Reasons to celebrate

Our reasons to celebrate this week:

1. Thursday we found out that we are having a little boy. He is healthy, and quite active for such a little guy. We are thankful for a good report and Dan is excited about adding another boy to the team. He is already dreaming about two on two basketball games, doubles tennis and more.

It's a boy!

2. Dan finally finished the updates to our room this weekend. He painted the trim and door leading out to our porch and hung the ceiling fan. I cleaned the carpet in our bedroom. While Atticus peed on later that day....but we are finally done.

Freshly painted doors

The proud fan installer

3. Despite the fact that I just said that Atticus peed on our carpet the other day, as of today I can offically say that he is potty trained. It took him longer than Isaiah, which is not a really big surprise since he is my more "strong-willed" child. But he has finally got the hang of it and we have been accident free for three days now. I feel like I have won the lottery. I can't even begin to tell you how freeing it is to have the twins out of diapers! And thankfully I will get a few months off before baby boy 3 makes his arrival.

So Saturday night we took the boys to Chili's to celebrate...and because I had a coupon. I am very proud to say that I am turning into my mother a little more every day. We enjoyed free chips and salsa while we waited for our food. Isaiah actually liked the salsa, so much that I moved the bowl closer to him. The boys did pretty well, despite all of the distractions. And I enjoyed not having to cook for the night. We are thankful for the big and small blessings that we have received this week.

Atticus making a silly face, Dan decided to copy him...

Big "smile" from Isaiah

A salsa lover

Sleeping Bags and Special Treats

The other day the boys found Dan's sleeping bag in the closet. So naturally we had to open it up and try it out. I tried to explain what camping was to the boys- no we have not tried to go camping with our two-year-old twins yet, we are not that brave. But they did have a blast playing in the sleeping bag.

Atticus

Isaiah joining in the fun

Sleeping bag made for two

Margie- my dear friend and Covenant roommate came to see us yesterday and brought the boys shamrock cookies. If you can't tell by the picture, they really enjoyed them. It was so sweet of her and very much appreciated by the boys. Sadly I did not take a picture with her when she came, but she got a couple to commemorate her afternoon with the Adams boys.

Enjoying their cookies from Miss Margie

Life for now

Dan has been renovating our bedroom- I only asked him to paint the walls, but this turned into a much bigger project very quickly. We have the dreaded popcorn ceilings throughout the entire house. In our bedroom the ceiling looked particularly bad because the previous owner had stepped through the ceiling (according to our current neighbors) and did a horrible job of patching the popcorn. These are the types of things that we noticed AFTER we bought our house....anyway Dan wanted to take down the popcorn ceiling. Another quirk about our bedroom was that there was a square 80's recessed lighting- that really should not have even been called a light because it gave of less light than a candle- seriously. But to make it worse there was an oddly placed fan (with no light) about two feet away from the recessed light. I am not sure if the oddly placed fan was part of the previous owners "improvements" but I wouldn't doubt it. So Dan wanted to remove the popcorn, he had already taken down the strange fan, and turn the recessed light into a light box for a normal, center of the room ceiling fan with light. This project has taken so long because Dan usually only has a few hours to work on it at night, and some time on Saturday afternoon when I am not sleeping. (I work almost every Friday night, and try to sleep until at least 12 on Saturdays.)

So we have been living in the guest room- surrounded by chaos, and we are both trying very hard to be okay with the mess. I am proud of my husband- I think he has done a great job- so here are a few pictures (I wish I had taken more along the way) of the soon to be finished room. He is painting trim tonight, so hopefully we will be moved in sometime next week. I will post pictures of the completed project when its all finished.

Taking down the popcorn ceiling- tedious and messy

The new color and new ceiling

Where the old recessed light used to be

Tucking me in on Saturday morning- They tell me "Go to bed mommy" and then give me a kiss. A very slobbery kiss.

And lastly this is a very random picture that doesn't really fit with this post, but I got a kick out of it.

This is how my nephew Thomas smiles- I promise that he is not normally this "happy". The boys wanted to try on my head bands today.

Warmer weather

We enjoyed the warm weather that came through a few weeks ago. We spent most of our waking hours outside playing in the sunshine. It has been a dreary cold winter, which has been hard on my outdoor boys. So thankful that Spring is finally here!

Isaiah jamming on the porch with his racket guitar.

Atticus going exploring

Our senior pastor, Jack, recently celebrated 25 years of ministry at our church- wow! We had an awesome time at the party that the church threw for him. The boys enjoyed the dessert the most. :)

More cake please!

A lot of mornings the boys wake up ready to go. The other morning they both were asking for their capes at 7 am, so we had two super heros for breakfast.

Isaiah and Atticus

Dan's parents came to see us at the end of February, which was wonderful! We even went out on a date and ate a meal at a really fabulous restaurant in Augusta that is owned by a friend from church. If you are ever visiting Augusta you should try Frog Hollow- it was awesome!

Atticus with Grandmother

Isaiah with Granddaddy

And finally this is the way the boys chose to end their day. Reading stories with their daddy- hats were a requirement for story time.