It's been a while

It's been a full month so far. Here is a bit of what we've been up to.

Getting tatoos. We're glad our employees have such a positive influence on our kids!!


Perfecting the Faux Hawk. And while he's at it--learning to crawl. Yes, that's right. For all practical purposes, my 5 1/2 month-old is mobile. It's more like an inch worm move than a crawl but if he is on the floor he is definitley going some where.


Praying. Okay, actually she was watching Veggie Tales but there's a prayer in there some where. =)

It's almost done

The remodeling is almost done. Michael, Jimmy and a few others have been working miracles in our place. So far they have demolished the kitchen, both baths and ripped out all the flooring. They re-routed plumbing and electricity, rebuilt walls, textured and painted. This week they laid the tile in the kitchen and are tiling the bath as we speak, or type, whatever!

I decided these are the last house pics I am going to post unitl it's done because I think it will be fun to unveil the final product. But for now...

An artist emerges...


This is Jimmy. He is a miracle. He is a customer at the shop who took it upon himself to help rebuild our house. He has worked hours on end with Michael everyday for the last month. It is difficult to put into words how much this has meant to us because without his help we'd be looking at a move in date of 2008!!


Austin is not afraid to get his hands dirty either!


Sneak peak -- which room do you think this is?

Elia, Austin and I went to Ft. Worth to celebrate Jude's 4th birthday. It was chaotic kid craziness and it was tons of fun! Erin and Josh are lucky enough to have made friends with some really neat couples that also have young kids. Since we don't have too much of that here in Austin it was cool for me to experience being around a lot of families. Elia and Austin had a blast as you can see...

Austin co-chillin' with Jett


Beautiful Mom


The kids enjoyed pizza and the most Incredible cake I've ever seen!


Josh and Mike manned the Incredible pinata and all the kids went candy crazy when it busted...


JJ supervised, or shall I say refereed, the most action-packed game of Duck, Duck, Goose you've ever seen...

Sillyness