Home improvements!

This weekend we decided that we would get busy doing little things around the house that we have been wanting and needing to do!!

We started Saturday morning at 7am, to put more insulation in our attic! 44 bags later we were finally finished!! Jason ran the machine outside, Papa (Jason's Dad) was in the attic blowing the insulation and I was on the ladder in between being the goffer and communicator for them!!Our attic before, if you look really closely you can see Papa in the far back! It is so hazy due to the dust that was blowing around!!

Papa knee deep in insulation!

Papa after all the work was done!

When they were finished in the attic, Jason decided that it was finally time to cut down the huge magnolia tree in the front yard! He has been wanting to cut it down since we moved in!
A picture of one of the last blooms!! Very pretty tree, but oh my goodness does it shed leaves--all over the yard, and the neighbors yards!!

Yes, he really did stop cutting down the tree to talk on the phone!!

Watching Daddy in the tree!!
Jason's brother Mark stopped by to watch him work and brought along Mackenzie and Jesse!!

A few weeks ago Mom and I were working on some curtains for our bedroom, and Isabella decided that it would make a beautiful sarong!!
Thanks to Grand and Papa for all of your work in helping us!! Also thanks Grand for keeping Isabella Friday night so that we could start working really early Saturday morning, I know Isabella loved it!!

Our Island!!

For our 7 year anniversary we decided that we would buy what we needed and build an island for our kitchen!! We have always wanted an island and now we finally have a kitchen that is big enough for one!

Above is our kitchen before and below is our after!! Yeah!!

Thank you so much, Honey, for all your hard work!! I love you so much! Thank you for 7 wonderful year, 73 to go!! On our wedding day we promised each other 80 years, and then we are going to reevaluate this thing!! : )

Pictures from the last few weeks!!

The last few weeks have been really busy!! We have been busy living, and loving each other and our family--and enjoying summer!! Summer rocks!! If it just wasn't quite so HOT already!

Last weekend my brother and his wife (Ben and Kim) came down to visit us, and spend some time at the beach! It is always so wonderful to get to spend time with them. We love them so much and wish that we lived closer to each other. As you will see in the pictures, Aunt Kim and Isabella have their own little love affair going on. Just this morning she was walking around the house calling for her! I wish that they were still here and that she could have found her!!
If you look really closely, you can probably see the chocolate frosting on her mouth!

Isabella playing in Uncle Ben's stinky running shoes! Yuck!

Grand and Isabella at the shore!!

Isabella putting "andy otion" aka sandy lotion on aunt Kim's back!

More Aunt Kim and Isabella, is anyone noticing a pattern here?

Does anyone else see just a hint of red in her hair? Maybe just a hint????

Isabella and Uncle Ben
We ended our weekend at the beach with dinner at "California Dreaming," and my Dad came up from Charleston and joined us!!

Uncle Ben and Gran

Grand, Isabella, and Aunt Kim

My Dad (Grandpa Nick) and Uncle Ben

Myself, Grandpa Nick, and Uncle Ben

Thank you so much Uncle Ben and Aunt Kim for spending your vacation with us!! We always love spending time with you!!

Our Spring Vacation--Part 3 Baltimore

Isabella and I got up way too early on Friday to fly to Baltimore!! It was her second time on a plane, but she did really well!! We flew to Baltimore instead of driving home and then onto Baltimore!
We has set it all up a few months ago that we would fly up for the weekend and then travel home with Mom and Humphrey on Monday! That Saturday there was a baby shower for my cousin Emma who has a 5 year old daughter and is pregnant with twins -- a boy and a girl!! We are all so excited for Emma, Joe, and Madison! Aunt Kim and Uncle Ben live in Baltimore, so we got to spend lots of time with them--and unfortunately forgot to take any pictures at all!!

It was a great end to a wonderful week!! Thanks to everyone that we got to spend time with! We love all of you so much!!

Update. . .

Isabella is doing great without her pacifier! As I posted she napped without it last Saturday, but the Saturday night she had some kind of virus, 103.5 temp, and I caved and gave it back to her! I know I was a slacker, but I wanted her to rest well so that she could feel better sooner. She had her "pac" the rest of the weekend. Sunday afternoon our air conditioner broke so we went to stay with my mom--I did not want her to cry a lot there and keep all of us awake. (I know, I know!) Monday she went back to daycare (without a pac) and struggled to go to sleep but then slept well. Monday night, still at Mom's, still had "pac". Tuesday went to sleep like a big girl at daycare without any tears, so no "pac" that night at home either--and no "pac" since!! She has asked for it a few times but if I remind her that "paci's" are for babies and that she is big girl she is just fine!! We are so proud of her!!
Last night one of the things that I cooked for dinner was corn on the cob, she decided that she did not want to eat it cut off of the cob, like her Mommy, she wanted to eat it off the cob like Daddy and Papa! She ate a piece and a half of corn, and loved it!! Fruits and veggies are her favorites!!

Our Spring Vacation--Part 2 Jacksonville

Let me start this post by saying the Heather is much more gifted at blogging than I am, please check out her posts about your visits at http://web.mac.com/burrows4
We were hoping to get up and leave first thing Sunday morning to head to Jacksonville, but we got a later start than planned!! We finally got on the road around noon, and were hoping that Isabella would take a great, long nap in the car--turned out only be around 30 minutes long!
Thank you Megan and Scotty for loaning us your portable DVD, it definitely made the time go faster for Isabella, and in turn better for all three of us!!

Isabella intently watching Mickey mouse, still her favorite!

Around 4pm we finally arrived in J-ville!! We were so excited to be there!! Pat and Heather have been wonderful friends of our for years, they have a 4 year old girl Alana, and another girl Lilliana (Lilli) that is just almost 6 weeks older than Isabella! It is always so much fun to watch the girls interact and catch up!!
That night we started our visit with our tradition of a taco dinner! The weather was wonderful and we ate outside on their back patio! So very nice, and no mosquitoes!!
I have come to the conclusion that Jax is the place for yard sales! They have this really fun climbing toy with a slide in the room that Jason and I slept in, the girls (all 3 of them) loved playing on it all week!!

An action shot!! They loved playing together!!

After dinner Heather, Laura (Pat's wonderful sister), and myself went and did a little shopping and the guys put the kiddos to bed!! What a nice evening out!!

On Monday Heather baby-sits a baby by the name of Carmen and we decided that we all wanted to go the Jacksonville Zoo--actually much nicer than Riverbanks in Columbia!! It was the first time that Isabella had been to the zoo since last spring, she seemed to like it so much better this time!!

Towards the end of the day we headed towards the splash pad, all of the kiddos loved it, except Isabella! She is just not too sure of water splashing her!!



On Tuesday we went to beach for the late morning, early afternoon! Alana joined us after she was finished with school for the day, we missed her while she was gone! It was a wonderful, beautiful day for the beach! We had a wonderful time flying kites, the guys played Bacci ball (with a little help from the girls, we played in the water. . . all of the very fun beach stuff!!







I just love these last two pictures of Isabella and Lilli--they are just so cute and such sweet girls!! Tuesday night the four of us got to go out on a date--Laura baby-sat the kids for us!! Thank you so much Laura, you are the best!! It seemed like the old days before either of us had kiddos yet!! We had a wonderful evening of dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and then onto the movies to see Prince Caspian! It was so great to get to spend an evening out, just the four of us!!
Not a wonderful picture, but the only one that we had of the four of us for the whole week!!

We decided that Wednesday would be a day to stay home and make sure that the girls rested up and stuff! Jason and Patrick went and picked up their new piece of furniture and made an awesome castle with the box for all three of the girls to play with!! What wonderful, imaginative, handy Daddy's our girls have!! Huge Daddy points for this!!


The girls loved playing in the castle!! It was so much fun to watch them play!



We saved going out on the boat until Thursday, again we had to wait to hang out with Alana until after school! Once we were all together, we had another wonderful, perfect day!! We have always loved hanging out on the boat with the Burrows'--on water or land!! : ) We boated to this semi-private beach and had a picnic and just played for hours!!






This became my new favorite picture of her!! She loved playing in the water!!



This one made all of us think about what empty tomb must have been like!!

This sweet picture is how our precious baby spent the boat ride back to the docks!! She was so tired!! Thursday was another wonderful day, we capped it off with a trip to a Japanese Steakhouse to see Adam and Allison (some friends from CIU that are now living in Jacksonville)!!

Thank you so much for another wonderful time with guys! We absolutely love you so much, and wish that we could be together more often!!! Hope to see you again soon!!