To our wonderful friends Lauren and Krayton......we Love you guys!!!!


and I thought you'd appreciate this one Lauren....he still won't let me brush them though

One step forward...two steps back...

It could be worse.....that is what I was telling myself on Saturday. This New Yorker has not endured too many tropical storms......snow storms yes, but the snow never came in the house, and that is what the rain did on Saturday. As most of you may know we have this wonderful master suite that we basically designed when purchasing our new house, we hadn't yet moved into it (we've been using the closet and bathroom but we're not sleeping in it) because we still had some things that needed to be done first that were expensive so we were waiting (we have the old master that we've been staying in so we weren't really in a rush). Anyways EJ had plans Saturday morning so he was up bright and early only to discover that our closet was soaked...no biggie we just pulled up the carpet, pulled out the shop vac and sucked up the water. I thought that was the end of it until I went to do laundry and saw two inches of water in the laundry room which was then running under the wall into the bathroom. Once again we just sucked it up, but the rain didn't stop, it kept pouring in. The real trouble started when the power went out because then we couldn't use the shop vac so we were manually scooping up water, we were filling a 5 gallon bucket in less than 5 minutes, this went on for several hours. Luckily EJ didn't give up because I definitely did a few times. What we are even more grateful for is the great friends that God has surrounded us with: David was running all over town (in the storm) looking for a generator and water pump, Mark and Carl were helping EJ scoop water and Kim was watching Gabe so I could help clean up and Kailee cooked for us on Sunday. It was a hectic weekend and we never would have been able to do it on our own. So needless to say we have a little more work to do now before we can move into the master suite.

I don't have pictures of our flooding incident but I do have this picture of Gabe eating one of his new fav's!



I've been wanting to be more crafty so while I was in NY my mom and I went to Jo Anns and I found this fabric that I loved so decided to make some pillows with it, well actually my mom made these pillows, which doesn't make me very crafty if my mom does it :-) I really wanted to do it but I ran out to time up there. So for my first real project I want to make a shower curtain....should be easy I just have to find some fabric that I like!

We're Back

We're back in Tally. EJ joined us the last 5 days and the week seemed to fly by, I didn't really get to do all that I wanted while he was there but nonetheless we had a good time. We had a EJ and Shannon day which was fun, we went to the zoo walked around downtown and enjoyed some very yummy restaraunts, if you are ever in the Syracuse area, Bangkok Thai is delicious (I've been craving it ever since we ate there) I either forgot or just never realized how many restaraunts are in the Syracuse area and such a variety...I think we could eat at a different place every day for 3 or 4 yrs. Our last day we took EJ blueberry picking, he had never been and I wanted some blueberries to bring home w/us, I think EJ was a fan.....I'm not sure who ate more while we were there Gabe or EJ.

We also were able to spend a little time w/EJ's dad and Katherine who were in the area for a reunion. We had breakfast then walked along the beach and watched Gabe chase the birds, it was a nice visit.

I also was able to see Audrey and meet her little bundle of joy Zachary....he was so tiny and cute! It will be fun watching the two of them play together when Zachary is older

Audrey, Rich and the little man

Gabe wasn't cooperating for the family pic, this was the best of the bunch

Tractors and Blueberries!

What a busy day for the little man, we started off the morning blueberry picking which I was very excited about and Gabe loved running all over the place! Then me, my mom and Gabe went to the beach for a little bit...he didn't go in far but he had fun in the water. I think Gabes favorite part of the day might have been going to visit Papa at work because he got to ride in the big tractor and if there is one thing I have learned from this trip it is that Gabe loves the big trucks, tractors and the golf cart!! Every morning when we go outside he runs right to the golf cart, not sure what I'm going to do when we get home...we might have to invest in one :-) Well I just thought I would share some of the cute pics I got from the day!!

On his way out to pick those blueberries!

I emptied his bucket into the larger bucket we had...he's wondering where they all went :-)

He was hired for the day...we're just waiting on his paycheck!

This picture didn't come out so good because of the reflectors on my dads vest but I love the look on Gabe's face (very excited to be in the truck)

Week One

We have already been in NY a week, time has gone by fast but we have really enjoyed our visit so far! The weather has been great....Gabe can't get enough, I swear he would live outside if I'd let him. He's probably not going to be too happy w/me when we get back to FL because it's too hot to be outside as much. Here are a couple pictures from last week