Just Some Pics from July

Summer has flown by and school starts in a week! Here are some pictures from July just to show how grown up our girls are getting.

New Family Member

Well, we have a new family member. We inadvertently adopted a new dog a couple of months ago. His name is Jake and he appears to be a German shorthair. Bubba found Jake at a truck stop one morning and inquired with the employees as to who he belonged to. They told him Jake had been roaming the lot for at least three days and no one had tried to take him home. So Bubba loaded him up and after a couple of unsuccessful attempts to find him a good home, Jake was turned over to a local rescue group that we are personally involved with. Being shorthanded the owner of the rescue group called Laura and asked if she wouldn't mind transporting Jake to an adoption day and dropping him off. Once he arrived at the adoption site, it was discovered that Jake had an injured paw and needed some TLC for the weekend and guess who volunteered?
Once he arrived at our house, the girls fell in love with this very sweet natured boy and the rest is history. Tiger and Buddy the Beagle still aren't excited about our new family member, but they are tolerating him.

Welcome to the Columbia Fam Jake!

Southeastern Tour

Last week we returned from a tour of the coast. We started with a visit to Isle of Palms

with the "girlfriends", made our way to Beaufort and ended up in Hilton Head

to visit our friends (and Jac's Godparents) the Regans. What a wonderful trip!!

While we were at IOP, Sarah put her mad photo skills to work and took these excellent

pics of the little ones. There's no better way to remember this great trip!

Thanks Sarah!!

Little Musicians

Check out these cute little pianists....they look so big!

Just another Saturday morning

Doesn't everyone dress like this to go out on Saturdays?

Jac Jac is 2!

Dear Jacqueline,

Happy 2nd birthday! I cannot believe it has been two years since the Good Lord blessed us with a second beautiful little girl. This past year has been an exciting year as you are finally coming into your own. With an older sister you are having to discover who you are and you are finally beginning to bloom and stand up for yourself. I am not sure your sister likes this very much, but I get a kick out of it. You are FINALLY starting to talk and put complete sentences together and we are so happy to be past the pointing and grunting stage. You are a very indenpendent little girl, but at the same time if your sister is close by, you are eager to do the same things she does. You are also a very loving and sweet little girl, as is evident in how much you love to be around your cousin Liam.

This past year, you have started going to "school" and are growing to love that. The teachers are always impressed with how well you clean up. You saw your first real snow fall, but you weren't quite sure what that was about. Well the snowball fights and running around were going on, you were keeping to yourself making a little snow pile from all the snow that was at your height. You have even started going to the Little Gym with Mommy once a week and you love that! Right now your favorite word is NO! And can you believe that you are already past taking naps.

Jac, you continue to brighten our hearts everyday with your smile and laugh. No matter how hard Mommy and Daddy try to stay mad at you, your cute looks always get you out of trouble. We love you very much!

Happy Birthday Monkey!!!!!

Love,

Daddy

Finally some snow!

So we finally got some snow here in Columbia and it has been more than we could ask for! Delainey is so excited and Jac is just trying to take it all in. Snow ball fights have been a plenty with the Columbia Fam! It is just Friday night with the snow continuing to fall, we look forward to seeing what we wake up to Saturday morning.

SNOW!

Even Buddy the dog is diggin the snow

I can't get up!

I'm going to get you Momma!

There is so much snow and her legs are so short, she literally gets stuck in one place

Snowball throwing queen!

Somewhere in there is Jac

Trying to sled with a cardboard box

Just in case the snow tries to get her while she sleeps