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Lake Family Reunion

July 17, 2014

On Saturday of last week, we loaded up and drove to Tim’s Ford Lake in TN for a little family reunion with Robert’s mom’s side of the family.  Cousins were in from California and everyone else drove over from Huntsville, Montgomery and Birmingham to spend some time together. It’s always fun to see everyone and how much the kids have changed.  Honestly, I was a little unsure about going considering what happened the last time we went (!) but we all managed to stay away from the hospital this time!  🙂

All the cousins in the best pic I could get!

cousins

Maxwell and Spencer are the youngest of the crew.  Evie, the next oldest, is 5.  I tend to think of Maxwell as such a big boy that it was different to see him around the real “big boys” and realize what a little guy he still is. I also learned the depth of Maxwell’s dog fear while there. While I have tried very hard to never react negatively to dogs when he’s around, he’s clearly my son and did not want to be anywhere near the two dogs…at all.  If he found himself within 3 feet of a dog, he would let out the most piercing scream you’ve ever heard.  Yea, that made things fun. Regardless, there was plenty of playtime without dogs around…

cousins

Plenty of “vacation food” like Lucky Charms!

lucky charms

and plenty of awesome views!

lake

Maxwell loved floating in the lake…

lake

While Spencer preferred a pool his own size!

baby pool

There was water balloon fun…

lake

lake

lake

A family fish fry…

fish fry

and smores!

smores

smores

smores

The best part was just having a chance to hang out!

lake

lake

It was a fun weekend in a beautiful place!

lake

Thanks so much for hosting us all, Nancy Ellis and Charlie!

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The 4th!

July 11, 2014

Finishing up the Naples pics with the 4th of July! We started the day with a trip to the beach!

beach

Spencer was dressed especially patriotically! (is that a word?)

spencer

We then went back to the house and enjoyed our last full day by taking it easy on GJ who had a broken rib.

gj

They’re so gentle with the injured.

GJ and Maxwell then baked a cake for America. They knew he was coming! 🙂

cake

Cheers!

cake

Then the cousins showed up and we had – what else? – another tea party!

tea party

This time with cake!

cake

We played trucks and princesses…

naples

and decorated the house for the holiday!

holiday

We played outside in the hot, HOT weather…

4th

and cooled off with a popsicle!

naples

After plenty of outside play, the kids were pooped…

4th

So we chilled out with some lunch and some Frozen (for about the 253rd time that week!)

naples

It was a great 4th all around. I have to say though, Robert and I were the most patriotic of all…

flag

a living flag for goodness sake!  🙂

Hope you all had a great week.  Happy Friday!

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Summer Vacay part 2

July 10, 2014

More Naples…more fun!

Robert got to play golf while I drove the cart…

golf

The boys had another tea party…

tea party

We rented a bike for Maxwell to practice on all week.  He wants one for his birthday so we thought this would be a good introduction. He was so excited about it he rode it out of the store!

bike

He was pretty proud and rode it all around the courtyard for a while…

bike

bike

naples

But then he managed to fall off twice and got a little skittish about the bike. He really spent more time on the tricycle which was fine.  We’ll get him riding that bike with a little practice!

Spencer loved his bike ride!

bike

gj and spencey

We went to the beach some more…this time with new trucks!

beach

beach

beach

And we spent lots of time swimming in the pool!

pool

pool

I wish every day could be vacation day!

naples

See you tomorrow!

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Summer Vacay

July 8, 2014

Like last year, we spent the 4th down in Naples but this year we stayed a whole week. It really is so nice to get away for a full week instead of just a long weekend. We did plenty of laying around and more than plenty of eating good food!  The boys loved being at GJ and Daddo’s house and Robert and I loved having GJ and Daddo around to help entertain them!  🙂

We flew down last Saturday morning…but not before discovering late Friday night that our water heater was leaking! Oh no! Well, really more like “thank goodness” because had we not discovered it before we left, we would have come home to a potential disaster a week later! We put in a Friday night call to our good plumber Bubba and he actually came over and replaced our water heater while we were out of town! Yep, our plumber’s name is Bubba and, yep, we trust him enough to leave him a key!  go Bubba!

Water heater problem solved, we got up early Saturday and headed to the airport. The boys did great on the flight down…

flight

and were very happy to see this lady when we got there!

naples

The boys wasted no time going straight to their favorite toys…

naples

naples

There were a few new things to check out too, like this table my mom had set up for the kids. It still had Delaney’s tea party set on it from last week and Maxwell thought a tea party was a great idea!

tea party

We ended up having a tea party just about every day…and each day with a new tea party treat! The first day it was popsicles! (the “dripless” kind made with jell-o and kool-aid like I always ate growing up!)

popsicle

popsicle

And there was, of course, tea water!

tea

The next morning, the boys had a good breakfast (they just made me laugh all week sitting at this little table together)…

naples

and then we headed to the beach!

naples

naples

naples

naples

Maxwell tried to dig to China…

naples

but then decided that was a lot of work and the hole was more fun to sit in…

naples

and then get buried in!

naples

Spencey thought it was pretty funny when Maxwell couldn’t fight back!  🙂

naples

Cute boys.

naples

They both loved the beach and we probably spent more time in the ocean than we did in the sand! They both loved being out in the waves in our arms. Of course, we probably spent more time in the pool than the ocean and sand combined.  But, that’s ok because they love the pool and Maxwell did SO great on his swimming all week that we were happy to oblige!

More pics tomorrow!

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Monday Monday

July 7, 2014

Not only is it Monday, but it’s the Monday after vacation.  Womp womp. We spent the past week in Naples and loved every second of it. We got home Saturday night and are getting back into the swing of normal routine today but are really wishing we were still playing on the beach…

Naples

riding bikes…

naples

swimming in the pool…

naples

and hanging with cousins.

cousins

Lots of Naples pics to come this week!

ps – if you were on vacation last week too be sure to scroll down because I was still posting last week.  You especially don’t want to miss the swim lessons post!  🙂

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