Orange Beach Memorial Day 2010

For Memorial Day, we headed down to Orange Beach on a rather spontaneous vacation with the Jacksons and Lewises. Thirteen people in a 3/2 house made for a cozy weekend, but we managed to make it drama free!

Here's our crew headed to the pool. We joked that we all looked like the opening to "Yes, Dear!"




My little fish.....


My scuba diver.....




My fellas.....

Swimming Lessons

Elizabeth Haze has been taking BIG GIRL swimming lessons at Maley's. Thank goodness for CC; she has been doing all of the carting back and forth, to and from! EH loves it!


This smile says it all!


Elbow, elbow, tummy, knee.....this is how they learn to get themselves to safety if they fall in!


EH's favorite part of the entire lesson! The big slide!


Our new BFF, Ragen! These two are best buds after this!

Cousins!!!!

Drew and Taylor brought the girls to Jackson for an overnight trip and boy did we have fun! We had a glimpse of what life would be like with four kids, and, well, more power to y'all that do it! It was wild, but it was fun!


Silly girls!

Lewis' Crawfish Boil

Crystal and Jeff had us all over for a Crawfish Boil and we had such a good time. Here are a few pics of the kiddos. They wouldn't sit still long enough to take a group photos, so here are some action shots! We started out fully clothed with hairbows and you can see how the day progressed!!!

Mother's Day 2010

Mother's Day was a complete joy. The kids were so excited when I walked in the door from work! This is what I saw as soon as I opened the door.....
Happy mudder's daa


Then I had to shut my eyes so I could see this....




And check out these roses! I wish you could smell them! They were absolutely breath taking and lasted for almost 2 weeks. They have dried even more pretty!

More Birthday Parties......

I've said it before and I will say it again....the greater Jackson Metro toddler birthday party circuit occupies a great deal of our social calender these days. We had FOUR in one weekend. I complain, but it really is fun and I wouldn't change it for the world!


Pump it Up x 2!!!!

This was a two-fer. Matthew turned two and Nora turned four so we had a combo event! Fabulous for us and more fabulous for their momma, I am sure! Ha...



Daniels's party at Sal & Mookies- this was really different and fun. This was the back up plan for a rained out zoo party and ended up being better than the zoo! Precious place, especially for a big boy party!



Then we immediately went to a school friend's party. Her grandmother painted faces. It was precious! Sug and CC may have to do this in November!

Mamaw Sarah's 80th Birthday Party!

Mamaw Sarah turned 80 on April 8th and the entire family (well, almost) was able to travel to her house to celebrate. Doesn't she look so pretty?


My aunt Lynne prepared a feast plus made the cakes. Each flower was a cupcake for the great-grands....they loved it!
Look at all the candles!!!!

EH and the boys!....

The youngest four babes.....Grayson (2), Elizabeth Haze (4), Brodie (4) and Gavin(5). They are growing up so fast and are so cute!!!!


What could he look so excited about........


And the touble begins......all they talk about now is getting a new puppy!!!!!!!!

And who wouldn't? This puppy was too cute! But, no, we are not in the market!