Wow, It's Been Awhile!

This is the first picture of the house in July. I love little Drew running by!
Aaron ( our high school helper) Will, Joe and Mark putting up the wall between the house and garage.

The house kind of how it looks now. They built the front porch this weekend so it looks a bit different now!

Drew swinging on our trip to the apple orchards in Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago.

Papa Mark, Drew and Daddy

Using his mo, mo at the house.

Brushing his teeth like a big boy!

This was one of my shirts when I was little!

Mowing the yard with Daddy. Better safe than sorry!

He loves to wear his "hat" around the house and around the neighborhood!

Driving with Mac.

See, I told you he loves to wear his "hat"!

Pretending to drive another new favorite activity.

Hanging out on Bebo's side of the fence for awhile.

Corn on the cob for the first time. Yum!

It has been awhile since I've blogged. Sorry to everyone that has wondered if we feel off the face of the earth! Well, we haven't! The summer was awesome and we really enjoyed our time off.

We went on vacation to Minnesota like we always do. We made a few trips to Ottumwa, and of course to the pool. Drew loved swimming at all the different water parks. He especially enjoyed going down "big boy" waterslides.

In July we broke ground on our new house! Joe and his dad are building our dream home just on the edge of town here in Tripoli. We will be able to see the golf course out our huge living room windows (Joe's dream!) It is going to be a ranch with a catwalk loft. So far things are going very well. They hope to have the roof completed after next weekend.

Drew is very busy growing and learning. He says new words everyday and is very independent. He likes to pick out his shoes, brush his own teeth and has recently started trying to zip his own coat. I plan on potty training him over Christmas break.