Pictures Galore!!

We had a fabulous time in Destin this year. I had a hard time weeding through all the pictures so there are tons. Mimi, you should be glad since you've already been begging!! Carson loved the sand and water...last year, not so much. Sydney was a little fish and a fantastic crab hunter. She and Pop found tons of huge crabs at night. We also enjoyed going to Gulf World in Panama City. The dolphin and sea lion shows were so fun to watch. Cam beat us all at putt-putt, of course. Just for the record, he was the score keeper. Just sayin'. Thanks for going with us Lolli and Pop. We loved getting to spend the week with you guys. Enjoy ALL the pictures!

Water Slidin'

Carson and I went to our friend Megan's half birthday last weekend.
She's a December baby so her mom decided to have her party on her half birthday. Happy 2 1/2 Megan!! I think all the kids at the party were as excited about the her gift as she was. They loved the water slide. I was pretty surprised at how quickly Carson headed down. Thanks for a great party, Laura.

I love this picture of sweet Davo!

Back Bloggin'

Last Thursday we had Sydney's friend Parker over and went swimming. After we got home they decided to build a fort and of course Carson was right in the middle of this. They don't seem to mind though. He makes a great "real life" baby to play with, and sometimes he's even Sydney's student when she plays school. Like mother like daughter.

We met Davis, Ashley, and Aunt Becky at Wild River Country on Friday. The kids had a great time but I didn't take my camera. I didn't want to worry about keeping up with it and not getting it wet. You can see below that it wore my sweet boy out.

Carson has definitely hit the terrible two's and with that comes "Time Out". He also likes to put us in time out when we don't behave. Cameron and Sydney caught the wrath of Carson when they were "play" fighting. "Go time out!" he says.

Our 3rd Anniversary

Cameron and I have been married for 3 years yesterday!! Each year has been fabulous and I couldn't have asked for a better husband and father. We were able to spend this anniversary in Florida and had an awesome dinner at Bern's Steakhouse last night. Eating there was really neat because we had recently watched a show about it on the Travel Channel. We've also been enjoying watching the gorgeous sunsets this week. Here's a peak:

The beach is definitely different here. I'm used to spending summer vacations in Destin were the sand is powdery white and the water is a perfect mix of green and blue. The sand here is pretty white but a lot more shelly. It's very shelly at the edge of the water. The water has been very nice though, not seaweedy at all, and the breeze here is awesome. It's been a fun week but we can't wait to get home this weekend to see Sydney and Carson.

Birthday, Anniversary, & Graduation Trip

Let me just say that I usually hate that my husband has to work out of town every now and then, but this week...I'm THRILLED! I got to tag along on this one and spend some time at the beach. Thankfully, his work away from work is in sunny Florida and not somewhere like Kansas (nothing against Kansas, just sounds pretty boring). I am missing both of my kiddos very much but know they are both well taken care of and are having a great time. It is not often that we even go out to eat without them so a whole week is very weird. I told Cameron last night that I feel guilty just laying around. I keep feeling like I should be doing something productive. I guess I need some lessons in relaxing. Okay, sorry for the birdwalking...I got to tag along as a birthday(yesterday), anniversary(Wednesday), and graduation(July) present. We had already planned a trip to the beach with the kids next week, so I thought an extra week of fun in the sun would be a great gift. My 26th birthday was yesterday and was perfect. We went to watch the Rays play baseball game as soon as we got to Florida yesterday, then ate ourselves sick on the best shrimp and crab legs I've ever had for dinner. Cameron even managed not to kill me when my bag was seven pounds over the limit at the airport yesterday morning. He had to move some of my stuff to his already-stuffed-bag in the middle of the check in line, then zipped a piece of skin on his finger up when trying to force his bag to zip again. He said if it wasn't my birthday I would have gotten it. ;) Thanks for all the birthday wishes!! Hopefully I'll have some beach pictures to post soon (I left my camera in the room today). I guess I better quit rambling and get showered before Cameron gets back from work and wants to get some dinner. Hope you all have a great day!!

Carson's Big Boy Haircut

Carson got his hair cut last night, and now he looks like such a big boy. I really didn't intend for it to be cut so short but it was, and we think it's pretty cute. The good news is it will always grow back if we start to miss our shaggy baby. The pictures are out of order but you'll get the idea.

After

Ignore the strange look on his face

Before

We met up with our usual gang for a free showing of Kung Fu Panda at the Rave this morning. They were all actually really good but the movie should have been about 20 minutes shorter. They got a little restless at that point and the popcorn would no longer do the trick. We made it through and I think everyone enjoyed it. Sydney is always a hit with this gang of kiddos. She's the big girl...5 years older than the oldest of the little kids. As we were leaving they were all melting down to hold "Sissy" or "Ninny" or "Syney's" hand. She just didn't have enough hands. She loves it!

Here's a picture of my two sleepy heads before we left for the movie. I HAD TO WAKE them both up at 8:45 to eat some breakfast and get dressed for the movie. Unfortunately I'm trying to be good before out trips to the beach, so I was up at 6:30 walking before Cam left for work. There's always nap time though. ;)

Summer...FINALLY

I know it's hard to believe but today was our first official day of summer. The kids didn't get out of school here until this past Friday and the teachers had half a day of meetings and getting everything turned in yesterday. Luckily I only had to be there until 10 am and the kids got to come with me and play on the playground. Carson and I then ran errands and napped while Sydney played at her friend Madison's house.

Today we meet several of our friends at the park to play. They had fun but Carson was more interested in the swimming pool next to the park, so we headed to Toy's R Us shortly after the park to purchase a pool. I'm so glad they are still young enough to have a blast in a $20 pool.

We plan on keeping busy the rest of the week with free movies at the Rave, having friends over, swimming, basketball practice, and going to Wild River Country. This is my favorite part of being a teacher...summer off with my precious babies!!

He's only 2 and has already mastered pestering his Sissy.

Swinging at the park

Carson and Day-bo (Carson's version of Davo)

Weekends @ Home

We went home to De Queen and Nashville the past couple of weekends to visit everyone. Sydney and Carson had a great time feeding Annabelle (Lolli and Pop's calf they're bottle feeding because it's momma had twins and wouldn't feed her), playing golf at Nana and PaPaw's house, and swimming with Kaci at Aunt Karen's. The next few weekends will be busy but hopefully we'll be back to visit you guys again soon.

Carson looks a little awkward trying to golf left-handed with right-handed clubs.

Sydney and Kaci swimming

Syd, just being Syd

Carson spent most of his time climbing Annabelle's pin