Family – Page 44

Naples!

April 11, 2017

We had a great spring break and even managed to hit up two different beaches! Pretty nice! The trip started with me taking the 3 kids down to Naples. We were all packed and ready to head to the airport…

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but when we pulled into the airport, we realized we forgot the car seat for the plane!!! It is ESSENTIAL to keeping Baby wrangled on the flight and we needed it once we landed in Florida. I went on in with the kids while Robert raced home…

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He got back to the airport just in time for us to get through security and RUUUUN to the gate in order to board with our A boarding group. Phew! We got settled in our seats – with the help of a flight attendant – and were ready to blast off! Right before take off though a different flight attendant told us we had to move because you cannot have a car seat in the row in front of an exit row. Aaaaargh. Thankfully the entire row in front of us agreed to switch. But, there was no one for Maxwell to switch with so he ended up sitting two rows behind us. My trooper did great though and handled it with no problem!

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After the flight and the drive from Tampa, we were all glad to finally be in Naples that afternoon…

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The kids really wanted to go swimming. They tested out GJ’s pool but….BRRRRR!

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So, we just suited up and headed to the Beach Club for an afternoon swim! (I have no idea why Spence is making this face bc he was very happy!)

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It was the best way to end a long day and there were plenty of pool tricks by Baby, Spencer, Maxwell and then even by all three together!

More Naples tomorrow…

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See you then!

Day trip

February 21, 2017

We took a day trip to Montgomery on Sunday to celebrate Margaret’s baptism. It was a beautiful, sunny day – perfect for the occasion! I thought Spencer looked super cute in this outfit but he disagreed.

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He was much happier in these “big boy clothes”!

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Baby kind of looked like a wedding cake but I thought she still looked super cute.

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My mom disagreed. Oh well, you can’t please everyone!

We had a fun day hanging out with Robert’s family. The kids of course loved playing with the cousins.

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Samantha especially loved holding court with the star of the day!

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The most fun of the day was when Lou Lou taught the kids about the joys of Reddi-Whip! ha! They started out eating it on fruit, then moved to spoons, then to just fingers…

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which quickly moved to squirting it directly into their mouths thanks to Uncle Ronnie!

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We were all worn out from the fun!

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ps – I was there too. 🙂

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We love you Baby Margaret!

Valentine Program

February 13, 2017

Happy Monday! Spencer’s school did a little Valentine Program and art show for the grandparents to come and visit (and give money!). It was super cute and I loved getting to see Spencer up on stage again! We got lucky and he had a little solo at the beginning so was front and center…

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He was ready to shake those maracas!

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Well, until it actually came time to shake them! Ha! He was much better at tapping sticks and did great singing and giving me a thumbs up!

We were so glad Granddaddy and Lou Lou could make it up for the program!

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Spencer was very proud of his art…

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and we were very proud of him!

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Love this little guy!

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Happy almost Valentine’s Day!

Oh Two-dles!

February 2, 2017

We celebrated Samantha’s birthday last weekend with a perfectly pink Minnie Mouse party! Maxwell suggested the idea of a Minnie party and I thought it sounded just right!

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Samantha was wearing pink, of course, and was ready to party!

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The house had plenty of decorations, including some impressive Minnie Mouse drawings by Maxwell!

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We had family over for lunch and cake – and plenty of cousin fun! We were so grateful to have LuLu, Granddaddy, baby Margaret, Jenny, Ronnie, Katie, Anna, GJ and Daddo there to help us celebrate! I was so happy to get this good shot of the kids with my parents (I say Samantha’s big smile cancels out Spencer’s sour face. ha!)…

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although this shot is probably more realistic and made me laugh! 🙂

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Everyone had fun chatting and playing…

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and then we put on our (too tight!) party hats…

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and had a great lunch (Ousler’s, fruit, deviled eggs, salad with walnuts and apples, and chips) followed by the very best cake from Olexa’s!

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Samantha did pretty good at blowing out her candles!

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Favorite pic of the day right here…

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Everyone enjoyed the cake. It was so, so good!

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It was then time for presents! Baby had plenty of help getting everything open!

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She got some really fun stuff including a Sit N Spin, a tutu, a remote controlled Minnie car, a singing Elsa doll, a doctor kit, and a princess dress! What a lucky little girl! I’d say she loved it all – and loved dressing up and dancing with Elsa and GJ! 🙂

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What a fun day getting to celebrate the TWO-riffic birthday girl!

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Happy birthday Samantha!

More Florida

January 11, 2017

We had a nice stay in Naples with plenty of time to go to the pool…

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(Samantha looks like a little figure skater! ha!)

and the beach!

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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…

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playing outside…

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plenty of good food…

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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!

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