Our exciting news....

Okay, I'm sure most of you know what the news is by now, but I'm sorry to keep the rest of you waiting. So here it is....










We have our house!!!

We still haven't paid for it, thanks to our wonderful appraiser who is taking her time and of course under appraised us...but that's another story. Mark and I are absolutely in love with it and it already feels like home for us. We can't wait to move in...but that will take quite a few more weeks...again, another long story.

I do have more pictures though...and more to come as the rest of the house gets completed!

The crane lifting our house...

There goes the front half...My dad holding the house up with just a hammer....

Our front door....Jack in the window running away (he thought I was going to leave him when he saw me outside)

The spare bathroom...
Our AWESOME kitchen...
Dining room...Our walk-in closet....

So there you have it...our brand new house! Very exciting stuff!!

Wedding!

I realize I'm a few days late....but I have over 430 pictures of the wedding to go through that I haven't even scratched the surface of them!! Anyway, if you were not aware, Mark's mom got married on Saturday!! I was so graciously asked to be their photographer so of course I have lots of them to share with you! I, however, was very nervous about being their photographer...I didn't want to mess up my mother-in-laws pictures...so I asked Barbie to help. She, being the absolutely amazing person she is, offered to help and provide the cameras!! So, without further adieu, here are just SOME of the pictures taken of that beautiful day....

(the first few are edited but the rest are not...excuse the bad color in some of them...)

Coming down the aisle...
Vows...
Rings...

Newly married....
Obviously edited....I think this one is so cute =)

The wedding party...
Showing Jack where to run...
Jack and Kerrigan
Yummy...cake...
My dad, mom and Jack...Barbie made him laugh really hard!
First dance sung by Aunt Missy...
Justin...
Jack and daddy waving...
Jack and Grammy...
Locomotion...
Jack, my little dancing fool!
Getting ready for the garter toss...
Mark and I....(insert "awwwww" here)
Singing at the end of the day..
I know it's not much, so I'll try to post more another night. Oh...and I'll also try to post pictures of our other exciting news!! (I'm sure most of you know what it is....but I'll put the pictures up tomorrow night for everyone to see...and no, I'm not pregnant =) he he)

Hmmm....I guess a title would be good

First things first....progress on the house. We now have part of our walls in the basement and maybe a floor? It was supposed to be poured today, but with the weather, I don't think it happened. Anyway, here's our driveway with a beautiful golf cart in it and the NYSEG guys across the road. We will soon have power!

Our walls....
We had quite the surprise on Friday. I woke up to see Jack not in his bed at 7 in the morning...very odd. Turns out he was with Grammy in her bed because he woke up a few times in the middle of the night crying...and I never heard him. Strike one on the day for Mommy. Next, I walk downstairs to see the couch open and someone sleeping on it. I assumed it was one of Cliff's girls, but as I looked closer I noticed it was the person who drives this truck....
Yep...Uncle Justin came home! Jack was SO excited to see him. He came up to surprise a couple of his friends and the only person who knew about it was Grammy. Mark was pretty excited to see him too, of course. Turns out Justin doesn't have to be back to work until after Grammy's wedding, so he'll be around all week. Jack is pretty happy about that.

Jack also got the chance to check out Justin's truck up close....he thoroughly enjoyed it.

What a big boy...
"Honk Honk"
Since Grammy's wedding is coming up on Saturday, I've been busy practicing taking all different kinds of pictures, just so I can be prepared. Barbie so graciously let me borrow her Canon 10D (SOOOOOOO much cooler than my camera! Thanks, Barbie!!) with a few of her lenses so I can be ready for the wedding and another wedding we have coming up at the end of August. So, here are a few of the pictures I've been busy taking:

Homemade playdough....I love making a mess!!



Playing outside with Kerrigan....
Yes, I of course photoshopped this one....I thought it looked pretty cool.

Check out the next blog....it'll have pictures from Grammy and Gramp's wedding!! Enjoy the beautiful weather this week!! (at least that's what we're supposed to have!)

More summer happenings....

Lots happening and not much battery life left on the computer to explain everything, so of course I have lots of pictures for you to see what we have been doing.

Potty training is actually going well. We've had a few days now with no accidents, and Jack is getting much better at telling us when he has to go and holding it until he sits on the potty. He's very proud of himself every time he goes, and that seems to be the reward for him...just the excitement everyone shows when he uses the potty. We are still working on number 2, but we've had two success with that...so we'll take it.

We've been trying to keep busy, but with this horrible weather we've been having we haven't had the chance to do too much except play in the house or do some shopping or visiting with family.

We were able to head to the fair when it was in PLattsburgh, but of course it rained the whole time. Jack still had fun.
Trying to pet the goats...

One big happy family.... lol
On one of the nicest days of the summer, we had a Jack and Jill party for Aimee and Jaramy at the beach...talk about lucking out with the weather!

The happy couple with the boys...Erika and I were so proud...we decorated the cake ourselves!
My little boy being a ham...
Playing frisbee...
Awww....this doesn't happen that often, that's why I needed a picture of it!
We also had a chance to do some blueberry "picking". I say that because Jack did more eating than picking, but we still had a great time!
Not too sure what he's doing here....
Handfulls at a time....
Enjoying his apple from Grammy. I know the picture is a little blurry, but I still love his face!
Oh yeah...and the big thing that has been going on is the construction of our new house! Very exciting stuff! The road to our house and Katy's house was started last week and they are now in the process of pouring our walls for our foundation. I don't have too many pictures because every time Mark goes down he forgets to take some. It's been hard getting down there with Jack's sleeping schedule and my work schedule, but Mark helps the guys out whenever he doesn't have to watch Jack. Anyway, he's just a few pictures of our hole in the ground....


We are hoping to be in by mid September, so I'll keep everyone posted. It's just exciting to finally see things happen...the banks were taking too long for our liking! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!