Long HHI weekend

We were invited by my parents for a "long weekend" at the beach. Growing up, long weekend, meant a little something different to us. My dad works shift work, so once a month he was on what we call long weekend. He gets off on Friday afternoon around 4:00 and doesn't have to go back until the next Wednesday night at midnight to start the cycle over again. My parents have used it to their advantage since they are empty nester's and get to take vacations over some of my Dad's long weekends.

They planned a trip in May during my Dad's long weekend and we all were able to come. Jennie and Patrick left on Monday and we left on Tuesday to head back home. The weather was cool there just like it was in Atlanta. We got less sun than we were hoping for but had a good time playing in the water.

Aunt Jennie and Isabella

Me and Isabella

Uncle Patrick and William

Action shot

More action shots. I love the way the water is splashing up in front of him while he is running.

Porch swing with Daddy

Honey opening her Mother's Day gift.

She has been hinting around for awhile that she wanted a picture book of the kids and was so excited to finally get one.

Jennie's sand castle and moat

Isabella was hanging out by the pool. Later she laid down on the towel like she was laying out.

When we went out on Monday the tide was just starting to retreat. It left a rather large "river" and we found lots of cool sea creatures still in it. Here is a jelly fish. We also followed a stingray for awhile but I didn't have my camera with me to take a picture. Fun science lessons.

The kids were fascinated with the starfish Jennie found.

William fed the bird so he kept coming back.

Isabella carried the starfish back to the ocean

The crab

Mother's Day

These kiddos make my heart sing!

Happy Mother's Day!

The Tomatoes are Coming

We ended up hiding out in the very small coat closet last night for about 30 minutes during the tornado warning. We already had the kids sleeping in our room so when we heard the warning we quickly gathered the kids and headed into the very small space for 2 adults and 2 kids.

William was very pleased with being up and thought everything was a game, talking and asking questions. Isabella was not so pleased and wanted to know what was going on.

I explained that we were hiding in the closet because the tornado was coming. After that, Isabella responded by saying, "the tomatoes are coming?" I thought it was too cute and couldn't correct her. So we hid from the tornadoes last night and were very thankful the tornado didn't travel towards us.

William asked if the tornado looked like bees. I told him it did. I pray you are yours are safe.

They played tornado today and kept hiding in the closet.

Where did my baby go?

Isabella just hit her half a decade mark at the end of April.

I am not sure when my first born got to be so big.

Here are some of her stats

At birth

Weight 5# 8 oz

Height 19 inches

Now

Weight 34#

Height 41.5 inches

This is the morning of her 5th birthday

Isabella choose her dinner for her birthday.

I was thinking something kind of nice.

What did she chose?

Waffle House

Go figure

Isabella enjoyed chocolate chip waffles and an All Stare breakfast which she pretty much finished off.

William enjoyed some of Matt's "Toffee" as he likes to call it.

Opening her presents from us

Getting love from her brother

Lovin her Daddy

We had Isabella's Toy Story themed party at the park.

She dressed up like Jessie.

William was Woody

Here is her Toy Story cake that I made.

I was pretty impressed with myself.

It took some time but was fairly easy.

Thank you to our family who helped us setup and take down.

Happy Birthday Isabella!!!

Happy Easter

We were able to spend Saturday before Easter with Matt's family in Fayetteville. The kids participated in an Easter Egg hunt or pick up since the eggs aren't hidden. We had a great time.

Here are the eggs we dyed.

William picked up 4 eggs.

He was not into it that day.

He wanted to play instead.

The older 3.

William didn't want to participate in the picture either.

At one point, Isabella was tossing the eggs over her basket so Ansley started helping her put them in her basket.

After the egg hunt

Jessie and Bullseye

The rest of the Toy Story gang

Isabella in her Easter dress

William

William looks like he is in pain but this is really a smile and the reason we didn't get a great family picture