Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
When you’re in FL and there are 3 car seats and 4 adults crammed into a suburban, someone has to take one for the team and squeeze in the way back between two of those car seats!
Nowhere I’d rather be than smooshed between these two!
Please note that’s Maxwell’s hand by Spencer’s in the second pic. My fingers aren’t that small! Peace out!
We had a nice stay in Naples with plenty of time to go to the pool…
(Samantha looks like a little figure skater! ha!)
and the beach!
We only lasted about 15 minutes on the beach before the boys started asking to go up to the pool! Not surprised! Of course, there was also time for breakfast at Skillets…
playing outside…
plenty of good food…
and, when the temps dropped a little, movies! We saw Sing and Rouge One. Both really good! I promised to take the boys to get ice cream after Sing and, note to self, take something other than your Amex with you to the ice cream shop because you can’t pay with that! Luckily Robert drove up with cash and saved the day!
Overall, it was a lot of fun…
and Robert and I loved getting to spend quality time with our 3 favorite people…
Unfortunately, the week came to an end so we had to hug everyone goodbye…
and make our way back to the airport to head home.
It was a great trip and we can’t wait to go back! Bye bye!
See you tomorrow!
After Christmas we had one day at home to play with new toys (yay!), get all the Christmas decorations put up (ugh!), and apparently get strep throat (double ugh!). Yes, by Christmas night Maxwell was in tears because his throat hurt so bad and when the fever came too, I knew it was strep. We were up at the doctor first thing the morning of the 26th and got that strep positive test! So thankful we had a day at home to rest and start a round of bubblegum medicine!
I was also pretty proud of myself for getting the tree down and ALL the inside decorations put up that day. I knew I wasn’t going to want to come home from the trip to a decorated house so I made myself get it done. Check check!
By the morning of the 27th, we were feeling good and ready to head to sunny Florida!
With thanks to GJ, Samantha now has her own “baby iPad” to use for trips! Between that and plenty of gummies, we did just fine on the flight!
When we got there, the kids wasted no time making themselves at home…
and then opened more presents!
My favorite gifts were these hilarious Star Wars masks (Chewie was the best!)….
The boys’ favorite was these light up cars and track…
and Baby loved her purse and sunglasses!
Fun fun! We sure were glad to be there in the sunshine! See you tomorrow!
Happy Monday! We had a snow day here on Friday and through the weekend. Well, we actually had just a cold day on Friday with some freezing rain and sleet that started that night and turned this place into an ice wonderland for the weekend. Not much fun to play in (though the boys might disagree) but exciting nonetheless. Pics to come!
Today, the rest of Christmas day! After we had gone through the Santa surprises and opened a few gifts, we got ready for Robert’s parents and his sister’s family to come over. It turned out to be a beautiful 70 degree day so the boys were in short sleeves – their new Star Wars short sleeves that Santa brought to be exact!
And baby got one last wear out of her adorable Santa dress!
Everyone was enjoying the new toys…
Samantha sure was happy when “Baby Mah-get” finally arrived!
We had a great meal planned and the table was looking pretty if I do say so myself! I finally have some of SuSu’s china here and got to use it for the first time.
Robert cooked an excellent beef tenderloin that everyone really, really enjoyed…
We also had twice baked potatoes, broccoli salad, squash casserole from Mary Lou, green beans from Mary Beth, and rolls (that were supposed to be homemade but my dough didn’t rise. Oh well). We also had Ina Garten’s cranberry and apple cake for dessert (it’s sooo good). The boys didn’t really care for any of that but they were happy to have a big bowl of ice cream with chocolate syrup!
That’s a happy little boy!
There were more presents to open…
and plenty of fun to be had!
I’ll also add that, very sadly, this blurry selfie is literally the only photo I was in all day long. Oh well.
It was a wonderful Christmas with my three little angels!
Merry Christmas!
ps – Roll Tide!!!!
We woke up Christmas morning happy to see that Santa had been there! We told Maxwell he couldn’t get up until 6:30 and he was standing right next to my bed at 6:30 and 30 seconds! We got everyone else up and made the kids wait at the stairs before coming down. I love these pictures…Maxwell blocking his eyes so he doesn’t see anything before he’s all the way down and Spencer helping Baby down the stairs. The best….
Santa was pretty good to everyone this year!
The kids checked out their haul – and honestly were a little disappointed! ha! Maxwell was missing his Millennium Falcon and Spencer had no remote controlled shark. hmmmm….
They still had plenty of fun stuff to check out though…
Baby loved her baby doll and did a good job feeding it and feeding herself! ha!
Stocking stuffers are always the best part in my opinion…
(yes, those are TicTacs Baby is dumping into her mouth!)
Just when we thought that was it, we discovered ole Santa had actually left two presents in my office! Sneaky Santa and two happy boys!
The remote controlled shark was hilarious for all! It took some getting used to to make it go but provided plenty of entertainment for sure! Check out this video.
My favorite picture of the day…
It was then time for some toy assembly…
Christmas pancakes…
and 1 more present from me and Robert.
A few more pics from the fun…
What a fantastic Christmas morning!! But the day wasn’t over yet – we had family to celebrate with! See you Monday!