Painting Pumpkins: A family tradition since 2006

This year Mimi provided the paints, pumpkin and accessories for the annual pumpkin painting. Good thing too because I don't know if I would have gotten it done this year! 

Here is the finished product!

A Shower for Baby Micah

My good friend Tara threw me a baby shower for little Micah this weekend. It was so cute and Tara made the most amazing cupcakes that I have ever eaten! Homemade cream cheese icing: need I say more! I think I ate 3... and I really wanted to eat more! 

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All of my favorite people were there! Linda the mother-in-law, Cassi, and Rachael the baby sister.

Amie, and some friends from work: Nicol and Lisa, my mom and me.
Hey, Look! I'm in a photo and I'm pregnant. That doesn't happen to often!

Amanda and Sara the middle sister. 

Evelyn, Andrea and Laura. (Andrea is due in late December and Laura is due in November.)

A few other people were hiding from the camera: Lynn, Melissa, Rebekah, Sheri, Celeste, and Tara.

Here's Noodle (Tara's #1) and Kelsie, my niece who even wore her beautiful party clothes that I got for her!

And one more time... did I mention the cupcakes were AMAZING??? I'm gonna have dreams about those cupcakes!

Family Beach Trip

The countdown for school to begin is coming to a close. So we packed up everything we owned and headed to the beach to have one last summer fling with the family. Lots of sandcastle building, boogie boarding, pool swimming, hiking, mini golfing, shopping, and family went on. I could tell you all about it, but it might be more fun if I just show you!

Jeremy is 8!

I can't believe it! My little boy is 8! We didn't celebrate by having just a one day event... we had a WHOLE WEEKS worth of fun! We started on Tuesday with dinner with Mimi and some bowling with the Mimi, YaYa and RayRay. Wednesday was the 4th of July, so we took advantage of daddy being off work and went to the golf course. Jeremy went to a golf camp earlier in the summer so he did pretty well! He even got Par on one hole! 

That night we fought the heat, humidity, gnats and sweat to watch the fireworks with the cousins. This was the first year that Jeremy didn't have a complete meltdown about fireworks! He has always been terrified of them which is really sad because I LOVE fireworks! This year, as long as I covered Jeremy's ears as hard as I could, he was fine! 

On Thursday we saw the Spiderman movie with the cousins again. And Friday we saw The Lorax with Mimi. On Saturday, the morning of Jeremy's birthday, we decorated his room! He was actually laying in bed completely passed out with the light on when I took this photo! Ha Ha!

We had breakfast with Mimi, Ya ya, Ray Ray and Steven. I made waffles and my mom made cinnamon rolls.

After breakfast we spent the afternoon with another birthday boy, Silas! 

Sometime in the day, we went bowling.

I'm just so excited and sad at the same time that my baby is now 8! It certainly has been a fun eight years!

Memorial Day at Suwannee

Time again for a family trip to Suwannee for Memorial Day! This year was a blast! My mom and sister came with us along with their boyfriends. We had never let Jeremy ride on the tube before and we finally got it out. At first he was super nervous about falling, alligators, sturgeons, snakes, etc. but after about 5 minutes he was a pro! 

Everyone took turns on the jet ski.  Even Mimi hopped on with Jeremy for a few minutes!

And we spent some time at Fanning Springs jumping off the dive. We love Wakulla Springs, but this one is more Jeremy's speed.

TRBC 5k Race

Like most little boys, Jeremy is always moving. Always. And when he is moving he is usually running. So, this year we entered him in the TRBC 5k race.

I participated too, but mostly for my daily round of exercise. You see, before I found out I was pregnant, I had been running a little... but there is something about being pregnant that has an immediate effect on my lungs. So, I did a little running downhill and a little walking uphill. The problem with this course is that it was about 85% UPHILL! Seriously!

So, back to Jeremy... He ran the whole time with Ya-Ya and her friend Brooks. They finished in just under 36 minutes!! I guess we aren't breaking any records here, but I was pretty impressed with his first 5k!