Labor Day Weekend

Our last hurrah before these boys are born was an extra long weekend at Gulf Shores. We had a blast with our family and friends. The hilights included:

Sand...

Fishing...

Putt putt...

and Oreos...

Can't wait until next year!

Just Our Luck

Our first home "remodeling" project is complete. We added French doors to the front room to create a "Man Cave" for Nick and his buddies. It looks great and pretty much went like clockwork. Our handyman's job was to install the doors and our job was to paint.

Saturday was paint day, we got the primer and paint on the doors/trim then turned to the walls. Bill retreived the builder's paint from under the house which of course we'd been storing for the almost 4 years we've lived in this house. We're set, right? Wrong...

Turns out we've been storing dining room paint and we'll be needing to repaint the ENTIRE FOYER. Any color suggestions?

Dancin' Queen

Several months ago McDonald's gave out "Kidz Bop" CDs in the Happy Meals. We are the unfortunate owners of 3 different CDs (don't judge me just because this means that we went to McD's at least 3 times...actually there were more than 3 and I told the cashier she could keep the ones we already owned.) These CDs are the bain of my existence and are often "lost" or "broken" when Caden asks if he can listen to his songs.

Even though I can't stand the music, my kids love it. Caden sings along and Claire starts rocking out every time the music comes on - here's proof:

Spoiler Alert!

Today was the big day - we know the genders of our twins!

Twin A is...



a boy!!!

Twin B is...



another boy!!!

Poor Claire - with 4 brothers she'll never be able to go on a date.

Meet the Walkers

Today is our family's official debut into the 21st century. We don't text - don't even know how. We don't do Facebook. We don't do My Space. If you want to get in touch with us you're best bet is the landline because the cell phones rarely leave the car.

But we do have some exciting things going on in our lives and our kids are growing up way too fast so it's time we shared our simple and happy life with our friends and family.

The most exciting news that we have is that we are expecting twins in December. We don't yet know if they're boys or girls or one of each. We'll know on August 3rd so until then you can vote and let us know what you're rooting for.

Caden is our 3 year old son. He's 100% boy and a lot of fun. He's pretty high maintenance and his antics will likely be the subject of many future posts. Never a dull moment with this one.

Claire is our daughter who is 15 months going on 15 years. She is about the sweetest thing ever, however she's pretty full of her own antics. She started walking at 10 months because it was about then that she figured out that there were parties going on and she was missing them.

Nick is our resident teenager. We're pretty lucky though, because I think everyone would like to have a teenager like Nick. He keeps his room clean, he does school projects weeks before they're due, and plays with Caden and Claire even though they're a decade younger than he is. Nick loves sports, sports, sports.

Bill is Mr. Walker. He is from Louisiana, pronounced "Lou - siana." He loves to golf and fish but doesn't get to do either as often as he would like. Bill is lucky enough to be able to say that he loves his job. His simplified job description is that he develops software for the healthcare industry.

Amanda is Mrs. Walker. I am from the Atlanta area although I have lived in and around Nashville for 13 years. I went to Vanderbilt for my undergraduate degree, landed a teaching gig in Nashville after graduation and the rest is "history". The "history" is another story for another time!

Until then...