Sharks Teeth

Jolene Perkins, shark tooth expert extraordinaire, treated us to a delightful day at the beach to her special shark tooth finding location this weekend. Bailey and Calvin were ecstatic to find over 20 shark teeth each!

Little Beauty

As Bailey nears her 8th birthday, and her baptism date, May 2, the excitement is hardly containable! I took her to the beach yesterday to take some pictures in her white dress. She is so excited! It was a windy day but the lighting was great! We are so excited to see all our family next week!

Philadelphia Here We come!

Here is a picture of our HOUSE TO BE, come June. We are thrilled it is not a "fixer-upper" even though it is Two hundred and nine years old! Pretty good updates huh? We are taking suggestions for a new color scheme on the exterior paint.


I love that this house has 4 bedrooms and a lot of basement storage. The Lord really prepared it for us. It was on the market all last year, and the owners just dropped the price into our price range the week we were in Philly house hunting. The neighborhood is amazingly organized and community centered. We are looking forward to joining in the annual neighborhood traditions: Christmas time Luminaries, Fall Block Party with pony rides and hay rides, Summer 4th of July parade for kids, Spring Yard Sale and Neighborhood Playgroups. I feel right about where we will be raising our kids.

Here is a little tour of the house. When you come in the front door the staircase is on front of you. The Living Room is to your left and the Dining Room is to your right.

Behind the Dining Room is this cute little kitchen. We will be adding a pantry as those are the only cupboards. Nice stainless steel countertops and appliances!

This is the family room off the kitchen. Larry loves the wood burning stove. I love that we will not freeze if the power goes out! This room will be multi-purpose: Azalea's playroom and Daddy's office.

Another view of the kitchen, with me getting friendly with Paula the owner. You can see this stone wall is the original exterior wall of the house before this kitchen and family room were added on. The cute door behind me exits to the side of the house facing the street. A cute little side entrance to the kitchen.
French doors lead to the backyard, where the cute stone patio set will stay. I love it!



The big backyard where Calvin will probably catch 1000 bugs before all is said and done in 2012!