Addison's Room

Here is the before and after pictures... I really like how the letters turned out after we painted them.

Addison's Crib

On Father's Day Paul put Baby Addie's crib together! What a special day to do so. I love the picture above with him smiling all big. He is so excited. It is so nice to have someone who is going to be so involved in this little girls life. I love you Babe! Thanks for being so wonderful!

Too cute

The night before they took off back home to Indiana, we unrolled all of these diapers that my wonderful friends made into diaper cakes for me, specificaly Cindy and Jamie! Thanks girls! I couldn't believe how many we ended up with! It took us 2 hours to unroll them so we put in a movie and started chattin' away!

The second picture is right before they left. I thought it was so cute I wanted to add it. I miss you guys!

Chest complete

Okay, so I did screw the knobs on! That was hard work! Here is the completed project with her first clothes going into her drawer. How tiny these newborn outfits are!

Grandma putting the chest together for her grandbaby Addie

While Paul's mom was visiting we decided to put the chest together for Baby Addie and how special for her grandma to assemble it! This was a lot of fun. Thank goodness Nancy is good at this kind of thing, because who knows what it would have looked like if I had done it!

Roubidoux River

Checking out the river and the park. What a fun day!

Nancy and Ava's Visit June 5-10!

Here are some shots of my wonderful mother-in-law, Nancy, getting love from Isabell, my baby neice Ava finding a pitcher of water entertaining, Ava eating and smiliin', Nancy at the river trying to get Ava to come join us.

It was so nice to have them come visit with me and keep me company while Paul attended class in Virginia. It was nice to have some alone time with my mother-in-law too and get all of the baby tips that I can. I really got lucky getting a good one! She feels like a mom to me! Thanks Nancy for coming out to hang out with me!!! I had so much fun.

More site seein'

Seein' some sites

Even though we just got here we got to see some sites, right?! Here is the Frog Xing. This is a rock in the side of a hill painted like a frog as you can see. Here is my Dad in Illinois where Lewis & Clark departed for thier adventure out West. World's largest Rocker! It is made of metal...guess they opted not to use wood for this build!

Making it ours!

Empty...not anymore! Hanging blinds was top priority as you see my Dad and Paul both working feverishly on installing! I will blog more pictures of how it looks now...a bit more together!

New house

The dogs gotta check things out too!

Missouri!

Now, after all of the visiting family and friends all over the country, here we are pulling up to our brand new house in Waynesville, Missouri. Yes, totally different area than VA Beach! But change is good, right?! This was May 29, 2008. So exciting! I was thinking 'I hope we make friends fast!' and that my baby girl will get to have a brand new home! My honey did a good job picking it out! Thanks Babe!

Memorial Day Cookout

We were just going to have a 'small' cookout on Memorial Day. It was nice hanging out with my family...and of course eating!!! Doris--I am going to have to make more ranch potato salad, that stuff was good!

More shower pictures...

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the shower. Starting at the top left is my Grandma with me and my sisters, Hayley and Hillary, my Dad's girlfriend Doris fixing my shower hat out of my bows and ribbons, me just opening gifts (such fun!), my sisters Hayley and Hillary make a heart on my belly (I love this picture!), my cousin Heather and I with our Grandma Billie Ruth...Heather is 3 weeks ahead of my in her pregnancy with a little girl (so there are 3 generations in this picture), again my Grandma Billie Ruth, Nanny Elaine, and my Grandma Fay (a picture with all of my grandmas!), and last but not least my Grandma Fay feeling Baby Addie kick. What a fun time!!!

My Sister, Hillary's, Baby Shower she threw me in TN!!!

Here are some pictures from my shower my sister Hillary threw for me in TN. It was absolutely beautiful. The theme was the same as Addison's nursery, a garden theme with yellow, pink, purple, and green. She had candles in these colors on all of the tables with butterflies hanging for decorations. The cake was amazing too! Thanks Brandon for all of your hard work...my sisters boyfriend, does amazing cakes that are not only beautiful, but delicious!!! Everything was delicious and I couldn't believe how much stuff my litle girl, Addison, got! Thank you Hillary!!! It was amazing. You out did yourself girl and I can't believe you have never done this before! It was so much fun!

Holly

Here I am with my best friend from TN...since 5th grade! It was nice to hang out as much as we did and get caught up on all of the new happenings in our lives.

Visiting TN

Here are a few miscellaneous pictures while visiting family in TN. My cousin's little boy Jaxson, Great Aunt Barbara, Grandma Fay, cousins Forrrest and Randell and my Grandpa Randall. It was nice to see everyone!

24 weeks

Here I am at 24 weeks. It is not he best shot, but you can certainly tell I...WE...are getting bigger! Over half way there!

Our last day...GIRLS' LAZY DAY!

Here we are our last day. We decided to have a girls lazy day while Dave was at work and Asa was at school. We watched a movie in the living room, blew up the air mattress, and got all cozy...after getting the BEST chocolate milkshakes from Jack N the Box! Of course Jacob got to hang with us! I couldn't stop holding him! This was a lot of fun. Keltners thanks for having us. It was nice to see you all, where you guys live now, and to met your new addition...Jacob!

Asa and Jacob

Look at how tiny Jacob was and how big Asa is getting! I remember when Asa wasn't much bigger than this! Time sure does fly!