A Beautiful Day in May

Molly has grown so much.

Our $1.00 garage sale find. I love garage sales!
Madison telling stories.

Maddie's newest favorite thing, Potsicle's. She calls the vanilla ones, "No cinderella ones mommy, cha, cha one."

Our lovely flower bed, "before."
And after!! Ta-da planted by our "special" gardener!

Just a few random ones of working on Isaiah's room. Again an amazingly good garage sale find. The crib, rocker and changing table/dresser. And I just found a table for $1.00 that I am in the process of painting! SOO fun!

A work in progress!

IT'S A BOY!!! Baby Isaiah!

Oh wow, words cannot even say the joy we feel today! We found out who will be joining our family, little Isaiah Michael Peppers. It was so neat to see Antaun find out this news, he was sooooooooo happy and excited. He wasn't surprised at all because he really felt like the Lord had already showed him we would have a boy. My favorite part right now is knowing his name, I am already bonding with this little life and now I know more of who he is. Antaun and I were looking at the meaning of names and read Isaiah-a Godly man in a nation of crisis. This is our prayer for our little boy. He is already smiling!

Oh I just can't wait to see a little Antaun running around!!
Madison thought this was really cool, we told her he was playing peek-a-boo with her. It was really cute seeing her reaction to the sonogram. She was really excited and kept saying, "good job mommy." April 23rd, 2008

We Love Spring!!

April 22nd, 2008, Madison is 27 months old. Our tree is in full bloom in our front yard and I LOVE IT!!
Maddie's latest smile!

Celebrating 3 Wonderful Years Together

Well, as you look at these pictures there might be one person you are surprised to see (or not surprised if you know us) MADISON!!!!!!!! Yeop, we had it all arranged for us to leave her and the night before I was having a semi meltdown. Antaun and I talked about it and agreed together it would be more fun to take her. Our family time is VERY limited right now because of Antaun's schedule so we just wanted that time together as a family. So off we headed to the good ole' town of Bolivar for a walk down memory lane!!

It only gets better and better every day!

At one of our favorite places, the Bolivar park

Antaun and I used to eat here every chance we had, the BEST mexican food you will eat.

Madison LOVED the ducks, so much so she almost swam with them once. It was a close call but we caught her before she fell in. She kept saying, "wait ducks, wait, hold you." =)

We went to the amazing pizza factory and had so much fun together.

Maddie's first time playing putt putt. The only thing I can say is, "Look out."

Maddie's latest smile.
Doesn't she look onery??

Look at the Little Fishies

We took a swimming class this month with Nikki and Lainey. It was a blast! We were surprised to find out during the first class that we would be dunking our babies under water!!!!!!!!!! I thought, hmm, I don't know about this but it actually went well and Madison is really used to the water. She is really brave and loves it, so is Lainey.

To my surprise Madison only complained of wearing her cap one or two times. We built up how cool it was and how it would keep her curls pretty. We will see how this summer goes.

I really think this picture could be entered in a cutest baby swimming contest!

Lainey is so silly!

We love this little girl! 27 and a half months

Madison is so much fun! I love this age so much. We can actually communicate together. Tonight Antaun and I were tucking her in (in our bed, hmmm) but she said, "Let's talk togever." It was so cute! She is very excited about our new baby coming in September and says she is going to have a sister and said we should name her guul (girl). We find out in two weeks what we are having so we will see. Maddie loves to talk to the baby, the other day she said, "Mommy, baby hiding."

One thing that really amazes me about Madison is her ability to express clearly how she feels at the age of two! Antaun has been working a lot and the other night she started to cry in bed with me and I asked her what was wrong, she said, "I sad, I miss my daddy friend." Then the other day in the grocery store she looked at me and said, "I'm grumpy."

And to date Madison's longest sentence, "Here go daddy, I'n done with this apple!!

Sorry for all of you who just want to look at pictures! It's helpful for me to type out this stuff so I don't forget before it gets in her scrapbook!

Happy 1st Birthday Lainey Grace

Lainey loved the frosting!

This is what they did when I said, "can you put your arm around him?"

Lainey trying to see what's going on

Giving her mama some love.

Happy Easter

Since it was about 45 degrees outside we decided to have an indoor egg hunt. Madison got her share of sugar from the candy inside the eggs!


I love this with Lainey in the background.
SOOO precious.

Man I have a handsome husband!

Little onery girl

With her new "lipstick" as she would say.

Looking through her easter basket

The night before Easter we colored eggs. She loved it!

For all of you who wanted to see what Maddie's hair looks like wet, here you go!

Her masterpieces.

"Booaaful eggs"

Just a quick funny story about our little Madison. We were sitting in church Easter morning listening to the choir perform. There was a little boy minding his own business at the end of the pew. Maddie did great through the whole cantata but at this point she was getting a little stir crazy. So she climbed over Mawny's (grandma) lap to sit by the boy. I thought oh no big deal, change of scenery. Until my mom taps me smiling and said look. I look over and my cute little two year old is sweetly holding this boys hand. He happened to be 7 or 8 and was not paying any attention to her at all. I cracked up laughing and said, "mom, get her." She protested a little bit, she really wanted to sit by this boy.

OH MY GOODNESS, Antaun just about flipped! He has already put her in "time out" (kind of) for sitting on a boy's lap at church!!

The other day she looked at me and said, "I like boys, mommy,"

What will we do with our little flirt!

My mom tells me I was the same way!