Daddy's little helper

Helping Daddy put together his new grill that he got for Father's Day (yes, my child is in his pajama's...I had already changed him before Kevin decided to go outside...atleast he has shoes on!!):

Day Out with Thomas 2010

Today we took Garrett to Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock NC for "Day Out with Thomas". It's a whole day revolving around Thomas. We got a train ride pulled by Thomas (we actually got 2 b/c the park was alittle slow today with kids still being in school), Garrett got a Thomas tattoo, got to color Thomas pictures, and of course play with Thomas the Trains!! Tweetsie also has other rides to that were included in the day - some of which are pictured. Overall we had a great time and Garrett LOVED it!! We were so happy to have been able to take him.


Thomas the train!!

Sir Topham Hatt

Getting ready for the train ride

Garrett and his Thomas tattoo

They tried to lock us up - but decided we were too sweet to keep!! :)

Lovin' on Daddy some before another train ride!

View from the top of the farris wheel. I had Kevin take a picture so I could see the view once my feet were back on solid ground!!! (I put my big girl pants on for Garrett and rode - but HATED every minute of it!)

Riding the go-carts. I called them Lightening McQueen cars (from the movie) and he wanted to ride in the green one because of Chick Hicks. Good thing when it came time to load the green car was the one they were directed to!!

My little cowboy


How do you end a long but fun day??? With a 'nilla milkshake!!...

...and then a nap!!

Ice Pop

Remember the ice pops as a kid? Weren't they the best?!
Garrett enjoyed one today while outside playing!!

Pool Fun

I guess you can still call it "pool fun", even though you don't get in the water......

New Swimsuit


He was alittle self-conscious of his "tummy"

What he didn't realize was that this was going on in the back!! :)

Just a little haircut

Yes, it's true - since being a barber is in my blood (thanks Pepe) - I decided to take Garrett's hair into my own hands last weekend!! I ended up going alittle shorter than I wanted to (long story - won't get into that!) but overall I think he looks cute....and he did GREAT with me cutting his hair. Can you say...savin' some money on haircuts!! :)
With his new short hair, we have started to style it, gel and all! How else would you style a little boys short hair but to give him a fauxhawk!! :) I think he looks adorable and so grown up!!

The Blessing

The Monkey Song

Here is Garrett's new favorite song. It's along the lines of the "other monkey song" 5 little monkeys. Here is an interpretation of the song!!

"3 little monkeys swinging in a tree, teasing Mr Alligator "you can't catch me"" {then the alligator approaches} "CHOMP!! Get those monkeys out of the tree!"

because I'm lazy

If your seeing this your probably thinking "what in the world?". Well- Kevin and I changed our living room around today (don't know what kind of mood I'm in...but I'm in one!). Anyway - posting here is easier than e-mailing the pics to a few select people....so here ya go!!! :)

view from entry way (the rocker is not permanent - we just didn't have anywhere to put it)

 

 

 

 

lazy #2

 

 

 

Meet Tweet, Chirp, Shrimp, and Alvin

Yes, those are the names of our newest family members...the birds. I came up with Tweet and Chirp (appropriate I think), Kevin came up with Shrimp (??????), and Garrett came up with Alvin (UGH)!!

Backstory and sidenote, my mother-in-law would love the fact that her grandson just "named" his bird Alvin. See this is a long time family battle - while pregnant she wanted me to name Garrett....you guessed it Alvin, as in Alvin and the Chipmunks. Don't get me started ;). Thank goodness she doesn't have the internet!! :)

Anyway - back to our birds. Everyday since Monday a new bird has hatched - today making our new family complete! They are just to cute!!



Alvin :)

Life (Edited)

When we arrived home from Florida a few weeks ago we noticed that a bird flew out of the decorative bucket I have hanging on the front door - upon inspection this is what we saw.....



Now, ordinarily I would have had an eviction (quoting my Mother here) - however there were already 4 eggs and I just couldn't do that. So - for the past few weeks we have been very careful using the front door (and ducking when walking up on the porch in order to avoid the Momma bird flying out). Today when Kevin got home he looked in to see a baby bird! Garrett called me on my way home so excited saying "baby birdy Mommy".



How's this for a lesson of life?! We are excited to have our little bird family! I'll post more pictures as more birds hatch and as they grow.

**My Mother wanted me to clarify that she only holds evictions during the construction process, not after the nest has been sold and moved in to!!! :)

Easter Morning

Leaving the Easter Bunny the eggs we colored to hide them! We are ready!! Now it's off to bed!!

HE CAME!!!

Alittle excited


Shaking the eggs....what's in them??!!

MONEY!!!

A Mr. Potato Head!!

The loot

Going outside to find the eggs!!