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June 1, 2016

We decided to take a little road trip to Atlanta for the long weekend to visit our friends, Patrick and Liz, and their cute kids, Henry and Evelyn. Henry is just about 5 months younger than Maxwell so the boys all played really well together. Evelyn just turned 2 and I think she enjoyed having a “baby” around that wasn’t her!  🙂 Our first stop was Taqueria del Sol…yum!

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We then spent the afternoon just doing around…seeing a train, getting ice cream, playing at the park, and hanging out. Perfect!

train

Pouty because everyone has ice cream but her!

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Brothers to the rescue!

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ice cream

ice cream atlanta

After some rest (including a solid 3 hour nap for Samantha in the pack N play! woohoo!), we headed to a park to run some energy out…

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park

park

That night, the grownups went out to dinner and we left the kiddos with a very capable babysitter who said they all went to bed with no problems! I’d say our plan of wearing them out at the park worked!

park

Everyone slept great…almost. Samantha slept great until 5:30am when she woke up covered in pee and freezing cold. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. That just meant we were up and ready to go on our Sunday adventure! See you tomorrow with details!

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Happy Memorial Day

May 30, 2016

Saluting the red, white, and blue today!

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rocking chair

Look at those two looking at each other! Melt my heart.

rocking chair

They don’t all 3 fit in the rocking chair quite as good as they did last year!

memorial day

But we’re doing the best we can – striped socks, gold beads, skinned knees and all! 🙂

rocking chair

rocking chair

We hope you all have a wonderful day off!

rocking chair

Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day posts of year’s past

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Mother’s Day

May 10, 2016

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – it’s good to be momma around here! I had all sorts of fun treats waiting for me on Sunday morning…

mothers day

mothers day

mothers day

My crew sure does know how to spoil me. 🙂

After breakfast we loaded up and drove down to Montgomery for lunch with Robert’s family. The boys were super excited to see their cousins and we had a wonderful time.

mother's day

I tried to get a pic or two of Samantha in her cute dress (that Susu nicely hemmed for her!) but she wasn’t having it…

dress

she wanted to get inside…

baby

and eat!

mothers day

Once that food got in her mouth she was a happy camper the rest of the day! We had a great brunch and got lots of good pictures of the family!

lulu grandkids

family

family

margaret

baby

The whole gang!

browns

After lunch, we went over to Ronnie and Jenny’s for a while and got in a nice, long visit!

baby

mgm

We then got in the (very hot!) car to drive home and Spencer started melting down because he wanted shade. So, I made some shade for him….

shade

Funny boy.

It was a great day with some of my favorite people!

mothers day

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Easter

March 31, 2016

Hoppy Easter! The kids woke up Easter morning happy to see the bunny had visited! He brought Legos (of course), Lion Guard and Minnie Mouse plates, and some cool jungle animal hatching eggs! Fun!

bunny

The bunny also left a note that, because of the rain, all the eggs were hidden in the garage and under the covered patio. Thanks Easter Bunny!

egg hunt

Because of the weather, missed naps, and enduring coughs, Robert and Maxwell were the only ones to make it to church. They went to the early 8:00 service while Spencer, Samantha, and I stayed home. We got the house ready for all of our Easter visitors that showed up for lunch! Since everyone was coming to our house, we didn’t get dressed up in our Easter “finest” but we still tried to look cute!

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This dress is the one that Susu and GJ made for baby and she wore to the egg hunt last year. She was basically too cute for words in her pretty pink dress!  🙂

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We had a house full and had a good lunch with plenty of visiting!

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easter

easter

easter

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easter

easter

We were so glad everyone could make the trip to be together. Happy Easter!

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Egg Hunt

March 30, 2016

On Saturday we all got dressed in our spring colors and headed down to the annual Inscoe egg hunt outside of Wetumpka. We go every year and it’s always fun for the kids and good for Robert to see some old friends. Years past… 2015 and 2013 and 2012 and 2011.

My crew looked cute and ready for Easter!

egg hunt

It was a beautiful day – not too hot with a mixture of clouds and sun. Although, we seemed to have found the most sunny spot for this picture!

egg hunt

That’s better…

egg hunt

Baby loved stomping all around the place with as many Easter baskets as she could hold…

egg hunt

and she might have found an egg before the hunt officially started! I don’t think anyone minded.  🙂

egg hunt

egg hunt

The boys loved running around during the hunt to find eggs – and everyone got plenty of eggs this time around, thank goodness! The Easter Bunny later threw out little stuffed animals and Spencer and I managed to snag a lion for him and a cheetah for Maxwell! Perfect! The boys favorite part of the day though? Getting to play with Katie and Anna of course!

egg hunt

egg hunt

egg hunt

We tried to get a pic of all 5 cousins together but baby wasn’t exactly cooperating…

eggs

She wanted to be roaming around eating candy!

egg hunt

It was a beautiful day for hunting eggs!

egg hunt

See you tomorrow!

 

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