Grandma Kirkland

If you ever wanted to feel good about life, you just had to call Grandma. Whenever I called I was greeted with a "hello sweetheart."

Nothing ever seemed too bad when you talked to grandma about it.

She just made life seem so easy.

She loved people - being around them and building them up.

When we would visit, we would spend hours playing games with her.

She would even let us eat chocolate cake for breakfast.

I am so grateful for for humble, sweet, fun-loving and spunky attitdue.

What an example she is - even though she never thought so.

We will miss her.

Baseball Boy

This kid loves " po-ball" like nothing else. It is so cute. Ironically this is the one sport that I have hopes that my children will never play. Nine innings lasts forever! But, if he plays, I am sure I will love it. He does look cute in a hat!

Cause and Effect

Can you guess what these pictures are.... It is our NEW HOUSE! New to us, that is! As you can see we are busy ripping it apart. That picture the kitchen was taken right before we took all of that out! Once we put everything back it, we will post beautiful pictures so you can stop feeling bad for us that our new house looks like a dump. We are really excited about having a little ( literally ) home of our own!

As we are waiting for everything to be finished, we are staying at my parent's house. It has been so nice to have a place to stay that is not under constuction. However, it has thrown Ryan for a loop. He was SUCH a great sleep befire we came here. He was in bed with no fuss at 7 everynight. But now we are at Grammy and Grandpa's fun house with tv and big boy beds and tons of attention. Sleep is not on the priority list. One night last week, I spent 3 hours trying to get this kid in bed. I used all of the tricks; laying next to him, the super-nanny put back in bed tactic, I even put a child-proof knob on his door. But he got that right off. What a kid.

Whie we are looking forward to moving into our new place, I am so not looking forward to breaking these horrible sleep habits! Although it will be nice to have 7:00 bedtime again!