Thursday, July 16, 2009

Running of the ducks

This video was taken downtown a couple of weeks ago by Tom's phone. The girls had been in the fountain and then we were looking at the ducks. This is hilarious because you see Melaina chasing after the ducks and in comes Brooke ready to chase. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXoDKnGqx_c

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Lisa brought Caden and Adelyn over to our house a couple of weeks ago. The day they came over it was 100 degrees (literally) and felt like 150 degrees! We went to a nearby park and just poured sweat so we ended up hanging out at our place most of the time in the air conditioner!! Adelyn and Brooke going across the wobbly bridge...
Sisters!

The kids tearing it up in the playroom!

Brooke going across the bridge...again and again.....

The other day at the pool with Candace and Melaina.
There are 4 of us girls that get together at least every other week (if not more) and all of our kids are within 6 months of each other. 2 girls, 2 boys! Perfect! I love chatting with the mamas...they are so much fun!!
Trying to get a shot of all of them together is ridiculous! This one wasn't as hard as some of them have been!! Look how cute they all look!

When Mom was here, Brooke wanted Roxy to put on her crocs (shoes). Sooo.... we put them on her!
Brooke wanted to mow the grass like Daddy does!
She loves to vacuum with us. Anytime I vacuum, she always wants me to hold her and frequently goes to the closet and wants me to pull it out so we can vacuum together.

Mom, Candace, and I went to dinner and the local theatre the other night to see Obama Mia. It was a musical using all Abba inspired music influenced by the whole election process. It was hilarious!! We had so much.
Candace and I after our yummy dinner!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Friendship

video

This video was taken today at our neighborhood pool of Brooke and her best friend, Melaina. They have started holding hands when they walk around together and it is the most amazing thing to see this friendship forming at such a young age. Candace and I were trying to be quiet in the background so they didn't get distracted!! We were laughing so hard though. :) Enjoy! If you can't tell...Brooke is the one in pink.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Nana's Visit

The last couple of weeks have been busy and a blast!! My Mom (Nana) came to visit for 2 weeks and we had so much fun!! Brooke and Nana at the zoo...
B going down the slide...
Loving the playground at the zoo.
Daddy and Brooke down at the concert on the river. Every Thursday night they have outdoor concerts on the water. So fun!
Nana looking so pretty.
Brooke loving the crowd. ALWAYS hamming it up to get attention. Too funny. Yep, Scott is chasing after her.
He was trying to get her to come back to where we were sitting.

Our family. My loves.
No better picture than the 2 of them smiling. :)

Nana and Brooke...they had so much fun together the last 2 weeks.
B was giving me a big bear hug. She cracks me up all the time!

B on the side of the stage. She stood there for a long time and bounced up and down dancing!!!

Back at home, eating string cheese and watching Elmo.
Loving dragging my purse around!
We all went up to North Carolina on Saturday to go for a hike and get in the lake. It was such a pretty day....
The fam cooling off in the water. It was hot!

Nana and B taking a break!
B loving the cold water...me, not so much! The water was freezing!!
She kept wanting to go deeper and deeper!
She wanted to walk on the trail instead of being in her backpack. That is her thing now. She won't sit in highchairs, booster seats, or strollers. If we go out to eat, she sits in adult chairs or wants to run around. If we're out shopping, she won't sit in a cart, she wants to run around. Yes, it's quite fun to be in a store when you're trying to actually find and purchase something. :)
Sitting in the lake after our hike...
Today after church, helping me sweep. What a great helper!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Summer is here!

We are SO excited that summer is here. We pretty much spend all day every day outside. Our neighborhood pool, our swing set, baby pool, numerous parks, the zoo, downtown, and ice cream shops is where our time is being spent!! We are LOVING this town and all that Greenville has to do. They have done such a good job creating things to do for families... enjoy these pics from the past couple of weeks.

After the pool the other day....I gave her a piece of bread and she was messing around and kept looking at me with this hunk of bread in her mouth. I was laughing so hard! Heading downtown to bike from the zoo to the fountains!
Quick shot of Mom and B!
Roxy in the back of the car waiting to go...
Sunday after church...Scott and B hanging in the baby pool! I was laughing when I walked outside and saw him in the pool too...he was so hot!
Roxy sprawled out in the sand ...
Daddy getting them both soaked!
New favorite thing to do is take the sand from the play set to her water table...
Picking up the sand....
Now it's in the water table...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend!

Despite the rainy weekend we had here in Greenville, we had a great weekend! Saturday we hosted a BBQ for some good friends of ours. There were kids everywhere and it was so much fun seeing them run around. Then on Sunday, my Dad and Edie came to visit for the night. We relaxed with them and loved getting to catch up. Finally on Monday the sun came out for a little while...we took advantage of it and headed downtown! Everyone hanging out on the swing set...
Brooke loving the slide!

Julie and Thomas
Melaina and Tom

Mark and Luke
Brooke and Melaina LOVED this ball...
Sweet Thomas..how precious is he?!!
Dad, Brooke, and I down at the park...yep..the car came with us!

Edie and Dad making Brooke laugh!
Relaxing at the park...
Dad and Edie looking great in their red, white, and blue...

Friday, May 15, 2009

Mother's Day

Me and my angel... I had a fun and relaxing mothers day with my wonderful family.