Abby's 1st Birthday Party!

Sweet Abby Lu (her nickname we gave her from her full name of Abigail Lucille) turned 1 year old a couple of weeks ago!  She is such a cutie pie, and so sweet and funny, and we had a great time celebrating her birthday at her Nana and Granddaddy's house!  She had an owl themed party and had on the cutest owl shirt that was monogrammed with her name and the number "1" on it, plus she had a pink tutu on to complete the outfit!  She was precious!

We had such a great time at the party! Jack had a great time celebrating Abby, plus being with all of his cousins, too! Thanks to Abby, Mommy, Daddy, and Blakely for all their hard work to make this such an awesome party! We love you all very much and appreciate you inviting us! :-) 

Sweet birthday girl!

Big Sister Blakely and the rest of the cousins had to try out Abby's new wagon first to make sure it was safe for her to ride in it! :-)

Abby's Aunt LeLe (Deena's sister Leah) did all the fancy cake decorating!  It turned out so great and tasted amazing, too!

Sweet girl loved her "smash" cake!  She kept eating until almost half of it was gone! So cute! :-)

First Day of School!

I can hardly believe Jack is old enough for preschool!  I enrolled him early for the fall, but then the option for summer school came up, so I figured I'd go ahead and start him so he'd get used to it before baby Charlie got here to have one less thing for him to get used to along with a new baby in the house.

He started on Tuesday, July 10th and just ended this last Thursday, July 26th.  He went Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for 3 weeks and loved every day of it!  The first day was a little hard for him to go in and say "bye" to us, and hard on Mommy as well, but after a couple days he got used to it and ended up loving it!  His teacher Miss Missie was very sweet, too, and we will really miss her!  He will go back for "drop in days" 2 days a week starting August 7th (just for 2 weeks), then the fall days will start after Labor Day.

Sweet boy so excited to start school!  He loved his Thomas backpack, too!

Mama Becky and Daddy Mer Beach Trip

A few weeks ago we were able to go to the beach with my side of the family and we had a blast!  We stayed at the Phoenix West in Orange Beach and we love that place!  We have stayed there a couple times before, and we are getting spoiled by staying there! The condo was gorgeous, plus we love their lazy river, big kiddie pool, and waterslide!  Mama Becky and Daddy Mer gave Jack his first puddle jumper and he wore it all the time and loved it!  

Jack and Daddy spent a lot of time going down the slide together!

Jack also loved going down to the beach to play in the water and sand.

We also spent a lot of time out on the balcony looking down at everyone front the 21st floor!

Speaking of the balcony, Daddy Mer even got a cute picture of us in the lazy river from up there! He obviously has a great camera lens! :-)

Sweet boy resting after a fun-filled day!

Family picture time!

Monday night we went out to eat to celebrate Aunt Amy's birthday!  We went to the Crab Trap and the food was delicious, plus the kids had fun on their playground!

Jack and I enjoyed loving on baby Abby!

Jack teaching Blakely how to play on the iPad!

One night after dinner we went to The Track to ride go-karts, play putt-putt, and play arcade games!

Here is a video of Jack riding his first go-kart!

Big Boy Bed

Right around Jack's 3rd birthday he got a big boy bed!  We took out his crib and put it in the guest room (now Charlie's room), plus moved out his changing table and glider, and moved in a big boy bed!  We even had cute sports bedding to go with his sports room!  The first night was a little rough (it took from 9 to midnight to get him to sleep), but since then each night has gotten a little better and easier, and so far he sleeps there all night until around 7:30 or 8!  He looks so big sleeping him his big boy bed! He of course has to have all of his animals sleeping with him, too! :)