300th celebration

As we've mentioned before this year is New Bern's 300th Anniversary. September 17-19 was the big celebration. There was a parade downtown and so many fun and free activities that we enjoyed. This was the week we started potty training and to my amazement he stayed dry the whole time we were out and taking it all in.

waiting for the parade to start

NC Governor Beverly Perdue For the dads:) He wasn't sure about the mascot, but we got free chocolate milk and ice cream sandwiches!

Flooding

Here are a couple of pictures of the rainy weather we had this week. I might post a video later...

This was the view from our front porch on Thursday

This is an intersection close to our house while it was raining on Thursday

This was also on Thursday, it is water running into the channel beside our house

This picture is from today. The water receded yesterday, but today it is on the rise again. The rain is gone, but the river will not crest for another day or two, so we will see how high the water gets. The official estimate is that New Bern had 15.5" of rain since Sunday, although I think we might have had a little more here in River Bend.

This is so powerful........I know it's a little long but well worth the time to listen to it.

Camping

Labor Day weekend was spent with my family camping in Virgina close to the Natural Bridge. It is a beautiful area to hike, explore and learn about. We visited an old grain mill which still produces flour the old way today, the Natural Bridge, and caverns. We also enjoyed spending time at the campground and all the activities that they had planned because of the holiday weekend. Time flew bye and we were soon saying our goodbyes until Christmas. I have always enjoyed camping growing up and considered it a vacation, but this weekend I decided that camping isn't really a vacation, just a break from life:) It takes a lot of work but we made memories!

If you look closely you can see water falling to the right of grandpa and hayden, they are headed in for a dunk in the water..... he loved it, i wish i had shot of his facial expression, kept saying "more, more" sharing an ice cream sandwich with grandpa

beach again:)

Hayden, myself and some friends from work took a last minute trip to the beach. The water was awesome and we couldn't ask for better weather. It was a great time although we were both wishing that daddy would have been able to join us, but he had school.

Hayden loves spending time with his North Carolina grandma, Bobbie. She is such a blessing to us!

boo-boo

Hayden's been telling me all about this boo-boo several (seems like hundreds) times a day. He bumped into the edge of a coffee table and gave himself a gouge/gash in the eyebrow. We decided not to visit the doctor and it seems to be healing up really nice. I'm just so glad it wasn't any closer to his eye. It's a nice little battle wound, I'm sure the first of many to come. Boys will be boys!

cars and trucks

Hayden has turned over a new leaf......he plays with his toys again!! Seriously, I was about to give them away because he hasn't really played with them since we moved in April. I'm so happy I had to capture a few.....

watching the pouring rain and telling me all about it