First ponytail

C's hair is getting so long so I thought I would see what it looked like in a pony tail. It was so cute!




Having her hair in a ponytail makes her look so much older. My baby girl is growing up fast!

Savannah trip!

To say we had a blast in Savannah would be a huge understatement! We enjoyed ourselves so much. We were able to visit the beach a couple of times. This was the first time Caroline had been to the beach and I wasn't sure how she would react but she loved it.














We also were able to eat some yummy food. We ate at Paula Dean's restuarant and at Ms. Wilkes restaurant. Great southern food and Caroline loved the bananna pudding!








We enjoyed staying with my aunt in her beautiful house & guest house. We went to watch the sunrise on her dock everyday. Simply beautiful!







Blake and I were able to escape on our anniversary for a date night!


And Caroline made a friend while we were there...






Caroline did NOT like the long car ride home!!!

I may post more pictures later this week if time allows! Sorry for the long post...there were just too many cute pictures and I couldn't just pick one or two for the blog!

Thanks Maryellen for letting us come and visit!!

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!