flowers for mom

Eleanor always picks me flowers - she is so sweet (and sometimes she is not!) But we do love our little Eleanor!

This one, however, has not learned any tricks from her sister yet! We hope to keep it that way!!! She is a doll baby!

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY XANDER!!!!!
This was his golden birthday - turning 10 on the 10th! He is such a great kid and I can't believe my little baby bug is double digits now!!!!

Eleanor enjoying the spoils of the evening!
Blowing out the 10 candles!!!!
Xander is really concerned about the environment and all about Virginia history and the Chesapeake Bay right now. He wanted a cardinal cake, since that is the state bird of Virginia. Not bad, not bad! I haven't totally lost my touch with cake decorating!!!! Happy Birthday Xander bug! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

Raking leaves

Is this bag #4,098?
Some work and some play makes for a better leaf raking day...
That doesn't look like a rake to me...

Savannah - at 9 weeks

Do I look like I belong to this family or what!?!

Savannah and Eleanor with the "big sister" hat her teachers at school made her - she wears it almost daily! Grama Annie had to laminate it so it didn't fall apart and she still dons it on a daily basis! She loves her little sister!

Such cute kids!

Garrett jumping into the pile....

Xander doing a kamakazi into the leaves!

Here's our cutie pahtootie "Savanny"

(as Eleanor calls her).

Happy Days are here again....

The Days are back in the blogging world! I tried to get all cute and sasssy with the background and ended up losing all my blogs and accidently creating a new one. I tried several times to figure it out and ended up frustrated and took a break....then it was time to get Jason back to work, the boys off to school and Miss Eleanor off to preschool for the first time and have our fourth child, Savannah Marie. I guess the blogging Gods took pity on my poor soul and sent the blogging gremlins to my aid, because I tried again and it worked! So, time to introduce Savannah to you and stop with all these words and show off the family!

Here she is on her first day in the world....lookin' just like her daddy....just like the rest of them!

She weighed only 7 lbs. 11 oz.

That's little itty bitty teeny tiny for a Day child! Xander was 10lbs. 3 oz., Garrett was 9 lbs. 7 oz. and Eleanor was 9 lbs. I asked the pediatrician to make sure she was full term - he assured me she was! It was like holding a baby doll - of course, she is a doll! She is such a good baby and we have all fallen head over heels in love with this little angel baby!