Candy Candy Candy Time! aka Halloween

The two little witches who don't like to take pictures...
Just thought this was funny!

One of the kids at church dressed up like Drew, pretty good huh?

Drew was very excited to win the trunk decorating contest at church.

North Carolina

Last week Drew, the girls, and I went out to Emerald Isle, NC for a Heckert family vacation. It was beautiful and so relaxing.
This is the view from the beach house all of us stayed out. Pretty cool, huh?

We tried to take family pictures while we were out there. Of course, 5 seconds before it was our family's turn, Drew accidentally knocks Kate in the head and she cries the WHOLE TIME! I was not very simpathetic. Lily started crying in the big family shot when I dared to pick her up and move her...she recieved even less sympathy. Why do children always seem to cry during pictures? Maybe its a test to see how loving the mommy is...

Enjoying the beach!

The Adventure of the Clogged Drain

As reviewed on the previous post, we have had a clogged kitchen sink over the weekend. I really really really didn't want to call a plumber over a clogg, so this morning we called Home depot to see if there was a machine we could rent that could help us out. Fantastically, there was such a machine, called the "electric eel!" For $40 and 30 minutes of work we were finally able to reach the elusive clogg and get our sink working again. Take that outrageous plumber prices!!! Drew is the official hero of the day for saving us money and a headache!!!

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do!

Thursday I noticed that our sink was draining slow, so I ask Drew to fix it thinking that it would be a quick "draino" fix. WRONG! The drain stuff didn't work and the clog got worse. Drew has a snake-pipe cleaner-outer thing at work, and he brought it home to see if it would work. It wasn't long enough and I was not going to call a plumber after hours on a friday, so we took our dirty dishes outside!!!! I couldn't spend very much time bending and kneeling at the tub, so that it why we went outside. It worked very well, and we got to spend some quality time together as a family getting soaked. As for the sink, I don't know what we will do because I really don't want to pay for a plumber! We will keep you updated!

Hitting the third trimester!!!!

I made it to 28 weeks! It is hard to believe my due date is only 12 weeks away when it is still 90 degrees outside! Our family is anxiously awaiting our little "Christmas Present!"

Preschool days

Today brought the start of week 3 of "The Heckert Monkey Preschool," (the girls picked the name) and today we made crowns for our craft. Since most of our crafts are ripped apart before anyone can actually see them, I thought I would take a picture this time.

Besides crafts, we are learning songs, letters and their sounds, numbers, shapes, and whatever else Kate might need before Kindergarten next year. If you look closely at Kate's crown, you can see where she wrote her name. I love that she always puts more then three lines on her "E."

Another Milestone...stitches!!!!

Saturday night brought about another milestone in the Heckert household. Kate and Lily were in their room when Kate starts screaming like a maniac. Drew goes in there to discover Kate with a huge gash in her head. I followed soon after to find three shocked individuals with eyes as big as saucers. After a quick clean up and some ibuprofen, we went off to convenient care for some fun!!! Kate was really calm and brave except for the actual stitching part, but who is calm with needles near their face? The picture above is from last night, right before bed.
This is from tonight during the band aid change. Looks pretty good, but you can see it was a pretty big gash!