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July 1.0

Hot Cocoa, Forts, Haircuts, and the Fourth!

David was working from home and to get Tray to leave the computer room he asked Tray to go make him a big cup of hot cocoa. When I got downstairs this is the scene that I saw; Tray on the counter with a mug of cold "hot cocoa" behind him. He was so proud of himself for making daddy some "hot" cocoa. (After I had him take it to David I did heat it up for him ;) ).

We finally moved our dining room table back into the house and what do we do with it?.... Eat on it? Of course not! We turned it into a fort for all the kids to play in of course!

We decided to have a little fun painting "treasure" boxes out on the deck.

With it being warmer weather (finally) we decided to cut Trays hair to see if he could "pull-off" the short look yet. What do you think?

Most of our friends that we normally do something with on the 4th were going out of town this year so we decided to try something new. We went to some car races and demo derbys!
The kids had a blast and all did really well (we didn't get home til after midnight).

Happy 4th of July!

June

My cute little boy playing in the grass.

Sammi showing off her FIRST EVER pony tail!

My sweet little "working" girl.

David with his Father's Day/Anniversary gift.

Tray's birthday!

(He really wanted to go bowling, and he is pretty good at it too!)

Birthday morning.

(Can you tell what his favorite color is?!)

Welcome Baby Jacob!

Our baby boy!

It took us a long time to decide on a name for this one; we hadn't really "set it in stone" until right before we left the hospital. But here he is...

Jacob David Dyal Willis

Born October 3rd

8 lbs 7 oz

21 inches long

Kids meeting their new brother for the first time.

Meeting Grandma for the first time.

My little boy heading home!

Hard Times

In our preparations for Jacob we had to get ready for mom to come; this meant that Samantha had to move from her room (which is also our "guest" room) into the boys room.

The first night of the switch David opened up our door to go downstairs to get the laundry. To his surprise he found a little girl laying on the floor. (Which he almost stepped on!)

Each following night she would continue to sneak out of the room (slowly adding more and more stuff to her "list" of stuff she would bring out with her.

Don't worry, now she loves sleeping in there. And we wonder if it is even worth taking her out of their room yet!