Jeffrey in the News

I have to brag on Jeffrey James;  he made the newspaper today in Baton Rouge!  Jeff has been designing T-shirts and doing some freelance graphic design work for a few months now and the store that sells his shirts had a fundraiser fashion show earlier in the week. The newspaper did a feature story on it and one of his shirts was pictured. Here's the link!  

You have to scroll to the second picture in the photo line-up and it says that the shirt is by Au-si, which is the name of his design company.  His company is also listed in the article itself.  We had no idea that it was going to be in the paper, but my mom called me this afternoon to tell me that Jeff's shirt made it into the People section; we were surprised and excited to see it on the cover page!  

As a side note, the name of his company has a sweet back-story.  Caroline's two first real words were "outside" and "guitar" (is she her father's daughter or what?).  "Outside" in Caroline-speak sounded more like "au-si", and so a company name was born!  

I'm so proud of you, Jeffrey James!  

We're taking a road trip!

A very, very long road trip. Well, if it was up to Caroline we'd be taking a very long road trip. We are actually heading to Nashville soon to see friends, and Caroline has been really excited about flying in an airplane to get there. Granted, she thinks we are also going to be skydiving from the airplane, but I'm sure the disappointment that we will be walking onto and off of the airplane will die down once we're in the air.

As we were saying prayers last night, Caroline said, "And God, I am going to fly to Cooper's house and then I want to drive to see Santa and New York and then we will drive to you in Heaven." I wasn't quite sure how to respond to that, so I didn't.

Pray for this baby

You can click on the button to go to his mom's blog where you can read his story. Apparently things are not going well for him today.

Finally

Spring is finally here and we've been spending some time outside in the afternoons, taking advantage of the day light and nice weather.  So, I'm finally getting a few minutes to put some updated pictures of the girls up!  Like I said in my last post, we've just been busy, but we are doing well.  In addition to spending time outside, the season of life where our weekends are overtaken by birthday parties has begun; so between spending time and money at Target and Wal-Mart and weekend afternoons at bouncy birthday places, I haven't had much free time on the weekends!  Caroline enjoys it though, and I suppose that's all part of growing up, for both her and us.  

Charlotte is changing just about every week.  She is a truly happy baby who loves to smile and (almost) laugh.  It's hard to believe she is about to be four months old, but every day I look at Caroline, it is a testament to the cliche that "time flies".  Charlotte has never been a big fan of the pacifier, she usually only wants it when she's ready for a nap, unlike Caroline who couldn't leave home without it.  I had a feeling Charlotte would be a thumb-sucker instead of the pacifier loving baby that her sister was, and she proved me right this past week and found her thumb!  

Caroline has moved up to the "big kids" class at school and she is really loving being there.  She had started to say in recent weeks that she was still with "some babies" in her class at school, and now that is no longer the case!  They've been working on writing letters and recognizing words a little more than they did in her previous class, and I she is enjoying the challenge of that.  She comes home and wants to "do homework" now and practice all of the skills they are teaching her at school.  Caroline is still growing like a weed and I am not sure how we are going to continue to clothe this child, she grows out of clothes faster than I ever imagined a child could.  She has also gotten back into the habit of making up songs which is entertaining for all of us.  

Caroline and Jeff ran another kids' race this weekend and they had a great time running it with friends.  After the race, there was a DJ playing music for the after party and Caroline had to join in the Cupid Shuffle, proud moment for us!  

March 18

Sorry for the long silence and break from posting pictures of the girls. I have a ton of pictures on my camera waiting to be uploaded to the computer. Life is just busy right now, but I'll try to get some updates on here this weekend!

On a totally different note, I had a bit of a shock this week on Tuesday when I got to work. As I walked in the door, I found out that a friend and co-worker died very unexpectedly. She was young, only 47, and just didn't wake up Tuesday morning. She was a truly caring person who always stopped by to check in and visit with me. I really miss her smile and laugh. She leaves behind her husband and two sons. If you would keep her family in your prayers right now, I know they need them. It is a reminder to me that life is so fragile; we have no idea what each day will hold.

Whoa.

I never read Atlas Shrugged in school. I vaguely remember it being on an optional reading list for summer reading in high school, but I guess I picked something else off of the list. I'm adding it to my book waiting list that I'm running right now. I just finished one book, so I'm now reading three; I'd like to shrink the list down to one before I pick up another. In any event, I read this article today and I'm intrigued. This one might have to jump to the top of the list and pass up Mr. Lehrer's new book that I wrote about a week or so ago.

Give-away!

Beth is giving away three blog makeovers at her blog! If I don't win (fingers crossed) one of them, I'm going to have her makeover my blog the old-fashioned way (by paying her to do it). Check out her work and if you have a blog enter to win!