Hurricane vs. Tropical Storm!

So, we plan to leave on our family vacation to Destin early Saturday morning. Have you heard about the tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic? Gustav!! What do we do now? The weather men are not sure where it is going. They say that it will hit the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend and they can't exactly predict which way it is headed. They are giving it a 300 mile radius of where it could go. From the panhandle of Florida (where we plan to be) all the way over to Texas. They just don't know. As of this morning, they are predicting that it will be on some sort of land by Tuesday. They say that if it stays more west, it will probably weaken. I hate it that there is a hurricane anyway, but the selfish part of me hates it even more that it is possibly going to ruin our vacation. Isn't that awful of me? What would you do? I really don't want to put my kids in a harmful situation, but there is a possiblity that it will not hit there. I guess we could still head down there and just see in the beginning of the week. I don't know. Any suggestions? Please pray that the hurricane will disspate and that no one will get injured in it. We did know that this was hurricane season, but I thought what are the chances really of one being where we are going.

Noah's first day of PreK!

Noah started PreK3 today! He did so well. I was really proud of him. It worried me that he wouldn't want to stay or he wouldn't want us to leave, but he was fine. He looked like such a big boy sitting at his desk. His friend, Eli, is also in his class, so I think that was comforting to him. When I picked him up, he said he had a "great time" and he wants to go back. What a relief and an answer to prayers. His teacher, Mrs K., just called to see how his first day was. I thought that was very sweet. She said he did a good job and that he was very socialable. My Noah! Sometimes he acts shy, but I guess at school, he comes out of his shell.(I guess he takes after his momma in that way).

After church conversations!!

Mommy: So Noah, what did you learn at church today?
Noah: We learned about Jesus.
Mommy: Oh, that is good. What did you learn?
Noah: Jesus died.
Mommy: Yes, Jesus did die. What else did you learn?
Noah: That there was a big rock and He went round and round and round it.

Hmmm, you really can't just make these things up, can you? I have no clue what that means.

Another Noah funny: Ever since Ken(our wonderful pastor at FBC) talked about how he hopes that Michael Phelps "destroys" everyone in the Olympics, Travis has been walking around the house saying the same thing about Michael Phelps. He has also just loved saying that word: destroy. So this morning before church, Noah and Travis were playing and Noah says, "I am going to destroy you daddy!" Isn't that just wonderful! It was so funny at the time though. I don't really know that Noah knows what that word means, but it was really cute and we cracked up at him.

Ally's new room!

 
 
 
 
Here is Ally's new room! Thanks to Memow and Mimi for helping paint the room. It was a lot of hard work, but it turned out great. She loves the color pink just like her mommy. Can't wait for her to start sleeping in it now :)

It has been awhile!

 
 
 
 
I know that it has been awhile since I have written, but we have been very busy this summer. We have gone to the lake some and just enjoying the summer. Here are a few recent pictures of the kids. They love going with their Memow to the "lollipop store" aka Cracker Barrel and getting huge suckers. As you can see, we have to eat them outside.
Noah loves to wear his John Deer boots and hat. He went with Travis one day to the John Deer store and they gave him a little green hat. He loves to wear it because daddy wears hats. This picture of Ally is precious to me because she carries around her blanket and cup all the time together. She attempts to pick other items up too but it frustrates her because she doesn't have enough hands.

5 things!!

Ok, so there are many things that I love about Noah and Ally, but I am going to just say 5 things each.

Noah at 3 1/2:
1. Noah loves to cuddle with you and cover up. He likes to get as close to you as possible.
2. When he says cute little things like "Home Pepow" instead of Home Depot or "Handy Mandy" instead of Handy Manny. I love you is "I wuv you." When asking if he wanted to watch a new movie Madagascar, he said, "What gas car?"
3. When he wakes up, the first thing he says is "where's Awee?"
4. He squeezes Ally when he hugs her and this makes her so mad. He really has good intentions. He loves her so much.
5. I love how cute and innocence he is after he gets out of the bathtub and puts on his dinosaur hoodie. He loves to chase us around and pretend he is a dinosaur. Oh, how I don't want him to ever give this up.

Ally at 22 months:
1. Ally is so wild and unaware of how dirty she gets. When she eats, she makes the biggest messes. Her hands, face, the floor. Anywhere. But she does want to eat by herself and she does not want us to feed her. That is a big plus.
2. I love it when I get her out of the car at her meemow's house and she always wants to know where the moon is. It never fails. Everytime.
3. The way she waddles when she runs. It is the cutest thing. Or how she wants to dance all the time.
4. The way she talks with her hands like she has something really important to say.
5. How she is not modest at all. For example, out at the lake this weekend we are parked on an island. Ally has had a bad diaper rash or some sort of rash, so we let her go without a diaper. She squats down and is talking to Travis and all of a sudden someone notices that she is doing number 2 right where everyone is sitting. Doesn't faze her at all. She just goes on talking like nothing happened. How you have to love those moments.

Aren't kids so funny!

30th birthday!

So, I have hit the 30s. I was a little sad because I feel like when you are in your 20s, you still are young. But I think I am over it now. The 20s were great with lots of good memories, but I hope the 30s will be even better. Maybe I will be a little wiser now. It will be a lot of fun seeing my kiddos grow and master this big world.

Travis threw a little get together on Saturday night for me. It was suppossed to be a surprise, but he ended up telling me on Friday evening. He had everyone write a little something about me which was very sweet. When he handed it to me, of course, I cried. It was a little out of the ordinary for him to do all this. He got into my email address book and just picked a few friends. He apologized for not inviting everyone. He didn't really know who to invite. We had hotdogs and hamburgers and Travis ended up cooking them a little too long. I will post a picture so you can see.