Kids Fishing Tournament

It only took forever a short while for the princess to walk herself from the car, to the stocked ponds with her bright pink fishing pole and Holdyn's fire hat in tow.

Holdyn cast his line out and he immediately caught a fish! So glad because that was the lone fish for the day! The place was packed, so the little fishies didn't have a chance!

It's hard rocking the pink and brown dress and big brown bow with your pink fishing pole! At least she has some manners and covered her hiney :)

Summer Camp 101

Week 1.... down in the books. Well, really only like half a week. Monday they were closed for Memorial Day, Tuesday he didn't go *cough* mom kinda forgot *cough*, so he started on Wednesday. Wednesday morning was full of tears and lots of dragging/pulling him in to the building.. literally! His nerves were a little calmed after he found out (I had no clue of the weeks schedule) that they were taking a field trip. His first time.... EVER... on a BUS!! O.M.G. Probably best momma didn't know this, or he MIGHT have been absent on Wednesday also!! They went to this indoor inflatable play place and he had a great time, but still wasn't sold on the whole 'summer camp' thing. Wednesday night he told me that he wasn't going again. I told him that we HAD to tell the teacher, so he HAD to go Thursday, and *cough* that could be his last day. Ok... he was fine with that. I picked him up Thursday and he pulled my head down and whispered in my ear 'Remember to tell the teacher today is my last day!'.... kid doesn't forget anything!! Thankfully, after the teacher caught wind, she reminded him that they were having carnival games on Friday and he would be wining prizes and how much fun he would have (The theme was carnival week). He was again, OK with going... but JUST one more day! This morning he asked me was tomorrow his day off... 'yes' I replied, the next day? 'yes'.... the next day? 'no, you go back next week' .... "AWWWW MAN!!!! Well next summer can we just forget about summer camp all together and not go at all??" Sure Holdyn! He skipped/ran right in today and told me bye before we even got to the door...

Takes the little stinker a little time to warm up :)

He just wants to stay home with his momma and baby sister!! He is afraid he will miss out on something! I signed him up for the 1/2 day program, not the full day, so that was also an incentive 'not having to stay for lunch OR take a nap'.... pretty cool to a 5 almost 6 but let's not even talk about that year old!

"Nap Time"

During "nap time", I heard Hadley opening her dresser drawers about 30 minutes after she went down for her 'nap'... I went in to investiage. She had destroyed all of her diapers, stripped off her wardrobe, had completely soiled through one pair of panties, and I found her in a fresh pair of clean panties that she had put on herself.... backwards.

After mommy got to clean up that fun, Holdyn made a homemade pizza for lunch, and Hadley had some shredded cheese for a snack. We won't even go in to detail on how much landed on the floor compared to how much made it in her mouth..............

BUT..... she can be pretty cute at times :D

What's for Dinner?

You think I'm gonna eat THIS for dinner???!!!

OK.... I guess I will try it.........

Hmmmm... It's pretty yummy afterall!



Amelia Island 2012

The day after Holdyn graduated, we packed up the car (it looked like we were staying for months... better to pack too much than not enough!) and headed to our first ever family vacation.

Hadley LOVED the beach and was not scared at all of the waves. We were screaming at her to come back because she would just take off running down the beach and towards the water the entire time!

Late Afternoon stroll on the beach. It was so nice not having to drive from the hotel to the beach. We could walk everywhere!

The kids had so much fun playing together on the beach and chasing each other!

The first night we got to eat at a pretty neat restaurant on the beach. We ate on the 2nd floor balcony and it had a playground on the beach at the restaurant for the kids to play on!

Holdyn loved building sand castles and digging tunnels!

Hadley just wanted to live in the water!

They loved cruisin on the 'alligator' !!

Snuggling with daddy before bedtime after a fun filled day!

First time Hadley slept in a bed, and the first time the kids slept in the same room together, much less then same BED together! I thought it would NEVER work out, but we walked in to check on them before we went to bed and they were both passed out! Soooo cute!

The last night we were on the island, we hired a nanny agency. Best thing we ever did! They sent a nanny to our hotel room with a full bag of toys and goodies geared towards the kids gender, ages, and likes. We ordered them a pizza and headed out the door.

We got to go to a nice 'adult' restaurant and have some alone time. We took a nice walk on the beach alone and just spent time together. Our dinner was amazing!

We then went to a band that was playing at a tiki bar on the beach. We ordered drinks and sat down to enjoy the music. Not 1 minute later it started POURING rain... not just drizzling... POURING!! We decided to head out before it rained any harder since, remember, we could walk everywhere there and had to walk back to the hotel in the pouring rain. We made a pit stop in to the dairy queen to get a blizzard to top off the night.

We had an amazing vacation. The kids had a blast, and we had just as much fun not only watching their excitement, but getting to go on a date while on vacation. When we got back to the hotel room the kids were already in bed and sound asleep!

It was the perfect distance from the house... not too close and not too far. We will definetely be going back sooner than later! It is a beautiful town, so laid back, and so neat how you could walk to pretty much anything!

Pre-K Graduation 2012

Well I can officially say that I have a kindergartener!! Holdyn graduated from Pre-K last week.

 All the kids put on a great program and then had a little brunch afterwards. Holdyn was nervous but he did a great job!!

Ms. Debbie is the director of the pre-school and the Pre-K teacher. She will always have a special place in my heart. She was always there not only for Holdyn, but for me also for any reason at all. She even came over to the house today to check out Holdyn's construction site he obviously told her about all school year! She brought him a firetruck placemat and a little dalmation dog. The little dog was a toy in the classroom and she said every single day he would walk in the door and the first thing he would do was go and get that little dog. She said she couldn't leave it in the classroom for next year. She said Holdyn loved it SO much she would have felt so guilty and would regret it if she didn't give it to him. He was SO excited.

 I am so glad Ms. Debbie will still be in our life next year. She won't be Hadley's teacher, but she is the director so we will still get to see her all the time :)

 Holdyn and his best friend Santiago. They go to school together and they live right around the corner from us!! We love Santy and his family!

 The graduate and his daddy.... he loves that daddy!

 Mommy and HoHo

 Hadley was SO good during the program. She is such a ham and just adorable! I think she is going to love going to school next year and getting to play with friends!

 Holdyn's true crazy side! He was SO excited and proud that he was now offically on Summer break!

 All of the grandparents got to come and then we took Holdyn out to lunch to his favorite restaurant!

Momma's sweet baby girl!

True Love..............