4 Years!

Blake and I got married 4 years ago today! I can't believe how quickly time has gone by. It feels like yesterday we were standing on Wolf Mountain's deck saying "I do"! I love our how relationship has grown and matured over the years. Not all days are good but it's those days that make us stronger!



Today, we plan to celebrate by having a "date night" in Savannah! We can't remember the last time we went out just the two of us since having Caroline.

Speaking of Savannah...we are having a blast. Caroline LOVED the beach yesterday and we had a wonderful dinner at Paula Dean's restaurant last night. I think I've gained 5 lbs since we got here on Tuesday! lol.

Sunday

Ready to go to church...


Miss cool girl with her shades on minus her hairbow...


After church on the way to Cleveland (with hair bow!)....



Playing outside with cousins...



Came back in for a water break....


Got wet playing with the water hose and mommy only brought one outfit so here's miss priss walking around waiting for her clothes to dry. She would NOT take off her sunglasses. Too funny!



Have a great week everyone!!!

Every little girl needs accessories!

Bracelets...

Sunglasses...


And daddy's shoes!

***Please ignore the messy hair...apparently Caroline doesn't feel like she needs her bows as accessories anymore!

Home grown veggies

Blake and I love fresh veggies but unfortunately have no clue on how to grow our own veggies. Luckily, right now we don't have to! My granny keeps a garden all summer long so we are constantly getting fresh green beans, blue berries, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, and okra. We've literally have gone through 3 buckets of blue berries!!! Caroline loves them and so do we! We were blessed on Sunday night that my parents neighbor gave us some fresh tomatoes, okra, and green peppers from his garden.

So tonight, I decided to be a good wife and mother and fix a good southern meal. It's nights like this that I feel proud of myself! I'm a full time working mommy and it's hard to come home and fix a home cooked meal everyday so the days I can, I feel accomplished. Except for tonight, Caroline ate maybe 1/4 of her plate and then threw the rest on the floor (which has been typical for her lately) and Blake came home with a stomach bug.

Oh well, at least I got to enjoy the goodness!

It's been awhile....

...since I've written anything on the blog! Honestly, everyday last week I thought about blogging but had nothing new or fun to blog about. It was a pretty busy week for us and we had a fun relaxing weekend. We are getting ready to leave next week for Savannah. I can't wait. We had planned to be gone for an entire week but my boss had a brain aneurysm the beginning of August and won't be back to work for months so I hated to leave my co-worker hanging by herself for an entire week so we will only be gone for 4 days now. I can't wait to see my aunt and take Caroline to the beach for the first time.

All dressed up for church...she wasn't quite awake yet, though! We went to the early church and literally got her up, gave her a quick breakfast and were out the door!



Here she is enjoying a fun summer treat!



This is what Caroline does when she doesn't want to listen to mommy and daddy!!!



Speaking of ears, Caroline had an ENT follow up appt last week. The dr said her ear tubes look great and are still in the right place. She goes back in December for her year follow up appointment. All week last week she was very congested but I kept calling it teething because she was getting 2 new teeth in. While at the ENT, they checked her over, tested her for strep b/c her throat apparently looked awhile. She tested negative so they determined that she had a bad sinus infection. Guess I won't be getting the mommy of the year award. But I swear when we take her to the dr b/c we think somethings wrong they tell us it's just teething. It's so hard to know which is which sometimes. I guess my clue was the sleepless nights we had 4 days in a row due to her coughing.

Here's pics of Caroline playing in my parents convertible yesterday. She thought she was hot stuff.




She had a "fit" about having to go inside after playing around outside on the slide and threw herself on the floor coming up my parents steps. Well when she fell she started crying. I picked her up to hug her and realized she had blood on her shirt. I looked at her face and her mouth was bleeding. She busted her lip yet again. Poor baby. Here's the best shot I could get of the fat lip (please ignore the awlful snotty nose). This was about an hour after it happened. It looked much better today...thank goodness!



That about wraps our our last week and weekend! I promise not to wait another week before blogging!

Park Playdate

Today, Caroline and I met up with some of our friends at Sims Park. It was the first time that Caroline and I had been to that park and we really enjoyed it. I loved the walking trail that they have and Caroline loved the playground. We will be back there in the near future for sure! It was nice visiting with our buddies today. Here's some pics of our fun on the playground...













It was so hot today!!! We got to the park early thinking we could beat the heat but the heat beat us! By 11:00 we all were drenched in sweat so we came home. Caroline fell asleep in the car on the way home and ended up taking a 3 1/2 hour nap. She was worn out from playing so hard with her buddies!!!

Lately...

I just realized that I haven't posted anything in awhile since the Campmeeting posts. Maybe it's because nothing new is going on right now or that I don't have anything fun to post about...who knows?!?

Caroline started in a new room this week at daycare. I'm really excited for her because she's learning a lot but the other part of me is sad b/c it's just another reminder of how fast she is growing!

She comes home saying new things all of the time. And she's acting like she's getting closer to start potty training too because she will tell me that she's just peed or pooped after she goes in her diaper. I must say that I'm NOT ready for this phase. I've been dreading potty training for months now. Hopefully she'll be somewhat easy to train.

We also are 6 months away from taking her paci away. Her dr said that it is fine for her to have her paci until she's 2. He said that it wasn't affecting her teeth or anything like that so to let her have it until we are ready to take it away. I'm thinking I'll just go cold turkey when we do decide to do it. That's what we did for her bottle and it was a breeze. Now, I don't by any means think that removing the paci is going to be a breeze but I do believe in the whole "out of sight out of mind" theory. It will probably take her a few days to get used to it but hopefully she'll forget about it!

Other than that, Blake and I have just been busy working and keeping up with our very busy toddler! We are planning on going to Savannah in a few weeks for our 4 year anniversary. I'm really excited and am looking forward to eating some yummy southern food!

And because I don't want to write a boring post with no picture, here's a cute picture of Caroline with Blake's dad. Blake's parents came over last weekend to see Caroline. In this picture, Caroline and granddaddy were watching the video that we had done of her at campmeeting. Caroline loves watching herself on TV!


Hopefully the next post we will have something more interesting to talk about!!!