Some Summer Fun

Hello again peeps,
 So heres the skinny on our happenings lately with pics to illustrate, because frankly it's more fun looking at pictures than reading a bunch of stuff. At least that's my opinion, and i'm sure a few of you would agree. So Here Goes…………….

 Our Zoo just added a splash pad last summer, and I must say we have visited much more than we would have if it had not been added. The heat we get around here in the summer, plus me being pregnant for the second summer in a row, make for a not so fun time being outside unless I have somewhere we can cool off. And this works perfect. Calvin is still trying to figure out if he likes it.

Annie of course loves it, and enjoys every inch of the pad.

I just had to throw this funny pic in there. I guess the hubby always puts the baby in and I usually put Annie in the car, because we both naturally went to the wrong side of the car and neither of us noticed right away that something was wrong with this picture. Haha, I'm sure Calvin would have loved to face forward, while Annie on the other hand, probably would not have liked crunching her legs up.

Waiting for family to arrive at the zoo.

This was a pic of when Calvin took his first crawling moves. You could tell he was wondering what we were getting so excited about .

Meeting their cousin baby Hawkins for the first time. He was so cute, and Annie loved him so much. Calvin was just loving the apple core he was knawling (sp?) on. Don't worry, I was closely supervising him.

First tooth. His second and third tooth are now following closely behind.

We had a wonderful opportunity to get Annie on a plane when we took a trip to Florida for Scott's work. It was a short couple of days but we had a great time getting to see my brother Ben and Bri's house, visiting the beach, and learning about how to work as a family business. So here is our little pumpkin cheesing it up while waiting in line at the security check point.

She got a window seat for the first flight. The parts that I thought she would be more scared like taking off, and hearing the wheels come up, and landing, were actually her favorite parts of the flights.

Reading up on flight safety.

By the second flight this girl was living it up. She had her movie on the ipad, cranberry juice, and Delta cookies close at hand.

She loved playing in the sand and water at the beach that was only minutes away from my brothers house. I have to admit, I enjoyed being back at the beach myself even if it was for a short while.

Big boy now gets to take a bath with his sister since he can sit up well enough on his own. He loves bathtime now.

Picnic in the front yard while the weather was still decent in the mornings. Look at the beautiful grass. My husband (Scotty)  has been doing a great job making a nice lawn for us to enjoy.

And of course Scott and I got to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary on the 14th. Since Scott is finishing up school right now we couldn't take a getaway so we celebrated a nice dinner and movie. We are going to take a fun anniversary trip maybe next year. He spoiled me and took me to Ruth's Chris, one of my favorite steak restaurants. I absolutely love their ribeye steak and my mouth is watering right now just talking about it. mmmmmmm.

I love this pic because this little boy loves his daddy almost as much as he loves me and they look so stinking cute together. Father and Son= Precious.

For Father's day we took Scott to the park and had an evening dinner picnic at the cove. We didn't get to spend the whole day with him because he went golfing with his dad, but as the kids get a little older and can do more fun stuff with him I think we are going to plan some more fun things to do for/with him.

They love their Daddy, but not as much as I love him. Sorry kids.

That's it for now.

Yours Truly

A long awaited post…..

I'm not going to waste my time trying to catch up because I never will, so I will briefly inform you on what has happened since my last post, but I will only put up pictures of our most recent things. It would be way too much to try and do both. So here goes…..

Since Christmas/January we,

    1) Found out we were expecting baby #3.!!!!!!Yes we knew we wanted our 2nd and 3rd back to back, we just didn't know it would be only three months after having our second that number three would come along. HAHA. What an adventure we are in for.

    2) Found out that baby #3 is a GIRL!!!!!. Big sister Annie is so excited and has already talked about having tea parties and dressing up in princess dresses together. Big brother doesn't even know what the heck is going on.

3) Went to Orlando FLorida to celebrate my Nana's 80th birthday party with all our extended family for a couple of days and figured since we were going to be in Orlando we planned to extend our vacation and visit……

4) Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom. Our little Cinderella absolutely loved it. Can't wait to take our kids back again some day.

5) A bunch of other small misc. things. Anyway on to more recent things.

Here we are visiting Circle G Ranch for little cousin Hudsons Birthday. He's the boy on the right in the cute little safari vest. This was a fun little park you drive through and feed the animals that come up to your car.

 My little Annie was a little scared at first. Calvin once again didn't really know what the heck was going on. He was just glad he wasn't stuck in his car seat for this ride.

 Zebra coming up for some treats.

 This cow had a really long tongue and liked to stick it really close to our faces looking for treats.

 We thought Calvin would be safe up front in Nana's lap but that didn't really make a dfference. HeeHee.

 My little rock climber climbed right up this wall like it was nothing. She gets that from her Daddy.

 Of course little brother wanted to join the fun. Some day little man.

 Daddy loves his snuggle time with his little girl.

 Trying crawfish in Chattanooga. She was not the biggest fan of the initial look of the little creatures.

 I think she would have liked the meat a little better if it wasn't so spicy.
 Getting to watch her cousins at their ballet recital. She wants to do ballet now of course.

 Looking like a little hippies at her uncle Dave/future aunt Lindsey/ and uncle Sams graduation/ Nana's retirement from teaching. Big party.

 Party in the backyard.

Well that's it for this quick catch up. Hopefully we can be on track now and update more frequently.

Yours Truly