More vacation pictures

The lovely Mr. and Mrs. Norris

Ryan enjoying the beach.

Love the matching outfits!

The bike riding family in front of the White House.

Renovation update

We came home from our week in the Poconos to lots of changes in our house. When we left all of the demo had been done but none of the framing had been done.  Now all of the framing is almost done as well as the electrical and plumbing.  It still is a few months from compleation due to kitchen cabinets but we are working on it.  Our porch is filled with all of the materials from the house and the garage is filled with all of our stuff.  We are having makeshift meals on a piece of plywood in what will be the dining room.  The framers are here today.  Too much sawing and hammering for us to hang around the house!

The island of our new kitchen

The dining area facing the laundry room on the right and the family room.

The island and the new door leading outside. Well not  the actual new door but a door will be there.

The stairs from the dining room looking into the office

The view of the family room.

The garage and all of our stuff!

Sweet Ride

Thanks again to Mr. Luke for taking us around DC. This is how its done!

Slide

The lake that we swam in had a slide that the kids and adults loved going down.

Pictures from The Poconos

Busy week

We all had a wonderful week in the
Poconos! The kids are exhausted. I wonder how the renovations are going in the house?

What to do in the Poconos

Kickball after swimming, fishing, biking and cannot forget eating 3 meals a day. Someone is going to have to roll me home.

Poconos here we come!

Fun in DC

We rented bikes today and biked all around DC. Here is the list of what we saw in order... Capitol, Natural History Museum, Washington Monument, rode around the White House, stopped for drinks and tater tots, Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial, World War 2 Memorial, Stopped for ice cream, Air and Space Museum, Capitol on the way back.

It was a long, fun and great day. It was so much fun to see DC from a bike. We never would have made it to see all of the things we did if it had not been for Luke carrying the two kids on the back of his bike. Thanks Mr.Luke!

Off to the Poconos' tomorrow!

Sent from my new iPhone that my brother wants

More fun in DC

From the Lincoln Memorial

White house

The Capitol

How to get around DC

Who is that guy?

While at the academy we found Jay's (and uncle mitch's) picture on the wall of fame. Bravo Zulu fellas!

Noon formation

Tecumseh

A day at the Naval Academy

Bill the goat

Duh

I left my purse in Atlanta.

When driving to Annapolis Jay likes to go the wrong way on 495.

Sent from my new iPhone that my brother wants

Truck

We passed the same semi 3 times (bathroom breaks)...Hell won't freeze over -God

Should we take that as a sign?

Sent from my new iPhone that my brother wants

What we saved from the house

The most important thing we saved from the house was our mesaurement chart from the  the playroom doorframe. It has all of our kids measurements for as long as we have lived in the house. Some how while we were in the Virgin Islands the mesaurement chart never got alterted or painted over.

Before and During

They started the demo of our downstairs this morning at 8:30am.  All of the cabinet, drywall, and most of the flooring have been removed. The dumpster is full so our back deck is currently filled with the remnants of our house.  It is a totally different looking with out the walls!  Here are some before and after of the same areas of the house

Let the demo begin

Sat 8:30 am demo starts, I hope!

Off to Paw Paw and Maw Maw's!

The kids left on Tuesday for Dad and Terri's. Have fun kids, see you next week!

The boys at the parade

How Walker ride in the 4th of July parade

While the kids are away

Mom and Dad go to the Braves game. Go Braves!

Pineapple gone bad

Expiration date, November 2006.