Happy 4th and family pics

We had a great 4th of July (ie, we didn't really do much) but spent some time together and worked around the house a little bit. Savannah enjoyed having daddy home for an extra day and they spent lots of time playing. Here they are reading together, how cute!!!
On the 4th, we grilled out and then planned to go downtown to watch the fireworks, but well, let's just say that didn't work out so well. We drove around for about 45 minutes trying to find a parking spot with no luck and decided to come home. Savannah thoroughly enjoyed the trip as there were lots and lots of horse and carriages out so she was happy to see the horses and "neigh" at them! We decided to just come home and enjoy some fabulous homemade strawberry frozen yogurt which was yummy! The night before we had some great watermelon for desert, Savannah is a watermelon lover!

Doesn't that just have "southern summer" written all over it. Tom thought the fact that his wife was barefoot and pregnant said "southern summer" as well.
What a cheeseball!

I must warn you that the next picture is not pretty, but Savannah is turning into quite the adventurous almost two year old! I know I know, I did used to work for CPS but I promise she did this all herself!

This was from 3, yes 3 separate falls this week alone! What a toddler she is.

On Sunday we went out to Tybee so some friends of ours could take some pictures for us, we realized it has been a while since we had pictures of the three of us that weren't a self portrait. They turned out great and we are excited to add Isaiah to the bunch once he arrives shortly!

36 weeks and counting!

It was really windy under the pier!

Sweet Savannah and her daddy!

Our favorite!

Kisses for Isaiah

We hope everyone had a great 4th of July, praise God for His goodness to allow us to live in this country with all of our freedoms!

Big girl and big baby

Ok, so the title may be a little misleading, Isaiah isn't going to be HUGE (at least we hope not) but we did have an ultrasound today and they said he is already 6 lbs. 6 oz. with 4 weeks to go. The doctor guessed he would be about the same size as Savannah and that wasn't too bad (except for the whole vacuum thing, but we won't get into that on here!) Everything looks great with him, his placenta, amniotic fluid, he is head down facing backwards and doing very well! Wow, is God good or what!! We feel amazingly blessed by how well things have gone with Savannah and Isaiah as we know that there are a lot of families out there struggling with fertility issues, pregnancy issues and sick baby issues so we are thankful for God's protection! We definitely don't deserve any of His goodness but He is an amazing God! Full of mercy, grace and compassion! This has been a fun week for Savannah and the rest of us! On Tuesday night Tom came home from work and took her to the community pool at the park a few blocks from us and she loved it! On Wednesday we spent the whole morning at another park with a splash park thing for little ones and she wore herself out! We also went to the mall to play on Tuesday which she loves and it is air conditioned which I love!

Queen of the bridge!

Today was story time at the library and then our Dr. appt. so she has been busy! She is starting to love being read to lately which we adore! It is so amazing to see her learning and growing right before us! She has also really started to love singing songs and we love to sing and dance with her, it is so precious! She has been talking about baby Isaiah a lot lately and has started to treat some of her toys as a baby she is taking care of. Here she is feeding baba in her seat. She put his bib on and buckled him in the seat all by herself all while talking to him about eating. He has eaten dinner next to tom in the chair a few times with us as well!

She ate lunch the other day in the big person chair at the table across from me, so cute!

We were also very blessed last week by a baby shower that was given for us by some friends at our church. It was for Isaiah and another little girl that is due about a month after her is. We received lots of sweet boy things, some great books and lots of love from our church family. I don't have pictures currently, but will try to get some from our fabulous host Ms. Miley and post them on here.

Penguins, Sea Island and Father's Day!

Savannah (and Isaiah) received a nice package from Grandma and Grandpa recently which she was very excited about, Tom well he wasn't too excited about the contents of the package. We did find a nice blanket for Isaiah, an outfit Tom wore when he was little as well as a cute picture of him in the outfit but best of all there were presents for Savannah and Isaiah. Savannah got a penguin and Isaiah got a hockey puck (Tom got parenting advice). Now these aren't just any penguin and hockey puck, they are for Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh just beat Detroit in the Stanley Cup Finals 4 games to 3 and Tom was definately cheering for the Red Wings. Now we acknowledge that Tom's family is from Western Pennsylvania and we in no way are trying to disgrace his family roots, but Tom is a big Detroit fan and it seems like he always has been. When we first met it was during the Stanley Cup playoffs in 2002 and I heard Tom talking about it. Keep in mind I have never been a huge hockey fan, ok a hockey fan of any kind. I turned to talk to Tom (our first interaction) and made a comment about how I went to school in Raleigh, Hurricanes territory (they were playing Detroit in the Stanley Cup that year) and he made a not so nice comment back to me. Lucky for me I thought he was cute and was still interested but I don't think I made a good first impression on him needless to say. I digress but just making my point of how big of a fan he is of Detroit. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.....

Let's just say Savannah woke up to this in the morning and she started talking about getting Dixie's leash down, she didn't get it thank goodness!

She loves the penguin!

Caught in the middle!
We were invited down to Sea Island, GA this past weekend by the Illians (good friends from Richmond) and had the priviledge of enjoying some great time with them and the whole Sea Island experience. It is really beautiful (very expensive, but beautiful!) Catherine's grandparents own a house down there and were gracious enough to invite us and share their time down there with us. Savannah had a great time playing with their son Jack and she LOVED swimming in the pools (beach, not so much)!

Daddy loved the swimming as well!

Rocking the jet ski!

Jack is such a cutie, they did a great job playing all weekend, sharing and enjoying each other!

The beach club

Savannah was out cold on Saturday afternoon, way too much fun in the water!

The hotel

Beautiful home where we stayed

Savannah having a taste of Daddy's banana pudding, she is named Savannah and does live in Georgia, it's a given that she will love banana pudding!
Jack enjoying some dessert as well!

On the way home, we stopped in St. Simons to explore some and check out their cute beachfront area. We didn't stay long since it was over 100 outside, but enjoyed a good lunch for Father's Day and some time together.

The beach was very calm and quite narrow.

St. Simon's lighthouse

They had some HUGE live oak trees

She thought it was fun to play chase with daddy in one of the stores with sunglasses on, she loved the sunglasses!

Hillarious picture

We also stopped at the mall on the way home and Savannah played in the soft toy area and discovered the carousel. She loved it and cried when it was time to get off, I guess she remembered her first ride this past Christmas in Indiana!

Action shot!

Savannah told Tom Happy Father's Day all day and we spent some good family time together to celebrate Tom and the blessing he is to our family. He is a fabulous husband, wonderful father and strong man of God, we are so blessed by his leadership every day and he does a great job of leading Savannah towards the Lord. Thank you Lord for providing such a strong and great man not only as my husband but also as Savannah and Isaiah's father! We love you Tom/Daddy!

SC trip and other fun activities

We spent this last weekend traveling to SC to visit my grandmother and uncle. My grandmother is trying to sell their townhouse and they needed some help moving things, boxing them up and they had lots of furniture they wanted to give away. We took a cargo van down there so we could bring it home and it is nice. We now have two nice matching dressers in our room and Isaiah officially has a dresser with clean clothes in it. I guess he can come whenever he wants now right?? Just kidding little man, gotta wait about 6 weeks! It was a short trip but good because we got to spend some good time with my grandmother, uncle, aunt Jayne from FL and my dad. Savannah really liked "Great Jayne", "Aunt Jayne" is taken by my sister so we came up with Great Jayne. She especially liked her touch screen blackberry and quickly figured it out. She was making phone calls, taking pictures and enjoying talking on the phone, it was great!

We love Great Jayne!

Savannah had a great time with Poppie, she talked about him all weekend!

We stopped in Augusta at the riverwalk for lunch going there and coming home and Savannah loved to run, see the water, play and enjoy being out of the car, it is beautiful!

We have finally been able to convince Savannah to let us put her hair in a ponytail. It isn't for long, usually just a few minutes but we are hoping to build up to longer. Here are some good shots of the ponytail.

What a big girl she is!

Hello there!

Shaking out the ponytail after a few minutes, it is an improvement!

Savannah also likes to help water the plants and she is quite good at it as well. Such the little helper, I just hope she is as helpful when Isaiah is around!

On the way home on Sunday, we took a quick detour to my old house in Statesboro, it was not far off the road we were on and I remembered how to get there all by myself. See I can remember things! It was weird to see, the house has changed some like a fenced in background, but overall it was pretty much the same!

We have been trying to sell a couch on craigslist and we aren't sure if it is going to sell now. The other day, Savannah got into the sunscreen and emptied almost the entire full bottle onto herself and the couch so thanks Savannah, you owe us a $100! She was funny though, right when I walked in, she started to rub it in and just looked like a deer in headlights, hillarious!

As you can see, most of the sunscreen ended up on the couch with just a little on Savannah!

We have also been wearing lots of daddy's clothes lately, it is hillarious!

We are heading down to Sea Island this weekend as guests of our friends Matt and Catherine Illian from Richmond and we are exctited to see them and get some time away! Their little boy Jack is about a month older than Savannah and we are excited to let them play together and enjoy the beach and pool together. We will have more fun pictures to post next week!

Hillarious

So today at lunch, Savannah picked up her spoon, put it to her ear and started talking. This was the conversation...

Hello baby Harrison
How are you?
Huh?
Hello Uncle Jason
How are you?
Huh?
Eating rice
good
bye bye

I then asked her what baby Harrison was doing and she said "eating green beans" "in his chair". Hillarious! She loves to talk on the phone and use whatever inanimate object she can find. She frequently talks to my uncle on the phone, his name is uncle lulu and she LOVES to talk to him on her play phones. If we actually put her on the phone with people she gets shy and doesn't usually say much, but give her a shoe or spoon or any one of her toys and she is a chatter box!

After my Dr. appt. on Friday, Savannah and I stopped at a park that isn't too far from us and realized they had a few different water attractions. Well let's just say it didn't take Savannah long before she was soaked. She loved it!

She looks like she is praying but I think she was just being silly wearing mommy's headband. What a goof ball!

Snuggling with mommy and baby Isaiah!

Tom decided that everyone should look like they have a ball in their bellies! Savannah thought it was more fun to try to hit daddy's ball out of his shirt. She is more gently with baby Isaiah!

Now she just doesn't want Dixie to get her ball!

Water, water and more water

Well, a few weeks ago it rained and rained and rained so we were pretty much inside every day. The end of this past week and this weekend have been beautiful with all sun and no rain. That does mean heat but we live in south Georgia, we will not complain! Friday night we went to the SCAD free concert at Forsyth Park and had a great time. Savannah loved the music and loved dancing with Daddy! Saturday we had a relaxing day here and playing at the park when we decided it was probably pretty out at Tybee so we decided to head out there after dinner. We got Savannah all ready in her swim diaper and her bathing suit and hit the beach! It is such a beautiful time to go out there because there is hardly anyone there, it is not as hot because the sun is setting and parking is free after 8 so when you get there just after 7 you don't have to pay much! Savannah again did not want to go near the water so Tom went hoping to get her interested but with no luck. She did finally get in the tidal pools and had a blast playing daddy, nemo ball and the water! She was hillarious to watch because she was being so creative coming up with different ways to play in the water. After we had been there for about an hour, she just got out of the water and said "ready to go" and headed for the car. We had to stop her so we could get our stuff, she is so funny when she gets her mind set on something, she goes with it! We got some good pictures as you can see!

What a beautiful creation, how amazing is our God!

Look at that face anticipating the splash!

Looks like a game of splash chicken, who will go first?

Daddy is so proud of his future soccer star! He even taught her a goal celebration already complete with a high fives and a chest bump!
Kissing the water!

She decided it was fun to help daddy kiss the water like she did....

...and then have this response!

This is the best that we could get Savannah to stand still to take the picture.

We also got her little baby pool that my parents gave her last year out on Sunday afternoon and she really enjoyed playing in the water as well. It has been really hot in the sun so she enjoys playing and cooling off in the water. She even asked to play in the water this morning so it might be a regular thing for a while!

She has also been asking about hearing the baby's heart and loves going to the Dr. appts. with me. We have on at the end of the week and she has already asked me several times to hear the baby's heart! Isaiah is getting bigger and we are now at 31 weeks! Won't be long before this little ones makes his arrival!

31 weeks and still carrying a basketball!

Just wanted to give a Go Redwings shout out for Tom, they are in the Stanley Cup again with the Pittsburgh Penguins, I know, I know I don't know a thing about hockey but Tom loves it and he is very excited that they are up 2-0 so far in the series!

This last pictures was taken at 2:30am after we had to both get up and tend to the dog's tail. She must have had a few bug bites or something on it and she has chewed at it so bad that it is raw and red and really nasty. I woke up to go to the bathroom at about 2:30 (no suprises there) and I heart her chewing on it, so I woke up Tom and we cleaned it again, put neosporin on it and wrapped it with a baby washcloth. It didn't excatly stay well so we are in search of a new way to wrap it to keep her from chewing on it but needless to say Tom was not happy about having to get up for the dog. He will do it for Savannah and for Isaiah once he is here, but the dog, come on, we all like our sleep!

Weekend in NC

For Memorial Day weekend we took a trip to NC to see Grammy and Poppie, Aunt Jayne, Uncle Jason and of course baby Harrison! We had a great time and ate some great grilled out food! It was nice to be able to enjoy time with family while remembering why we have the freedoms that we do. It is all because of the sacrifice of so many that we are free and we are grateful for that. Here are a few pictures of the weekend.

This is a cute breakfast and lunch spot in downtown Kernersville where we enjoyed breakfast with Jayne, Jason and Harrison Monday morning before we left!

Grammy and Poppie with their grandchildren, they were so happy!

Looks like we are quickly adding to our numbers!

I could just eat up Harrison, he is just so happy and cute ALL the time! I love this look of excitement, he had it all weekend I think, what a cutie! I think Savannah overwhelmed him at times because she wanted to play with all of his toys at once and he was a little taken back at first but then enjoyed having all his toys out!

Aunt Jayne doing this little piggy.

We went to cookout for lunch (Tom loves the milkshake options and the hushpuppies, except this time he got a cheerwine float and said it was delicious). Look at big girl using a knife and fork!

They were so cute playing together!

Just makes you smile!

In other news, we bought this couch and loveseat from craigslist last week and they look great with our red wall in the living room, gotta love craigslist finds!

I was also treated to a pedicure by my mother which was great (I think it was our wedding when I last had one, coming up on 5 years in a few months). We were also able to spend some time with my good friend Shanna who is expecting about 3 weeks after us, we are excited to meet little baby Ashley (they don't know what they are having, their last name is Ashley).