Our Grand Mountainous Adventure!

So if you're willing to hang in there, you'll be in for a real treat...I have posted pix from our West Virginia/Maryland trip--many many many!!! We had a great time, saw lots of family, scrunched into one room for 12 days, threw rocks into the Potomac, went "out around the mountain," and just spent lots of time together as a family. I would love to tell all the tales that go along with each photo, but I will just include a few blurbs. Enjoy! Isabella age 4 1/2 months...
James age 4 1/2 months...

Outside catching lightning bugs...so awesome to let Lily and Ty experience that!


We were next to a pig truck and I thought this was so funny...
could NOT get this photo to rotate for some reason!!! Isabella with Payton and Kecia...

Isabella with cousin Kelsey...
And with Uncle Jim, who played and played with the kids!!

Ty with cousin Ryne, who took over for the day--what a great helper!

Todd outside during the official raising of the ginormous tent!
Aunt Cathy feeding Bella...
Lily helping Mommy with the tent...
The official lightning bug jar...
The girl cousins playing with Lily...

GG, Lily, and Ty at Queen City Creamery in Cumberland...yummy!


Ty sampling the flavor of the day--caramel...
Aunt Linda feeding James...

Have a taste Gran...

GG, Ty and Lily in Curtis Coney Island, where we enjoyed weiners with chili and onions--yum!

Ty getting ready for throwing practice into the C & O canal...

The booming town of Little Orleans...
I would not want to break into a home in Orleans, would you??

Daddy with the kids at Point Lookout--gorgeous view!!!

deer in the daytime!!!
Check out how thrilled Ty is to be photographed!

Lily down at the Potomac testing the water...
Daddy watching Ty select the right "biggie" to throw into the river...
What a great serendipitous photo of Lily, huh?

You can pump your own water if you want to...
"Boo Boo's" old house in Paw Paw...
see any trains coming?

Great Gran's mailbox...

we've invaded!
How big is Ty???
The walk to the Post Office...

Great Grandma's backyard...

a fun bath in Grandma's tub...
my budding pianist...
learning from the master...
Grandma is getting a "razor" cut from Lily...

Aunt Linda, Kayla, and Isabella...

My view for MANY days... :)

This little bridge means we're almost to Grandma's!!

new blog design...

so the pink blog was getting to me a little bit so i thought i would change the template--isn't it pretty? all is well here--we're just gearing up for our WV/MD trip on friday--yikes!!! this week is busy, too, but then isn't the whole summer? the kids are great--adrian and jonathan came over today to play and lisa and i got a chance to chat, which is always nice. todd and i get haircuts today (aren't you glad you decided to read the blog today??) and zuzu does too, actually. i spent the morning on the phone with various docs' offices trying to make an appt. to get established--you would not believe how hard that was to do!! i was on the phone ALL morning! anyway, james has successfully rolled from front to back twice now--here's a photo of him getting ready to roll. oh, and my friend "m" had her appt--they think the babies are in separate sacs, so they aren't getting tangled in the cord, but they might be suffering from twin-twin transfusion, which is not good. she goes again for a sono on july 24th and she is talking to a specialist in twin-twin transfusion in tampa who does surgery for it. right now they just have to wait, so i will continue to be praying for them. cheers...

Just a quick jot tonight...

Hey all, met some cool new people tonight whilst leaving Bonefish Grill--God is always setting up these divine appointments for us (isn't He awesome???). Anyway, James and Bella had their four month check up today and were very healthy! James weighed 15 pounds, 9 pounces, and Bella weighed 14 pounds, 14 ounces--so big! And they both got 3 shots each...yuckaroo!! My friend "M" has an appointment tomorrow with the specialist at Shands so we need to keep on praying for her and her babies!!! I will post pix soon! Cheers!