extreme home makeover - montgomery

For the past week the crew of ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition has been in Montgomery building a home for one deserving family. I went out there both Saturday and Sunday and it was amazing to see the difference in just 24 hours. There are so many workers, you can really see how it gets done in just 1 week. Saturday Lee and I just went out to watch and see all the action. On Sunday, I went and helped Mom do lunch for the VIP tent. It was a very neat experience and I got to meet Eduardo!

Saturday afternoon - dirt work and shingling the house

Sunday before lunch - almost finished with the outside.

Alisa and I with designer Eduardo.

Tracy waiting to flim her "We got the Keys" scene...

Click on the video below to watch!

They only did this about 8 times...

It will be interesting to see how it's really going to air.

Paul and Eduardo getting ready to move in the furniture.

The volunteers moving furniture off the truck.

It was also Eduardo's birthday on Thursday.

Mom got a cake for him and he came over to see it.

The big "Move That Bus" reveal was yesterday when the family came home. We didn't go watch and attempt to fight the big crowds. We'll get to see that on tv. It's suppose to air sometime in mid or end of April. The furniture going in was nice and I can't wait to see how the inside turned out! For more pictures and info - click here Extreme Montgomery.

v-day

Taking a walk on the wild side....

We had a great Valentine's day! Tripp even gave me a card he signed all by himself. We spent the afternoon at the zoo. It was sorta cool, but still really nice outside. Tripp loved going to see each animal. As soon as we pulled him up, he would stand up on his stroller and look and point.

Look at the cougar!

Smiling at the monkeys.

We ended our trip with a ride on the train. He loved this!

Too busy to stand still by the train, maybe next time... yeah right.

We got home and he was so tired, and eventually passed out on his chair watching his new movie. I was in the kitchen and thought he was sitting in his chair, and I looked up and didn't see his little head, so I thought he had gotten up. Instead I found him like this...

It was nice that he went to sleep kinda early because we enjoyed a nice dinner that Lee cooked and watched Nights in Rodanthe. Not going to spoil it for anyone, but I was not happy with the ending.

Tripp got a new Thomas the Train dvd for Valentines and to say he likes watching it is an understatement. He's never been a big tv-watcher, usually he can't sit still long enough, but Thomas can definitely hold his attention. I think I've memorized two songs and all the trains. He also got a James train too for Valentines. He had a sad parting with James this morning in the car when we got to school. He really wanted to take him inside. I think we need to start saving for a train table...

finally a day outside!

We had a great weekend playing outside! Tripp loves to be outside and since it was so nice out on Saturday we headed to the country. Lee wanted to go anyway, so I told him if we could take the golf cart then Tripp and I would go too. He didn't waste anytime getting it, and off we went.



Helping Daddy drive... He loves doing this. Don't worry, we were on the dirt road almost at the house.

The boys were burning the under brush, so Tripp and I had a great time riding around and playing on the tractors and trailers. He even found a little cooler his size to drag around.

Me - "Tripp smile for Mommy..."
Tripp - "No" and looks the other way.

He loves riding on the golf cart. If he sees it, he'll yell constantly "gol car" "gol car" until he can get on.





Sunday was even prettier (shorts attire) so we played outside for a while. He had fun pushing his lawn mower and playing with bubbles.

We had so much fun, we can't wait until we have weather like this everyday! I don't think it's sticking around long this time, but hopefully soon!