Me and My Girls

Can you tell who's who?

Dad Life

Our Pastor told us about this video. We had to pause it because we were laughing too hard to hear it :)

Nursing Babies

Jared walked into Charlotte's room the other day to find this...

"Baby doll eat my boobie too!"

At least it wasn't in public...

3rd of July

4th of July festivities in Keystone... that were actually on the 3rd of July :)

Waiting for the parade

Cuddling with Grammy

Trying to get into a pack of Runts

Cuddling with Auntie Mel

James and Charlotte - he's 6 months younger than her and already taller than her

The dresses and bows I made for the girls - Aren't they adorable?!

Charlotte playing soccer... She had bracelets on her left arm and would not swing that arm at all, I suppose for fear of losing them.

Jared had the following Monday off so we went to the pool that morning

Look at that face! She's adorable!

Pool Fun

We took the girls to the pool in our neighborhood a few weeks ago and they both had a blast. I think they are going to be little water bugs this summer!

Don't worry, Jared is sitting right beside Naomi and his hand is underneath the water holding her :)

Oh My Word

A little while ago we had two Jehovah's Witnesses ring our doorbell. A high school or college aged boy and girl. I answered the door and thanked them for their invitation to a huge event they have every year on the UF campus. Charlotte ran up beside me and the girl told her hello and kind of giggled. It wasn't until a few minutes after they left that I realized that all Charlotte had on was her pajama top. No bottoms. Not even a diaper! She had been sitting on the potty right before that and I told her to get a diaper from her closet and bring it back to me. She didn't and I got distracted so she was running around like a redneck child for a few minutes. And now there are two JW's who think I'm nutso.

I swear we're not white trash.

Dimwits

**I will share a funny story with you, but only on one condition: You must not think any less of Jared or me, especially in regards to our intelligence. We both have college degrees (he has lots of 'em, actually!) and are pretty smart folks. But there was a time when neither of us were thinking clearly and a lot of ridiculousness ensued.**

Shortly after we moved into our house, we needed to replace the light bulbs in our dining room. The fixture was on a dimming switch, so I went to Lowe's in search of dimming light bulbs. I searched the whole row of light bulbs in the store and could not find any that specified they were of the "dimming variety". I was peeved. Seriously, how could Lowe's not have them?!

I told Jared when he got home from work, so off we went to a specialty lighting store near our house. A fancy lighting store that sold light fixtures that were crazy expensive. We walked around for a couple minutes, looking for the light bulb section of the store. When we couldn't find it, we went up to the counter to ask for help.

"Do you have any light bulbs? The dimming kind?" I asked. The clerk gave me a puzzled look.

"We don't sell light bulbs... but all light bulbs will dim." We were shocked. Was he pulling our leg? "I'll go to the back and see if we have any light bulbs. How many do you need?"

"Four." And what do you know, he came back with four light bulbs for us. After we left, I'm sure he told all of his co-workers about the two idiots who came into the uppity special lighting store asking for light bulbs. "The dimming kind".

**There you go. The tale of two dimwits who wanted dimming light bulbs. I swear we're not idiots. For real. Please don't think less of us. If you're ever in our home, please turn on and be amazed by our fancy dimming dining room light. We have indoor plumbing that I bet will impress you too.**