Getting Ready for GEORGIA

Well the time has come when I am packing up and getting ready to go to Georgia. Poppie, Nonnie, Uncle Ounie, Averi and I are flying out Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. from New Orleans and headed to Grandma and Grandpa's house. I have to say that I am very excited to be able to bring Averi to her Great-Grandparents house. Let me say it like this, I am truly a nervous wreck, I will be more excited once we are there. The best thing is Nonnie just informed me the other day that we fly to North Carolina and then into Hephzibah, Georgia, which is about ten minutes away from Grandma's house. I was okay, to an extent, about getting on one plane, but now its two, really not settling well with me. We will stay from Tuesday night and fly out on Sunday morning. Grandpa has already informed us that they have a bunch of things planned for us to do. Nonnie and I have a hair appointment with my aunt on Wednesday, there is no tell how I will come back looking, because right now, I could care less if I got it all cut off.

I started packing today, OH MY WORD, did not realize how hard it is to pack for a little one. But I thought that I did really well, Nonnie told me that my suitcase has to be under 50 pounds, well mind you I have Nonnies clothes in my suitcase and I managed to have my suitcase weighing in at 46 pounds. I was so proud of myself.

Please pray for me and my sanity for the next couple of days with flying.

We are so Blessed!

Helping Daddy put together Johnnie Jumper.....

I love this thing~!


I'm not liking that weather out there ............

Brad and Lita trying to save a tree....

Averi and Shelby

Trying her hardest to get to Coby standing up.............

Enough for Day One...............

Checking things out for Day Two......

When Averi was going after Coby and his toys, he would start calling for HELP!!!

Everyone watching the water come up........


Coby, Shelby and I taking a boat ride in the back yard







When everything else fails, put me in my swing and I am good to go..........

Well we made it thru Hurricane Gustva. I can say that Gods hands were all around our house. My brother-in-law and his family(live right next door) came and stayed with us and they had four HUGE tress come out of the ground and at my father-in-laws house which is just two doors down, they had three HUGE trees come out of the ground. Two trees landed on his pump shed. Other than a total mess, everyone is fine. Brad and I have many of things to be so thankful for. We lost power at 9:15 a.m. Monday September 1 and received it back at 5:30 p.m Sunday September 7. We were blessed with an air conditioning unit, we ran the generator for the fridge, some TV, water (well water), and air when needed. We had to pick which ones were more important at the time. Averi was not happy with the situation at all, she was so confused. Thank goodness the lights came back on at Nonnie's Friday night, because she went over on Saturday and spent the night. Nonnie stated that she could not get enough sleep.

Well we start back to school tomorrow and I need some prayer.....its going to be like starting over for my kiddo's. Hope that everyone has a great week.

Well what is going on in our little world.....

We made it thru our first week of school, and I have not taken any pictures of Averi. I know that is terrible, but I have been going bananas with my class. I have eleven two-year old's, and nine of them are screamers. I am so upset with this Hurricane situation, because its looking like we will not report back to school until next Friday. Know what that means, a week that my little two year old's have not been there. Basically starting all over again.

Averi went to the Doctor on Thursday to have a UTI ran and we are waiting for the results sometime this week. She is up to 15 pounds even..... My little trooper made eight months old on the 28th and can I tell you its so hard to believe. Its amazing how fast time fly's. She is saying Daddy, Bye-Bye, and Pop.... has not gotten the other half out of Poppie yet.

"BIG GIRL" School

Well yesterday was Averi's first day in Mother's Day Out. She did Excellent. I was not able to get any pictures when she got there because I was being run over by my parents about there child, so needles to say I will get there earlier on Wednesday and get some shots. This should explain how much fun she had:

I was giving her some applesauce and she feel right to sleep while I was feeding her. She was down and out by 7:30.

Random Pictures of the Hospital

Pictures from our hospital stay the week of August 11. As you can tell she was always SMILING....