Tomato Festival

This past Saturday Audrey Claire and I joined my family at the Tomato Festival in Crystal Springs. We started the day watching the runners of the 5K cross the finish line. While waiting, she enjoyed a banana

and some ice. We all know she loves Sonic ice. It's a great way to keep her occupied and cool at the same time.

The highlight of the day was definitely the kiddie parade. Audrey Claire got to ride with Madison in the Barbie Jeep!

You'll have to click on this picture to see it better. AC looks terrified!

They had a train ride and pony rides but since it was ridiculously hot outside, AC spent most of her time inside my uncle's shop where it was cool. Maybe next year we will do more fun stuff!

Home Again

This past Friday we took a quick trip to Crystal Springs. Our first stop was Madison's house. Since it was my birthday, she made me a cake. She was very proud of herself!

Of course I had to blow out the "candles"!
Next we headed to Annie's parents house. Annie and Matthew were here because Annie's grandfather passed away Thursday night. We hated the circumstances but were really happy to get to see them. Audrey Claire really enjoyed showing off all of her new tricks. Here she is winking at somebody.

Jackie came by to visit too. Audrey Claire wasn't excited to have to share the rocking chair!

ReRe and Pops came by to visit. Mrs. Sally had puppets leftover from Bible School so ReRe entertained AC. She loved the puppets! (For some reason, Miss Priss wanted her clothes off. Guess she was hot!)

Saturday morning, we went to the Crystal Springs Tomato Festival. Check back tomorrow for pics from that!

Mommy and Me Play Date

Yesterday Audrey Claire and I joined some friends from our Mommy and Me class at McDonalds for a little playdate. We haven't been to Mommy and Me since April so it was really nice to see how everyone has grown! It was also nice for AC to be able to play with friends while I got to talk to adults! I seem to spend a lot of time talking to kids these days:)

No trip to McDonalds is complete without french fries. AC doesn't usually get food like that so she was really excited!

Working in the Yard

Yesterday Seth was working in the yard so Audrey Claire went to help him. She didn't get much accomplished though because her toys were a little distracting. She did manage to take him a drink though!

And in no time flat she was waving bye-bye to him. Good sign she will be like her Momma and hate yardwork!

I call this the "what should I get into first?" face.

Showing Momma her "sweet face".

She ended up getting into the sidewalk chalk.

She loves drawing with it but mostly she loves emptying the bucket.

And breaking the chalk!

She has so much fun playing outside but we haven't done much of it lately because it's just so hot! I can't wait for cooler weather.

I'm Back!

It would seriously take me an hour to explain how crazy the last two weeks have been around the Brown house so I will spare you for now. But thankfully things are beginning to slow down! Between VBS, traveling, Summer Depot at church, and a 17 month old running around I've barely had a chance to catch my breath! I haven't even taken the time to snap many pictures lately (for several reasons) but I do have a few I want to share. I've mentioned before that we've going to Copiah County each weekend for the past few weeks. This past weekend I forgot to take my camera so these are from the weekend before.

Posing in her John Deere shirt from Memaw. (Got boots to match this past weekend!)

"Driving" the buggy. I swear she would ride around 24/7 if we let her. She pouted the entire way home Monday because she wanted to ride the Kubota right as we were leaving.
Here she is mad because we made her stop long enough to take a picture!
I promise to get better at putting up pictures. I even have some videos I want to get on here so everyone can see how grown Audrey Claire is!

MIA

I've been on an "unofficial" blogging break for the last few days. Now I am declaring it an "official" one. We've been extremely busy and honestly, I just haven't had time. I have pictures from this past week that I haven't even had time to transfer to the computer. Hopefully by the middle of next week I will be back. Check back then!

Just Drawing

As I've mentioned before, Audrey Claire loves to draw! The other day, I was doing some things around the house and noticed she was way to quiet. All mothers of young children know this is never a good sign. When I got to her, here's what I found~

The finished product. Good thing it was a washable marker: )

VBS

This week we've been participating in Vacation Bible School at our church. That would be the main reason you haven't heard from me this week! A friend and I are co-directors for Pre-K. We've had about 60 kids each day. Even though we have some amazing workers, I come home each day completely exhausted. Our routine has pretty much been get up, go to church, come home, nap, do chores, eat supper, then bedtime again. So I haven't taken many pictures at all. Yesterday however, we had a few special guests at VBS so I made sure to take my camera. Our theme has been Saddle Ridge Ranch and yesterday we had pony rides! I got Audrey Claire out of her class for a little while to go see them. I must say she did much better than I thought she would. She wouldn't sit or ride on the big one but she actually walked up to Daffy, the smallest one, and petted her!

Waving to Daffy!

I'm pretty sure we are both saying "Awwwwww"

After visiting with the ponies, we went inside for the remainder of the day. Our friend, Lydia, is teaching art for us so we hung out in her room. Audrey Claire found herself an empty chair and joined in with the big kids. She loved the glue sticks!

Helping a new friend glue her picture

Wordless Wednesday

Playing in the Water

So this post is only a week late but better late than never right? Anyway, last Saturday Jude and Drew came over to play in the water with Audrey Claire. I set up a sprinkler, the water table and a splash mat for them to play in. They had a blast getting soaking wet!

They played so well together!

Drew decided he needed to get in on the action at the water table

We tried to get pictures with them all looking in one direction. Not sure what we were thinking! This is the best I got~

Taking a break to cruise around

Nothing better on a hot MS day than a little Sonic ice! And please notice the ponytail:)

Drew chowing down on a cracker. Such beautiful eyes!

Uh-oh

Last night, Audrey Claire and Seth were playing after supper. I wish I could say they both had a great time. However, it didn't end very good for my sweet baby girl. She tripped and on the way to the floor, her face hit a chair. I have never heard her cry like she did so I knew something was wrong. Sure enough, her lip was busted and bleeding. After we all got ourselves together, we had to go to church for a little while. Since she was feeling better, I couldn't resist a few pictures of her big lip!

We're Back!

Despite the circumstances, we enjoyed our trip home this past weekend. We were able to visit with lots of family on both sides. Audrey Claire had the best time showing off all her new tricks and just getting spoiled by grandparents. You can see by her face in these pictures just how much fun she had...

Laughing at Mommy

Yelling just to be yelling!

Running to Daddy

My favorite picture from the weekend. Notice the sweet eyes...