School Starts

A few weeks ago the boys started back to preschool at our church.  This is the first year that Will is going more than 1 day a week.  So far, both of the boys love their teachers, and are having a great year.  Jackson loves that his teacher, Mrs. Morgan, has a school store that he can earn and buy prizes from each week.  Will loves music and earning prizes.

The day before school starts

Ready to go

Sometimes they are sweet to one another

Will still isn't so sure about when I drop him off some mornings, his look says it all

Mrs. Morgan and Jackson

End of Summer

It is crazy that the summer has come and gone so quickly.  Tomorrow will be the first official day of Autumn 2014 Whoo hoo (Although I love summer, I personally can't wait for some cooler temperatures to come this way)!  The last few weeks, we've tried to soak up the last rays of the hot summer sun by going swimming and playing out the in yard with the hose pipe and/or sprinkler.  A few weeks ago Brian got out an old peice of plastic to make a slip and slide.  It took the boys awhile to get the hang of sliding themselves down without having one of us push them, but once they did it they loved it!

We celebrated Brian's 39th birthday a few weeks ago.  We usually don't do very big gifts for one another, because it so hard to actually pick something that he/I really want.  I let the boys pick out some of his favorite candies to give him.  He picked out a new mountain biking water bag for himself.

I couldn't get a good pose for this shot, oh well, Jackson picked out Brian a yummy chocolate mini cake from Publix.  I cooked Mexican food, and we had a little family fiesta.

Opening the candy

Posing with the gift

Funny Conversations

My kids say so many funny and cute things (at least I think so!)  I wish I would remember to write the funnies down before I forget them.  This was our conversation the other night as I was driving us home from my parents' house:

Out of the blue-
Jackson:  When I grow up I'm going to be a racer
Me:  What type of racer?
Jackson: The kind that races cars, or I might be a pizza man
Me:  The one who drives a pizza delivery car or makes the pizza?
Jackson:  Probably the man who makes them
Will:  I want to be the man who makes muffins, (in a very deep voice) I love to eat muffins!

This morning's conversation between the boys-
Will:  (Crying)  Jackson says I smell like a stinky toot
Jackson:  No I didn't I just said you have really stinky breath
Will:  (Stops crying)  Ok
-Apparently smelling like a toot isn't okay, but having stinky breath is permittable

Summer Time

Here's what we've been up to during the month of June-

Wrestle Time- We enjoyed lots of wrestling this summer

We went on a hike to see a waterfall, the boys appeased me by hugging with these silly grins

Jackson shows Will some sort of leaf

We used our self timer to capture a family photo

Last weekend we visited my friend in Bluffton (which is a few minutes away from Hilton Head.)  This is view from her back porch, so gorgeous!

Daddy gets a hug from Will

All of the boys 

Our silly faces

Sarah and I, the guys watched the kids so we could have a girls night out

We've been doing swim lessons at the YMCA, the boys love the slide

Myrtle Beach 2014

I hadn't been to Myrtle Beach in at least 5 or 6 years so I was really excited to relive the excitement of my childhood and take the boys there this year. It was our first trip as just a family of four (all of our other vacations have either been with Brian's or my family.)  Like I used to, the boys love amusement park rides.  So we spent two of our three nights at the Pavilion Nostalgia rides at Broadway at the Beach.  We stayed at a hotel that had a really fun pirate ship kids pool that the boys loved.  We had gorgeouse weather and were able to go out on the beach each day we were there.  The boys built sand castles, dug holes, played in waves, and ran around collecting shells.  Other trip highlights included eating at some yummy restaurants including Abeulos Mexican Food Embassy, a Pancake house, and at Dead Dog Saloon in Murrells Inlet.

Digging in the sand

In front of our hotel playing in the sand

Will loved having his legs buried 

Building a castle

The marshwalk at Murrells Inlet

The boys

The family

Enjoying the pirate ship pool

Daddy got soaked when the bucket turned over

Will's Toy Story Party

This year we didn't have a super big party for Will's birthday.  We were at the beach for his actual birthday so a few days before my mom had us all over for dinner and cake.  He opened presents from us that night.  He really enjoyed the cake and balloons!

 Brian wasn't there yet, so I forgot to get a family pic of all four of us

Will requested a Woody cake, so Mama got this from Sam's, it was really good for $15 (It was huge, we had over half left with only 6 people eating it.

Blowing out his 3 candle

Daddy and Will with party favors

Jackson and Daddy playing

Will really enjoyed his cake

Opening gifts

Birthday loot