Proud to be an American...

It is Friday night and my sweet husband just got home from Germany. He had to go there for work and man, did I miss him. It was my first time by myself with my 3 girls- I mean all by myself. I did pretty good I must say but right now I am MENTALLY pooped. In fact, right when he got home, he had to take M to her soccer practice and S wanted to go too. So me and D took the opportunity to take a little nap. Well in that 45 minutes, I slept SO hard that when the pizza guy came to deliver our pizza, I didn't hear him knock or hear the doorbell ring. How crazy is that? Luckily I heard something and woke up and was able to get our dinner:0)... I am sitting here watching a documentary on 9/11 and it is just the saddest thing ever. It just makes me so mad that our country was attacked but scary that someone out there HATES us that much that they wanted to kill civilians. They are showing these people and everything was so normal and then, BAM, the entire world changed in an instant. I am so thankful for our troops fighting our freedom that is so precious. I am so very proud to be an American!!

Darcy Jean Austin is here!

What blessings we are feeling right now! D J is here and healthy as a little horse. She came into this world on Wednesday, August 12th at5:27 pm. Mommy had a SUPER easy labor (don't hate me:0) and we came home on Friday, Aug. 14th. She weighed 7 lbs, 11oz. and was 20 inches long. We are just so thankful for this little miracle. Her sisters ADORE her, in fact, Maggie doesn't want anyone else to hold her and S brought her a drinky yogurt with a purple swirly straw to have as her first drink at home. Soph informed me "Mom she doesn't want to drink that (I was nursing) she wants the drinky yogurt"- hilarious. We've been surrounded by awesome friends and family coming over to see our new little gift. Thanks for all the prayers- they were felt. God Bless this Sweet Girl! Thank You Jesus!

Lots of visitors came to see us at the hospital!

First bath at home. She didn't mind it at all...

Rei, Aunt S and EC holding D

R and B with our girl

This was a sweet one. She actually slept 5 hours her first night at home. We all just stayed in our PJ's all day- LOVE THOSE DAYS.

Big Sis Mags

B and L

Gigi kept the big girls while we were at the hospital with D. They had a ball- Camp Gigi is what I like to call it! Look how prissy Ms. S looks...

Daddy, Uncle J and our girl

In the car seat about to leave for home....

Aunt C

More sweet friends!

Aunt J

First official Family Photo

Daddy and his baby girl

This is what I call PURE LOVE!

Me about to go in to be induced... come on D!!



Aunt N with our girl


Gigi Poppy and D girl!

First Day of School for M.... 1st Grade!!!

M lost her top tooth on Saturday before 1st grade.... she was so excited. It TOTALLY changes her little look.... she's a little snaggletooth now:0)... I love it!

My big 1st grader....LOVES LOVES LOVES IT!

Showing off the missing tooth...

M getting on the big yellow school bus... I am so proud of her!

M Horse Camp, S's 4th birthday, my baby showers and more summer!!!

T's work gave him a suprise "gag" shower- let's just say we got some funny stuff.... For those of you who don't know- my sweet hubs works with mostly women and comes home to all women- God Bless him!!!

His co-worker Shelley made this awesome diaper cake and another of his coworkers wrote a hysterical poem.... it was very sweet of them to do this for us....

M at Horse Camp receiving her certificate... she LOVED horse camp and had a ball!

M with all of the other campers. She had so much fun and even learned to "trot" on her horse "Kemo"...

My sweet M on "Kemo"- on Friday of the camp, they did a cute little Horse Show- she was so proud of herself as were we! All of her cousins came to watch and she was just as proud as a little peacock!

My sweet S turned 4- what a pure delight she is- she just makes us all laugh and smile. She is really a fun kid and I am honored that I get to raise her!

Sweet M playing at Monkey Joes- all the kids had a ball- they were all sweaty and exhausted!

Group shot of all the youngins. We had yummy pizza and of course, a purple unicorn cake! That is S's favorite obsession... thank you Publix!

Some of the boyz that are S's best buds... such sweeties!

The purple unicorn cake!

My sweet girl- we surpised her with this litte tutu skirt for her birthday outfit- she looked just like a princess....

At my baby shower, my dear friend C and B's little girl E- E and D will be big buds!

Sweet plate that Nicole sent me- thanks Nicole! It made me cry:0)... I love it and can't wait to put it in her pink room!!!

Gooooooooooooooo Dawgs!! A sweet new Georgia Bulldog dress for D!

My sweet sis in law, sis and dear friend!

Look at all that yummy food!!!

Gigi and poppy and all the little kids and even a few extra of B's friends. They had everyone over to celebrate B's Teams WOrld Series win!! Go Kennesaw Titans!

Gigi bought funny teeth for everyone!

M and Daddy on their way to six flags! M earned a free ticket for doing so well in her reading and daddy took the day off to take her! What an awesome daddy!

During the week that S had Gymnastics camp, me and M did some pretty fun things... this is a pic of M and her "Julie" american girl doll eating lunch at the American Girl Bistro at Northpoint- so girlie and fun!

M and I enjoyed pedicures during the week too!

This is S and I's creation. During the week that M had horse camp, S and I did some fun stuff.... this was our baking day- we had sugar and flour all over the place but we had fun!

My sweet little baker....

Here is big mama (aka: Me) at about 8 and some months. I am "modeling" in front of our new minivan!!! Don't make fun- we love it! Automatic doors and trunk- I am in heaven!!!

My cool dude girlie girls!

Here is Sj sliding down the slide... you go girl!

Summa Time Goodies...

Happy 4th (well really 3rd) of July everyone! Thanks Pam and David for a great party! This was the same day we got our brand new mini-van:0)... Don't have photos of it yet but will post eventually...

Mags, Syd and Soph- best buds! Had lots of spend the nights with Syd over the Summer... so fun!

Me at Pinetree with lots of little girls literally singing to Darcy girl! How sweet. She always moves around when people sing:0)...

M and sweet D at her swim meet! These girls are so darn cute and close and it just makes me and Nicki smile. We love our D!

Me at 32 weeks... Come On D!!!

Cute daddy and his little girls!

My view.... hysterical but the truth.

All the cousins at the Florida Fish House... yum! We love Family Vacation!

VBS- what a great week...

Sweet Dixie Belle. This is our neighbors dog that we keep for them from time to time. She is a sweet dog and since Mommy is not ready for a dog AND a baby at the same time.... we like to think of Dixie as our part time doggie!

We had a bumper crop this year of cucumbers and tomaotes and squash... one night we made a dinner of all of very own home growned veggies- so fun! We ate more cucumbers this summer than ever- they were so yummy!

The girls and I decided to do a service project too which was fun.... we made 25 lunhes for the little kids at the homeless shelter. The girls loved decorating the bags and filling them up. I think we'll make that an A family tradition...

Soccer camp... this year both girls were able to do soccer camp at our church. In the Fall, both girls will be playing soccer too- so fun! M and her coach... from Scotland!

My little leftie...

Dancing at El Caporal- our little Mexican Restaraunt... they had a ball!

New dresses for big girls and their American girl babies...

M and her treasures from the Tellus museum in Cartersville.... such a neat place and a fun place for a field trip with our cousins! Thanks gigi!

S and her new found fossil

All the cousins and some big shark teeth!