august

 
august - settling in to our new life in grove park on fort dix.  laurel and freddy are sharing a room.  laurel loves her "chandelier" on the wall beside her top bunk.  ru ru inherited mr. lady bug.  

 
we spent a ton of time out in our tiny backyard - when it wasn't raining



 

the big purchase for this little house was 3 new super tall stools for the super tall counter.
freddy "helped" me put them together

 
a big box is always fun.  see the stools?

 
they are awesome!!

a few random shots.  laurel and hope at the movie Planes (3D), my boy being all boy, and laurel with an ill-advised dollar store purchase i regretted the minute i bought it… :-)

 
we love "mih michelle"

 
still no picture of eliza hess or her parents!?  on the right, can you tell how hard it was raining?  the water was shooting out of the gutter.  pat put jude to work after dinner one night.

 
yipee!!!  pops and abbi AGAIN!!!  i love this picture



 
haircuts

pat and i took off again.  this time to san antonio

look who we found!

 
our good friend daniel blackledge married his princess katie o'donnell that weekend.  it was a beautiful wedding and a FUN party.  

 

 

 

 
good to see all those laurel mississippi folks!

meanwhile...

 
laurel helped pops fix my desk, the kids practiced their fort-making, and pops and lala were getting all my morning sugar from freddy!

 
*sigh*

 
abbi and her little lady

 
pops and his little man

sweet times.  laurel is getting ready!

for her trip to tupelo!

she is an incredible traveler

each of my kids got spoiled rotten that week as an "only child"

ready freddy?

our first trip to the jersey shore

 
cutest beach bum ever?

tuh-tuh-pj 

(the way freddy says TJ)

princess laurel in tupelo (with cece)

time to go see sister!

annual johnston family reunion in destin, florida 

yes please

cousins!

freddy found a hole and just camped out in it.  watching the world go by.  several people walking by stopped to laugh and talk to him

this was our favorite.  sommerville and jp and i were laughing so hard at this disembodied head on the beach. 

putt putt girls

time to go home.  maybe next time i'll get some pictures of the adults...

thank you JPI!