Vacation 2011 Part 1

Every year, I do a photo session of sorts on the beach with the whole family. Its hard to pick from them (as I take several hundred!), but these are some of my favs!

Happy Birthday, Charlotte!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Charlotte!

We started the day with birthday waffles, complete with candle.

Next we went to Gigi's for some overpriced fru-fru cupcakes!

And tonight, we are off to Blue Coast for Charlotte's favorite food!

Happy Birthday, to the best birthday present ever!

Packing Potatoes

We are leaving for vacation tomorrow! That means today consisted mostly of packing all the necessities. My bed looks like this right now:

I've made my list so I won't forget anything.

Sunblock is essential!

As are tennis shoes and flip flops!

But this? What is this? That is certainly not on the list!

Someone packed a sweet potato! Not sure, but I guess someone has a hankerin' for spuds!

This is what my life has become; I'm blogging about potatoes now!

I really need a vacation!!!

Man of the Year!

Randy has really outdone himself the last few days! Not sure if he is making deposits for a later withdrawl or just being sweet! It started out Friday night when I had some gals over for a "hair party" as I am calling it! We got hair cuts and color, ate pizza and cookies and watched a girly movie with George Clooney and some girl they call Michelle Pheiffer. Well, Randy took the kids to dinner and camped out with them in the yard so I could do my girl thing! They roasted marshmallows and the whole bit. How sweet, right?

Well, Saturday morning (after getting some chilly sleep and getting up with Charlotte at 5:45 in the tent) he and the kids let me sleep til a whopping 7:20 then made me breakfast in bed--blueberry waffles with fresh blueberries and strawberries with Cool Whip! Then, while I went for a pedicure, he took the kids to a birthday party for 1 of Garrett's friends whose family Randy did not know! Then, last night we did Sweet Cece's and dinner to celebrate Mother's day with my mom to give her the necklace that Randy drove to 3 stores in Nashville to locate!

This morning, Randy and the kids gave me sweet Heritage Makers' books with pictures of the kids and I that had 31 prayers to pray for each child--1 for every day of the month. (I'm quite sure he enlisted the help of my sweet friend Surupa for that one!) And, tonight, we are headed to favorite restaurant for dinner, Carrabba's (where I also went into labor with Charlotte 3 years ago!)

Certainly, this all has earned him the title:

Man of the Year!

A-pickin' and a-grinnin'

Its strawberry pickin' time again! We headed on over to Pantall Farm to pick a few of our favorite fruits!

Check out this cool guy lookin' like Charlie Sheen!

Sweet berries for a sweet girl!

"I just squished it a little bit!"

Our spoils!

"I can eat all these?"

After dinner, we turned these strawberries into Chocolate Chip Fruit Pizza! YUMMO!

Easter Hams 2011

It was a miracle Garrett wore this tie all day! He liked it as much as Randy liked HIS tie!

Charlotte, on the other hand, was all about the dress-up!

Outside of the fact that I put 2 different socks on Charlotte, everyone looked their best!

Daddy's Sweeties!

Hunting eggs!

This was Garrett and Charlotte's first chocolate bunny! They've been so deprived! (And no, I did not let them eat the whole thing!)

Fat Day

Garrett: Mom, when is Fat Day?

Me: You mean Fat Tuesday?

Garrett: Yeah, Fat Tuesday.

Me: That was in March.

Garrett: Oh, man! I forgot to wear my glasses!

Happy Belated Fat Day!