36 weeks

We are almost there! I think these 2 are excited! Maybe Caleb is just ready to have my lap back to sit on while reading books. Eli is just ready for his birthday that he has been counting down to for the past 58 days. We are ready. This was all God's deal (I keep reminding him of that!), so I know baby boy #3 will arrive at the appointed time. Until then, I'm soaking up moments with these two who have been my constant companions for the past 3 years! Love them so.

Tara

12 Months of Giving: August

For our 12 months of giving project in August, we collecting pencils for The Pencil Project, you can read all about it here. We collected pencils at our last Wacky Wednesday event and ended up with over 1,000 pencils. I was so proud of Eli, he made a poster to advertise to our friends about the project. Here is the poster - flying pencils with retractable wheels - how creative!

Next, we boxed them up at mailed them to the Rising Fountains Development Program in Zambia, Africa! The pencils will then be distributed. Here is a quote from the director that I got in an email "The pencils will go a long way to assist the pupils in schools who do not have access to pencils, books, and of course other school requisites." Wow, a little pencil can make an impact! We will definitely be doing this again next year!

Tara

Lame O

Okay, so basically, I am a lame O blogger. Not that anyone cares really, but I look at the length of time between blog posts and I think, how boring am I. Not that it is going to get any better in the upcoming months =), but I just wanted you to know, that I know!

Caleb started Mother's Day Out last week, which has gone well so far! So, I have had a few glorious hours to myself the past couple of weeks! I've gotten some cleaning done, some decorating done, some errand running done, some birthday party planning done - it's been nice. So I thought I would share some of my recent POTD (Picture of the day) for my project life book I am working on for 2010 - see this post for more details. So love doing this for my family and it has been pretty easy to keep up with (pregnancy and all) .

Eli and Emma spent most of Labor Day weekend with Papa & Pamma - just the 2 of them! They loved it and it was pretty much all about them! These 2 are just crazy about each other - I so love the bond they have!

A peek at the finished alphabet wall and the corner of Baby Hall's room. I hate to brag, but I pretty much love how it turned out! When all is said and done, that red chair will have rocked 3 very special boys and heard many, many books over and over again!

Our first real live "out in the wild" tarantula sighting! It was literally on the street in front of my parents house! They boys were thrilled and it was all they could talk about. You know you have boys when you whip the car into the grass, unbuckle everyone from their seats and climb out with your camera. They boys wanted me to get it off the road so it wouldn't get smushed! Thankfully, it found it's own way!

Wednesday is trash day - Caleb always says "I want to see a garbage truck today". So, we look for them everywhere - we happened to be home when ours came by this week. It was a good day!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Tara