Corinne's First Haircut

Corinne got her first "official" haircut Friday afternoon. She was excited about it until it was time to climb into the chair. Two of the stylists, Brent and I did some fast talking and kept her calm. One of the ladies gave Corinne her cell phone to hold. That did the trick! And I had candy in my pocket for those moments when her bottom lip started to quiver:) It didn't take more than two minutes to get her "baby mullet" cut off! Now she looks like such a big girl with a little "bob".

Tent City

I went on a women's retreat with my church to Ridgecrest (near Asheville, NC) the first weekend of August. I left at lunchtime Friday and got home just before bedtime Sunday night. When I got home, I found "Tent City" in our playroom. (I guess a better name would be "Comforter Town".) Hannah and Brock spent three nights there before I sent in the demolition crew on Monday.

Needless to say the kids had a great time with Dad all weekend. I think they missed me a little bit though. That's what I'm telling myself anyway:)

All the Freeland Family

We were in Tenn in July and took this family photo at the 4th of July picnic. I snagged it off Brian and Debbie's blog today. Stephen, Connie and Jess are on the left. We're in the middle. Brian, Debbie and Jessica are on the right. Of course that's Nana and Pawpaw standing behind us.

"Come See Us"

My cousin, Dodie, and her family moved from Penn to Minnesota last month. She mailed out a card with their new info. The card read something like "The Johnson family has moved to Minnesota. Come see us in our new home!" Brock was reading the card to me and said, "Hey, Mom, they said 'come see us'. When can we go? Maybe for dinner?" I told him that was a little too far away for dinner but maybe sometime on vacation. Brock is looking forward to our Minnesota vacation:)

Pirates of Youngsville

Hannah and Brock disappeared upstairs for about 30 or 40 mintues one afternoon while I was cooking dinner. I could hear lots of laughing and playing over the monitor so I didn't pay much attention to them. They were playing nicely so why interrupt!? When I called them downstairs for dinner, this is what we saw...

Brent told Hannah she looks more like a librarian but she insists she's a pirate.