Tuesday, February 24, 2009

USS North Carolina and Wrightsville Beach

This ship is HUGE. The guns were quite overwhelming. They said that nobody could be up there when they would shoot them or it would throw them off the ship.
Mar was nervous to touch the wheel. She just knew that any minute they were going to crank that ship up and take us out to sea. She's such a wimp

They like eachother sometimes.

Mar thought it was important that we pick up every single shell on the beach. Rylee thought it was even more important that she take them out of the bucket when Mar was looking and throw them into the water

Here's Donnie, shooting down some Japs.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Our little Thelma's gone :(

Thelma Armstrong Hurd
November 16, 2007 - February 15, 2009


Sunday afternoon Thelma was hit by a car. One of the girls didn't shut the gate tight and she got out while we were at Donnie's mom's house. To look at her you would have never known that she was hurt, it was all internal. Our hearts are broken and we miss our little Thel. We had her one year and one day, but it seems like we've lost a family member. Please keep the girls in your prayers....especially Rylee. She doesn't understand why we left her best friend in Tennessee.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Cookies...Donnie style

Donnie and the girls made chocolate chip cookies the other day. They were as homemade as cookies get around here. You take the bucket out of the fridge and you spoon the contents onto a baking pan. Wa-la.....cookies.
This is Donnie making a science out of it. I'm not sure why he thought you had to make them in to perfectly round balls. But somewhere during this process one of Marlys' 8 foot long strands of hair made it's way in to MY cookie. It was very convenient. I was able to eat a cookie and floss at the same time.

I promise you....if these had been meant for someone other than us, my naked finger-licking children would not be involved, there would be no hair in the cookies, and the dog would not have been a part of it.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Yay! It's done!



So So Close to Being Done!




Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Kitchen's Done!


Sunday, February 1, 2009

And So It Begins...








Tomorrow I should have a fabulous update on the progress.....