Picture Overload!!

So I have not uploaded in a very long time!!  So here is the end of our summer, trips, pumpkin patch visits, Edventure visits, Mimi's birthdays and our sweet twin girls!!  We are so beyond blessed to have these precious 2!!  Sarah Anne is precious, wonderful sister to her bubbly, sweet, very attached little sister!!  So here we go....

My School Girl!!

Oh I love this big girl!!!

Birthday surprises!!

Nanny's special book!!

Sarah Anne spent a weekend in Charleston so Matt and I got to have a date weekend with our sweet baby!!

Look I eat like the big people!

HELLO I'M BECCA ANNE!!!

Picking up sister

Our sweet big girl!!

Cheese!!

School days!

Twin babies

Becca's bestest buddy!!

Sweet friends

These 2 ADORE each other!  It is so neat to see that even as babies children know and recognize their friends!!

Doing apple work!

Cutting

At the pumpkin patch!

And the other 2 bestest buds!!

Do you think they love each other?

Gainey/Norman Girls

Look at all these pumpkins!

Sweet girls

I don't know what was happening to Becca!!

So sweet

Love these 3!! (Molly was taking our picture)

Sweet cousin friends!

Here Harrison, have some of mine!!

"How do I get some of this?"

That phone is serious!!

Amy Monster and Beck-Beck!!

So sweet!!

Play time with Bubby!!

These 3 decided to celebrate my half birthday!!

My presents!!

Look at how long and big that girl is!!!  She is growing so fast!!  She will NOT crawl, but could.  She goes backwards very efficiently!  She now wants to pull up on everything and walk!  And this girl LOVES real food!!  This is so nice at restaurants and  dinner time she eats independently and enjoys the dinner "conversation" with the rest of us!

Silly Sisters!!

Hey there!!

These 2 are REMARKABLE!!! 

Growing up!

So our big girl is starting preschool!!  This makes me both sad and excited at the same time.  Last week I went through a phase where I did NOT want my baby to grow up and wanted to freeze her at her precious 3 year old self. As I have thought about it, I realized how selfish this was.  If my parents had frozen me at 3 I realized I would have never gone to school, accepted Christ, gone to college, met Matt, had my 2 precious girls and a million other things, so as hard as it it I realize how special and important this precious time is for Sarah Anne.

Of course, it is also very obvious where God wanted our sweet girl.  We were late in the game with deciding on preschool and thought she should go to our church's preschool, but I am now very thankful that she isn't going there.  We are off to Union, but more than loving the school I LOVE her teachers, especially Mrs. Patterson who is one of my dear friends.  Sarah Anne and all her specialness with her kidneys and goldfish is of course a concern.  I think back to October when we had yet another kidney scan and were told that she had something terribly wrong with her.  Rebecca was there for me (along with many other friends) and prayed for me, cried with me, sent me precious notes and texts and walked through that challenge with me.  She is now going to be the wonderful person that will walk Sarah Anne through this next stage in life.  God is so good and knows exactly what He has planned and I have no doubt put her in both places to help take care of our girl.  And if you ask Sarah Anne she will proudly tell you that she chose her sister's name after Mrs. Rebecca (now Mrs. Patterson).

I know I wrote a lot, but this is a very special time and I am very thankful that even in something as simple as preschool God shows His love for us and our wonderful girls!  So here are the pictures from our special morning as we got to go to school with Sarah Anne on her "first day"!!

Ready with the back pack (Dora of course)

The sun was in her eyes!!

Ready for Chick-Fil-A breakfast!!

With our big girl!!

YUMMY BREAKFAST!!!

I am ready to go in to my school!!!

This is my bird!

With Mrs. Patterson!!!

In the reading center!!

Building towers!!

Swinging on the big girl playground

And we made new friends!!  

The little girl is "Molly's friend" (they go to church and the little girl is in Molly's Sunday School class).  So all is right in the world, because there is someone that relates back to Molly!!!