Holy Zeus!

No not Zeus the god... Well, close... Zeus the Bunny!!! :D Yes it's true! At the end of the exciting busy day, we got a rabbit! Or Bunny! Whichever you prefer! Yes I'm excited. Can you tell!!!! He's so cute! We hoed and hummed for a couple of hours trying to figure out what to name him. Of course I wanted to stick with the family bunny name Bob. But when Edwin came up with Zeus I couldn't refuse!!! Here he is! We love him. More importantly Edwin loves him. He is a cheeky bunny sometimes but that's just it. He's only a bunny! A baby bunny. I wanted a lop eared one. But he's so cute!!! He has such cute coloring. Such a light tan it's almost white with darker tan nose and ears. Yay!!! :D

His eyes are absolutely beautiful

Look at his little tail!

Aww!!!

Edwin tries to act like such a tough guy. But put something cute and cuddly in his arms and he melts :) ... Like me!!! Hahaha! Jk! Kind of.

Botanical Gardens

The Botanical Gardens was the next stop after the museum. This day was a blast!!! Well, I thought so. I don't think Edwin was used to doing quite so much in one day, not for fun anyway. :) This reminded me of home. Note to self, don't plan on walking gardens when the only shoes brought were high heels. Would you expect anything less from me though?

A picture for Jon!

The Airborne Museum!

Another thing I got from my mom is her love for learning! History, art, you name it! K not literally cuz I really don't like to learn about EVERYTHING. But I do have an appreciation for what our country has been through and for beautiful pictures and paintings. What more could I ask for than to go to an airborne museum! You may think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Look at these pics! Edwin and I have so much fun together! Although you wouldn't know it since he refused to pose for pics. Well actually refused to be in any at all! So I ended up stopping cuz I wasn't gonna be the only one making a fool of oneself.... Ha... ok here are the pics.

This was taken after I realized I was the only one posing. But what I really wanted to do was crouch down below this guy and peak around the corner too!

Cmon, you know you do it too! Peace!

HAHAHAHA!!! I crack myself up... :D

I really like this painting. You can't really see the details but trust me, it's beautiful!

You love my humor!

Southern road signs... nuff said

On our way back to NC from the great state of TX, I saw some road signs that I must say never in a million years thought I would!!! First time ever seeing a conjunction on a road sign. The first one I thought was a little odd said, "we'll bill you" on it. (Toll bridge.) The next one was a road construction one saying "Let 'em work, let 'em live". It made sense but again... what's up with the bad grammar on street signs! So I'm laughing pretty hard at this point because we are as you know "in the south" now. And it was very apparent.

So getting into NC just down the road from where we live, we pass a road construction sign. I thought my eyes deceived me. I could have sworn the "s" was missing from the word "construction". Could it be? A spelling error? I inquired about it with Edwin. He denied it very strongly. "I pass that sign everyday! Why would they put up a misspelled sign!" Here comes Edwin eating his words. We passed it a second time... Sure enough! No "s"! I thought maybe they just didn't have room for it, but in the opposite direction, same sign spelled correctly. So the mystery of the missing "s" will probably forever continue. And of course we had to get a picture! To top it off you can see the sign must have been hit, because no, the camera wasn't turned when we took it. The south has never ending laughs for all!

Luke and Bryce!

These are probably some of my favorite pics of the boys. We got them all dressed up before going out to dinner with their mom. It was a mixed emotion day. Sad to see the boys go but also kind of nice to just have Annie and Edwin time which I don't think we had since we got to Texas. Which was fine! Because it was so wonderful to meet and get to know Edwin's family and kids. :) I love them all so much and am so happy that I'm part of the family.

Bryce is quite the lil rolly polly baby! :) Such a happy one too!

Bryce's face in this cracks me up! He usually has a huge smile on

A rare event, both boys sitting quietly in front of a movie. Luke's favorite is Oliver and Company which he called the doggy moomie.

Don't know if you can tell, Luke is on Edwin's lap! He had a blast! He loves his daddy. The camera died right after I took this so sadly I didn't get any more of the lawn mower ride.

Funny conversation

On Sunday Edwin and I were sitting in a pue right in front of the organ. Edwin commented on how the organist wasn't using the foot pedals and I proudly exclaimed... My mom does. He turns to me astounded saying is there anything your mother can't do?! And I said um... no. And it got me thinking about how impressed my mom was with how handy Edwin is, going off about how wonderful it is and that other men in the family may have a run for their money with him around. Remembering this and letting my mind dig deeper on the situation I told Edwin I was quite sure that my mom wishes she would have married him instead of me! And I'm wondering if Edwin doesn't feel the same.......

Hahaha!!! Well I thought it was a funny conversation. :) I'm so happy that my family loves Edwin and he loves them! I couldn't ask for anything more. And living out here taking care of him I'm realizing how much I've learned from my mom. From cleaning the house to taking care of the man of the house. Making sure that when he's hard at work in the yard or outside he has a cold drink by his side. Then when he's hard at work that he has a hot meal and clean house to come home to. I'm quite enjoying it!! And not really looking all to forward to getting a job. Staying busy will be nice but I know I won't find a job that will alow me to be home before Edwin is. Such is life though eh? I love our home, I love our yard, and I love the family and friendship we are building.

Speaking of family here are a few pics from when Edwin's boys were here! Luke was so funny, after this he kept saying, "play with me on the couch! Tickle me on the couch!"

This picture cracks me up and probably always will!! :)

Decorating the house!

I'm not gonna lie... this was pretty fun! Except for the fact that Edwin doesn't like shopping.... but then what man does? And really I don't like shopping either... well I don't like to take a long time shopping, but when one doesn't know where anything is it tends to take longer than normal. But when this is the outcome (not completely finished yet) it makes it all worth it!

The lil "hutch" in the kitchen

A wall hanging Edwin picked out that I thought was really cute for the kitchen

A bulletin that Bethany gave me for my birthday, Thanks bet!

"Always kiss me goodnight" above our bed :)

And above the side of our bed "kissing the war goodbye"

The one wall hanging that Edwin absolutely despises and I LOVE!!! Thanks for letting me hang it sweety

Edwin painted that shelf and hung it! Such a handyman! I love it.

Not quite sure how the paint does it but I like it. It was Edwin's idea too! He's very useful :)

Above the shelf "Family; Forever, For Always; and no matter what!"

Above the computer, fall in Paris and "love is patient, love is kind" in white and gold

New couch cushions! Surprisingly the hardest thing to shop for...

Edwin chose this red one. He's so freaking cute! I think he loves his new life. :D

We are putting a bunch of pictures of us up under this after we get them.....

Can't really tell from the pic but this is a picture of a rose

Edwin putting the first coat on the shelf

Yay! It feels like OUR home now! :) This was good for the both of us. On top of it, we also got new dishes and silverware and other kitchen utensils.

Triplets? Quadruplets?! What's going on?!

Is it just me or do we all look alike?.........................

Danielle, Jessica, me

Danielle, Jessica, Kaitlyn, me

A Texas Summer

This has a LOT of pictures in it, so to make up for it I'm not going to write much. And because it's after 2am and church is at 9. I'm still really behind but this one actually gets quite a few pics out of the way. YAY!!! :) Posting more tomorrow.

So Texas was a lot of fun! I loved the humidity and the scenery. Sorry Bethany! I think it might be a bit different from San Antonio though. We got into a little mischief and had a blast. Here's to Texas!!!

Gigi and Luke, Edwin's mom and son

Papa and Bryce, Edwin's dad and other son

Edwin's sister Danielle

Before church! :) One of my favorite pics

Woo!!! Shooting was so much fun! Thanks Papa!

That's my baby!!!

And that's me!!!

Luke's so cute!

After fireworks, Luke thoroughly enjoyed his ice cream :)

Bryce is learning how to give kisses! He's such a sweetheart!

Best daddy around!!!

Fave!

The flash was a lil bright for the babe

Luke LOVED the fireworks! That's his cousin Dublin

Edwin's sister Jessica and Dublin's mother

Edwin said to smile... So I'm a smart "a" so what! :)

Aww baby loves me!

Poor baby fell asleep on the floor... CUTE!

His big blue eyes!

He really wanted my gold shoes!

So cute!

Luke and his cousin Kason

Edwin's sister Kaitlyn and three of her nephews

First day with the boys! Luke couldn't stop saying daddy :)

I love my step sons