Carl Sandburg Home and Farm

On Saturday we took a trip to the mountains. We are so grateful to live close the the mountains! The kids had fun feeding the goats and playing in the river. Bentley loved rummaging in the water and climbing all over the rocks. Marseille and I sat back and dipped out feet in the water. The weather was perfect.

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

is what I have been up to. The weather has been unseasonable warm and so the kids and I are taking advantage of the sunshine!

Last weekend was a big weekend for us. We had band practice and dinner club. It is quickly becoming my favorite week in the month! I love having the band in our home, and I love hanging out with friends. It's busy, but I love it.

Other than that, I have been cleaning the house consistently, spending time reading and praying consistently, working out... almost consistently. Growth... imagine that! This season has been pretty low key. Woo hoo!

I just finished some wedding invitations for a dear family friend and I'm doing all the alterations for the wedding party. FuN! And with all the babies being born I've been/will be working on baby stuff.

What's even more exciting is I going to be apart of a craft fair!! I can't believe it, so I will be busy making stuff for that too :) I'll seriously keep you posted, because I want you to come if you can!

Anyway... I'll be posting a more "serious" post sometime this weekend. God has been stirring a lot in my heart and I want to document it legibly!

Here are some pictures of my new do and the kiddles :)

Sunshine + no pants = boo boo

I asked her to put the mustache on, she ate it!

He likes the mustache because he is "Master of Disguise, Bentley"
My new do - I love it, it is very me :) When I look it the mirror I see me again!

Creepy... i'm sending it away as fast as I can!

I asked to take her picture and she said no and ran away...

We went on a backyard adventure to the moon and picked up "moon rocks."

We'll, that's all folks!

Keeping you posted...

Ha, sorry it's been so long... I have written out what I want to update, just haven't had a good hour to sit down and do it! Hopefully today will be that day :) Just as a teaser....

In just a couple hours 16" will be gone :)

That means no more pulling ridiculously long hairs out of everything-- and I mean everything!

Guess who's coming to dinner...

Friends!

I have been wanting to start a dinner club for years (5 years to be exact)! We are finally in a season of life that we are able to actually pull that off! YAY! Yesterday, kicked off our first (of hopefully many years of) dinner club. It was a NYC Pizzeria. Here is a peek into our fun night! We ate, played a couple games, watched Brian Regan, and planned our next two dinners. Woo-whoo! I hope you guys had as much fun as we did! We are so grateful for your friendship McCarnans and Pruitts and are excited to grow together!

Anna's meatballs

Anna's garlic knots - not sure why the picture keeps loading sideways!

My homemade pizzas - cheese/ pepperoni/ sausage, peppers, onions/mushrooms

The "table-scape" had metrocards for place cards, pictures I printed as postcards, a guest check for the menu and facts about NYC around the napkins with the silverware! Can you tell I LOVE details???

Ashley's cheesecake

YUM!

ICE!

We have never seen icy snow like this! It's pretty thick too!

It looks really neat on the trees.
Our neighbor did the hard work of shoveling his driveway only for it to turn very icy!
It was crazy watching the ice spider out when we walked on the snow!

White Christmas!!

We had a beautiful white Christmas! We played outside and roasted marshmallows while it was still snowing. What fun memories!!

Fun Times :)

Here are some pictures of our trip to Asheville for our Anniversary and our trip to Downtown :)

The view from the one of the balconies at the Grove Park Inn.

We visited the National Gingerbread Competition that was in the Grove Park Inn.

The house from the movie Up was a winner of the youth category.

I thought this pagoda was cute and clever, especially the popcorn trees.
The grand prize winner! Can you believe that is gingerbread!

Some of the pretty gingerbread houses were pretty amazing!

A frozen waterfall at the Grove Park Inn Spa!

The most unusual antique we found that day. Someone must have sported this phone!

Biltmore Entrance/ Gate House
Falls Park on Christmas Eve!
Riding the elevator to find the Festival of Trees.
All of these ornaments were made out of thin wood, it was really nifty!
The BEST family EVER!!

Chick-Fil-A Day

We faithfully returned to Chick-Fil-A dressed as cows for some free chicken!

Poor Bentley was extremely afraid of the cows:

Marseille stole a french fry and actually ate it!

*S*N*O*W* YAY!!! and the Olympics

Yesterday afternoon the snow began to fall and fall and fall. We were a little more than excited. I had been praying that it would snow, because we have been out of town every single time it snowed here this winter.

I took Bentley outside as the snow was just beginning to fall and he loved it. This morning, however, he wasn't quite as sure. It was a lot harder to walk because there was so much snow! We are so excited and thankful that we got to experience some real snow this winter. It was very powdery snow. It's starting to melt really quickly though!

The snow was falling into the evening so we decided to eat by candlelight with the windows open to see the snow! It was a lot of fun. Even Bentley thought it was exciting. We had hot pastrami sandwiches and white bean dip, both recipes out of my Food Network Magazine for celebrating the Olympics. I love the Olympics!!

Danny and I did watch the whole opening ceremony! It was pretty interesting, but nothing with top Beijing's opening ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Poor people had a flawless ceremony until the lighting of the torch! They must have had a good dress rehearsal :)

This morning, Marseille woke up around 6AM and I nursed her and put her back to bed, did my morning reading and then went out for a walk in the delicious white snow. It was so peaceful and quiet. I couldn't help but praise God for creating it! I grabbed my camera and took pictures as the son was coming up. It was beautiful!

When I got Bentley up and told him there was snow, he was so excited! He loves to eat the snow... and that is about it! He laughed at Danny and me as we were running around throwing snowballs at each other. I made a snow angel and tried to get Bentley to make one too but he didn't want to lay his head back. Danny and I put him in the snow and moved his arms and legs back and forth for him.

After Marseille woke up, we all went on a walk in the neighborhood. It was great to see all the kids out... there are a lot more kids in our neighborhood than I thought! Tonight is our date night... we moved the date night that we go out to Saturday so that way Danny can't run late :)

It's our B date, so we are going to Brixx, Barnes and Nobe and Bath and Body Works! It should be fun :)

Here are some pictures of last night and this morning:














Okay, that's all the pictures for now. I'll try and put all the pictures I took on a slide show :)