Father's Day

Sorry a little Late - but nonetheless we wanted to honor Brian for being such a great dad. I could not do this without him, his constant encouragement, his ways of making light of every situation, the way he makes Connor and I laugh out loud, the way he walks in the door and immediately helps with anything we are doing and of course his unconditional love - and trust me with my current pregnancy hormones it is unconditional love! Thank you Brian for being such a great dad -we had fun celebrating -I have including a few pictures celebrating with both of the grandfathers

Family Trip

Brian, Connor and I just got back form our first "family" trip with just the three of us - since it is soon to be four we thought we should take advantage of some one on one time with Connor. We spent the week at Sandestin resort and had the best time. The weather could not have been better, we stayed steps from the beach where we spent our mornings-Connor is fearless -seriously fearless, he jumps into the pool without blinking, darts into the waves and comes up laughing. I am not sure what to think of this, for now I just pray for energy to keep up! The afternoons were quietly enjoyed on the porch overlooking the shore as Connor napped -Brian and I both finished at least one book a piece. The evenings were full of several fun nights in Baytowne Wharf where Connor played on the awesome playground, had his first ice cream cone and watched movies on the lawn, and danced the night away to the live music -too funny. A few ventures to some of our favorite restuarants in Seaside and lazy nights of cooking in and night walks on the beach. It was a great week with precious time laughing with Connor, a week to enjoy each other and truly relax.

Wild Dunes

We just got back from a wonderful long weekend at Wild Dunes SC with Brian's family. For the most we had good weather with one rainy day adventure to the aqaurium. Connor loves the ocean and is fearless -which warrants non stop attention, but his curiosity is darling. This was also Bradford's first trip to the beach -we'll just say he is still getting use to it! We all had so much fun -thank you Nonnie and Grandad for a great trip!

Happy Mother's Day

I just celebrated my second mother's day and what a blessing! We have had a great few days with family, visiting all the great -grandmothers to help plant flowers for them, an unsuccessful attempt at a picnic with my mom -that ended in a great "indoor" picnic, and a lovely brunch with brian's mom. It has been a crazy few days! We did have some down time on sunday afternoon, we watched the movie Cars with Connor - who sat for a full hour and 45 minutes on the couch next to me and hung on every word - I could not believe it but the movie held his undivided attention. He even got into the action - He would look at me and say "oh no, oh no!" anytime anything bad happened -too cute! Brian and I usually put Connor to bed as a joint effort because it is such a precious time - being mother's day I had the privelage to myself, rocking him and singing he looked up at me and kissed me - I had tears pouring as I walked downstairs -it is amazing how much you love these little people! I hope you all had a blessed mother's day!

Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a blessed Easter. We had an eventful one! Saturday we had 3 Easter Egg hunts - we only made it to 2- our neighborhood 4th annual morning easter egg hunt which my good friend Missy and I organize - it was a great success and everyone had a lot of fun, including Connor -especially after he figured out there was something in the eggs! We then went to our friend Drew Johnson's for his 1st birthday party/Easter egg hunt. Connor definetaly had the hang of things by then and loved playing with all the kids. Sunday was a beautiful day with a great morning church service, brunch with my family and of course a visit from the Easter Bunny. Have a great week everyone

It's A BOY!

We found out this past week that we are expecting another boy. We are so excited -however I personally thought it was a girl so it is still soaking in that we are going to have 2 little boys running around here! More importantly the ultrasound looked great, the baby is still on schedule for August 29th - making me 20 weeks and 1/2 way there -yeah! We will keep you updated

Beach Week

We just got back from a great week at the Beach with our good friends the Riley's and the Moores. Mandy, Jenny and I bravely ventured the first part of the week alone with 4 kids (Madison 3, Connor 16mo, Griffin 13mo, and Carter 9mo) - including the drive to St Port Joe, Fl. Despite being rained on for 3 days and going a little stir crazy inside the house with all the kids - we had a great time together. the end of the week brought welcomed help from the husbands and beautiful weather. The kids had such a great time together - Connor is going to miss he constant play mates! and I am going to miss my girl time! Thanks for a great time everyone! Here are a few of the pictures I took of the kids