Pool Fun!!

Poor Mia has to nap in her stroller almost every day -- God love her!!

June27, 2012

Lucky Mia!

Mia is the lucky receipent of all of Reese and Charlie's old toys......and that's a lot of toys!! This was one of R and C's favorites and Mia has not stopped playing with it since I brought it out!! Sweet lovebug!!

June 28, 2012

Mia is 9mo!!

My little love bug is 9mo old today!! My oh my how time flies! She is still the best little baby. She has mastered crawling and is EVERYWHERE and I love it. My favorite stage, ever, is when they crawl! She learns something new everyday. She loves to clap for herself, says "mama," "dada," uh," for "uh-oh" (we haven't mastered the oh yet!!), "byebye" and "zzzzz" for Zealand!! Mia, you are such a little delight and I love watching you grow!!!

June 26, 2012



My Big Boy

My little Charlie was NOT going to be outdone by his sister. Yesterday at the pool, he marched right up to the end of the diving board and off he went. He was SO proud of himself!! Reese has been jumping off all summer and for some reason, Charlie would just watch. He jumped and jumped last year, but for some reason, needed a bit to warm up this summer. Well he's brave now and it's all I can do to keep him off of it -- the best thing about swimming and summer is it produces 2 tired/worn down kiddos!!

**On a side note, both Reese and Charlie swam the length of the pool yesterday without stopping!! I was so so so proud of them. I thought we would be doing good to have it down by the end of the summer, but our kiddos proved us wrong. They can swim the entire Olympic length of the pool by themselves, without stopping -- I was one proud momma yesterday!!**

June 21, 2012

Art Camp!!

This week, the kids are in Art Camp and it's amazing! This is Reese's 2nd year, and Charlie's first and we are loving all the fun things they are doing. The camp has a circus theme, and they bring different arts/crafts home each day. Sweet Reese is in Heaven -- arts and crafts are her absolute favorite!! Today they brought home the picture frames with a cute pic of them attatched......LOVE it!!

June 19-20, 2012

And She's Off!!!!

My sweet Mia decided she would start crawling on Father's Day!! She is quite a sneaky little girl. I told Joe she's like a little Houdini. She can get from place to place in no time at all with little to no noise. Little Stinker!!

June 17, 2012

Happy Happy Father's Day!!!

Today, after church, we had the entire crew over for lunch to celebrate Father's Day. My sister got a new puppy, Jolie, and she is precious. The kiddos had such a good time chasing her around. We had a wonderful lunch and lots of playtime with the kiddos. I have to tell ya, we have some of the best daddy's around!! We're one blessed bunch!!!

June 17, 2012

Swimming!!

My sweet Reese has been taking stroke lessons for 2 weeks now. She is doing so so good. She is taking from a guy named Jeremy, who is not only the coach of the swim team we hope to be a part of next summer, but he's also an Olympic swimmer. Awesome! In order to make the swim team, Reese has to be 5 years old and be able to swim the entire length of the pool. She has all summer to practice and prepare -- and we've started off on the right foot. By lesson 2, she is already 3/4 of the way there. We are going to continue lessons for a bit longer and hopefully by the end of this summer she'll have the whole pool down and just be able to practice until next summer. Keep it up sweet Reese, you're doing awesome!!! (Just fyi, Charlie was taking too, but we decided to wait until next summer to do lessons with him since he can't do swim team for 2 years anyways. He's happy as a little lark swimming the pool without strokes and I'm happy as long as he's happy!!)

June 12, 2012

Vacation Bible School!!

This is the kiddos first year to do VBS and we are all SO excited about it! I am teaching (not their classes!) and I am loving it so far. Yesterday was day one and the kiddos had a blast! Since I'm teaching, I get to experience all that the kids are doing, so our afternoon conversations of what went on during VBS are hilarious. It's so cute to get their take on what's "actually" going on!! They will do an end of the week program this Sunday and I cannot wait to see it! Love to see God working in these little lives! Operation Overboard is our theme and we're "diving deep" into God's word!

Love you kiddos!!! Y'all make me one proud mommy!!

June 11, 2012

Baby Girl LOVES Pickles!!!

June 8, 2012

My Fearless Big Girl

My sweet Reese was jumping off the diving board with all the "big girls" yesterday at the pool. Had to take a few pics with the phone! Way to go Reese -- such a big girl!!!

June 6, 2012

Look What I See......

My sweet baby decided she would sit up all by herself today! I went in to get her when she woke up from her nap and this is what she was doing! She was so proud of herself!!! My gosh I love this baby!!

(Yes, her crib sheet is BLUE!! She threw up on BOTH of her pink ones and they're in the wash! That's what you get when you have an older brother!!)

June 6, 2012

Dance-a-holic!!

Everyday, my little Reese dances. It's one of her favorite past times. Almost every afternoon, without fail, she will put her dress up on, take her music player into the dining room and dance. It's so sweet to sneak in and watch her when she doesn't know I'm there. Since it's summer, and her actual dance class is out, she has missed going to her lesson. Today, she and her Gigi went to the library and picked out some new "how to dance" DVD's today. Girlfriend has been in front of the TV ever since. Dance on sweet Reese -- it makes mommy proud that you are so passionate about something! 

June 6, 2012

Fish

These kiddos want me take them to the pool EVERYDAY -- and I'm not kidding. Since the pool opened in May, I think we've missed like 2 days! They must be fish at heart!! Today they started stroke lessons and they did awesome!!! We have another lesson on Thursday -- more on that later!! So exciting!!

June 5, 2012

Crazy Children

Last night, the kiddos were feeling/acting like crazy people. Charlie came stolling in the den in Mia's walker (Reese was not going to be "out-done," so she too had to have her picture made in the walker!), and Reese insisted on Mia wearing her "big-girl" panties. Not sure what go into them, they were just acting crazy!! Love capturing little moments like these on film!!

June 4, 2012

Golfing With Daddy

Joe woke Charlie man up BRIGHT and EARLY Saturday morning so he could go and play golf with him.......Charlie gets so excited when he gets "daddy time" on the golf course! Look how tired my little buddy's eyes are!!!

June 2, 2012

Happy Memorial Day!

Better Late than never, right?!?!?!?!

May 28, 2012

Mimi's M&M's

This little stinker get's into Mimi's M&M bowl every Sunday.....had to capture it on camera!

June 3, 2012

Happy Birthday Allie!!

Mia went to her first "friends" birthday party this weekend! Her buddy Allie turned one, and Mia had such a good time!! Allie had a jump-a-roo, lots of yummy bar-b-que (thanks Scott, it was SO yummy!) and a cupcake pinata! Reese and Charlie had a blast playing with all the kids! Happy first Birthday Allie!!! 

June 2, 2012