Ladies Man

Ok, this gives new meaning to the term. Tyler was able to reach one of my sundresses that was drying in the laundry room and helped himself to a personal fitting. The funniest part of this picture was Carson's confused expression while watching Tyler model the new outfit. I guess Tommy needs to leave more ties laying around the house for when Tyler has an urge to play dress up.

G-Ma and Carson

I simply love this picture. Of all of the shots taken at Tyler's birthday party, I keep looking at this one. My mom and Carson had just come down the giant side at a pretty impressive speed. My camera did not go off when I had wanted it to, but this super close up one was even better.

Happy 4th Birthday Tyler!!!!

Although we have celebrated for over a week now, today is Tyler's actual birthday. In awe of how big he has gotten- both in size and capabilities, we could not be more proud of Tyler. This picture was taken a few hours ago by the river where he and Tommy went tubing. Requirements for the adventure: 4 years old or 40 lbs. Both met! Happy Birthday Tyler, you are so loved!!!

Birthday With A Little Bounce

Thursday we went to Knoxville to celebrate Tyler's 4th birthday at Bounce USA. He turns 4 on July 12th-but it worked out perfectly to celebrate a few days earlier with all of his friends and family. Tyler had the most amazing time and Tommy and I were overwhelmed with the turn out. We are so appreciative for our circle of friends and incredible family for helping to make this birthday extra special. I know that Tyler will not forget the night he had and it was so wonderful to see everyone before heading back to North Carolina. We will be in the area often and cannot wait to get together soon.

New Home, Part II

And the tour continues... This is a view from our side porch- to the left of the table and chairs are the doors that open from the eat in kitchen. The porch wraps around the house, but this is the best side to view the mountains.

Another picture of the kitchen and eat in- you can see the doors leading to the porch. Again to the left of the eat in is the dining room.

This room serves many purposes. For now it is the guest/nursery. On the other side of the bed is Carson's crib. In about 6 months, Carson will share a room with Ty and this will be guest/girls nursery.

And the boys bathroom! I didn't get a picture of the best part- you will have to use your imagination... On the other side of the wall beside the shower is the toilet with a glow in the dark solar system hanging from the ceiling (compliments of G-Ma). Makes for a real interesting bathroom experience.

Besides our master and the boys rooms, a reading nook, mudroom and hallways- you have been given the official tour. I doubt I will post exterior pictures for a while since it will be a while before we landscape...but if you are dying to see more- COME VISIT US!!!!

New Home

For those of you who might be delayed in coming for a visit, I wanted to give you a blog tour of our new home. Below is the living room- if you are standing at the front door and enter, you will find guest bathroom in front of you and stair leading to upstairs bedrooms and bathroom.

Other side of living room- windows look our onto mountains.

Dining room- in front of dining room is eat in kitchen that I think we are going to use as sun room/office.

Kitchen- the door you are looking on the other side is a closet- if you turn right it leads to our master bedroom. The cutout looks into the living room. On the other side of the kitchen is the eat in and dining room and doors that open to the porch.

We Have Landed

I am finally starting to exhale. We are 99.99% unpacked. While the majority of our stuff had been moved a little at a time over the past few months, I realized we still had a lot to unpack. Since arriving in North Carolina this past Saturday, we have taken our time unpacking and spent the majority of our time trying to spend quality time as a family and getting adjusted to our new surroundings. So far, we have hit the Asheville mall- where Tyler tried out the jumpy trampoline and had his four year portrait taken.

We also went exploring our new stomping grounds, aka- the playgrounds. Below is a picture of one of the playgrounds at the local rec center, and today Tyler and I went and found one about 2 miles down the street that we love. Yesterday, all of us loaded up and went a few miles down the road to the local swimming pool for a few hours. We have eaten in all week and Tommy has made a point to get up early and make breakfast. As we sit out and watch the sunset over the mountains at night, we both have made the comment that this house feels more like a vacation resort. So far, life is really good and we feel like we are already at home.