*Goodbye to our 1st house!!*

WOW-- I feel like we have just closed a HUGE chapter in our lives. As of last week, we no longer own our first home. We sold it.. EXTREMELY bittersweet, i tell you!! Unfortunately, it wasnt sold to a sweet little family, but the good part is it took a little over 2 months and that's a huge blessing!
As i was looking thru pictures, i started getting choked up seeing all the work that has gone into that house! It went from white walls, to having yummy chocolate stripes in the living room, key lime yogurt colored kitchen, lexi's pink and green princess room,Quins raspberry and tangerine room and our relaxing beach themed room. It went thru many of Lexi's brithdays, Christmas, baby showers, Snoballs for my sister, and it was Quincey's first home. There are so so so many memories, sweat and tears put into that house. Here's some pictures to remember--

And if you're ever in the neighborhood there will ALWAYS be a piece of us there- when the cement was still wet, i carved :" KLL " (kat, luke, lexi) in the cement to the left of the garage door at the top of the driveway ;), and on the sidewalk in front of Miss Bev's house in the corner. We will always be there in spirit now!

*in what was lexi's bathroom*

*Grandpa, luke and lex putting in the backyard!*

*Halloween '06*

*Quincey's Baby shower*

*1st Day of school ' 07*

*Quin playing in the dirt days before we moved to GA- July '08*

*Lex and her BFF kylie hamming it up in front of our house*

Cheers to our first house and all the special memories we made there!! Now.. onto another chapter in our lives, and a new house for us here in Georgia!

Getting to know you..

Lex had a homework assignment to make a box and each side had something about her..
*her Fav color
*fav. animal
*her age
*fav place to go
*fav food

You could do anything.. so we covered each side of the box using scr
apbook paper and went from there using things we had around the house. Enjoy!

*Her Fav. food is Spaghetti and we used ribbon as noodles and cut out a fork out of a magazine. *

* Her Fav. Animal*

*Her Fav. Color*

*An empty side- we used colored feathers*

*Her age- we used candles *

*Her Fav. place to go and vacation*

I really think i had more fun making this than she did.. it was hard to not do it all by myself, but i had to let her do it ;)

This one's for you, Dad! We
went to a Rib place for lunch yesterday- Miss Quin LOVES ribs, but of course
her all time fav is still mac and cheese.

Labor Day weekend with the Bestie ...

Jess & Christian came up to see us this weekend! Here is our weekend in pictures-
*This tent goes WAY back! we played in it as kids, my mom saved it, re-vamped it and now Lex plays in it*

*mojitos at PF Changs*

*Mini Lucas*


*Somene soaked their pants- i PROMISE she was dry when she left for dinner! lots of water- Whats funny is Christian ALWAYS seemed to get her when her diaper was dirty. *

*Besties pool side- this is prior to Quin slipping backwards and hitting her head on the concrete. I picked her up, soaking wet in my white shorts, and my self tanner made my shorts look brown. I didnt figure that out until AFTER i'd ran to Target- someone probably thought i'd had an accident!*

*Quin sitting with her Uncle Christian and luke and Lex in pool*

*Grammy Wendy & Lex at Dinner*

*Lex and her Trademark pose for the last YEAR*

*Cheers to such a fun weekend!*

*She got a KICK out of Jess with her "NUM-NUMS"

We were all so tired this morning!!! we've bummed around the house all day, luke worked a few hours and we've all just been eating random things - popcorn for dinner ;0) Sound of Music is on now, so we're all watching that.I LOVE That movie!
Hope you all had SAFE weekends- for you West Coastie's school is about to start- good luck with that!!

**HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!**

Today is My mom's Birthday, so i wanted to do a post for her since we wont be able to spend it with her today!! Happy birthday, Mom! Cheers to a Beautiful mom,& Special Grandma! Sorry We cant spend today with you, but know that our thoughts are in Oregon!! I think we'll go to Brusters and have a little ice cream celebration of our own!!

Love your Georgia Peaches! .. Luke and Jewel too

A Morning Cleaning..

These are 2 of the pictures portraying our morning today!!

Luke had to go in early, after getting home at 2 am, and had to be at work at 10. i tell you, i NEVER know his schedule. I have this down comforter i've bene wanting to wash since we got here- but my washer when i put a comforter in it, leaks water everywhere.. i guess its too big of a load, so lucky me i get to go to the laundry mat to wash it.

Now, for those of you that dont know.. i think i may be the worlds BIGGEST germ - a -phob there is! Since i've moved here, i've had to let it not control me so much.. being in an apartment was hard enough.. roaches, etc etc. .. (oh, we'll get back to the roaches in just a quick second!)

SO, since luke had to work, i had no other choice but to take quin with me.. ahhhhhh! i bathed her for the day and we were off to the mat. i washed and dried it and washed 6 pillows as well, and of course, there was Bleach in every load ;) Quin must have touched EVERYTHING in there, the doors, the floors.. Oh my word! I kept thinking, why did i waste time bathing her, i'll just have to do it again when i get home!! I put the change in the washers and went to go use my hand Sani in my purse- NONE! i switched purses and i left it out! i have a HUGE thing of it in the car, heaven knows where that went to, and so i went for the back up in the diaper bag.. THATS GONE TOO! so, i thought,... well i can use wipes. I took them out at Bible study last night and forgot to put them back in.. !!!!

then, Miss Quin fills her drawers.. princess didnt get changed right away..

In front of the laundry mat, we did see this HUGE moth type thing. Its the size of my entire hand!

And.. Quin made use of her time by crawling in the stroller. Now if THAT isnt funny!

I unpacked this box in the girls room today- PAPA roach made his appearance, being the size of 3 quarters put together, and ALIVE! i was on the phone with my mom, and i THINK she may be deaf from me screaming. I threw my old Anatomy book on him ,after finding him under a flip flop. i thought he'd crawled into Quins bedding. I call my dad back to resume my phone convo. and try to multi- task by picking up the "DEAD" roach.. oh no.. the sucker started scurrying on the floor.. Dad got an earfull of screams and curses.. My poor parents, but i think it just reminds them of how drama-free their lives now are now that' we're gone ;)

i tried taking a pic of PAPA roach, but the camera wasnt working and i didnt DARE risk him coming back from the dead a 2 time.. my heart had enough racin for the night.

Fun & Games til someone gets hurt!!

Tuesday was our LAST day with the twins and their mommy.. They went back to England after being on a 5 wk vacation here- This was really the only friend i've made here that i hang out with on a regular basis, so dangit.. i'm friendless again ;) Kidding, really i am!
We took the kids to this place called Monkey Joes- its full of the bouncy toys that kids every age can use- Well, lex came to me after being there an hour crying. Now, she is the Queen of drama but i could tell something was REALLY wrong! there was RED welts on her neck. She proceeded to tell me some boy had CHOKED her!
Lord, have mercy, i wanted to find that kid and BEAT him down! he looked like the kid off of the movie Problem child- ya followin' me?! So, i find a referree to let them know what had happened and he TRIES confronting the kid. You could tell the kid was Freaked that he was caught and of course lies that he didnt do anything- and then TAKES OFF! His mom walks up and asks if there is a problem-
I'm furious, but try to act calm and collected. I tell her the problem and she freakin says to m e :" i'm not trying to make excuses for him, but he's never done this kind of thing before.
"Well, he might not of, but look at her neck, it has RED marks on it."
She asks her son if he did it and he turns into the EXCORCIST kid:"
(SCREAMING) " I didnt do anything to her!!", as he's burrowing his head into
his mom's chest. I keep watching this TRAINWRECK of a kid.. his mom just stands there RUBBING his hair and allowing him to scream. The kid had to be at least 8-
i could tell this wasn't going anywhere, and that the mom was such a sorry excuse for a mom, making excuses for him that she wasn't going to make him apologize for choking my child. By this point, i grabbed Lex's hand and walked away. I sat down at the table i was at, and watched this lady sit down and have her son sit on her lap while he moped and she rubbed his head feeding into his BULL for 30 min. !! Let me just tell you, if MY kid had pulled that, i would have made her apologize and we would have LEFT - how does a kid learn that its wrong if you let them stay?!
Here's the kicker.. these random ladies at my table told me the kids mom was a TEACHER! hmmmm. not at my school thank goodness. Let me also just say Jo from Super Nanny would NOT be impressed by her parenting skills.
I wanted to just whip out a taser and teach him a lesson of his own ;)Next time i go - i'll pack one in my purse. .. uh...

*Mrs. Jennifer with Quin*
(This chick is a SUPER mom, takes 3 kids to and from England Alone, thru airports,
and planned on taking the kids out on the town in NY on her layover!!.. She's got some gutts, i dunno how she does it!)

*Lex with the twins*

*Sisters, i just love this picture*

*Miss Lex looks like she's in Heaven- *

*Quin wasnt so sure about this at first but once she figured it out, she was unstoppable!*

*WHY do they put all the toys at kids level? Poor kid just wants EVERYTHING-
marketing, marketing, marketing. Didnt work for me,i dont buy that junk!*