Reality 3:16

Aaron has recently taken up playing the drums.  He and several friends are working on playing together and learning songs to play for the youth service on Wednesday nights at our church.   Their band's name - Reality 3:16.  So Sunday afternoon Paul and I took the kids out for a band photo shoot.  The kids had a lot of fun...truth be told the photographers had just as much fun.  It's been great to watch the kids improving their skills and working together as a band.  Rock on Reality 3:16!!

 

Sunday

Operation TBTH - The saga continues

Part 4 - the garage

Took advantage of the beautiful day to beat the garage back into submission and contain the junk that was starting to creep out from the walls and shelves.  Can now maneuver around the cars a lot easier.  One trip to Goodwill and a huge pile of trash for the guys on Wednesday morning!

Operation TBTH part 3

Time for part 3 of Operation Take Back The House - The dreaded closet in Rachel's room.  It's still full of holdovers from when this room was our office.  Time to make it just for Rachel.  I started with this:

I decided to go with the Peter Walsh - Clean Sweep approach and take everything out which looks like this:

After killing 2 ridiculously huge spiders and hauling it all out my living room looked like this:

After a day and a half of sorting, purging, and tossing we ended up with 2 large bags of trash, 3 boxes for Goodwill, items relocated, and now the closet looks like this:

On an unrelated note, today was Nerd Day at the middle school and Aaron looked like this:

Time to walk with the Pals

It's time once again for the Indianapolis Buddy Walk.  Last year our family had a great time walking with Alli's Pals.  Our team walks to support Allison Schimdt and her family.  Alli's pals was over 125 members strong and was the largest team at the 2009 Indianapolis Buddy Walk.  We are glad for the chance to participate again.  The walk will be held October 23, 2010 at White River State Park in Indianapolis.  The Buddy Walk benefit's Downs Syndrome Indiana.  If you would like to donate toward this worthy cause visit our fundraising page at www.firstgiving.com/heidihackney

Time for a change

After 4 years of the same haircut it was time for a change.  Got a different cut and tweaked the color.

Just messing around...

...with some photos from our St. Louis vacation.

More Butterflies

Thursday afternoon butterfly

Playing with my photos in Photoshop. :)

Good Morning Indiana

Moving on up

OK...confession time...up until today Rachel was still sleeping in a toddler bed.  But in my defense the girl is tiny! 

So today the bed that she has slept in all her life was dismantled and sent up to the attic and a big girl bed was put in it's place.

She was excited about the nice big comfy bed.  Her friends (and I'm thinking about one in particular)  will be thrilled with the increased jumping room on this bed.

Aaron also got an upgrade with a better mattress and used the opportunity to rearrange every single bit of furniture in his room.  I think he's happy with it...for now.  Actually I think he's still trying to figure out how he can jam a drum set in there.  Personally I'm not seeing it. :)

Apple Time

It's once again time for the yearly trip to the orchard with the Painter and Bohrer crews.  We also met up with the "Brumley Three" for this trek through Anderson's orchard.  After filling up a 1/2 bushel bag and an apple chucking contest we headed back up to the front for the traditional post picking apple slushie.  (an there might have been an elephant ear or two thrown in for good measure)

Cool evening + fire pit + smores = Great time!

Headed over to the Painters this evening to celebrate the cooler weather by putting the fire pit to good use.  After a yummy dinner there was a "no holds barred" adults vs. kids kickball game.

Some of the adults (one in particular) were a little more competitive than the others and demonstrated this fact by smoking a bunch of little kids with a kick-ball home run.

I did not have the proper foot gear so my sandal saw more air time than the kickball ever did.  I discovered running around the cul-de-sac barefoot is not a great idea.

After enthusiasm for the game waned it was time for smores and a lovely evening around the fire.

 

Back in the groove

Thursday evening bible study started back up tonight.  Good food, great discussion, and best of all time with my girls!