After all the girly girliness of last week, how about a picture of 3 handsome guys to start the week!

Don’t worry 2 of the 3 are finally getting haircuts tomorrow!

Love my boys!! Happy Monday!
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After all the girly girliness of last week, how about a picture of 3 handsome guys to start the week!

Don’t worry 2 of the 3 are finally getting haircuts tomorrow!

Love my boys!! Happy Monday!
Samantha sure did have a happy day on Saturday – her 3rd birthday – and the celebrations continued all weekend long! The day stared with lots of balloons and a pink doughnut with candles…



She even got to go to Maxwell’s basketball game! ha!

She got to pick lunch (Chick-Fil-A) and we all enjoyed her fantastic mermaid cake!




That night there were presents including lots of new pjs and a car seat of her baby doll!

and maybe a little more cake for the birthday girl! 🙂

The next day everyone got to go to Disney on Ice to continue the celebrations! I think it was a hit…especially the popcorn, cotton candy, and sno-cones they got to have!

Samantha was cracking me up during the show. When the witch from Snow White came out Samantha said “Why is her grandma so mad??”. When the skaters would spin she’d say “Whoa! He’s getting dizzy!” When Ariel and Sebastian came out without Flounder she was VERY concerned and I probably heard “Where IS FLOUNDER?!” about 10 times! Frozen was definitely her favorite part but, again, she was very concerned that Sven was not there! She also kept saying that she thought we were going to be skating…ha! Maybe another time baby girl!
A wonderful celebration for a wonderful 3 year old!

See you tomorrow!
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How about a little belated Roll Tide! We all enjoyed the totally crazy, totally stressful, but ultimately awesome National Championship game! Even though Robert had a ticket to go to the game in Atlanta, he chose to stay home and watch it with his favorite Bama fans (work might have played a role in that decision too but, we’ll just pretend he wanted to watch it with us!). Our cheerleader was ready…

and so were our football players!

Robert totally enjoys all the distractions when he watches the game! 🙂


The first half of the game didn’t go as we hoped and, by the second half we were upstairs feeling pretty low. But, the 4th quarter turned things around! Maxwell tried to hard to make it to the end but he couldn’t quite last…

Spencer did though! He was jumping up and down with me and Robert when they scored that overtime touchdown! He was pretty excited to wear his jersey to school the next morning…

It was a fun night! 17! Roll Tide!
Happy Monday! Back to our Naples trip – our last day in Naples was New Year’s Eve and we spent most of it on the beach!
Everyone relaxed…

Played in the sand…

And of course there was football!

The kids also discovered that, not only could you get strawberry smoothies at the bar, but chocolate milkshakes too! Score!



No better way to end 2017, that’s for sure.
Our trip to Naples was fantastic…

but sadly had to come to an end on the first day of 2018. We said goodbye to our favorites…

and made the journey home!

We got back in plenty of time to watch the Sugar Bowl. RTR! I’d say it was a perfect end to 2017 and a great start to 2018!
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Robert planned a fishing trip for the boys while we were down in Naples.

Everyone was hoping for a good catch like last time, but, it was just too cold for the fish! The boys tried…


and had some snacks…

but the only thing they caught that afternoon was some ice cream!

It’s never too cold for ice cream!
We all ended up back at the beach late that afternoon and it was just about perfect!








Doesn’t get much better than that!