Play Time!

So serious!

Mad!

Concentration!

and switch!

"vrooom!"

uh oh!

Cute butt.

He has to have his pick!

On the school bus going to the corn maze with the youth. Eli loves to ride the school bus!

BJ had a great time in Colorado! Here are some pictures he took while staying with our dear friends, the Serdels!

Sweet Addelynn

She is 19 months.

Addy giving her mama some love!

What's a trip to Colorado Springs without a visit to Garden of the Gods?

Apparently Mackenzie (she's 3) has a thing for gloves like Eli. Except she wears 2 and Eli prefers the Michael Jackson LOOK...

Snow on Pike's Peak

BJ holding our God-daughter's hand. Apparently she was pretty smitten with Uncle BJ.

I can't blame her! : )

You can read about Mackenzie's DIY haircut HERE.

Getting some Addy love!

This video is seriously one of the cutest things I've ever seen. If you don't smile from ear to ear watching it there is something wrong with you! You'll want to first go down and click pause on my pop out player before you click play on the video. ENJOY!

Eli Starts Preschool in the 3 Year Old Class

Wow! I can't believe that September is here already! Today Eli started preschool. He has a new classroom and 2 new teachers. We went to open house yesterday and he was very upset when it was time to leave. He was so excited about going back this morning! There are lots of new toys in the 3 year old room that he likes. He was very interested in playing with a little toy vacuum. He must have had a great time on the playground because when I picked him up he was all sweaty!

Standing next to the cross in the courtyard.

He went straight to the vacuum!

All his friends from the 2 year old room are there. "Hi Percy!"

He even had homework that we enjoyed doing together:

Mast General Store

Monday was Toby's first birthday. We celebrated in the morning with blueberry pancakes!

Then we hopped in the car and headed up to Valle Crucis. Our first stop was Mast General Store.

This has become one of our favorite hangouts since we moved to North Carolina! We first visited the original store in Valle Crucis back in May of 2008. We took some beautiful, winding back roads from Linville to Valle Crucis and stumbled upon it.

The back porch is the perfect place to hang out! Often they will have some old guys in overalls playing their banjos back there.

Inside is a huge toy aisle!


Lots of great toys for wild boys!

Local honey and molasses...
The candy barrel is wonderful!

I put the rest of the pictures from our day in a smilebox album. Toby is wearing two different outfits in them because his daddy let him fall in some mud underneath a swing. : )

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