Catching up!

Well, once again I have gotten behind on updating the blog.  So here is a quick catch up before we start having really busy weeks again.  

Last week was kind of calm.  I got both girls signed up for Ballet and Tap this year.  Gracie is so excited.  They go for their shoe fittings tomorrow!

Last Monday was Hayden's Soccer tryouts and as always she was amazing and showed out.  She looked like a pro!  I don't know yet which team she is on...I guess we will find out next week. 

I have bought all the stuff for Gracie's 4th Birthday Party.  We are having a Pool party at Aunt Kim and Uncle Artie's house.  Thanks for letting us use the pool!  She is so excited...she picked a purple party with purses, lipstick and fingernail polish on the plates.  She is getting so big!

This week is our last week at home, we have lots of different things going on.  Gracie has open house Wednesday to meet her teachers and new friends.  Hayden has open house on Friday!  Then it is going to be back to getting up early, going to school, soccer practices and ballet/tap class every week.  I am actually looking forward to all of it and so are they!

Book Bags!!!

While in Wal-Mart yesterday, I noticed that all the book bags were out and thought we better go ahead and pick some out before the really good ones get gone!  Hayden and Gracie both wore theirs out last year, and it is always fun to pick out a new one every year.  Or at least I used to think so. 

Well we started looking and at first Gracie wanted Minnie Mouse and Hayden couldn't decide between Princess, Hello Kitty, Mario and Angry birds...........so we stood there forever trying to decide.  So I told them to look on some of the other aisles.  Well, we found two perfect book bags.  A pink one for Hayden and a purple one for Gracie.  They were so excited about these book bags for many reasons...1.  it came with a matching lunch box  2.  it came with a matching ruler  3.  it came with a matching pencil   and 4.  it came with matching note pad!!!!  Talk about exciting.Right?  We also picked out a few other pencils and pads for them to play with at home. 

They literally played with these book bags all afternoon.  They took them outside on the porch and played with them for hours, I know!  It was so cute.  They were playing dress up, baby and school all at the same time.  Mark even asked me "Did you play like this when you were little"  I said "of course that is what little girls do"  all little girls want to be a princess, mommy and school teacher!  They do have two great imaginations, it is quite entertaining to watch them sometimes!

So Excited!

Hayden has been asking me for months now...Why can't I drink out of a real glass like you and Daddy do at Restaurants?  I told her that she is still to little for real glasses and she might spill it all over the table without a top and straw on it!

Well, while we were all eating at the Owl Cafe in Apalachicola....She got a real glass and it was a real nice glass.  You should have seen the smile on her face.  She really thought she was something.   Of course I was scared it would get knocked over or even broken, but she did great with it.  Every time she took a drink she smiled and gently placed it back on the table.  She is really growing up on Mommy and Daddy!

Yesterday, we went the Chinese Place to have lunch with Mimi and Pop and once again the waitress brought her a real glass.  Her smile was priceless!  She smiled the whole time again!  I love how she wants to be so grown up, but I still want her to be my little baby!!!

Wilburette

There are two post for today, trying to get caught up again!

Back in April Mark brought a wild hog home with him from his job.  Needless to say I wasn't exactly pleased with his decision to put this wild hog in our dog pin to fatten up to eat!  Wilburette doesn't like anyone to come close to her, she will get very defensive!  She has calmed down a lot in the past three months, but I am not going to close to her!  

Wilburette has really been putting on the weight too, she was almost eating size, well that is according to Mark anyway. 

Well, when we got home from the beach, we found out why Wilburette was getting so fat...........and it wasn't all the good food we had been giving her!  She was pregnant and had 6 little baby pigs on Saturday, evidently right before we got home.  Hayden and Gracie are so excited about these baby pigs.  There are 3 of them that look a lot like chipmunks...so Aunt Kim and Hayden named them Alvin, Simon and Theodore! 

Last Days at the Beach 2012

Well, it rained the last two days we were at the beach...but we still found some fun things to do!  Friday afternoon in between some storms, we were able to do our yearly family pictures.  I found the perfect dresses for the girls at Gymboree and a matching polo shirt for the Man!  Aunt Kim got lots of great pictures of our precious babies.  Colton wasn't really into pictures, he just wanted to run into the ocean!!! 

We also did fireworks on Friday night, Gracie is a little scared of them but she did good this time.  Next year we will have to stop and buy some really good ones for them to see!  We also tried to ghost crab hunt, but there were none to be found this year.  We found one hole but nothing else!

Saturday, we drove home and Colton actually slept for about 3.5hours, which made the ride a little easier.  The girls watched movies.  It was a pretty good ride.   We really enjoyed our week at the beach, but we decided that we should be able to go for a month every year instead of a week!!!  Thank you Mimi and Pop, Kim, Linda and Grandmama for everything you do for us and all the help with our babies.  We love all of you very much!

Scalloping

Well Mark, Kim and Hayden wanted to back scalloping again today and so I ended up after much debate going along.  I wanted to go but I kept talking myself out of it, finally I just decided that I needed to go and try it.  I always tell the girls to try new things, so I figured I would take my own advice.  We rented another Kayak so that we could all go... I was really nervous about all of it, I really don't know why but I was.  I am so glad that I went and had the experience with them.  It is really neat, although Hayden said that it was much better yesterday.  It was very windy and because of the wind it made it feel cold today and the water wasn't as clear, but it was still fun.  I got to see lots of different things and fish but I was also very nervous about all the grass that I had to swim through.  The grass was the worst part of it but Mark said that if we could have gone into deeper water it isn't like that...I probably would like that a little better but then Hayden wouldn't be able to touch.  I actually enjoyed the Kayak a lot, it was a lot of fun and very peaceful.  I will definitely be sore tomorrow from it though, it is probably the most exercise I have done in a long time. 

Mark and Kim ended up finding about 20 scallops today, which was better than the 7 they found yesterday!  I am pretty sure that we will be doing it again before we have to come back home! 

Colton also got to try out the paddle board today with Aunt Kim.  He loves the ocean so much, he isn't going to want to go back home!  Look at my handsome Little Man!!!

Beach Day 4

Kind of been a rainy afternoon today but we got in some good beach time first thing this morning.  Just look how excited my Little Man was!  He is still loving the ocean, he runs down to it and sits down and just waits for it to get him.  Then he gets up and runs away and does it all over again!   We went out for lunch today and have played some Uno, blocks and read a few books this afternoon!