The Bells- Athan's Birthday and a New Addition

We check back in with the Bells, on this lazy Sunday morning.  Scarlett is up before everyone else, humming and making Sunday pancakes. 

She's spent so much time enjoying her little family lately, she's forgotten the housework. With two little ones, it sure builds up.  She does some long overdue laundry.



Toilet scrubbed? Check.  Dishes washed? Check. Trash out? Check.  Awww, that feels better.

A lot of other people might compain about cooking and cleaning and caring for little ones round the clock, but not Scarlett. She never forgets where she came from, where she could have been, and how hard she's worked to get where she is.  When she was 6 or 7, in another foster home, lonely and scared, she would have given her left arm for a family and a house of her own, even a messy one. 

In the afternoon, Forrest goes out and buys a cake, and they celebrate baby Athan's birthday out on the patio.  Paris sleeps through the whole thing.

And here's Athan now, at 1 years old! He has his father's complexion and eyes and his mother's dark hair.  He's giggly and sweet, and his parents think he's a little bit cute!

Forrest finally finishes up the house's new bedroom addition he's been working on! They bought this 2 bedroom house after they get married with the plan to move when their family expanded, but Scarlett has so fallen in love with this house and the terrific backyard that she convinces Forrest to add on another bedroom so they can at least stay for a few more years.  Here's what Athan's new bedroom looks like-it has a nautical theme!

Sometimes Scarlett can't believe how lucky she got.  She thinks back to that day that Forrest proposed to her at Butterfly Haven, and sighs....