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We have had a busy and fun week:

Monday: We went to the gym in the morning, and then I decided to clean out my entire closet and put all my winter and summer clothes in bins and get all my maternity clothes out and hang them up. This took from like 5 pm to 9 pm...exhausting but rewarding to get it all organized and cleaned out.

Tuesday: In the morning, we went over to the Northeast side of town and went shopping with Mimi. We have this huge white wall and I could not look at for another week. Charlie's mom, Mimi, is very creative and talked about putting floating shelves on the wall above our desk. I want to make the entire white wall just pictures of our family in chronological order. I hope to post pictures of the these shelves and the new frames I got and hear your opinion on how I should decorate the huge white wall. We had a great time with Mimi. Jackson had fun at Chick Fil A (he even got brave enough to climb up the playground equipment). Tuesday night we stayed up late trying to install these new floating shelves that we got at Lowe's and put them above our desk (I got all the great frames at Michaels).

Wednesday: Gym in the morning, church at night and again trying to install the shelves and we again did not get to bed till late

Thursday: In the morning, I cleaned and vacuumed the entire house, cleaned out the guest room. Then, our great friend from Sumter, Carol, come to stay with us and we had a great time. This picture is of Carol and Jackson and Jackson loved saying her name and seeing her.

Friday: Carol and I went shopping to Marshall's, Once Upon a Child, and back to Michaels for me to exchange this one frame that had a mark on it. At Once Upon a Child Jackson found this golf club and ball with it and was not letting go of it. He pushed this little plastic golf club around the entire store...so of course we had to get it. I have a feeling I am going to be going to a lot of ball games in my life. Jackson loves any game that has a ball with it.

Not to many people's surprise who know me, but I have already bought Abigail three bows at Once Upon a Child (for $1.50 each which is the best price I can find) and I have only known that I am having a girl for like 11 days. Two white bows and one pink one. I am pretty obsessed with bows (bows are even our our everyday china) and so me having a girl is very dangerous for our budget. I need to learn how to make these bows, pronto. Abigail's theme will be bows and her monogram initials. Right now, the plan for her room is to have bows as the border of her room and then Charlie is going to paint the room a light pink color and then we are going to try to paint her monogram initials on the wall. I am so excited about her room! Carol bought Abigail the cutest little outfit...I have no idea how to shop for little girl outfits but I am quickly learning.

Friday afternoon/night: We dropped Jackson off at Clinton (halfway to Spart.) to spend the weekend with my parents. He was excited to see my parents and he does not even want to be with me when my dad is around...he just wants my dad to hold him. Crazy, but this is such a blessing. I am so blessed that they want to keep him once a weekend a month...it is a great break for us especially now that I am pregnant. Finally, tonight we went to the Rhinehart's house for the deacon family picnic. We had a great time fellowshipping with everyone and really being able to talk to everyone without worrying about Jackson. We have absolutely no plans for tomorrow and I am so excited about that!

Just thought yall might like a update on our busy fun week (this is definitely not our typical week).