Friday, June 1, 2012

Happy Hearts

The most precious part of my summer days!

Parker's first bike ride


sweet brothers

my boys chilling at our yard sale

These pictures capture the sweet smiles of my boys, and they just make me smile!

Monday, May 28, 2012

My Baby Bro Is Getting Married!!!!


Adam and Erin






Pax's face makes me laugh!!!

Well, I can't believe it, but my baby brother is engaged!  He met Erin in January and proposed to her on Saturday!  So, when we left St. Simons, we headed up to Greenville to celebrate with them and her family.  It was so nice to meet her family, and we love her even more now!

They also asked us all to be in their wedding in November!  When Adam asked Pax to be his ring bearer, he actually said, "No!"  What???!!!???!  We're going to have to work on that!  Hehe!  He'll come around!

We  took these pictures in Falls Park after dinner.  Pax had fun running around, and messing with the ducks!

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Just Like Old Times

The boys--sent from the grandmas that took all 3 boys down early!!

Parker riding

Pax became pretty good at casting.  He was so content fishing on the dock for a long time.

Parker in his go-pod

boat ride



Pax and Jake sporting their cool glasses!

Parker B taking a nap on the lawn

There were several of these convenient stores down there. :-)

Parker and Ellie

All the boys with their glow necklaces!

Family pic sporting GA colors

Sparkler fun

Jake

Rex

The kiddos playing with bubbles


free standing!!

beautiful double rainbow!!



Yes, they are in their real clothes!!!

Oh well!  They had fun!

LOTS of fun!!!

Buddies--taken by Jake


Just like old times, we spent Memorial Day weekend with the Destin Divas crew.  Instead of Destin (like in  the old days), we headed down to St. Simons/Brunswick to spend the weekend at the beach.  Michele and Dave now live in Brunswick, so we took the opportunity to go visit them.  We even threw Liz, their daughter, a wedding shower.  It was fun to be on vacation yet again with this crew!!  The kids have so much fun together and it reminds me of when my generation was little, and we would all play together!  Pax really got the hang of fishing and spent a lot of time on Dave's dock casting, reeling, and repeating!  Parker started letting go of things once he pulled himself up, and has really worked on crawling better.

One of the highlights of the trip was when we got back to our condo and noticed a rainbow outside. Mom and I took the boys out to see it, while Dad and Brad had gone to get dinner.  Once we got outside, we saw Jake and also noticed it was a DOUBLE rainbow!!  Since we quickly ran out of the condo, the boys weren't in bathing suits, but that sure didn't stop them!!!!  They had a BLAST playing in the waves and getting soaking wet!!  They ended up taking a dip in the pool and also hot tub after swimming in the ocean. We couldn't stay out too long as a tropical storm was coming up and stirring up lots of sand, so we had to take the babies inside.  But it was fun and spontaneous, and we definitely made some good memories!

Another highlight was the fact that Sarah was also down there and staying less than a 1/2 mile away.  I can't believe we didn't take a picture of us, but we got to see her 2 different times when she walked over to see us--one of them for breakfast-yummy french toast courtesy of Brad! 

We had a short, but fun trip to the beach.  I believe this is going to be a new tradition that we all look forward to!!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

T-Ball Party

Pax getting his trophy from Coach Brad :-)

Cooper, Ben, Pax, Dallas, Ty, and Zach

Jake and Asa jumped in on the ends




Goooooo Hawks!

We had our t-ball end of the year party at Stevie B's again this year.  The boys had fun, and it was practically impossible to get them all together because they were running all over the place.

Monday, May 21, 2012

8 Months Old

Time to lower the bed--he's pulling himself up!!

on the left-Pax at 18 months, Parker at 8 months

Parker's first haircut

Courtesy of Mimi


Look at those 3 handsome boys!

Will at 10 months and Parker at 8







Brad and Pax about to jump in




Examining each other as they eat veggie fries
Yes, it's already been 8 months since I had this sweet baby!!! And, we all feel that this past week he has changed SOOOO much!!!  It seems like one day when I picked him up from Tracey's, he was doing so much more than the previous day.

-He now says 3 words (when he wants to)-"da-da, ma-ma," and "bye-bye" (with a little wave some times).
-He is pulling up on things by himself, letting go, and walking along the furniture!  He will stand there about 5 seconds before he sits, or grabs on again.
-He is on the move, and we're in trouble.  We thought he was into everything before, but now he can get to things!  He's on all 4's doing a modified sort of army crawl thing.  It's time to fix the baby gate.
-He's all of a sudden started signing 3 things-all done, more, and eat.
-His pincher grasp is getting good, too.  He likes to feed himself green beans or peas from our plates or puffs.