Summer Beach Trip

 We had such a great beach vacation in Sandestin.  One of my pts let us borrow her golf cart to drive around for the week which was awesome.  The kids loved it and we did not get in the car once the whole week. They were better on the beach this year but still preferred the pool, asked every morning if we had to go to the beach. Really?  Are these my kids??  They have just started to learn to swim and really enjoying the water. Cason still not a big fan of the sand but liked jumping in the waves much more and going for walks on the beach.  Kiley like bathing her mermaids in the ocean and finding other little girls to play with.

Other highlights include Cason learning to swim under water, watching him swim with his goggles, swimming at the hotel pools, golf cart rides, dancing at Baytown, Cason, Kiley, Nana all sleeping in the same room, getting into the Beach Club, kids playing with Lucy at the pool party, not needing life jackets anymore, great dinners with friends, playground/treehouse, treasure hunt and Cason putting all eggs back since they didn't have candy in them, Matar car display scaring Kiley, endless giggles and smiles!

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4th Birthday!

 The kids wanted a princess and pirate birthday party, so of course I said yes, even though ever year I swear I am not doing another "at home"party. My thought was to keep it simple with a bounce house and pizza, but then I started seeing all the cute decorations and couldn't resist!  The downstairs was transformed into the princess room, complete with princess dresses, high heels, a make-up and nail station, hair station, and Cinderella showed up for a tea party.

Outside we had the bounce house, pen the tale on the pirate game, walk the plank game, and a real pirate showed up for a pirate treasure hunt. When they kids first arrived, they had a basket of princess and pirate decor to pick from, including costumes. We also had a coloring station, shoot the pirate game, balloon release, and way too much food.  It was so much fun!  We kept the bounce house all weekend and the adults got to enjoy some jumping on Sunday, even Papa joined in.

11 yr anniversary

We had an amazing anniversary this past weekend celebrating 11 yrs of marriage. We spent most of the day at the lake, then dropped the kids off at my parents late afternoon and had a very nice, romantic dinner (thanks mom and dad!) reminiscing about  the past 11 years. After dinner we headed to Alabaster city park about 10 minutes from our house to hear Lonestar play, who played our wedding song we first danced too.  We had dropped our chairs off on the way to the lake, and they were still sitting where we left them 8 hrs prior, directly in front of the stage.  Lonestar sounded great in concert, and about 1/2 through their set, they played "Amazed" and we got up and danced. I am sure we got a lot of stares, but we didn't care!  Perfect night dancing under the moonlight and stars to our song live, on our anniversary.  Hard to beat!