Here are just a couple of shots from some fun stuff we have been doing!

Happy Eden at the Porter Peach Festival.  We got to watch a really old fashioned parade...it was really great.

Payton and Clay in their shades watching the Shiners in their little "funny" cars.

Eden loves Black beans and tomatoes!

Another mess - Eden decided that these inpatients were not growing too well and pulled them out mud and all.  She was a mess from head to toe!!!

Date #2 & #3

Here are a couple of the date updates.

Date #2 was dinner and dessert at our local hang out  - Riverwalk.  We had dinner at Ale Haus outside area.  We people watched, which is one of our very favorite pass times and has been since before marriage.  We stole a couple of kisses and then went and had some coffee at Kaffe Bona.  The photo of me with my coffee is pretty special because one, I am pouring over my new kindergarten curriculum for Payton and I to do for home school this year.  Secondly it was one of the last regular bad for me coffees I will probably indulge in without feeling tremendous guilt or consequences for after drinking it.  (Read the previous post - Coffee is very ACIDIC and something that I cannot have!)

Date #3 was a trip to the movies with Baby Eden.  She had a little virus for a couple of days with the only symptom being a fever.  So it being a Monday evening we decided to take her with us to see Get Smart.  We thought she would simply sleep through the movie since she was not feeling well.   We were SO wrong.  She was feeling much better by half way through the movie and would not sit still, wanting to walk everywhere.  We ended up leaving. Needless to say, there were no photos taken on this wonderfully worthless evening.

Well my photos won't post for some reason.  I will try and get them into the next one.

Grace and Peace

H

Health Nuts

So we have been a tad bit busy around here and one of the things that we have been attempting to hurdle is our health.  In general we thought we were doing really great on the health matters around our house.  However, we learned that we were failing miserably.  Clay and I both went and had DBA's - Dried Blood Analysis done this past month.  If you have never had this done we highly recommend it.  It was like we were going to a fortune teller.  She sat us down, asked us our name and squeezed some of our blood out onto a slide and looked at it under a microscope.  As soon as she peered into the microscope she began to spout off all the problems and ailments that we have at this current time and have dealt with through the years.  It was amazing.  Apparently we have severe full body yeast issues, very acidic blood, tissue and saliva due to what we have been eating, and are very low in minerals.  I'm also sensitive to wheat ( so all that personal wheat grinding here at the house that I thought was wonderful for me has been so terrible on my system). :)  She loaded us up on supplements and some simple diet changes.  Simple but hard all at the same time, no sugar, no bread, no yeast, no bad carbs after lunch.  By diet, I mean a change of diet and behavior for the rest of our lives, not something that we do for just a bit and then go back to the way of eating.  We have been doing this for roughly 3 weeks and feel great!!  Better than I have felt in years and have lost around 7ish lbs already!!!  On top  of eating habits changing, we have both added some activity to our regimen. Clay had gone prior to visiting with this DBA lady and purchased a commuter bike for back and forth to work.  He is commuting approximately 3 times a week to work and home.  It is about a 25 mile ride round trip.  He is LOVING it!!! And has lost a good amount of weight as well.  I have joined our local gym and get there when I can to take some time for taking care of my self and watching a little mind numbing TV.

Back from M.I.A.

Hello!!!!

Well I am back from a lovely hiatius and I have way too much to say and not enough time to say it. The photo I placed on the title was taken tonight in our front yard. I just love it. For those of you who don't know...no we have not married in another wife, that is Kaytie Jo our roomate of three years. She is great, like a sister to me and the girls and to Clay too in one sense. We fell in love with a similar photo that is found on one of the photo sites that I just adore and we had to dulplicate it for ourselves. Here are a few more to share with you!

As far as what has been going on I will have to blog and share from the mac and I am on the pc. The mac has most of our photos from the on goings around here.

Grace and Peace

~holly

Happy 10!

Happy Anniversary too us!  This is our 10 year anniversary month.  Our actual date is the 31st but we are going to celebrate for 10 weeks total starting yesterday!  That is my gift to Clay; 10, once a week dates without children.  I know that doesn't sound like a big deal to most of you but to us it is a HUGE deal.  We basically believe in attachment parenting for at least the amount of time that our children are still nursing. Well Eden is still nursing and so that means we have not been anywhere without her for over a year now.  It was grand - however, we didn't know what to do with ourselves and we almost forgot how to carry on a real conversation. 

So here is a synopsis of our first date.  

Picnic at Woodward park - Crostini & Muffuletta Antipasto & smoke cheddar cheese with water.  We people watched, ate, I read aloud, laid and watched squirrels, planned vacations and stole a couple of kisses.

Dessert at Shades of Brown Coffee Shop - A grasshopper for the Mr. and a Prague Mocha for the Mrs.  We sat and people watched for a good hour.  This is one of our favorite pass times is to people watch, it must be in our genes because Payton is a serious people watcher as well. :O.

Then back home to the kiddos.  We are both still beaming today  from our great date.  It was kind of like our first date, because never had a "first date".  We were friends for several years and always knew we were the ones.  We basically courted and then just fell right in love.  

I will try and document our dates as they happen over the next nine weeks!

Until then ....Grace and Peace

h

Harvest!

Here is some harvesting that I did today!!!  We have a ton of carrots and onions that came out of the ground and one lonely tomato.  There are many more to come and I forgot to take a picture of the beautiful and incredibly long green beans I pulled as well.

Oh I LOVE fresh eating from the garden.

Happy Food!

Joy and laughter!

Oh my goodness!  Isn't she beautiful?  When I took this shot of Payton it sent me into the future about 1o years.  She looks so mature and brilliant in this shot.  I just had to share.

The other day I was doing laundry and left the room for half a second and came back to find E.G. in this position!  She is a little monkey these days.  But isn't she cute.  I think all of us probably have a pose similar to this one in our pasts.  However, it does scare the poohey out of me and from now on the dryer door will remain shut unless I am standing next to it.