Spring Break 2012

This year for spring break my whole family flew out to Charlotte to spend a few days ALL together & we had so much fun.  Thanks to our Grandpa we all got to stay together on a house by the lake.  The weather was great, the place was beautiful but the best part was getting to spend lots of time together.  Lucy & Miles loved all the attention.

It really was fun, this was just right before nap time!

 Lucy LOVED baby cousin Wyatt.  She would look at him & say, "Your so cute!"

 One day we had a girls day & drove out to a cute little town & had lunch & pedis

 We got our pedis at the same place that they filmed "Dirty Dancing" - it was cool.

 We had a little surprise shower for the Benacs - so excited for that little babe to get here in Oct.

 Lucy had her first bite of s'more - loved it of course!

 Play time on the beach with Grammy & Aunt Bekah

 Miles got lots of lovin too!

 Sweet Wyatt & Aunt Jane

Miles is really starting to give out a lot of smiles - they are SO CUTE!

3 months

This month Miles turned 3 months

He is still the sweetest baby around & we are loving every minute of it.  He is pretty tall for his ago & that makes all of his outfits a little short but we are rolling with it!

 Lucy Jane still loves Miles so much, she cannot get enough of him.  Each morning when I go into get Lucy the first thing she says is, "what's Miles doing?"  It's like she wakes up thinking about him.

You are growing way too fast Miles....slow down!

LOVE

Happy Valentine's Day!  So many things we LOVED about Valentine's Day this year.

On Feb. 13 we got up & got ready to go to Lucy's Valentine's party at school & went outside to snow on the ground.  Lucy LOVED talking about the snow but did not really LOVE the snow & really did not LOVE the fact that the snow was on her slide, it caused a huge melt down & made us late for school.

I knew the snow would be gone by the time she got home from school so I made her take a pic in the snow, she did not LOVE it.

 Lucy & I LOVINGLY made these Valentine's for all her friends

She did not LOVE that she had to give away some of her precious "pops" to her friends so she kissed them goodbye.  

Lucy LOVED making Valentine's Day crafts & sorting her candy by colors... for about 2 minutes.  

We LOVE this little man & he LOVES his swing

Lucy LOVES her brother, she LOVES teaching him things, here she is telling him to kick the ball

Lucy LOVED getting flowers from Daddy & Miles does not LOVE how loud his sister is!

Happy 30th Cody!

Happy Birthday!

 Cody turned 30 & we had a fun time celebrating!  Lucy & I made Cody a surprise ball with 30 gifts/reasons why we love him all inside a ball wrapped with streamers.  We wrote down 30 reasons why we love him on notecards & attached little gifts to 15 of the notecards & then wrapped each one up with different color streamers & it formed a giant ball that we gave to him for his birthday.  The gifts were mostly little things like his favorite snack, candy, gum, chap stick, etc along with a few good gifts - vintage Rangers t-shirt & an i-tunes gift card.  We loved putting it together & Cody & Lucy had a great time opening the birthday ball!

Lucy was a big help

Miles hung-out on his quilt & watched all the action take place

So many streamers!

Playing in the streamers

Lucy's favorite part...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODY, YOU ARE THE BEST!

Miles James is 2 months!

2 months

In Miles' 2nd month of life he...

Met Aunt Bekah & Tio Tyler

Spent some time with Grammy & Pa

 Started to look around & notice more

Took his first plane ride & went with Mommy & Daddy to Orlando

Started to smile!

Miles also got RSV this month & it was scary & hard but I am so thankful for amazing doctors & people that love us that helped him to get better in no time.  He is still such a great baby, sleeping about 8 hours a night & eating every 3 hours during the day.  At his 2 month check up he weighed 12.3 lbs & was 23 inches long.  We love him to pieces, but want him to stop growing so fast!!

Great Grandparents

A few weeks ago the kids & I went down to see my parents & leave Lucy Jane at Grammy & Pa camp while Miles, Cody, & I went to Florida for a YL conference.  Miles ended up getting RSV while we were down there so I had to go to Florida a day late but I was glad I was down there for all the craziness b/c it was great to have a little help.  While we were there we saw my Grandpa Williams & Grandma Shack, it was sweet time with them.

A few weeks ago we also went to Abilene for Mamaws 90th birthday, but I forgot my camera so don't have any pics from that...ugh!

Grandpa, Dad, & the kids

 Grandma Shack made a beautiful quilt for Miles.  We love the quilt & use it all the time & I am planning on keeping it forever & hopefully pass it on to my grandkids one day.  Thanks Grandma!

Miles loves his quilt from Grandma Shack

Grandma & Miles hanging-out with the new quilt

Looking at Grandma Shack

Lucy & Grandma

Grandma made Lucy a quilt for her babies, Lucy loves it!

We are so thankful for Grandparents!