Grant is here

Grant was born at 12:56 pm on 11-11-11. He is 7 lbs and 11 ounces. He is 20.25 inches. He scored a 9 and a 9 on the Apgar.

Today is Veteran's Day. Grant is named after his great-grandfather Grant. Grant was a WWII vet. His plane was shot down. The Nazi's took him prisoner. He was in a POW camp and had to go on forced death marches until he was eventually freed by American forces. Terry and I used to sit at his and Nana's dinner table on Sundays and hear him tell us of his experiences in WWII. He was not only Terry's grandfather, but more a grandfather to me than any one else! We are proud to name our son after him and proud that this could happen on Veteran's Day when we remember Papa's sacrifices for us! We love both our Grants.

Halloween 2011

Levi wears a tie

Levi wore a tie for the first time today. While I was getting dressed this morning he approached me with one of my ties. I got him one that would better match his shirt and tied it far down on the thick part. He had an awesome giant knot, but it fit well. He looked great at stake conference this morning. Baby Grant should be born soon. So, stay tuned!

Sadie's 6th Birthday

Sadie's First Lost Tooth

Levi's 3rd Birthday

Thanks to my very dear friend, Debbie Stafford, for creating the cake Levi loved!

First Day of School

Sept. 6, 2011

Eliza starts Second Grade and Sadie starts Kindergarten,

Horricane Irene

Last Saturday our home in Virginia was hit by Horricane Irene. My children aren't big into saying "hurricane;" they prefer "horricane." The horricane blew down lots and lots of trees and power lines. It was amazing to see the trees in our backyard blowing back and forth. Here is a picture of the major damamge at our house. Luckily, Super Levi came to my rescue and removed Horricane Irene's biggest piece of damage from on top of me. Here are some pictures of trees on power lines I took from my car.

I took some other pictures with my phone, but I need to figur out a way to resize them so that I can text them to myself.

We never lost power for longer than 5 seconds. That means we are in the 25% that never lost power in the Richmond area. While I am writing this we still have 50% of the region without power. We have been watching DVDs, because we just moved and have not had phone, cable or internet set up at our new house. We have some wonderful company at our house and they more than make up for no internet. We have been having a history marathon. First, we watched the conspirator. Now, we are almost halfway through the John Adams mini series from HBO. Anyone have Band of Brothers so we can borrow it?

When I got in the car this morning they were talking about another aftershock to the earthquake last week. Does it count as an aftershock if you can't even feel it when you are awake? By the way, my in-laws had foundation damage from the earthquake last week. Have I ever told you how I prefer earthquakes to hurricanes. You have to clean up after both, but you have to stress about hurricanes for a week ahead of time. Not cool.

Levi is getting ready!

Levi is getting ready to be a big brother. He is practising! Little P. is hard to feed, so I am sure Terry is happy for the help!

Lizie's 7th Birthday

Free Chick-fil-A Day!

Yesterday was free Chick-fil-A Day! Anyone who dressed up as cows got a free entree or meal. It all depended on how dressed up they were! We printed off the official costumes from the website and donned them and, as a family, received $25 worth of free food!!! Yum-Yum! Thank you Chick-fil-A!!! Here are Eliza and Sadie meeting the "Princess Cow."

Cruisin' the Bahamas

Terry and I went on a cruise, courtesy of my parents, the first week of May. We sailed out of Jacksonville, Florida on the Carnival Fascination on a seven night voyage through the Carribean! We stopped in Nassau, Half Moon Cay and Grand Turk. We had a blast. The only problem was that Terry was pregnant and didn't have a ton of energy for a ton of stuff.

We loved getting sample jewlery from the jewlery stores. The dining room was a lot of fun. We ate our hearts out there every meal we could! The beach at Half Moon Cay was so beautiful...neither of us had ever been to anything like it in our life. The pictures were taken from inside a waterproof bag, so they ended up too iffy to enjoy. Sorry!