Mini-vacation

This past weekend, we made a last minute road trip with my family to Atlanta. Early last week Seth found out he was off for the weekend and my dad and brother had tickets to a Braves game. So we totally invited ourselves and went with them! Audrey Claire stayed at Memaw's house for the weekend so we could just relax. It was so much fun! We laughed so much we cried, stayed up way too late, and probably spent too much money but it was completely worth it.

Friday night we stayed at my mom's cousin's house in Flowery Branch, GA. We enjoyed going to the mall and grilling hamburgers. I didn't even get my camera out! I was just enjoying the moment:)

Saturday morning we got up and headed to Cleveland, GA to Babyland General Hospital. This is no ordinary hospital. It's where Cabbage Patch Babies are born! I was like a kid in a candy store while there. It was like getting to be a little girl again and I loved it!

The new building is huge!

Right as we got there, a new baby was being born. They go through the whole labor process except use "cabbage" terms instead. For example, Mother Cabbage dilates 10 leaves instead of centimeters, etc... They also did a sonogram right before the birth to show us it was a boy!

Here he is!

I was probably WAY too excited about being there but I didn't care. I was fulfilling my childhood dreams! Here I am with the new baby! Notice no shame in my face:)

The Cabbage Patch

Hopefully we can go back someday with Audrey Claire but just in case, we adopted her a new baby while we were there. Pictures are at the end of this post.

After visiting the hospital, we headed to downtown Atlanta for a little shopping before the game. Here we are in Centennial Park.

Right before the game

When we got home, I was excited to introduce Audrey Claire to her new baby. Seth was worried she wouldn't be as excited as I was but I proved him wrong. She loved the baby!

Her name is Piper Catherine

She LOVES being a mommy:)

Fixing her bow

Apparently Piper was tired from all the riding. Audrey Claire was letting her go "night-night".

As you can see from all the pictures, we had an amazing mini-vacation. It was so nice getting to have some adult time. However, I missed my little monkey and loved the kisses I came home to!

Wordless Wednesday

Weekend Wrap-up

This past weekend was, as usual, very busy. It started Thursday night when we went to Wesson. Audrey Claire has enjoyed getting to spend time with Uncle Hunter who's been here this summer from Texas.

I worked in Hazlehurst Friday while Seth was busy doing this:

I was very grateful to be inside where it was cool:) Audrey Claire spent the day in Crystal Springs doing this:

Friday night, we enjoyed eating at one of our old favorite places to eat- El Sombrero in Brookhaven. We ate with Seth's parents and Tucker. I had every intention of taking pictures while we were with them but my child decided to act like a crazy woman in the restaurant! That could have something to do with the fact that she is now 6 months away from being 2!

We came home Friday night for Seth to work Saturday. Audrey Claire and I had a much needed day together running errands around town. We went to an indoor inflatables place (LOVED IT), the mall, Big Lots, and Cellular South to see Seth. Before getting in the car to go, she had to talk to the cat-cat. She hasn't shown much interest in him lately but that day he caught her attention for sure.

Later that night, we met some friends-Greg, Kay, Zeph and Kati Brooks. We went to church with them when we lived in Cleveland. They now live in Wesson and Zeph made the All-Star baseball team this year. Playoffs were being held in Hattiesburg so we got to go to his game! We hadn't seen them in a little over two years and seeing that Kay was pregnant with Kati Brooks last time we saw them, I was really excited to visit with them!

While at the game, AC found some old pacifiers in her stroller from "back in the day". Haha. She loves playing with them when she finds them.

Here's Miss Kati Brooks. How beautiful is she? Her curly hair and eyes are gorgeous! She cracked me up the entire game. Since Audrey Claire is such a terrible eater, it blows me away when kids actually want to eat. I think KB ate the whole time we were there! Here she is enjoying a pickle. And she never once made a 'sour' face!
I had a really cute picture of the two girls playing together but accidentally erased it from my camera!

Here's the All-Star himself, Zeph, sliding into home!
He has grown up so much in two years! Here he is after the game posing for me:)
Since we seem to be in the car a lot here lately, Madison let Audrey Claire borrow her travel pillow. We've only used it once but on the way home from the game, I looked back at Audrey Claire and she had put it behind her head. It was a little past her usual bedtime so I guess this was her way of saying she was tired.
That child knows what Momma is doing when she gets the camera out. She kept making silly faces at me so I kept snapping.

Once again, we have a busy week ahead of us. Posting will probably be random but I will do my best!

Nail Polish and Birthday Cake

Wednesday morning while getting ready to leave the house, I decided to paint my toenails. Audrey Claire found me doing this and kept picking her foot up and whining. She just had to be like Momma! Surprisingly, she sat perfectly still while I painted hers.

Of course right after I was finished she had to go show Daddy.

What a girly girl I have! And I couldn't be more happy about it:)

As I mentioned earlier this week, Brookley has been with us for a few days. Wednesday was her birthday so we just had to celebrate! After spending the morning at church, we headed home and made a birthday cake. Lydia came over to help celebrate and brought her cake decorating tools!

Audrey Claire supervised while having her snack of choice (for this week anyway).

After the cake was made it was more nail polishing! Brookley got zebra print

and Audrey Claire got white polka dots added to her pink! Notice how not-so-happy she is by this point.

We had a really fun, girly day that ended with Brookley's favorite food for supper and blowing out the birthday candles. I only had five candles but we made her do it anyway!

Show Off

Audrey Claire has learned several new tricks lately and last night I finally got her to do them while I recorded her. Brookley has been with us this week so she was showing off for her.

She has a few more that I forgot to get her to do. It's amazing to me how fast kids learn new things! I have really enjoyed teaching her new tricks and showing them off too:)

Busy Girl

I'm back! I really hate that my blogging has been so inconsistent this summer but I am doing the best I can! Audrey Claire and I went to Crystal Springs this past weekend for a couple of reasons. I worked in Hazlehurst Friday and my mom and I had a garage sale Saturday. Audrey Claire got to spend the night with Madison Friday night and spent most of the day Saturday with her so I really didn't even see her much this weekend! Sunday we spent the day in Wesson going to church with Annie and Matthew, picking up Seth, doing a little farm work, then church again because Matthew preached. I say all that to say I didn't get get a chance to take many pictures! Here are the few that I got~

Aunt Michelle got AC some ice cream. She loved it!

Sunday night after hearing Matthew preach, we joined several friends for supper at Broma's in Brookhaven. Most of you know how picky of an eater Audrey Claire has been since day one. I am now trying the whole "give them something to dip in and they will eat" strategy. It totally worked last night in getting her to eat chicken. She made a complete mess but did eat a few bites of "big people food" which is rare for her.

I just realized the only pictures I did manage to take were of her eating. I promise she did more than eat this weekend!

Fun with Judah and Owen

Earlier this week, several of our friends got together for supper. We had great food thanks to Meghan and Donnie and wonderful fellowship. Although we don't get to much, we really enjoy being with all our friends! It was fun to see Audrey Claire, Judah and Owen together. They are all growing up entirely too fast. I feel like I just found out I was pregnant. Now I have an 18 month old, Judah is walking all over the place and Owen is crawling all over the place. How did this happen?!!!

These next two pictures look like Judah is attacking Owen. That's not the case at all! Owen was upset and Judah went over to him to try and comfort him. It was the sweetest and funniest thing!

Don't freak out. We didn't let Owen cry too long. His Momma was fixing his bottle but you know we are never fast enough for them. It was just too sweet not to take a picture of!

As I was choosing pictures for this post, I began to look back at old pictures. It really makes me sad to see how fast they are growing and I know it's only gonna go faster the older they get. Here are a few to show how all the babies have grown!

December 2009

January 2010

Lastly, today AC are headed to Crystal Springs for a few days. It may be next week before I post again!