Summer Fun!

We spent the day doing nothing today (5/30/09) and it was nice! :) We brought out the pool for Will to play in since the weather was absolutely beautiful today and he had a blast! I was able to just lay out and rest some which was very nice! Will kept constantly saying, "take my picture mommy, take my picture!" So...of course I had to take advantage of that! If I do say so myself we got quite a few good ones out of the bunch today!

Kent's 27th Birthday

We headed to Rock Hill last weekend for Kent's birthday. Kent, my dad, Rick and Ben all headed to Atlanta, GA for their annual trip to watch a Braves game....they've been doing this for the past couple of years and have had a lot of fun together! They unfortunately didn't get any pictures since it was raining but they did still get to watch the game and the Braves won!

We gave Kent a gift Friday night before he headed out for the evening. We had recently given him our grill so we decided to get him a grill tool set and a grilling cook book...can't wait to taste some food that he cooks for us now! :) Happy Birthday Kent!!! We love you very much! :)

Slip-N-Slide Time!!!

As promised.....here are the pictures of Will playing on the slip-n-slide on Mother's Day!!! He had a blast and it was so much fun watching him!

Will playing in the back yard

Will loves playing outside and loves to pick flowers for Rick and myself. Today we were outside and he was playing and brought a little flower to me and then decided to take it back and play with it and make silly faces. I decided to take a few pictures of him playing with the little flower - he can be so silly sometimes!

Boys Will Be Boys!

I went to pick Will up from daycare yesterday and got a call into the main office from the director - I was thinking the worst...figured he had gotten into trouble for not listening again because we had issues with that on Friday and all weekend - luckily he was not in trouble but I wasn't surprised at what she had to tell me. :)

1) He had gotten hurt while dancing in the 4's room - bumped into another kid and got scratched/cut.

2) While his teacher had gone out of the room for a minute (another teacher was in there) he somehow managed to get into some wax and coated his hair with it - had a nice clump right on top of his head!

The saying is "boys will be boys" and Will sure does fit that stereotype! He is into everything these days...he's so independent and most of the time is able to do things on his own with no help and in some of these cases manages to make quite a mess trying! :)

When we got home last night I waited until Rick got home to help me out with Will's hair problem. We plugged in my curling irons and tried to melt the wax out - this worked ok but there was still a lot of stickiness in his hair and the more I brushed the louder he screamed and the more he cried so we decided to call it a night and decided that we'd get up in the morning and work on it a little more (he had a little bit of sunburn from the weekend and this wasn't helping the matter either). This morning when he got up we went with the peanut butter idea and amazingly enough it worked!!! I was so happy because I was to the point that I was going to have to have his hair cut off if it didn't come out and I didn't want to do that. I didn't get pictures of the wad of wax in his hair but I did take pictures this morning of him with the peanut butter in his hair....as you can tell from the pictures he could've cared less....he was grinning from ear to ear (you can also see the band-aid under his eye where he got cut yesterday)!

Easter 2009

We weren't sure what Easter was going to be like this year because Elizabeth's due date for Bryson was April 10, 2009 but fortunately he decided to arrive on April 2, 2009 and was able to join us for Easter this year! :) We had an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday with all of the children and they had so much fun especially since all of the eggs that they hunted had candy in them! They had some bible stories read to them about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and did some crafts. We went to Elizabeth's house later in the day and had a photo shoot with Bryson (our friend DJ did this and as always did an amazing job) and dyed Easter Eggs. Will and my mom also rode bikes through the neighborhood while we were taking pictures of Bryson - he loves doing this every time we go to Rock HIll now so we always pack the bike! :) After church on Sunday we all gathered at my parents house and ate lunch together, took pictures and had another Easter Egg Hunt with Will and Emma. They had so much fun with everyone! As always we had a wonderful time with our family. We unfortunately didn't get a chance to visit with Rick's family this year (Rick was at home on call) but it worked out ok because later that week Rick's family from New Jersey came for a visit and Will got to stay with all of them in Charleston for majority of the week! He had an amazing time and misses them all so much and the beach! :)

Yard Projects

Well...we are almost done with our monstrous hill in our backyard! :) Rick really has gotten tired of mowing it and so we finally decided to try and complete it and if I do say so myself it is looking wonderful! I actually got out there yesterday while Rick was flying and planted a bunch of the plants and he finished them off once he got home! This left us to the project of adding weed fabric and mulch which we did today and we'll eventually add some flowers, etc! People always say a house/yard is work and boy is it but we love doing it and it does give us something to do!

Here's some pictures of the "HILL" and a few other areas of the backyard and once it's finally complete I'll post some pictures!

Happy Mother's Day (2009)

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mother's out there!!!



I didn't even think to take a picture of myself and my mom on Mother's Day because we were just enjoying our time together and having fun watching Will play so I pulled one of us from last year at the beach!



I myself had a wonderful day today! I started off the day with a precious card from Rick and Will that Will actually wrote "MOM" on - very impressive! :) I also got many "Happy Mother's Day Mommy" from Will all weekend but especially today! :) Then Rick (and Will) made me breakfast this morning which consisted of french toast, eggs, bacon and toast and it was delicious and was a very nice treat for me! We then headed to Lowe's to buy stuff to work on our ongoing project....the backyard! :) Rick pretty much completed everything - just a little left to finish and we are hoping to finish this by the end of the week. My parents also made a trip down here to see us for a little while and were nice enough to grab us some lunch on the way here! They also got to enjoy watching Will play in his slip-n-slide (I didn't take any pictures but my mom did so hopefully I'll get some later to post) - he had a blast and is finally starting to learn how to actually use it! We topped off our evening by heading to the Village at Sandhill to Marble Slab Creamery for some ice cream - yummy! I am so very blessed to have an amazing little boy who is growing up so fast right before our very own eyes and an amazing husband who both love me so very much!!! That reminds me of something that Will recently said to me...he's starting calling me his princess! Puts a smile on my face every time I think about it or hear him say that to me! He really is an amazing little boy and such a blessing from God to Rick and I! Don't know what we would do in life without him! :)