Mortgage FREE!

We are officially MORTGAGE FREE! That is for a few months anyway. Carl and I closed on our house last Thursday afternoon. We have begun the process of having a house built in Hendersonville. In the meantime, we have literally STUFFED all of our belongings into a 20x20 storage facility(except for Baylee's crib and our clothing) and we have moved in with Carl's grandmother. We were told that the builders would have the home completed in 90 days...so we shall see. We are a bit cramped having 5 people and 1 large dog in a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom house but we are managing. We are just so very appreciative to have a place to stay for the next 3 months. Tonight Carl and I are going to the Selections Meeting and picking out EVERYTHING from the brick color, flooring, cabinets, counter tops, ect. Very excited!

Just hanging out...

Saturday afternoon Baylee and I headed to Green Hills to visit Holly. We stayed for a few hours and then headed home. Baylee was SOOO very sleepy and I wanted to be home to see the kick-off for the LSU v. Mississippi State game. Carl rode up to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the game and Maw Maw Dot was at work so Baylee and I just hung out with Maw until bedtime ;) I couldn't get a single picture with both of them looking at me. Silly girl...

Baylee pulled out a photo album the other night and Daddy was flipping through it telling Baylee who each person was. Of course being little miss busy body she would let him do it, let alone sit down long enough to look at them all.

Rub-a-dub-dub

Besides playing outside, bath time is Baylee's FAVORITE time of day. She is less than happy when it is time to get out. I took this photos Wednesday night. To keep her occupied while I dried her off, greased her down with lotion, and got her dressed I thought I would see if I could get a laugh out of her. I asked her "What does Santa Claus say?"...followed by me saying "HO HO HO". After a few times I would ask the same question "Baylee, what does Santa Claus say?" and she would say "HO HO HO"...it was more like "hu hu hu" but she got the concept. I am hoping by December we will have it down pat.

so BIG!

We spent most of our Saturday morning packing and moving. Carl said that he HAD to be in front of a TV by 2:00 because he wanted to watch Tennessee v. Florida and then LSU v. Auburn at 6:30. Carl's Uncle Johnny came over Saturday morning and helped Carl load up all of the heavy items that I could not lift. They made a couple of trips to the storage building and then headed to Uncle Johnny's house to help him unload our couches that he took off of our hands. Baylee and I drove to Alison and Ray's. The boys (Carl and Ray) met up at Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the game while Alison and I did a little shopping.

This cracks me up. RJ has NEVER taken a pacifier; HOWEVER, he loves Baylee's and she will sometimes share.

RJ doing his BIG BOY SMILE with the paci in his mouth. Baylee is very into acting grown up these days. She loves sitting in chairs made for her size. RJ has a little table and chair set and she loves it. However; she is VERY stingy and kept pulling the chairs away from RJ. little cheeser!Baylee was very into this toy. However; RJ wanted to ride with her.....And THIS is what happened next..Yep...he decided to crawl right on and sit in Baylee's lap. Obviously by the look on her face she was not happy! I had my camera sitting in my lap at the time so Ray told me to snap a picture real quick. I then lifted RJ off of Baylee and she was fine. He is QUITE a load on her tiny chicken legs ;).

As you can see from the picture below she quickly forgave him. She even offered him some of her ravioli.

We had a GREAT day with the Russell's. I am COUNTING down the days until Averly's arrival!