Water's Visit

Our next visitors were the Waters, who were here Fri- Mon am. Melanie and Steve are some of our best friends from our Auburn days, and the kind of friends we always pick right back up with, no matter how long we've been apart. Friends like that are priceless and we really enjoyed our weekend with them!

We played in the backyard, went to the park and pier, the dads did some fishing and caught our dinner for Sunday, they celebrated Grammie's bday with us, and we had some fun at the beach. Tomorrow we'll join them for their last day at Disney, and have breakfast with the Princesses together and explore Epcot. The little girls are equally excited about meeting Princesses and seeing each other again- so sweet!!

Eli- 6 yrs, Alee- 5 yrs, Georgia- almost 4, Lincoln- 2 yrs

Happy Birthday Grammie! :) That carrot cake was YUMMY!!

A LOT of fun = tired kiddos!!

If you notice we're in a new ride, you're really paying attention! I'll do a diff. post on that some other time! ;)

Papa's Visit

We've had a constant stream of company recently, which has been a lot of fun and certainly has kept us busy! It started with a great 3 day visit from Papa, Larry's dad, last Wed-Fri. A last-minute blast of cooler weather canceled our beach plans, but we had a fun day at the Children's Museum instead.

Driving the Firetruck

Doctor, doctor

Water table time

Faster, faster- whoa!!!!

Lincoln and Georgia were so excited about their new "motorcycles"! :)

Celebrating Wes & Jen

My brother Wesley and long-time love Jennifer are getting married soon- April 2nd!- and we've had fun getting ready with them. We're all four in the wedding- five of us if you include my sweet baby girl in the belly bump! You'll definitely notice her under that bridesmaid's dress at 7 months baked!

Recently my parent's threw a great anniversary party for them. It was a great mix of their friends, my parent's friends, people we've known over the years. Since Wes & Jen dated for 10 years there are a lot of people that have been with them over the course of their relationship, and are so excited for them as they take this wonderful, lasting step together!

Perfect setting

Happy couple

Me & my little love- he's been sporting a "Tom Brady" look lately as he hates haircuts so we just haven't taken him to get one. I recently got a little off those ears, but I think we're going to have to suffer thru a real cut soon!

Some of Wes's friends were really digging his high school senior pic and thought they could look tough like him!

Wes's best man found out what he'd be wearing this night and thought it'd be funny if they all showed up in the same... very cute matchy-matchy, guys!

Jen with her brother Nicholas and grandfather Pep.


More celebrating below!

Bridal Shower

This past weekend I threw a bridal shower for Jen, with Aunt Laura's help. It was a sweet time where women of all ages and points from Jen's life came to celebrate this upcoming marriage and show her their love and support. It was a fun afternoon, Jen and Wes were showered with many lovely things, and we are all now in "wedding mode" for the main event in less than a month!

Weekend with the Brooms

We had a great weekend visit from some of our dearest friends, Dave & Laura Broom. It was short but very sweet. We showed them some of the highlights of Tampa, including a boat ride, a cuban sandwich, playing in the sand and dinner at the beach.

Georgia took these group pics for us- not bad for a not-quite-4-year old! A little cropping and they were blog-ready!

We got to see baby Charlotte snuggled up in Laura's baby belly, due just one month before our own baby girl. It's always so neat to share this special time of pregnancy with a close friend, as I've gotten to do each time.

This is Georgia on the boat- or Georgia most anywhere! This girl loves to color!!

This is what I call the "future Brooms pic"- playing in the surf with their own little girl soon! We are so excited for them!

I had to share these next 2 pics b/c I knew Dave & Laura would get a kick out of them- my kids LOVE the beach, so much so that they cover themselves in it! They were literally throwing the sand into the air above their heads and watching it rain down on each other- that is sand in the pic below, not a grainy picture! What a couple of messes!!

Thanks for coming to see us, Brooms! We love and miss you guys and had so much fun!