Still alive and doing well...

I am sorry for the lack of posts I will try and get better. It's mostly laziness on my part really . We have been busy yes but we are always busy I just have not taken the time to blog because I'm addicted to a new show....Brothers and Sisters and it has taken all my free time away from the blog :) ohh and we are in a house again and well home ownership usually involves more work than renting.

I can now admit that this move has been a HUGE risk for us. We have always wanted to live in a place where we could enjoy the outdoors year round but have never had the gust to act on it and when this opportunity came up we were more than willing to take it but seriously we bought a house that WE NEVER even looked at NOT KNOWING when Neal could or would actually be down here. Well things worked out beautifully and we are together again in a home that we absolutely love. We did know we loved the neighborhood and we still do. There are SO many little kids here and all our neighbors are super sweet. We love it!!I love having a fenced in yard....it is so so nice! My life is so much easier now :)

Ok so now for some pictures!!

 I have done tons of yard work while Neal was gone. I took out a ton of bushes in the front and transplanted them all also put in the little garden along the sidewalk.

 All finished....it looks really nice now that everything is starting to come back from the transplant :)

 Kids just love all the space and freedom. Here they are playing in the rain.

 Some of the flowers I out in.....they look so pretty.

 This is Conner and Ethans room and also the toy room.....originally this was going to be only a toy room but the bunk bed works so well in there. I will get some better pictures once I get to decorating the house. For now we have been concentrating on the yard because we would like to be able to enjoy it in the spring so we wanted to get everything in.

 Gwandma Sherman got to come and visit for a week before Neal came home. It was so great to have her as always. We had fun though the kids did come down with a cold and got her sick....sorry!!!

 Me ans my boys.

 We went downtown Charleston one day....it is so pretty down there. It would be so fun to go without the kids and stroll the streets, shops, and art galleries.

 Ice cream of course......

 There are so many butterflies down here ohh and YES THERE ARE SNAKES!!!! Yikes......our neighbor killed one yesterday in their back yard......YUCK!!!!

 Playing in the fountains.....

 Impossible to get them to look all at the same time....cute anyway....

 Silly boys.....

 I love this picture......

 Ethan fell a sleep sitting in a time out.....

 My sweet sweet baby Christopher....getting so big....sitting on his own, eating just about everything, growing like a weed, SO SO close to crawling!!!! He is 6 months now....WOW!!!!!

 Last Friday My sister and her girls flew down here to visit us. It was so great that they could make it here. It was the first time for all 3 of them to see the ocean and taste the salty water.

 We had so much fun with them and it went by too fast. We did have kind of crummy weather while they were here though so that was a bit disappointing. This was also the weekend Neal came home. He has been home all week and does not start at his new store till Monday.....so glad he can have some time off.

 Super Hero Conner...........this little guy amazes me more and more each day!!!! He will not be going to pre-k this year. He did not qualify for the public pre-k at the school he will be attending and we decided against paying for private so he will start Kindergarten next fall.

 Today we went to the beach again....it was just a perfect day. It was in the 80s and there was a nice breeze the water is still pretty warm and it was low tide so there was lots of little pools for the kids to play in.

 ALLLL gummms!!! Sweet little boy is going to be a beach baby :)

 So pretty.....

 AND I saved the best for last because this was BY far the coolest thing. Neal and I saw Dolphins when we went to Hawaii off a boat but this was WAY cooler. We saw 20 or more Dolphins today.....they were so close to shore that if I was brave enough I could have literally gone out there and touched them. It was so neat...........one was so playful and kept on swimming towards shore jumping it was literally in knee deep water.

A memorable day indeed :)

Stay tuned for regular postings!!!!