No Camera :-( No Pictures :-(

well you definitely never realize how much you love and use your camera and computer....we have had trouble with both. so i can give you all the new news in our lives, but there are no pictures to back it up, i apologize. for some people that is very important....eli will not even look at a book with out pictures!
well the construction on the house id finished! it is wonderful, its like living in a whole new house! the boys love love love it! so much more room to run around and be crazy. so we made it basically into a playroom/sitting room/den type room.which is great, all the toys seem to stay in that room for the most part and i dont have to go in that room, unless i want to...the next project will be to finish the drywall, sand it down and paint (Japanese Fern Green), finish the windows and repaint one kitchen wall that was torn out, but first we must finish the nursery!
the nursery will officially be started this weekend after all our trick or treating business is said and done! any volunteers would be appreciated!
we went to the kids first halloween party and they had a blast! they were so cute in their costumes, again pictures would help....
we went to a pumpkin patch on sunday....and i tell you what, they are no comparison to the pumpkin patches in california (thats sorta hard to compete with).....the kids had fun but it is not at all what i was expecting! it had everything that the website said it would have, just the delivery and presentation was not at all like the fall time festival that i had pictured in my head, but they had fun!
maybe sometime in the near future i will be able to post pictures....maybe some one will send me some pictures from all these events we have been going to.....i guess we will have to see. i may be taking a disposable camera into the delivery room when jack decides to make his entrance...lets hope not!

House Construction...halfway done!

this WAS the garage door....now its two 7 foot windows that light up the whole room....an incredible difference it looks great from the outside as well, but I am still in my PJs....dont think the neighbors need to know me that well....

So very exciting for us...the guys are moving right along on the house...unfortunately I dont have a lot of "before" pictures of the garage door, but I think for those who have never seen it....if you close your eyes and imagine a wooden garage door....poorly hung, terrible wiring, an ugly security light, again poorly wired (and it would shake a lot when you opened and closed it) and the door itself was too small for the truck to go through without taking the mirrors off.....thats what it was before our brilliant idea.....we could turn this space into a room instead of a junk collection....perfect timing with a third boy in route. .

(garage view of kitchen wall)


(inside house view of kitchen wall)

When it is all said and done next week...this wall will be gone, connecting the kitchen and our newly finished garage turned new room....

Cope's Birthday!!!

troubled trio of threes....
up to no good I'm sure




I can not believe he is two! Two years already, they have gone so fast! It feels like just last week my water broke playing with Eli and Uncle Thomas had to come to the rescue while we went to the hospital to deliver him...and its been two years!
We had his party on Sunday at Cleveland Park, we had a lovely turn out. The kids had fun running around crazy and the adults were entertained with a game of drinking kickball that we happened to reserve a shelter right beside....go me! It was all in good fun though...Cope is very blessed with wonderful family and friends, he ran his little heart out trying to keep up with the three year old trio....they are unstoppable!!! We had delicious cake and he opened lots of fabulous gifts(they will look great in the playroom being added to the house as we speak i will try and get pictures up soon) courtesy of mommy, daddy,"li li", papa and "daw", "lee" and "bee daw" he got the mac daddy train table....almost impossible if we were not adding a new room, its huge!
It was a good time and to top it off...on his actually birthday, he went to "school" for the first time. I had a 3 hour doctor appointment and thought that would be no fun for a birthday boy. He loved it of course, you could tell he felt so special to go to school with big brother and stay until lunch. He got to play with all the little kids and I sent cookies for a special birthday snack! They even did a little art project, currently hanging on the front door!
Also added to super cool new gifts, the super loaded luxury tricycle courtesy of Papa C...it basically has everything....radio, blinkers, horn.....it does everything but drive itself. He is definitely high on the cool kid list right now!