Cool Cars Race Track

Oh it was like Christmas morning... Grandpa and Grammy had given the boys a present while they were in town (more on that later) and man alive, you'd have thought it was Christmas morning. As much as Matthew loves his trains and track... he hasn't built a single track since these cars were unwrapped and set up. What was funny is that I'm not sure who had more fun with them last week... Mark and Matthew or Uncle Brian! Uncle Brian happens to be the BEST engineer you see. Matthew has said more than five times now that he NEEDS Uncle Brian to help me. I am not doing a great job of track building. Today it took a while to get the split in the track going the way it needed to go to make the loop work... bah! It's beyond me. But they love it. We sat in the play room today for a lengthy time, Mark being a tunnel for the cars to pass under and Matthew and I working the tracks out. We have discovered that the little cars can push balls on the tracks. So now it's funny to see what else they can push and what makes them crash... any how, here are some of the first pictures of these new cool cars.

Oh yah, and I did I mention that they are even
super fun to play with at night... in the dark....

pictures at stone mountain

Jennifer has done it again. Thank you thank you thank you. She has captured some sweet memories and precious moments of my family loving on each other this past weekend at Stone Mountain. Here's a small sample. If anyone in the area needs a photographer, I'm telling you, she's it!

pass the peas

This is what we think of peas...

He wasn't a fan.

But he sure is cute!

Transi-TION! Trans-ition!

(To the Fiddler tune of "Tradition!")

I wrote this post in my head about two weeks ago but never got the time to get it up on here. My mom informed me yesterday that my blog was lacking updates... And I realized I blew right past Halloween without an update or the fact that we've had a pretty cool "guest" living with us for a while. Papa (Jamie's dad) has been staying with us Sunday evenings through Friday mornings for the past several weeks. If you remember, I'd posted about Papa's visit back in September. Well, that visit was an interview that turned into an offer and a job! So Jamie's parents will be moving to the Atlanta area soon. In the mean time, while they are putting their house in Charleston on the market and all that, Papa has been traveling back and forth, working here and staying with us, and then driving back home on the weekends. It has been a cool transition on our end. We know that they have a lot going on and a lot to accomplish with moving from one state to another, but we've been thrilled to have so much extra Papa time! The boys LOVE when he's here! With thanksgiving around the corner... I just can't help but be totally and wonderfully blessed with the amount of family surrounding me this year. I love it. I love having Jamie's dad here. I love the knowledge that both Jamie's parents will be close by soon enough. I love our family. We can't wait to get Grandma up here to join in the fun too., we miss her!

Fall Fun

The weather has been just gorgeous lately so we've been enjoying more time outside before we're forced to stay indoors due to the cold that is creeping closer day by day. We normally just chalk. My boys could spend days out there chalking up the driveway, but today Matthew decided he wanted to rake the leaves. I, of course, find nothing wrong with this plan... I stroller-ed Micah and gave Matthew the rake. He got a decent size pile, then the raking was called off, and the jumping began! I so love lovely fall days.

Mark, not to be outdone, needed his turn.

stopping to watch an airplane...