to virginia

The boys and I took a trip to Va last week to visit our friends. We stayed with the Chappells. Here's Austyn, Aaron, Jake, and Danny. We really had a good time catching up and hanging out!

The Chappells had a pool party so all our friends could be together--awesome!

Jake and Danny


Jake and Matthew

my friend, Heather's girls--here's Hayden

and Madison pushing Aaron on the swing--they were buddies!

Aaron chillin at the pool.

Aaron trying to bury himself at the beach.
Donna and I took the kids to the beach one day--we played in the sand and Jake and Danny went fishing.

He played in the sand the whole windy day!

Austyn

We stayed with Mike and Monica a couple nights too--Aaron had a blast with Matthew!

It was so fun to see everyone again--now its your turn to make the trip to PA!! hahaha

Memorial Day!

YAY!! I was so excited Memorial Day!! I got to host the picnic and everybody came to my house! It was so nice to have everyone together! I love having parties!

Here's Mamaw and Papaw with Jacob, Aaron, and Eli.
Aaron and Miley. Miley is Jeff and Stacie's "new addition".

Aaron and Eli. I think Eli was sitting there first, but he was nice and let Aaron squirm his way onto the seat.

Joel and Danny are terrible about getting their pictures taken--I told them to pose just this one time--nicely--and I would leave them alone the rest of the day.

Kevin and Miley chillin' on the back porch.

Aaron trying to get Uncle Jeff's seat.

Jeff and Stacie.

Mamaw and her grand-doggie!

Even the grandmas were there. We all had such a good time together!

This is my Grandma Farcin.

And here's Grandma Rutherford--Aaron calls her "grama red bird". Maybe that's her indian name.....

Joel took this picture of me and Brian.

Aaron was telling Stacie something pretty important. His snow boots got too hot and he had to take his shirt off!!

This is Aaron after everyone left. He got up long enough to take a quick bath and then to bed. He partied hard that Monday!!

danny's baseball games

Danny's baseball season has come and gone--over half his games were rained out--as were the make up games! I think they only ended up playing 9 games out of 20. That stinks! I put all the pictures I had on facebook.
Danny's biggest fan--he loves to watch him play. We all do! Baseball is easily my favorite sport! I love to go to games and watch it on TV.

big boy bed

Aaron slept in his big boy bed yesterday and today!!

When I took him in for his nap yesterday, he told me he wanted to sleep in his big blue bed. I told him to stay in his bed or he would have to sleep in his little bed. He really surprised me. I went in to check on him once and he sat straight up and said, "I'm awake!" But he went to sleep right after that and stayed asleep for a couple hours.
This is an actual sleeping shot from his nap today.

This is a fake one. He can't even stay still with his eyes closed for 3 seconds while I take a picture.

my big blue bed!

Easter Eggs

I know these aren't Easter pictures--just hang on a sec!

I wanted to show you guys how big my "baby" is--I really am not liking this--he looks so big to me lately.

His new thing is to go "swimmim" in the bath tub.

He has like zero baby fat!

He wanted me to take a picture of his "dine-sore" excuse me, his "lellow dine-sore"

He loves to take a bath. It's like a whole new level of playtime right before bed.

Okay--he does still look "little" in this picture--

I put my Easter egg pictures on facebook--it's so much easier when you have a bunch!

JV debut

The rain finally held off so Danny could have a home game. He was in SC last week with the baseball team--so I actually missed his first high school game--bummer! He played last night. The thermometer in the car said it was 48 degrees, but I really don't think so!! We were freezing!!
Aaron was so excited to see Danny at bat. He kept saying, "Danny right here!"

Danny on second.

"Ohhh! It's cold!"

"GO Big Macs!"

Uncle Jeff came up, too. Look how happy he was that Aaron wanted to sit with him and eat that sucker!

design on a dime

I just re-did my bedroom for pennies! Well, not really but close!
These pillows came with my couch and I pulled the blue from them.

I painted an accent wall blue and got new lamp shades and a throw for the end of the bed. I also found a set of blue sheets from TJ Max. I used the sheets to match the paint. I'm going to put up white roman shades on the windows. I just have to hem then first--that saved about $300. The custom order shades were ridiculous!

I got a new box for Brian's dresser. We had been married for about a year when I gave up the battle over how messy his dresser ALWAYS was. I put out a ceramic bowl and told him I didn't care what was on his dresser as long as it stayed in the bowl--it has worked well for us. We will be married 5 years this month!

I did "splurge" on the picture. I bought a poster at Michaels and a frame at Target. I eventually want to get some end tables--dark wood--to match the frame. I'm still bargain shopping for those!

and here's Aaron's big boy bed--as you can see, it's still empty!! because...

...my big boy is in a crib!!!

What to do--what to do!