Baby Isaiah and Johnny share a birthday!

My good friend Ashley Archer had her baby boy today at 11:23am-3 weeks early of her due date and she's not too upset about it. Isaiah Kahlil weighs 5 lbs 12 oz and is 18 1/2 in long. He is a tiny little thing but knows what he wants, when he wants it already...diaper change, food, being held, etc.
Coincidentally, it's Johnny's birthday too!!!! He says it can only mean "greatness" for Ashley's little guy! Congrats to both!!!

Escaping Gustav for a mini-vacation!

Evacuating turned out to be the best for everyone!! No power for 6 days is not my idea of fun!!!
We did lots of fun stuff when my family came up to run away from the hurricane! We went to the Smoky Mts and in all the years that I've been to Cades Cove, I've never seen a bear until this trip and we saw 2 different bears around the park! One we just barely caught with our camera! You can see him in the bottom left hand of the first windshield picture. Turner is in the other. We went to the Boomsday fireworks, ate great food, went shopping, painted the baby's room, and just had a little mini-vacation. Of course, worrying about dad the entire time!!!
I did get some pictures of the mess and damage from the hurricane from my family today, so will be posting those soon, along with my friend-Ashley Archer's new little boy, who arrived today, on Johnny's birthday! To be continued!.....

Gustav is gone but not forgotten!

So my family is all along the Gulf coast, which means that Hurricane season is not my happiest time of the year!!! Gustav has come, left his mark, and moved on. Now comes Ike!!! AHHH! My mom, sister-Natalie, her boyfriend-Randy, niece-Carly, and dog-Gracie, all came to evacuate the storm last Saturday and drove all night long. They came and left my dad to watch the house, board up, and he had to work, not knowing that it would be last night when they finally had power restored to their house in Baton Rouge, La. Ridiculous! You'd think a state that just went through Katrina 3 years ago-to the day- would have better plans in place. Which I do recognize they did and many lives were saved, but seriously, no power for over a week. Crazy!
They did have roof damage, limbs and small pine trees fell on the roof, some poking holes that my dad was able to hear dripping, since there were no kids, noise, power to do anything else.
So now the family finally started their trek back home in a packed car with a brand new generator in tow-obviously all were gone in La and with Ike on the way... guess you can never be too prepared.?

Thanks to those for your thoughts, prayers, and concerns, regarding my family and this stressfull time. I think they have about had it in and would love to move back to TN where we just worry about droughts, and where are we going to go out to eat next. Oh wait, maybe that's just me and Johnny.

We did get the new baby girls room painted! That was worth the evacuation right there! We did lots of fun stuff too, will have pics posted later. I'm technologically challenged-to say the least!

Apparently, a 6 year old notices when 1 niece has pictures on a blog and another one doesn't! What was I thinking? I told Carly that "Aunt E" is pregnant, crazy, and loosing her mind! So in no effort to show favoritism, here is my niece, Carly Madison, who lives in Louisiana and is Turner's bestest friend ever. Neither understand why they can't marry each other, we just keep telling them because we don't live in Alabama or Kentucky! Most of these pictures were at our beach trip to our little house in Pensacola and then to Destin for a few days too. Very hyper, very whiny, but still great to be with family!

Addison Rose Dillard-Turner's new cousin

Turner's New Baby Cousin-Addison Rose

She was born 8/14/08. 7lbs 3oz at 7:14pm. This is Johnny's sister-Jessica's baby. Jessica's been married almost a year to Jeffery Dillard and are very excited to finally have Addison here. Very, Very cute! Turner loved watching her and got a little confused on why we couldn't bring her home with us. Her little mouth and nose are the cutest ever. Uncle Johnny seemed smitten with her also!

Turner taking a bath with the homeless

My new endeavor as a Stay at Home Mom-Domestic Engineer-Most Underpaid Job Ever-whichever you so choose to call it, has made me think about free fun times with Mom and Turner! Today our free trip was taking a bath at the World's Fair Park Fountains! Ok, we weren't the ones taking a bath, we were playing but other's obviously were (see attached)! Daddy is working night-shift this week and so we have to find ways to get out of the house to let daddy sleep peacefully and still have fun while not spending a fortune. I don't reccomend the Lenoir City Library, there is no parenting section, non-fiction section and Turner has more children's books in his room! Might have to join the Knoxville or Farragut one. Yes Turner did pee in the fountains he told me, but I told him, I'm sure those other people did too! We all took a REAL bath when we got home!

Turner

Not sure where to begin, so I guess I'll just have to skip the past 3 years and start here... This is Turner burrying our Sheltie-Mack. He was so proud and the dog looks so pitiful!!! Mack and Turner are the best of friends and we couldn't ask for a better dog. We tried once, that dog was Satan!! If you are ever looking for a good family dog-you must try a Sheltie, as long as you don't mind hair!