45 days an counting...

Things are in high gear at the new house.  We are in the home stretch~ only 45 days to go!  And its a good thing, cause we are ready.  I am NOT ready to pack up all of our belongings and schlep them over to the new house.  But I am ready to be settled and ready to get it all over with.  We are thrilled with how everything is turning out.  It looks beautiful and we are so overwhelmed with how blessed we are. I cant wait for my children to grow up in this house!

 Where the back patio will be

 looking out the breakfast window to the back yard

 view from the kitchen into the keeping room (the columns are where a bar

 and my kitchen sink will be

 Anna Kate's nursery

 They've been working on the trim for two weeks now

 looking out the front door

 The dining room window

 They have the mantle started in the living room

 view from the road up to the house

another view from the other side

Pretty Pretty Princesses!

When you saw this blog post title, I'm sure you thought it would be about the baby girl, Anna Kate. 

Well, not exactly...

Don't worry, our ALL boy isn't dressing up like a princess... We went to the Strawberry Festival a couple of weeks ago. I grew up going to the festival every year and the Perry family has deep roots in participating in the Strawberry Festival.  Poppy (Brad's dad) was a festival king when he was a little boy and rode on a float.  I wish I had a photo of Poppy up on that float, I'm sure it would be like looking at a photo of my little boy on a float, they look identical. 

So, back to our experience at the 74th Annual Strawberry Festival this year...

Below are the top things Barnes loved about the grand parade:

10. Fire trucks

9. Floats

8. Horns on the fire trucks

7. Spending time with his friend Sophie

6. The crowds of people

5. Tractors

4. Big Trucks

3. Popcorn and drinking orange soda at 10am

2. The marching bands!!

BUT... The Number 1 thing he liked:

1. Waving to the pretty, pretty princesses(that's what he called them)! 

He told me they looked like they got married.  So sweet.  Hes started telling me lately I look pretty or I look cute.  Or he will see a girl or lady in a store and say he thinks she is pretty.  Look out girls, just try to not fall in love with that dimple!

With my precious babies

 Mommy and AK

 The pretty, pretty princesses!

Waving to the girls!

progress!

Just a few photos to document whats happening with us.

sheetrock going in (this is view from kitchen into the keeping room)

view from kitchen to breakfast area


they are bricking today! 4/21/11

I love the brick!

If BBP grows facial hair we know what it will look like! Thank you chocolate milk.

BBP took this pic of AKP

She has a rough life!

Shes sitting up

My love letter to Brad Perry

Brad and I went to Oxford, MS weekend before last to celebrate our anniversary. Since then I have wanted to tell him how thankful I am for his love. But with two kids and our crazy life, I don't seem to find the time to share it with him face to face. My sweet husband and I have been married seven years. Seven years... it seems like we cant possibly have been married more than three or four years. But at the same time, I cant remember my life without him. Ten years of dating, seven years of marriage, so many memories, two kids and one crazy dog. Where has the time gone and will the next seven go even faster? I googled "Love" when I was thinking about writing this and this is what I found: Love is both an action and a feeling. That is so true. Something I never sat down and contemplated. I love my husband, my children, my mom, my family and friends. But its in every action we make towards those we love, as well. Brad Perry is a great example of LOVE by this definition. I included the passage from 1 Corinthians about love below... As I was typing it I realized that he embodies all of the instructions from Paul to the Corinthians about what LOVE should be and is. I on the other hand fall short on so many levels when reading this passage. He is the patient one, the softer spoken one, the listener. So as we begin our next seven years together (and many, many past that) I want to recognize my short comings and strive to be a better example of that LOVE that Paul so passionately wrote about. Actions reinforce the words we say. Thank you to my precious husband for your love and commitment to our family and to me. You are an ever loving, steadfast, humble, gentle, smart, partner in this wonderful life we share together and not a day goes by when I don't truly understand how much I'm blessed to have you in my life. I love you Brad Perry. Happy Anniversary!

at the concert in the grove my sweetie

Love is patient, love is kind,

it does not envy, it does not boast,

it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking,

it is not easily angered,

it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not rejoice in evil,

but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,

always hopes, always perseveres.

Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

Love never fails.

Corinthians 13: 4-8

Spring makes us happy!

We've been getting out and enjoying the weather the last week. We had a picnic at the park and Woody got to go down the slide with Barnes about a million times. Anna Kate had her first real food~ rice cereal. She ate it up and wanted more! In other big news, we have a contract on our house and hope all goes smoothly with closing on it June 30! I thank the good Lord above for sending us buyers that don't need to move into our house until our new house will be done. No moving twice!

at North Park making a wish

Honestly, she is THIS happy all the time!

Enjoying the weather

We had a bit of warm weather last week. Its cold outside now so I'm reminiscing and hoping for warmer weather soon so we can get OUT and play.

we had a little diaper accident so she ended up just in a diaper - but super cute! We were taking a stroll around the neighborhood and he asked to get out of the stroller so he could go play in the willow trees. He said it looked like a forest!

sunning!

pushing sissy around in her walker

Shes so happy!

Big happenings

All of a sudden my baby is growing up. In the last three weeks we have:

1. Had an explosion of language and words due to our ear tubes and being able to hear better!

2. Ditched the pacifier

3. Successfully started potty training

But as I watch that sweet face sleeping on the monitor screen tonite, hes still my little baby boy.

Spring 2009 - 9 mos

Close enough to perfect...

Im so blessed by these babies. I thank God that he chose me to be their mommy. They are my definition of perfect.

The Break Up

Barnes' first love affair has come to an end. He finally gave up his poppy. I'm so glad to see it go but a little sad too. He loved that thing from the moment he was 2 weeks old. It gave him so much comfort and helped him sleep, cope with sadness and made him happy. So for those things I'm grateful.


He traded it for the following:




A tub of plastic dinosaurs

A Buzz Light Year kite

A Thomas the Train bathtub toy




All things he picked out at the store with the understanding he was trading them for his poppy. With his ear tube surgery behind him, we knew it was time... past time. Its been days and hes only mentioned it a couple of times. What a good boy!!