Sigh...Long time I know!

WOW!!! What a month its been! I know, its been a while as my darling husband so nicely pointed out this afternoon. Its so funny too, because I was bragging about well I've been keeping up here! Yea...so some stuff came up! I'm sorry! I have to say that my surprise trip to Alabama was an absolute success! My grandmother was completely suprised to see not only myself but the boys as well and that make the 9 hour drive completely worth it!

Joey had a beautiful graduation, I'm so proud of him!!! He looked great too!

Let's see...hmmm...what else...oh yea! Nathan concured yet another project in the house! We used to have this horrible SALMON color in our bedroom that used to frighten both Nathan and I when we would wake up in the morning. However, its now these beautiful shades of Caramalized Onion & Rainforest! Wheee!! It matches the beautiful bedding set that was our christmas present from my mom.

Among Nathan's talents is his art of writing with paint brushes on mirrors and on one particular trip upstairs to check on him, I found this:

Now, why does it say congrats, you ask? Well.... Here's your most definitely unplanned and unexpected answer :

.... :) ...

Yes, you saw that right. We're now paitiently awaiting Sawyer baby #3! He or She will be making their arrival sometime around Feburary 20th 201o! Conveniently inbetween my very best friend Amy, who is ALSO due January 31st and a certain sister in law that I'm not quite sure I can share names yet who is due on Febuary 23rd 2010.

So...yea! Surprise!!!

Anyways, Patrick is now a walking fool. He's also starting to really communicate with everyone. Right now his favorite word is More!! LOL! Food, drinks, toys...whatever the object he always wants more of it.

Ethan is also doing well. His potty training is officially complete. We've made two successful 9 hour car rides and 2 4 hour car rides without ONE accident so he is POTTY TRAINED!!!WOOOO!!! LOL! He's a swimming fool and just adores being in the pool. With Leah, Allie, Daddy...it doesn't matter, as long as he's in a large body of water..he's a happy camper!


And this is the face you get when you tell him that its time to leave the awesome pool party that he's been looking forward to for so long because his brother is exausted...

Poor guy. Don't worry, he survived.

As for me, well, I feel good most of the time. I spent a wonderful weekend in Virginia over the Father's Day weekend with my dad. We celebrated Jimmy Lee's THIRD yes THIRD birthday that Saturday at the park and got to enjoy this GORGEOUS hair cut!

Patrick rocked the house by tourturing Uncle Shane with cupcake icing... and it was oh so worth the 85 bazillion wet wipes it took to clean them up!

Ethan really loved that he could play in the dirt by the creek. Mom caught this fabulous shot right before he wanted to join Uncle Shane in the creek.

I think my dad was quite pleased with all the love and attention he got that weekend too. He got a whole weekend with all of his boys. I think his faces speaks miles for him.

And of course...I have to leave you with this parting picture. Mom has recently become a charity case and has inherited this priceless number for the oodles of grandchildren. I think its a hit!

Okay. That's it for now! Please feel free to leave oodles of comments so that I can respond.I'll be back after this weekend with more pictures!