Lucky ducks

Quack Quack Quack. oh I got one, said pappy,your turn sammy. Quack Quack Quack Quack, oh man said sammy,it was a red lucky duck, and get it eliot get it. Eliot grabbed it and said there now thats perfect. Quack Quack Quack Quack, yay said grandma.

Lucky ducks

Finally! Some more pictures!

So much has been happening in the last two months since my last post! The biggest news is that we're having another baby!!! The due date is Thanksgiving day, Nov 23rd! We are just about at the halfway point already!! Adrian and I have decided to wait until delivery to find out the baby's sex since this is our last baby and our last chance to be surprised in the delivery room!

Addison fishing on Lake Purdy!

The boys are growing up so fast!! Addison is preparing for first grade starting on August 9th. He is excited about meeting new friends and being in school again. Most of his free time this summer has been either in our backyard pool or reading up on the weather in birmingham and different places across the US! He is planning to be a meteorologist when he grows up. Storms, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes fascinate him!

Sammy loves ribs! Can you tell???


I can't believe Sammy is starting preschool this fall, too! I found a great preschool very close to the elementary school. I think he will love it! We toured about five different preschools and he agrees that this one is the best! Sammy is still a Star Wars fanatic! He spends his time playing with his Star Wars toys, reading Star Wars comics, and talking about the Star Wars toys he would still ike to have! He is also a great Daddy's helper! On the weekends he loves hanging out in the garage with Daddy and doing "guy" stuff!

Watch out for cool guy Elioty!!

Eliot is growing up the fastest, it seems. At night when I check on them before I go to bed, I just stand and stare in amazement at how big he is getting. He is one tough guy, too! He loves to wrestle and play with Sammy and Addison. Sometimes I can't believe how he can hold his own with his brothers! The best part is that he still like to cuddle! Almost every day I get to sit with him in the rocking chair and just hold him with his binky, blankie and curious george! Those are the moments that being a mommy is all about!

The family at AL Adventure! We had a blast!

As far as the family as a whole goes, we are doing incredibly well! The weather has been beautiful and hot lately. But, with our pool in the backyard we stay pretty cool! We have settled in for the most part. The unpacking that we have left to do is pretty minor stuff, we just have to keep finding the motivation to keep going. So, since we are unpacked now, we are ready and excited to have guests! There's lots of fun stuff to do and see here in and around Birmingham! So, I am inviting you all to visit anytime! Just let us know so we can be prepared!!

Here are some pictures we've taken recently...


No need to panic! The firemen are on their way!

We had a donut party at the zoo on Sammy's birthday!

Lookout! It's Mr Hollywood!

Sammy a.k.a. Evel Knievel!!

cookie monster eating the phone

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where phone. oops

Alabama Adventure

This is a picture of me going down a slide, and splashing into the water. I got my face all wet, because i was on my tummy. Then i went up to do it again.

This is me going down again, and i can't beleve that we went to alabama adventure. it was fun.

This is me on a airplane, and it was really fun. I loved alabama adventure, and i was high so high, because it is a airplane.

This is eliot on a horsey, and it was fun, and it was great. I asked lets do it again? no mommy said. why? i asked to let other people get on ansered daddy.

this is me and sammy on a airplane, and it was fun, because it was great.

This is eliot and mommy. they are having so much fun at alabama adveture. They are riding a fire truck. They were behind us, daddy and sam were in the middle car, I was in the front car.

This is the little roller coaster, and it went like this zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmm. it was fast and little.

cookie monster eating the phone

Christmas eve to late for letter to santy claus anyway, so me call him. Uh lets see uh north pole area call. oh boy oh boy me get him on phone and say, hi santy claus cookie monster here, yeah that what me say. then me ask him to bring me cookies, and me ask him to bring me choclate fudge round choclate choclate cakes. Aaaaaaaammmmmwwwaaaa
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gasp. oh boy. Hello, hello. eeoperator hello, hello anybod. hello hello . uh uh he ring llo. me better send tellagram

Hawaiian Punch

Hawaiian Punch
By AddiSon

My name is AddiSon and I am 6 years old. I like to fghhjhjjjmhgjhn. My favorite color is purple, and my favorite book is the spongebobs.

I made this book for pretend.
nobody helped me write this story!

I'm gonna punch sammy in hawaii to make him turn to hawaiian punch. I was learning to punch him. PUNCH! Drip, drip, drip. SPLASH! I drinked the hawaiian punch, slurp slur SPLASH! One thing to do, punch daddy. PUNCH! Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. SPLASH, SPLASH!

easter by Addison

My name is addison and I am 6 years old. I like to easter egg hunt. My favorite color is red, and my favorite book is spongebob craby paddy.

I made this book for goojey.
nobody helped me write this story!

Tomorrow is easter, said addison. You're right, said sammy. Yes, said mom. Right, said eliot. Easter, said dad. Easter is fun, said addison. Yes, said sammy. We love easter presents, said eliot. At 7:55 addison, sammy, and eliot went to bed. Snore snore. The next day at 7:30 eliot woke up. He disappeared all of the easter presents. At 7:45 addison woke up. He made all of the easter presents come back. Addison saw what he got. He loved his presents. At 8:15 mommy woke up. She said, am i the third one to get out of bed. Yes, said addison. Then i want to have easter presents. You don't have some, said addison. At 8:50 daddy woke up. Easter, he said. Yes daddy, said eliot. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyandz. wow abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyandz wow you know all of your letters good job lets say zoom zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmm again zzzzzzooooooooommmmmmmm 1 more zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmm and zoom wow zoom PBS KIDS So whats for breakfast? Well candy. Candy yes yes. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyandz so.

me and leo and all the rest of my class

me and leo. leo is dancing with lily? AND YOU KNOW WHAT MAN! THIS IS ONE TEA PARTYCOME ON AND COME TO THE TEA PARTY CLAP CLAP CLAP THIS IS 1 tea party

Our New House!

We finally found a house!! We have a contract on it and had the inspection last weekend. Everything looks great; nothing major to worry about! I took the opportunity to snap lots of pictures of it, so I'll post some now for you all to see!! We are so excited! We settle on April 21st and take possession on the 25th. And we are planning to have the moving company deliver our stuff on the 28th! The house has 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, formal living and dining rooms, family room with fireplace, huge master suite with whirlpool tub, enormous screened in porch, very private fenced in back yard, finished basement with rec room and full bath, large garage big enough for 4 cars!! It's in a good school system and close to lots of shopping, but in a private development. So, here are some pictures...

3131 Somerset Trace, Birmingham, Alabama

Here's the back yard and view of the back of the house.

Here is the family room, dining area and kitchen!

This is the foyer. Straight back leads to the family room, to the left is the formal living room, and to the right is the formal dining room.

This is the formal living room. The current owners are using it as an office.

This is the formal dining room.

The kitchen has brand new stainless appliances!

The master bedroom

This is the rec room in the basement. There is also a large storage room and full bathroom in the finished part of the basement.

And this is the fabulous screened porch!!

So, this is our new house! And we invite everyone to visit (probably not all at the same time), as we will have lots of room!

Goin' to the zoo zoo zoo, how about you you you (Part 1)

Last week was the official opening of a new exhibit at the B'ham zoo. A rare albino alligator was shipped in from someplace - Florida, I think. Of course, we were there for this unique experience!

Apparently, this is among the world's rarest creatures. If born wild, this animal would likely have been eaten by another alligator or quickly found by a predator. One thing for sure, it is WEIRD! Check it out...



The place was a bit crowded since it was the first day of the exhibit. We did get in early with our zoo family pass. The public had to wait three hours. Membership has its privileges. Aside from the crowds, the gator didn't seem too well acclimated to its new home. He never moved from the pose you see. He will be at the zoo until the end of July, so maybe we can get eye to eye with it later! Hopefully, we can go with visitors!

It's hard to tell from the picture, but it's about six feet long, which makes it the second largest albino gater in the world!
According to a zoo helper, it's estimated value is $60,000!

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We made a day out of it and saw some stuff we hadn't done at the zoo before. For one, the boys had a lesson in digging for dinosaur bones in a huge sandbox. Here you can see us unearthing a T. rex skull!

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A nearby exhibit is the alligator research station. Out front is a hand pump which the boys got a kick out of. Also, there's an abandoned logging truck - Eliot decided to drive...

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Another treat was to touch, fondle, and in other ways cuddle up with some of nature's warmest and most lovable animals - reptiles! We got to handle pythons and gators. Other things were available that we wouldn't go near! Check out Addison touching the alligator. This baby will grow to be a full size gator some day - at the rate of about a foot per year. The skin of this one was a bit unusual, too. I found it interesting to compare the skin with my own. For the first time I had a real-life Pepsi Challenge to judge the veracity of the countless comparisons I have received over the years that I have "alligator skin". Conclusion: Unfortunately, I can't deny the similarity; I think I need to exfoliate and hydrate... Lubriderm, here I come!

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Sammy always finds a way to make us smile!

TO BE CONTINUED...

eating the pencil

dum de dum dum dum. Ok. Deeeaarr sssaaannta, ok now what do me ask for? Ee uh uh what else COOKIES! Oh yeah yeah yeah lets see uh two dozen coconut macaroons NO NO NO NO NO NO! Maybe pound and a half of delishous ferdylootins oh me getting so hungry crunch crunch me love cookies uh oatmeal cookies me ask for three dozen what the hay FOUR dozen oatmeal cookies. oh me love oatmeal cookies chomp chomp ooh ooh banana cookies or or broom cookies oh me love broom cookies crunch chomp ooh ooh chaclate marshmallow with jelly inside cookies ooh yeah me got to write that down where pencil?
the end
Addison