Beach Trip...Day 1 & 2

We are enjoying our beach trip in Destin this week! We got here about 2:00am on Monday morning...I totally suggest driving at night with little ones. No traffic and Caroline slept the entire time!! So much more peaceful! We've been enjoying the beach and pool! Caroline loves being in the water and has become quite a little fish:)















More to come...

July catch-up

I know I'm a month late but here's pictures of Blake celebrating his birthday! Now that I'm off on Friday's and his birthday just so happened to have fallen on a Friday, Caroline and I decided to join him at work for lunch! We had fun visiting daddy at work and getting to spend some time with him at lunch. Then, Caroline and I decided to get him an ice-cream cake to suprise him when he got home. Blake didn't get home from work until after 9:00 so I let Caroline stay up late so that she could sing Happy Birthday to daddy and eat some of the cake!





A couple of weeks later we had our annual Campmeeting! Since I had just started a new job, I decided not to take time off so I don't have a ton of pictures! Caroline stayed the entire week with my parents and I went up there Thursday night to spend the weekend with them! I think Caroline had a blast and loved every minute of it! Here's a couple of pictures from when I got there:)




And a cute picture of my Caroline all ready to go outside to play:)

We are looking forward to a fun August! We are heading to the beach in a couple of weeks and we can't wait! Blake and I will also celebrate our 5th year anniversay soon!! ...And we are one month closer to Fall!!! My favorite time of the year!!

Quick update

I promise we are all alive and well! I have had NO time to blog recently....what's new! I've thought about taking a blogging break and even giving it up all together but then I look back on posts when Caroline was smaller and enjoy reading what was going on so I think I'll continue. I just need to get better at blogging.

I haven't uploaded pictures from my camera since the 4th of July so no pictures tonight but it is on my agenda for this week! I wanted to give a quick update on how everything is going! I started my new job at the church about 4 weeks ago and I LOVE it. It's such an awesome job and I'm loving every minute of it. There's days where I'm having so much fun that it's hard to leave to go home! I love my team and everyone I work with. It's just such a blessing to actually enjoy what you do! I haven't had this in so long and am so excited that God opened this door for me! The other positive is the benefits of the job. Besides the fact that I got a Mac computer, great insurance and vacation time (yes I"m bragging!!!)...the best benefit is that Caroline goes to work with me and I can see her anytime of the day! She loves her new school and has done so well. Much better than I thought she would! I love her teachers and love that they send me text messages all day long of what she's doing and sends me pics so that I don't miss out on anything. So fun! Her teachers also love on her which makes it easier to do my job and not worry about her!

On another note, I think we have officially crossed the line and am in full blast with the terrible two's. I'm wondering where my sweet child went. Anyone else experience this??? My sweet, quiet, shy girl has opened up to a full blast screaming/pitching fit toddler. Blake and I keep wondering where we went wrong. It literally took the child over an hour to apologize after she got put in time out on Sunday. Talk about stubborn!!! If anything, we are learning how to have more patience with her. There are times when she tests us more than we want to be tested! And potty training.....isn't going well at all. Is there a potty training boot camp that I can send her too!!! lol.

4th of July weekend!

I was lucky enough to have Friday-Monday off so Caroline and I made the most of it! On Thursday night, we went to the pool as a family and then we went to get pizza! Such a fun night:)

I promise she's excited about going swimming...she was tired of me taking her picture!!


So brave going down the big slide. And each time she would say "do it again daddy"!!

On Friday, we had the busiest day ever! We got dressed and was out the door by 8:15am. We went to Caroline's daycare to get all of her things since she will start in her new daycare at the church on Tuesday. Then we went to get my hair done. It's always fun to try to keep up with a two year old while getting your hair fixed. Let's just say it's not the most relaxing time! Since we were close by my mom's work we stopped by there to visit her for a minute!


On the elevator. She wasn't too sure about it!

Of course, grandma spoiled her and got a kitty for her from the gift shop. She's yet to let go of that kitty all weekend!


Since it was my granny's birthday, we rode up to Cleveland to see her and to have lunch with her. Thanks granny for the yummy vegetables and for cooking on your birthday! We finally came home around 4:00pm, took naps, and then Blake's parents came over to visit little priss.

Saturday, we went to a Princess party for Isabella. I was so busy chasing Caroline around that I had no time to get the camera out! It was a cute party and Caroline had a blast!

On Sunday, we went to church, came home and took naps, went to eat at Chili's with frinds, and then went to watch the Cumming fireworks. Caroline had talked about the fireworks all day and of course when they started they scared her. But she quickly adjusted and had fun watching them! She talked about how big and loud they were all the way home!

Before Church.

At the fireworks!


Sweet MaKayla and Caroline!




Very tense while watching the fireworks...she didn't move a muscle! She held onto her soccer ball the entire time!


Thank you to all of the many brave soliders and their families that fight for our freedom everyday!!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

The last two weeks!

We've had a lot going on the last two weeks!! First of all, last Thursday I accepted a job with our church..Brown's Bridge Community Church!! I wasn't even looking for anything seeing that I just started a job last December. But I had interviewed with the church about 3 years ago when I was pregnant with Caroline and it didn't work out at the time. Another position opened up a few weeks ago, and my small group leader (who works at the church) submitted my name to the director and before I knew it I was offered the position! I'm SO thrilled b/c I've wanted this job for awhile now! I will be in our Waumba Land area which is for 0-4 years old and will be over the Host Team! I will be able to take Caroline to work with me and will have Friday's off! I start in a week and can't wait! God has truly blessed us with this opportunity!

Last Saturday Caroline went to a pool party for one of her friends in her daycare class. We had so much fun and when we came home she took a 3 hour nap...which is awesome for mommy!! Here's some pictures of her with her friends Megan and Sydney. Such cute little girls!




Love the expressions in this picture!






Blake had a good Father's day. Even though I have no pictures to prove it!!! I guess since we have none for Mother's day it's only right to have none from Father's day! Here are some pictures from the night before when Caroline and I took him out for a Father's Day dinner to Norman's Landing! Of course, she had to get out her fine jewerly for her date with daddy!


My parents bought Blake tickets to the Gwinnett Braves game and we decided to take Caroline with us since she's never been! She had a blast. She was talking all the way there about the baseball game. We ate dinner at Chick-Fil-A and then enjoyed the night as a family watching the game!

All ready and excited to go!




Nothing like a little princess picking her nose!!!

I kept telling her to stop picking her nose so that I could take the picture and she wouldn't stop so finally I say, "fine...this picture will embarrass you when you are older!" lol!

So, that about wraps up our last couple of weeks since my last post. I keep hoping life will slow down soon...but I'm not sure it's going to happen!!! I can't believe we are almost to July. Time just flies!!