Family Photos by Chelsi

This summer while we were in St. George, SM's sister took our family pictures.  I posted this one because the baby was so fascinated with my hair during the photos and just wanted to play with it.  Look at his face in this photo!

My baby is eating food.

So, it's been a couple months since I've posted anything.  It's been a very busy summer.  I don't know if I can catch up on everything but I can show you all what we are currently doing in our home.  The baby is eating food, not just goat milk.  He has tried carrots, beans, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, brown rice cereal, millet cereal, bananas, avocados, peaches, applesauce and a few raw foods like cantaloupe, fresh peaches, and strawberries.

The baby is such a big boy!

Green beans are not his favorite but he will eat them.

Some fresh peaches in his mesh eating thingy!

Blueberry picking!

We were excited to go blueberry picking for the first time ever.  SM has a friend that owns a blueberry farm and this year the berries were slow to produce because of all the rain we've had.  And then when they did ripen, the rains caused a lot of the berries to split.  But that meant that we picked five quart bags of blueberries for free.  It was wonderful! (We laid all the berries out on towels to dry them off since we picked the berries in the rain and they needed to be dried off before we frozen them in bags).

These berries weren't small either...they were round as the end of my thumb.  So delicious.  After this picking we got five days of rain without a break and all the berries split and fell off of the bushes.  We were so lucky to get all these berries.

Our House, Our Home

So, here's some photos of our new house.  The pictures aren't in the order that I'd like but since I'm terrible at moving them around, I think I'll just leave them and let you all look at our crazy photos of our awesome house!

Here's the guest room.  The blinds are closed and hide the trees in the back yard. The cubbies under the window are awesome!

Here's the front room and the front door.  We call it our library.  We have a piano that we got from someone at church.  Now it just needs to be tuned and I'll start practicing again...or at least that is the hope.

Back yard...ours to the fence! We have a small forest!

Same back yard, just to the right.  We have a small shed for the lawn mower and all the yard stuff!

Here's the fireplace in the library!

Front door of the house and on the left is the swing!  My baby loves that swing...and so do I!

Here's the house.  The front door is on the left of the house.

A view of the front yard from the front door!

Another view of the library!

The blue room is our storage/craft/games room.  We will do a lot more to this room but meanwhile it is serving a great purpose. It is a place to put anything until I find it a proper place.

Here's the kitchen!  The fridge is a new purchase.  We decided to go with a  big fridge.  As you can see, SM had to take out the cabinets above the fridge so that it would fit.  We love it!  The counters are granite and so I have to be careful not to brake anything glass.  Only bad thing...no backsplash behind the sink.  I tend to get water on the floor.

And my favorite room...the family room!  At one time this was the garage but they made it into a big family room and built on another garage.

Those double doors behind the couch are storage space...and I use it as my food storage space.  I absolutely love it!

And here it the garage with plenty of space to walk between the cars!  Another love of this house!

Here's the shop that is built onto the garage.  SM is excited to have his own space and I'm excited to have a place to put tools.

Here's a photo of the baby's room.  I haven't ever decorated a house before so I've got a lot of learning to do.  But for now we have the essentials. And as I learn how to balance a baby and be the wife and cook and laundress, I'll be able to do more around the house.

And I'll end with one more photo of our house, our home.

Back in March, Macon celebrated it's Cherry Blossom Festival.  We all took a trip downtown to see what the festival was all about.  Well, the cherry blossoms hadn't bloomed yet but the pink port-a-potties were out!

I guess you could say that the pink cherry blossoms were found on the streets.  It was so cute!

We did see a lot of "fru-fru" all over Macon.

Have any of you read a children's book by Dr. Seuss called I Saw It All on Mulberry Street?  That  book is one of SM's favorite books.  Macon has a Mulberry Street!

Here is SM in his law professor office!

And here we are in front of the law school where SM works!

Grandpa really enjoyed getting the baby to smile at him.

We loved playing games with SM's parents and my mother-in-law loved holding the baby!  What a great trip.. Thank you for coming to see us!

Trip to Savannah

I'm not exactly sure how to get all my photos in the right order...so they load up and I just deal with them.  While SM's parents were here in March we took a trip to visit Savannah.  We had never been there before so we did a little bit of searching on the internet and decided to take a bus tour of the historic district of the city.

The baby was eight weeks old for this trip!

Look at those huge trees and the Spanish moss.  Savannah was beautiful!  I imagine that in the summer it is even more beautiful when all the leaves are out and green.

We used the stroller as a bed for the baby and he took a few naps while we walked around.

SM and his dad are getting the stroller and baby into a very old cemetery.  The cement pathway in the cemetery was made with sea shells.  We enjoyed the ability to walk around and then hop onto the tour bus whenever we wanted to.

Here we are on one of the trolley tour buses!

SM was our fearless leader who got us where we wanted to be.

For lunch we stopped at vegan restaurant, hoping that my Mother-in-law could eat something gluten  free.  Well, we didn't find anything for her to eat but she had brought some things to eat.  The rest of us ate a vegan lunch and then SM went across the street and bought himself a cupcake or two.  He enjoyed every bite.

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The saying goes that if you touch the fish water spout during a rainstorm you'd have good luck.  It is not raining in this photo but I did want to touch the cool fish water gutter.

We had a wonderful trip to Savannah and will return again to learn more about this beautiful city.