Monday, June 21, 2010

Life in the South

We love it here. Love love love. I haven't had much time to upload pictures (on here) lately-it takes an eternity-but I have been taking SO many, so have no worries! We love living here, we love living in our own house, and we love the places we've been able to visit so far. We've hands down decided that if we decide to get out after this enlistment that we'll stay here-right in this town, not even necessarily just in the area-and whenever we retire, if we have to leave this place, we'll come back. That's how wonderful it is.

Here's some from the last month or two-mostly of Maya because I know that's what most people get on here looking for :)
A couple of months ago now Patrick ran a 5K here. The route took him over one of the drawbridges...
The night before I whipped together a Go Daddy! shirt... not my best work but it got the job done!
And to all of our surprise-especially since he wasn't running to win-he got third place in his age group!
Maya loves helping us cook, here we were making pudding...
I've started being able to do fun things with her hair! Usually what I can do that day wholly depends on her mood and how willing she is to sit still!
A while back we got a nasty storm through here. Thankfully all we got was a messy clean-up-a few houses down a tree fell over and uprooted, right on their fence. We thought our garden was really damaged but since then has VERY much bounced back.
Chowing on yogurt (or doka-tee as she calls it)
We made a trip across the state to Greenville to see a hot air balloon festival, and while there we met up with my cousin and her boyfriend who live nearby. Sadly the weather wasn't cooperative so the balloons didn't fly, so we were really bummed, but we still had fun. Daddy won Maya a massive banana that she loves!
When we got home that night she was OUT!
We have two hummingbird feeders-one in the front and one in the back-and we have a family of three that feeds from both of them! Maya loves them-this feeder is right in front of her bedroom window so she gets to see them a lot.
It's time for some of our vegetables to be picked! We've gotten quite a few jalapenos-this one was the first one we picked-and since then tomatoes-both big ones and cherry-are ready, as well as red, orange, and green peppers.
She got her first non-Evie pet-fish! She's in love!
First shoes with laces! Got them for the fall-woohoo for sales!

1 comment:

Mrs. Dragon said...

I cannot believe how big she is... Just in the few months you've been gone!!