Introducing...

...my new little neice, Brooklyn Hope. 

Born Dec. 21st, 5:56 pm.  7lbs, 8oz. and 19.5".

She's healthy and so beautiful!

I'll save the details for Kelly to share on her blog, but here are a couple pictures.

We're still here!

I've been neglecting my blog lately mostly because I have been so sick this pregnancy.  I'm finally feeling much better and have vowed to myself to start doing much better at updating.

The big moving day was October 31st.  Here is Luke his last day at our old house:

We moved to a much smaller house about only 5 miles away.  We are planning on staying here for 2-3 years while we design and build a house we hope to stay put in!

It was bittersweet moving away from the house we took Luke home to, but we're exciting to be moving closer to our goal of building our own house.

In the meantime, so much has happened and I have so few pictures.

Here's one of Luke getting his first haircut.

Big Brother Picture

I failed to mention in my previous post that I'm losing my brain lately too! I guess too much going on.

I meant to post this cute picture that we used to tell my family we're pregnant.

#2

I've been slacking quite a bit from blogging lately. But for good reasons:

We closed on our house last Friday and are renters in this house until we close this Friday on our new home. That means lots of packing and preparing!

I've found it really hard to get anything done because I am tired and so sick.

Why?

Because I'm 8 weeks pregnant!

What better reason to be tired and sick.

We had a sonogram last Friday. Everything looked great and we got to hear the sweetest sound... a strong heartbeat! Praise the Lord!

Looking forward to June 9th, 2010!

(and being settled in a new house)

Here's a picture of our little raspberry:

Pumpkin Patch

Here's our playgroup at the pumpkin patch this year.  Luke is quite the adventurer and ran all over the place.  I can't believe he sat still for this picture.

Luke loves faces, and especially sticking his finger in mouths.

Quite a change from a year ago!

and this picture from last year still cracks me up!

Santa at Phipps

Can you believe this time of year is starting? Here's your reminder for the most popular Santa in Atlanta...

It's October!

I absolutely LOVE fall!  The weather here is beautiful and we've taken advantage of being outside every minute possible.

Here's my recommendations to kick off fall:

Chili

&

Cornbread (you gotta try THIS RECIPE from Paula Deen)

and a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte!