Jack has something to tell you!!

Jack's been waiting for weeks and he won't let us make him wait any longer. He has something very important and exciting he wants to tell you! Go ahead, Jack:

I don't know how it happened,

but I'm obviously VERY excited about it!!

Here's a picture of my little brother or sister. The baby's 10 weeks old in this picture and his/ her head is down. You can see a cute little arm sticking out - awwww!

No, it's not a boy. That's an arm.

Q & A time:

Q: How far along are you? 11 weeks

Q: When's your due date? January 5, 2012

Q: How are you feeling? A Pretty good. I'm mostly over feeling nauseous. I'm just really tired! This pregnancy has been MUCH better than the first so far!

We went last week for our first doctor's visit, where we got to see Baby V #2. We are so blessed! Baby looks healthy and has a strong heartbeat. Mom is doing very well, too. We praise God for such a great report! (If you remember from my pregnancy with Jack, our first report was not all perfect.)

Got Weed?

First, let me explain the title of this post. I asked Luke, "What's a good title for our garden blog post?" "Got Weed?" was his response! hahaha He sure keeps things interesting around here!!

If you've been keeping up with our blog, you know from my post about 2 months ago that I started some vegetable seeds for a garden. Our wonderful, super-generous neighbors gave us 8 different types of organic veggie seeds. Of course, I should've planted these in the ground a LONG time ago, but we have just been so busy and out of town so much that we haven't gotten around to it. Yesterday, we FINALLY planted our veggies in the ground! Now I'm just praying that they will take to the soil (well, mostly clay) and actually grow into something we can eat!!

That's the tiller that our other awesome neighbor (who owns a lawn care business) let us borrow to get the ground ready for our garden. We (and by "we" I mean Luke) seriously would not have been able to do this without a tiller!

Jack "helping" Luke get the ground ready. Not sure how a golf club helps....but I'm sure somehow it does ;)

Luke mixing in some soil with our wonderful clay yard.

AAAnnnnd......the after picture!! That's our ghetto cheap way of making something for the tomato plants to grow up - hahaha! We had some lattice left over from a couple of years ago when Luke put some around our back deck. Thrifty (uhh....cheap), huh??

What's in our garden, you ask? Well, there's Sweetie Tomatos, Rutger Tomatos, Romaine Lettuce, Oakleaf Lettuce, Onions, Peppers, Okra, and Collards.

Beach Time!!!!

Last week my sis-in-law, Liz, her daughter Sophie, and Jack and I were able to go with our in-laws to the beach for 3 days! Our hubbies weren't able to go with us because they couldn't take the time off work. It sure is wonderful to have such a good relationship with your spouse's parents that you can go on vacation with them without your spouse. God has certaintly blessed me with wonderful in-laws!!

I'm really bad at taking pictures, so I only got a few on the first day we were at the beach. Here they are:

Jack and Sophie playing with YaYa and Grandpa on the beach :)

YaYa playing with Jack in the ocean. Jack LOVED the water and the waves!!

Figuring out how to dig in the sand....

....and then put the sand in the bucket!

Yummy Strawberries!!

A couple of weeks ago Jack and I went with our good friend Jen to pick some DELICIOUS strawberries! Jack loved picking them...and eating them, of course :) So far we have enjoyed strawberry shakes, homemade strawberry jam, and LOTS of just plain strawberries - YUM!!

Thinking about picking some strawberries: Picking strawberries the "big boy" way:

Picking strawberries the "easy" way! Tee hee!

Jack with "Aunt Jen" at the strawberry farm:

Jack and Mommy at the strawberry farm :) I love this little guy!!

Washington Park

While we were in Macon, I went with my dad, Landon, and Jack to Washington Park one day. This was a park I grew up going to, so I was really excited to take Jack there. If you've never been there, it's a really beautiful park with water running all through it.

Jack loved blowing bubbles and actually learned to say "bubble" this day! Now, he says it all the time and ALWAYS wants to go outside and blow bubbles.

Landon watching the water carry the ball to him.

Splashing :)

It took Jack a little while to warm up to the water (because the water was cold). Here's a picture of him running through the water with "PawPaw" in the background.

Trying to get a picture of the two of them....Jack wasn't having any of that!

Ok....KINDA got them both in this shot....

Landon showing off his muscles!!

Bobby's Graduation!!!!

I am SO proud of my big brother, Bobby, for graduating from Macon State College a couple of weeks ago!!! He had so many reasons that he could've quit, but he stuck with it and graduated with his bachelors in business!

There he his! The one with the long hair and beard!!

See him walking across the stage getting his "diploma" (a piece of paper that says be sure to pay all your fines, etc.)?

Walking off the stage.....

There's me and my big bro after his graduation ceremony! Way to go, Bobby!!

I just LOVE this picture! Landon (my nephew, Bobby's son) shaking Bobby's hand after graduation.

My parents with Bobby afterwards:

A nice Father/ Son photo op :)

Outside Fun

We're watching my brother and sister in law's dog this week, so Jack and I have gone outside every morning to let him and Levi out (we have an invisible fence, so normally we just let Levi out and we stay inside). This morning was no different....until we got back inside. Jack kept bringing me his Crocs and saying, "shoes, shoes, shoes." I knew what he wanted, but I just said, "yes, those are shoes" and tried to ignore him because I didn't want to go back out at the moment. He proceeded to bring me my flip flops and tried to put them on my feet. After that, he brought a dog bowl and said, "dog, dog." I said, "Do you want to take the dogs outside?" "Yes!" and he ran to the door.

So, I put his crocs on over his footed jammies and we went back outside with the dogs....and brought the bubbles with us this time :)

Having fun running outside:

Playing with Levi:

Jack loves to sit on the front step with me :)
While I had the camera outside, I thought I'd take a picture of my Dahilias to show you. Remember our super generous neighbors who gave us all the veggies? Well, they also gave us 3 Dahilia plants. One of them has come up. I'm not sure why some of the leaves are missing chunks! The other 2 have yet to show themselves....I hope I didn't drown them!!
On a side note, our son is becoming quite the artist.....well, at least he likes to draw! But only with pen. Here's a picture of some artwork from today proudly displayed on our fridge: