For those of you unfamiliar with the likes of this: this is a POSITIVE pregnancy test!! Yes, we are expecting another child!!!

Ah, and now please excuse the cheesy tear-jerky mother/ daughter/grandaughter moment:

"It takes many genrations to keep a garden alive!"

My mother brought me an aster for our new back yard and wanted to plant it together. She even brought a cute little garden turtle that Esther thought looked much nicer as one of her toys.

Esther and grandma Ciccarelli at Loch Raven reservoir















Esther crouching over the reservoir, debating whether or not to get in..













Esther IN the reservoir, no one to sop her..(but somehow this picture was taken..)

Esther gives baby Hope a big kiss.

Esther and her friends.
Here they are getting dirty/sticky with watermelon at the party












and getting clean afterwards.

Bathroom with new pedestal sink


The
kitchen that we haven't done anything to yet.
That will be after David installs the new windows throughout the house. WE have cabinets in the basement and we'll get new tile for the floor and new counter tops. It will be so nice!!

Dining room


living room( w/out rug and new love seat cover)








Other view of living room

More pictures.
This first one is our bedroom








This is the spare/new baby's room






This dark room is Esther's room.
And the stairs that we labored so much over.
They're glorious now!!

Camden and Esther have so much fun together. They were jumping and dancing on the stairs

We call it "Eating like an animla" night.


























It's fun when the peas actually make it in the nose!

She climbed up on the table to take a little nap. Lookhow long she is!

Esther and her friend played inthe rain. Who is that girl?? It's Tumas looking a lot like Camden in his pink sweater!

Esther meets Grandma Hinds for the first time. Unfortunatley this is not the best depiction of either of them.






Here they are- the two most handsome men at the wedding!! And they're gonna "pump you up"











and Eliza graced us with the many cartwheels throughout the night.



ah yes.. and the "rock" video. I still have to find a way to upload videos. It's worth the wait though

Esther went to visit her great-grandparents last week. It was reported that she was actually calm in grandpa Nagy's lap. I'm baffled!

Esther has been learning a lot of new skills lately. One of them is blowing bubbles. Although she did in fact blow bubbles a few times (with Daddy's help!) she still enjoys the taste of the bubbles more than the activity!




























Here she is tasting the bubbles! (isn't her daddy handsome!!!)

Esther has been doing a lot of reading lately. She just loves her books. WE always find her in various places talking to different pages, totally content!