Jaycie at one month

Yesterday Miss Jaycie turned one month old......she is still so tiny but growing so fast.

Petit Jean for a day........

Yesterday Bobby and I went for a short day trip to Petit Jean State Park. the weather was wonderful....not too hot and humid. We only had time for a few short hikes, but did get to see the Cedar Falls that I had been told about.....it was worth the hike, but not very photographable due to all the people behind the falls.....makes picture taking kinda hard. Lots of people enjoying the same hike as us =). Out of sheer stupidity I suppose I wore my fat baby boots for hiking thinking boots would be good for that....NOT.....so I wore blisters on my feet in a short 2 hour hike so that kinda put a damper on any further hiking yesterday.....Maybe we will go again with hiking shoes on next time............... Bird in flight.....

This is an old water tower.....I love the door!

The Cedar Falls hike was worth going for........

Bobby at Cedar Falls

Lots of hikers visiting the same spot as us............... made for a very busy trail.

I'm thinking this is kind of the half way mark on the trail.....seemed like it to us anyway! I liked this little bridge for some reason.....

This was the forst trail we took......very deceptive.....we thought we would save ourselves the actual hike to the falls if we could see the falls from here......ummmmm....not really, just a very small view of the very top of the falls, but not enough to get a good picture.....maybe in the late fall or winter you might be able to see it from this trail but not in the summer.....was a nice walkway though....

Petit Jeans grave.........such a sad story

The Legend of Petit Jean, and how the mountain received its name, begins in the 1700's with the story of a young French Nobleman, Chavet, who lived during the period of the French exploration of the New World. He requested permission to explore a part of the Louisiana Territory, and for a grant to claim part of the land. The King granted Chavet’s approval. Chavet was engaged to be married to a beautiful young girl form Paris, Adrienne Dumont. When told of his plans, she asked that they be married right away so she could accompany him. Thinking of the hardship and danger on the journey, Chavet refused her request, telling her upon his return if the country was good and safe, they would be married and go to the New World. Adrienne refused to accept his answer, and disguised herself as a cabin boy and applied to the captain of Chavet's ship for a position as a cabin boy, calling herself Jean. The girl must have been incredibly clever in her disguise, for it is said that not even Chavet recognized her. The sailors called her Petit Jean, which is French for Little John. The ocean was crossed in early spring; the vessel ascended the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River, to the foot of the mountain. The Indians on the mountain came to the river and greeted Chavet and invited the sailors to spend time on the mountain. Chavet, Petit Jean, and the sailors spent the summer atop Petit Jean Mountain until fall approached and they began preparations for their voyage back to France. The ship was readied and boarded the evening before departure. That night, Petit Jean became ill with a sickness that was strange to Chavet and his sailors. It was marked with fever, convulsions, delirium, and finally coma. Her condition was so grave at daylight that the departure was delayed. During the illness, Petit Jean's identity was, of course, discovered. The girl confessed her deception to Chavet and begged his forgiveness. She requested that if she died, to be carried back to the mountaintop that she had spent her last days on, and be buried at a spot overlooking the river below. The Indians made a stretcher out of deerskins and bore her up the mountain. At sundown, she died. Many years later a low mound of earth was found at the point we now call Petit Jean's Grave. Her legend, her death, is said to give the mountain and the overlook an enchanting and delightful quality that draws visitors back again and again.

View from Petit Jean gravesite area..... Another view from the same area........

It was nice to get away....we really enjoyed ourselves on this mini trip!

This little girl is changing and growing so fast. Seems like her looks change from day to day and her cheeks are getting so fluffy! I made her a new tutu because the other one was too big even though it was very small but I still haven't figure out how to get some good shots with it and her....she wiggles so much to be so little! Anyway once again brother was napping {and we don't bother him when he is napping} so we only got a few of Jaycie.

I like this one...even though you can't see much of the tutu! Her little piggies look chubby here but they really are not{YET!}

love this expression!

I love this little hat that my friend Susan made......

That's all for now......we are in Revival all this week and so far it has been wonderful every service!!! I'm looking forward to tonights service and the rest of the week. Have a wonderful Tuesday =)

Wow!!! I can hardly believe it's Wednesday already..... this week is going by so fast! Me and Bobby took my mom to Little Rock yesterday and on the way home stopped by the cutest little town called Gilbert that a friend from work Sylvia had told me about a while back.....Not much there but it sure is cute.....and I didn't take a single picture but I do plan to go

back sometime .........

so I'll share some pictures of Kayden from the weekend and Jaycie{not from the weekend but from last week sometime}

He was eating Doritos and watching "Cars" one of his favorite movies!

got these pics while Kayden was playing with his car in the dirt......Not sure how he got out with only his pull-up and no shorts but he did.....he spent a big part of Sunday afternoon outside following Papa around and playing in the dirt...

I found the cutest vintage texture on Flickr and tried it out....I love it!

Bathroom makeover......

Well, we finally finished one of the two bathrooms this past week.....Bobby gave up a large part of his vacation to help me with this but I think he would have rather been fishing! He did a great job......we are still waiting on more beadboard to come in to finish the small bathroom but here is what we have done so far!

This is the before pictures.....this room was long overdue for some fixing up.....I think I put the wall paper up about 9 or 10 years ago.....uuuugh.....that's a long time....anyway the paper was starting to rollup at the seams either because I didn't do the seams good enough or because of all the steam from the showers over the years{either way it looked bad}

We were going to just take down the 3 layers of wallpaper but decided it would be much quicker to just put up the beadboard and paint it.....HAH!!!!! I think it took just as long if not longer this way but I sure do like the way it looks now......

The new look!

Still looking for the right shower curtain so for now just the plain liner will have to do....It's hard to find a red that matches and I'm just not sure about putting that much black in there! We love the new faucet{still a little touch up work to be done by the door and tub, but other than that I think it's done}

Me and Bree have had a cabinet picked out for months to put in the bathroom for storage but it sold out and we can't find another one like it so I opted for this cute little thing to hold the towels and the plus side of it is that we won't be cluttering it up with unnessary things because it just won't hold them! Some things just work out for the best! =)

Josh and Melissa gave me this picture for Christmas and I love it!!!! I am glad I have the perfect place for it now!!! I am hoping to do the the other wall with pictures of my family with western hats/boots etc. on...we'll see!

Have a wonderful Monday!!!!!

at our house this week......

Sharing a few pictures from our home this week......

{Josh taking a break from working in the shop} Bree and Kayden have been having fun in the pool.......

Kayden loves the pool....he is a water duck.....He calls his floaties his spider man muscles =) plus he has one of those swimsuits that have the built in floatation so between that and his "muscles" he stays above water and that's the way we like it!!!

Kayden is trying out the baby bouncy seat....I don't think he realizes that is was his once{and he didn't like it then}

Jaycie just being adorable.....me and Bree had fun taking pictures of her while her mommy worked on homework and Kayden napped.......

so loveable...............

We have been re-doing bathrooms this week and it's .....ummmmm.....a job.......our just re-painting has turned into a project, but it's looking great so hopefully I will have pictures to post of that soon.......poor Bobby is using a large part of his week vacation to help with this project{I think he'sd rather be fishing=) }