Here are some pixs of Tatum's "quiet" bday. Jack had to come home early from school, a little under the weather with a knock in the head from a fellow friend in class. He's ok and he was glad to get home early I KNOW THAT!:)

Tatum's bday was a blast. We went shopping with mom and matt came home a little early to start cooking crab legs and corn. Tae dressed up as her favorite doll, Fancy Nancy, blew bubbles, dressed up as a cow, played with new toys, ate her dinner, and had cake and sang songs on here NEW pink karoake that hayla and pop got her, with Logan and Jack and got a singing pig that holds money as a bank that she adores! Toads from TX sent in lots of beautiful clothes and two new girls to join the club, Baby--"cowboy baby and little girl, "flower garden" she named them this morning putting them to sleep with mom mom mary on skype.

She's an Anderson She was up til 11 and sacked out and slept in til 10am.....

It was a success...as matt would say....let's do it again!

gotta run logan's got the tricycle in the house.......it's wet and dragging water around the hard wood floors................oh no......................at least i haven't mopped!

I've been STARVED for time. I've been sick, Matt's been traveling, and school meetings and such have been taking up any free time I can manage through out the day.

BUT.......Sept. 24 2007, I had a little surprise enter my life that shaped my being forever.

Tatum Ackridge Jewell Anderson

Tomorrow is her 3rd birthday!

The grace that floats in and out of my life daily. Her curls are my smile and her laughter is my support when I think I've "had enough". Thanks my dear Tatum, my dreamy little girl, for being here and being a part of my life! I LOVE you.

I love butterflies.

Finding the unexpected is simply fullfiling.....what beauty lies inside and out..............

Falling is coming.....it's peeking its head around the corner of summer and saying MOVE OVER HOT STUFF....TIME FOR SOME FRESH AIR AND CRISP LEAVES.....ahhhh I simply love the fall. It is a rebirth for me, moving through the summer gets very heavy for me...i feel a lightness in my step when the autum comes and the sun sleeps earlier and the dinners become more heavy and full of flavor.....coffee is hot instead of cold, and the holidays are starting to bud....oh, the holidays....always a good time.......

every one is doing their thing....Jack lost another tooth....everyone said once he lost that first on the second would pop right out....two weeks later! wow, that was fast...he looks so cute.....he's such a "little boy " now....pretty soon I bet he will be doing science experiments up in his room behind our backs! God help us!

Tatum is about to turn three and her favorit food is Crab legs. Logan is 4 and acting as such...asking "why" at every turn and wondering always what I am doing...."what are cooking mom" "what's that" "why is it broken" "

and they both LOVE to go "somewhere" Jack going to school doesn't help. Logan is totally jealous and when the tooth fariy came, he just couldn't understand why he wasn't visited either...it took the whole morning for him to "forget" about it....

Matt and I are doing house projects here and there and hoping to get things a little further along before winter hits.....and Boone, he's enjoying his new squeaky toy around the house..he's crazy!!!

Today is Labor Day and we are all just enjoying the weather and the each other.....life is hetic like always, but never a dull moment. We've enjoyed the weekend hanging out outside around the fire pit roasting marshmellows and the crisp air.