How does he do that?

I'm sure by now you've realized how much we love family night at Chick fil A! Well, check out the balloons from last night. Megan's Tinker Bell came complete with a trail of pixie dust.


Here's Jacob's favorite "gicky" (aka Mickey)

Rainy day in FL

Okay, so it's Florida and it's summer time which means basically rain every day! Megan has been going to swimming lessons every day, but today I got a call from her teacher saying that class is cancelled due to rain.......what to do?

Well, we filled up the gas tank for the week and headed home for a movie day. The kids are loving their fort on their ladybug and nemo blankets while they watch Mary Poppins. I love lazy rainy days! Hope you enjoy yours too.

Sweet snuggles

Don't you love catching your kids in those sweet moments where they're playing sweetly together? I looked over and saw Jacob sitting in Megan's lap snuggled up to watch a show while I was busy cooking dinner!


Here's another picture of them huddled up in diaper boxes watching a movie. I had thrown all the boxes down to take out from Jacob's closet and they lined them up and played with them for hours!

Happy 4th of July!

What is your 4th of July tradition? Growing up I always spent the day with my grandparent's family in Walnut, MS. Now that everyone is grown, married, moving away we don't get back often at all. The past several years we've spent time with friends, but this year was low key. I've been stressed lately and just didn't feel up to entertaining a large group, so we had fun with our family of four.

Friday we went to the pool at the Y, then came home for lunch and a nap before we headed to Sea World. The kids loved the After Dark shows and we all got to ride the carousel.

On Saturday we ran a few errands and went to grab dinner at Five Guys and dessert from TCBY! Yep, Jim and I took a night off from our summer of fitness challenge and boy was it good! Here's a picture of Jacob after his haircut that day. It's the shortest he's ever had it cut and he looks like such a big boy now!

So, whether you had a big celebration or low key family time, I hope you had a Happy 4th of July!

Swimming Lessons

Do you ever have those days where no matter what you do the kids just act like little crazy people? I had one of those days yesterday......

Megan loves the pool! She jumps in, she blows bubbles, she loves the pool, the beach, the tub....she is pretty fearless when it comes to water. We enrolled her in swimming lessons and she was so excited! And then the first day of swimming lessons came.

As all the kids gathered to be divided among the instructors Megan decided she didn't want to be in one group, well, she was called to go in that group and the tears began. (oh, and if you didn't know we're all about our 4-year old little girl drama right now!) Well, Ms. Ellen is the program coordinator and saw how upset Megan was so she took her in her group. She was so patient and didn't make her get her face wet on her first jump and tried everything to comfort her. Nothing worked. She cried for 30 minutes straight!

Well, after much talking and discussing we tried again. Day 2 was such a miraculous change of attitude that one mom asked me what I said to her! She jumped in, hummed to keep the water out of her mouth and nose, kicked and had a blast! We love swimming lessons! And Ms. Ellen!

My sweet little Jacob

I love that Jacob is finally finding his voice and I love to hear him talk and say new things. This is a short video of some of his current vocabulary. I'll try to get the animal sounds and a few other things soon. Just wanted to share his sweet voice with you all.

The best dad in the world!

I love my husband for many reasons. He is my best friend, makes me laugh harder than anyone else can, is my helper and encourager and also is the best dad to our two kiddos! We decided to take him out to eat for Father's Day on Saturday night since Sundays seem to be rushed and hectic at times.....plus I wanted him to have time to play with his new toy!

I had already bought his gift, but then started asking him what he wanted for Father's Day. He asked for the normal itunes cards and things of that nature. What he didn't know is that this was a double duty gift and an early celebration for the sale of our house in TN........



We love you Daddy!