I am an Aunt Again

My brother (Andy), his wife (Trisha) and big sister Ellee welcomed Carter Ford into their family yesterday.

Carter Ford Bills was born Tuesday, September 1 at 1:58 p.m., he weighed 7.5 pounds and was 20 inches long. He is sooo cute and we are thrilled to have him in the family!!

WELCOME CARTER :) We love you already!!


Cousins Teeghun & Tanner checking him out...

Where did August go??

So, I blinked and boom August was gone...seriously, how did I lose an entire month?

The BIG news for August was the house was finally finished and we closed and moved in on August 14th! We had a lot of help and the move went smoothly. We are still getting settled and I promise we will post pictures when we are done.

We spent an afternoon at the Indiana State Fair, I grew up participating in 4-H for 10 years so I still like to go and check out the fair and State Fair each summer. Here are some pictures from our day at the State Fair.

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Christmas in July?

Teeghun woke up from his nap this past Sunday and when we were getting jammies out of the closet he spotted his Santa outfit from last year, he BEGGED us to let him wear it to Memaw & Baby Papa's House that night for supper...so we snapped some pictures :) What a couple of goofballs!!!

We Love the Zoo!!!

We have a membership to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo and we use it frequently. Here is a short slideshow of a couple recent trips...

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STAT Estate

We had to choose a "Sub-Division" name for our house. Mom and Wayne had built on the farm first so we had a to create a sub-division before we could be approved for building in Whitley County so I named it STAT Estate (Steve, Teeghun Angela, Tanner). Here are a couple aerial shots taken on July 12th.

In this one you can see all three houses in a row, three generations (Grandma & Grandpa, Mom & Wayne and now our house).

First Airplane Ride

My grandpa took me for my first airplane ride when I was about Teeghun's age, he took Teeghun and Tanner for their first airplane ride on July 12th. Teeghun loved it! GP showed him McDonald's and Wal-Mart, he was thrilled and wanted to know if he could go again. Tanner, as you can see from the pictures, wasn't quite as sure about the whole airplane ride!!

Strapped in and ready to go


GP and Teeghun in the front seats


GP & Teeghun talking


Tanner is not so sure about this


First Plane Ride

Happy 4th of July!

We celebrated July 4th all weekend...
We kicked off the weekend with a cook-out at Memaw & Baby Papa's house, celebrated the 4th at The Chapel and then celebrated GP's 80th birthday on July 5th.

Where have we been?

So, I have been reminded MANY times (wow, people really do read this blog) that I haven't updated since March. I have to admit I have become addicted to Facebook and seem to keep that more up-to-date with pictures and stuff, but I originally started this blog as a way for the boys to look back years (many years) from now and it be like a journal for them so I better keep it up!

So much has been going on that I am not sure that I can go back and catch up, but I will give a quick catch up.

March 14th we moved from Fort Wayne to Columbia City, we had some great helpers and it went so smoothly. I worried about the boys adjusting as their bedrooms were upstairs and ours was on the main floor but they did awesome! They had no troubles from the first day we moved into our rental.

We became very impatient with the rainy weather that we were experiencing in April thus slowing down the ground-breaking of our new house.
BUT finally on April 22nd they broke ground. We were soo excited! The building process has been an exciting one...We have gone from breaking ground to this since April 22nd...



We continue to go over to the "new house" almost every night just to see what they have accomplished...it is so much fun to watch it all coming together. I will work on putting together a slideshow of pictures to show you all the progress.

Teeghun turned 3 on March 3rd and Tanner turned 1 on February 18th. They continue to be the light of our lives (and sometimes the most trying of our patience). Teeghun is looking forward to his new bedroom with pink and blue walls (we haven't the heart to tell him yet that he won't be having pink walls...we will tackle that discussion later.

I will leave you with pictures of the boys (what post would be complete without that? :) and a promise to do much better at keeping things up-to-date.

Tubby time in the rental house



Visiting the Easter Bunny


Easter Basket goodies


Easter at The Chapel


Zoo Day




Mother's Day


Father's Day


Cousin Tubby Time

TANNER WALKS

Tonight is a night full of emotions...so even though I have a ton of stuff to catch the blog up on I have to take time to share this.

Tonight is an emotional night; tonight we are spending our last night as a family of four in this house. Tomorrow night the boys will spend the night with Memaw in preparation of moving day on Saturday...so that was sorta sad; this is the only home they have known...the place they have experienced so many firsts and tonight Tanner made sure to make it just one more.

Tanner took his first steps in almost the same place as Teeghun did over two years ago. It was awesome :) he just smiled really big like he knew that he had done something big.

Sooo, we have laughed, celebrated and cried all on this our last night together in this house.

What exciting new adventures God has in store for us in the coming months...
Jeremiah 29:11......

MIA!!!

I am SOOOOO sorry that we haven't posted anything since Christmas! I have sooo much to post about I am not sure that I will ever get caught up! HERE is the big news and I will fill in the gaps later...

WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!! That would sort of explain the lack of postings!! We sold the house on Valentine's day, close on it March 31st and the new owners take possession April 3rd...so we had about 40 days to FIND A RENTAL, pack, store and move our house. We are now down to about 3 weeks...YIKES!!! It is a daunting task to say the least!!

Tanner turned ONE on February 18th!?!?! I still cannot believe that!!

Teeghun turned THREE on March 3rd...so we have lots of pictures to share just need to get moved first!!!

Christmas 2008

FINALLY! The first week of January and I am getting around to posting Christmas pictures! We had 6 Christmas Celebrations this year...and...survived!!! Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

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ICE STORM

We got hit with a "Pre-Christmas" Ice storm and it wreaked havoc on all of Fort Wayne, some people were without power for up to six days! Thankfully we never lost power but we did have lots of ice! Here are some pictures of Teeghun outside in front of a tree that dipped almost in half because of the weight of the ice!!

Polar Bear Express

We took Teeghun, Tanner, Morgan and Chelsea along with Memaw and Baby Papa to Fisher's, Indiana to take a train ride on the Polar Bear Express. We had a great time and really enjoyed it! Teeghun thought that it was REALLY cool to ride on a train with a Polar Bear and HOHO!

Santa's Reindeer

Teeghun found this headband at mom's house, of course I had to take pictures!!!

10 Months

Tanner turns 10 months!!! Isn't he a handsome dude!?!?! Notice the token bruise on his forehead!! He is an accident waiting to happen and seems to always have a bruise on one side or the other of his forehead!!