins. gabriel (jul 19) is a month & a half older than liam (aug 31)