PTC Vacation!

The kids and I got home yesterday morning from a week long visit to our friends in Georgia. It was a great trip with our dear friends. The kids just played and played. We enjoyed alot of fun things together. Here's a recap.

We had lots of shows during our stay. This show involved alot of dancing while Craig played music. Nathan worked the behind the scenes portion of the show. Tickets, popcorn, etc. The girls were quite the performers.

One day we went into Atlanta to the museum. The kids had fun with giant bubbles and the penguin exhibit.

Ta-Da! Abby was very proud of her work with the blocks.
Charlotte in the polar bear feet.

The Penguin Slide

I'm not sure penguins were meant to color. Fins don't really allow you to hold your colors very well.

Dinner at The Flying Bisquit. These two were watching the thunderstorm outside. Wonder what they are talking about? Fun times at the pool!Abby crawled into bed with Nathan after I tucked them in. This is how I found them one night before I went to bed. I couldn't resist taking this picture of my sweet angels.Returning movies to Blockbuster. Yes, they really do go almost everywhere on the golf cart. These two decided to hide under the blanket. It was not cold at all, but they loved the blanket. A man walking by at Kroger said it looked like we had two ghosts on the back of the golf cart. Nathan & Ansley's marble structure.

Abby had a great time playing dress up. We're definitely going to have to get her some more dress up clothes. She had multiple costume changes everyday.

Snuggle time with Barkley.

Lunch at Five Guys. Nathan requested to eat here. He remembered the peanuts from last year. Nathan ate all his cheeseburger and then spend alot of time cracking all these peanuts.
Then they used the peanuts to have a peanut stand. Business was pretty slow. So we ended up going swiming instead.
We got rained out at the swimming pool. So we headed to the bounce house place where they all 4 had a blast!


Almost every night we were there the kids had ice cream for dessert. On the last night, we celebrated Ansley's bday by putting a candle in her bowl and sang Happy Bday!.

They really mean color stay...

Last Monday, the kids and I went to my mom & dad's for Nathan to go to golf camp there all week. I was busy packing my stuff and getting ready in my bathroom and as I came out of the bathroom, I asked Nathan, "Where's your sister?" No sooner had the words come out of my mouth than she came through the door telling me, "I'm pretty!" and looking like this: She had helped herself to my purse and found some lip gloss.

Here she is SEVERAL hours later at my parents' house. They really do mean color stay when they advertise that. After several different remedies she was finally all clean by bedtime that night.

What can I say? She is a girl and she loves ALL things girly!!!

Celebrating 11 Years!

Last Saturday, Clay & I celebrated our 11th anniversary! It's hard to believe that it's already been another year since our awesome Mexico trip last summer. The time has flown. We have such a great life together with our sweet kids. I couldn't have asked for more. Thanks for a great 11 years honey. I can't wait to see what the next 11 will be like. You're the best!

We chose to celebrate by spending the night at the Gaylord Texan. Clay's sister works there so she hooked us up with a great room deal. We took another couple with us who had also celebrated their 11th earlier in the summer. We had a great time relaxing with Brian & Danyelle.

We ate dinner at the steakhouse at the hotel. It was so DELICIOUS! We loved every bite. After dinner we walked around the hotel and then went over to the Glass Cactus. They had a fun band playing that night and it was also a great place to people watch.

Sunday morning, we ate breakfast at one of the coffee shops and then went to the pool for a couple hours. It was so nice and peaceful to be at a pool with no children to be responsible for. We love our babies so much, but it was nice to have some grown up time.

We had to take pictures of our desserts because they were so beautiful. They were also, as the waitress would say, "phenomenal" We did a little spouse switcheroo for dessert. Brian & I shared this yummy chocolate cake. Clay & Danyelle shared the carrot cake cheesecake.

After dinner we visited the kiddie shop at the hotel. Some of us had to let our inner "kid" come on out. :)

Happy 4th of July!

We all went to my mom & dad's for the 4th. Marcia & Mallory were there too, but no Matthew. He had to stay home and fight crime. We sure did miss him, though. Even without him we managed to have a good time. There was golf, swimming, homemade ice cream, golf cart rides & decorating, & lots of playing.

The evening of the 4th there was a neighborhood golf cart decorating contest and parade. Nathan came up with the plan for how to decorate Paw-Paw and Dee's golf cart and we helped him put the plan into action. He loves any kind of project and this was right up his alley. We didn't win the contest, but we sure had fun decorating our golf cart.

Paw-Paw and Dee rode on the golf cart with all the grand kids for the parade.
We take eating ice cream very seriously in our family. Abby thinks you even need to wear a helmet or "humut" as she calls it. For some reason she wore this helmet alot over the weekend.Mallory had some good snuggling time with her Uncle Clay. Whenever Marcia would be holding Mallory, Clay would come up to her and make clicking noises. This would cause Mallory to become very shy and bury her head in Marcia's chest. It was so cute!
The morning after the golf cart parade, Nathan started another project. He and Abby took all the decorations off the golf cart and started decorating the front flower beds.
Dee found this Disney Princess plastic mat at the fabric store for Abby. It has no specific purpose other than Abby just loves the princesses. She loved to just lay around on the princesses.

"Tower of Butter Packets"

This was Sunday after church. Like I said he LOVES projects!

Last Day of Golf Camp

Nathan had such a great time at golf camp last week. He has definitely been bitten by the golf bug. On the last day they played some holes. When I got there to pick him up they had a leader board with everyone's scores on it. Nathan had scored a 17. The high scorer was 14 and there were also some 24s. So we feel like he did really good and are so proud of him. After I picked him up we had to head out to the driving range so he could show Abby and I his stuff. Abby of course did not want to miss out on a chance to have her picture made.