Upwards Football & Cheerleading

Our church has a recreation program called Upwards. They play football and have cheerleaders too. Every Saturday morning in the Fall, there are football games on the field next to the church. In September, Bradley was helping to referee the games. (He had to stop because he has to work on Saturdays now). Claire and I would enjoy going to the games to watch the bigger children play.


Such a cutie in her stoller.


Bradley's refereeing.

Working on the nursery!

Over the last few weeks, Bradley and I have finally begun working on setting up the nursery. We have pulled up the old carpet and put down new carpet (thanks Papa), painted the base boards and put them back on and put together all of the furniture. It's still not a finished product, so I'll post more pics once I get it all set up. :)

Old carpet has been pulled up and the new padding and carpet is ready to be installed.

Bradley is putting the base boards back on after I sanded them down and painted them. I felt so accomplished that I actually did some "work" on the room. Yes, I used sand paper! He he he!!(We painted the walls the color that we wanted when we moved into our house last year and I'm just keeping that color and accenting it with greens and cream colors for the baby.)

Bradley is putting together my glider.

And here am I enjoying the glider! Thankfully he put this together first, so when he was putting together the crib I had a place to sit other than the floor (it is getting more and more difficult to get off of the floor lately).

I love the crib.

And finally we put together the stoller (which is a total travel system with a baby carrier and everything). I just can't wait to put my precious little child in this room!

Working on the fence

Bradley took on a huge project when we moved into our house. We live on almost 3/4 of an acre of land and probably 1/2 an acre is our backyard. Well, in Fort Worth we really got spoiled with our privacy fence and really wanted one here too. Problem is...here in NC, privacy fences (and actually no fence at all) is more of the style. So, we rarely see fences on the properties around here. So, we knew that we would have to likely put one in wherever we bought. And this was true for this place too. But, Bradley has a great amount of construction experience and figured out how much lumber to buy and how many fence posts and panels etc that we'd need. But, it just took a lot of time to do. It rains a lot here, it was really hot this summer and when he had his accident a few months ago he couldn't work on it at all until he healed enough. But, finally we're done. Or as Bradley says..."99.9% done". :) He's still got a few things to do on it...but for the most part we're done. Our backyard is completely enclosed and on Wednesday we were finally able to let Baxter run around, leash free, for the first time in months! I'm SO proud of Bradley and actually never thought that I'd get so much joy from the look of a privacy fence. I love it and am so thankful for Bradley's persistance with the project.

On a side note, I didn't help with hardly any of the project (most of it was heavy lifting and very physical labor...and that is NOT for me!). :) Well, on Wednesday Bradley was able to find a project that I could do. There were a few extra boards that needed to be nailed onto each panel so he showed me how to use the nail gun and off I went...6 months pregnant. :) But, I had a great time with it. I felt like I was getting a good workout and helping my husband and my dog too! :) But, let me tell you...I was SORE that night and the next day...that nail gun is kind of heavy!




Look at the awesome looking fence!

Weekend Activities

Papa thinks that the new rug that I purchased this weekend is just for him. He loves to lay on it.


Bradley and Everett took the first opportunity they could to use Bradley's new chainsaw. Bradley got it from my parents for his birthday and he loves it! Thanks mom and dad!



Bradley's checking out his work with the chainsaw in hand.

Building a Fence

We are putting up a fence around our backyard but it's been quite a task! Bradley has enlisted some help in Everett and Chad. Thanks for helping you guys! Baxter will love the backyard!


I've never seen a better looking fence than this one! :)

Farmer's Day

Soon after we arrived in Coats we went to the annual Farmer's Day celebration. The entire town gets together for a parade. All you have to do is take your lawn chairs down to main street and you'll have a front row seat for the parade.


There were tons and tons of tractors in the parade. It was the most I've ever seen in one place.