Father's Day & Crafts

My blogs tend to be a throw up of a lot of things mixed into one. Welllll, to start with, Scott had a decent Father's Day. I surprised him with tickets to the Winston Cup museum he's been wanting to go to. We went to the Richard Childress museum a while back and it was really cool. Well, I'm glad I got the tickets 2 for 1 because I would have been ticked if we paid full price for the museum. It was honestly pretty lame. They had about 10 cars and photos on the walls. That was about it. Addilyn roamed free in there so that was fun. We did that on Saturday. Sunday he spent doing scout stuff. Camp was the next day so he had to call a few stragglers for paper work before they could go. Then we went to a court of honor. Two boys got their Eagles.

this was basically the entire museum. not much to it!

back and forth

she was a wild woman

Currently Scott's at scout camp and has been since Monday. Since he's been gone, I've been busy doing all sorts of crafts. I have already made a wooden sign to go above our kitchen cabinets that says "EAT". I redid one piece of furniture and CHOPPED my hair off. That's right, 8 whole inches and then some. I also got it high lighted. Please forgive the photo quality, bad lighting and on my phone so deal.

before

 I painted it a light blue, it looks white here, but it's got faint blue to it. I also antiqued it a little bit.

after

We've been to a pool 3 times this week. Addilyn LOVES the pool. She's been so awesome. We went to our friends house to do some crafts. I did work and the girls played. They were so cute together. 

PS, my birthday is this Saturday. I'll be 23 on the 23rd. Scott should be back around noon from camp. Stinky man.

Nascar?

This past Monday Holiday, MLK Day, we joined the White's to go see the Richard Childress Nascar Museum. I've never been a fan of Nascar, but here in North Carolina-it's in their blood. Just a few minutes south of us is the Childress Museum, aka RCR. It's where Dale Earnhart and Richard Childress had their homes for their cars and shops.

Part of the current team- in case you didn't know, 29 is my number

Karen, Lance, Addi

He took forever to get through the exhibits

These are the actual size seats that fit in the cars

You really have to have skinny hips to fit in them.

I think this was like 1/3 to scale and cost a ton of money

Their work shop.

Their only "classic" car. It was my favorite.

The trucks that they load the cars in for races

The museum is actually where the original work shop was. Their current shop is in another building a few hundred yards away. We came during their lunch break.

The work shop.

Addilyn eating from her new contraption.

I love it. She can eat frozen peaches, strawberries, whatever. She loves it too. It really helps since she's started teething. Along with this, she's gnawing on cold celery to help her gums. We haven't seen anything yet, but "they" say that babies can show signs of teething for a while before anything shows up. She's got the clear snot and even her eyes are goobing up. Poor thing. But through it all, she seems to still be able to have fun! Even though half of these photos are blurry, they are still cute to me! There was a night where I stayed up with her until 4am. Not fun! But she makes up for it.

Love. Pure love.

Addison Blythe White

My friend Karen and her husband Lance had a little baby girl on October 18th. She was 7 lbs and 6 oz, 20 in long when she was born. I was so excited to take pictures of her. I finagled a camera from someone in our ward and took photos of Addison when she was just 12 days old! Enjoy!

Addilyn Meets Addison

Lance and Karen White moved into the ward a week after we did. On their first Sunday we sat next to each other and was asking questions about who was who- but both of us didn't know- and then we realized we were both new. Karen at the time was very pregnant (in fact, her due date was today) and Addilyn was just a few months old. I'd say we all had it in our minds that we were going to be friends and our girls were going to be BFF's (best friends forever) since they were going to be about 5 months apart!

Yesterday Addilyn and I went to the hospital to meet her new best friend. Karen and Lance were like us with the name, they didn't tell anyone what it was going to be. They knew all along that their names were super similar and in fact they would share the same nick name- Addi. It was destiny. Addison Blythe White was born October 18 at 7 lbs 6 oz and 20in long. Addilyn was so cute because she was so fascinated by Addison once she realized there was a baby in the room.