4th of July at Lake Martin

We had a wonderful weekend at the lake celebrating Independence Day. The weather was nothing short of FANTASTIC! The sky was beautiful and the humidity was surprisingly low which made it very unusually comfortable. We celebrated Anne Morgan's birthday early with all of my family. My brother and sister and their families were in town for the weekend so we thought we would kick off the celebration a little early.

We started off with a pinata. Not something you typically see at a 1st birthday party but since the guests at this one were a little older we thought it would be fun. I think they enjoyed it, don't you?!

It took quite a bit of swinging to get it open but eventually they were able to get to the candy!

And there was plenty of it! (I didn't realize how much I was buying, this was a first time to buy a pinata. Oh well, we'll have Halloween candy!) Here the kids are showing off their loot. (there is MUCH more that we had to hide)

Then it was time for cupcakes inside...

Yummmmm!

The weekend was full of fun and games. This is a picture from the first sponge fight. Later we added shaving cream to the mix. I joined in that time so I don't have any pictures.

A little hula hooping too

The kids also had a water balloon fight but I don't have anything but video of that.

The evenings were filled with puzzles and building with Lincoln Logs. The boys love when Uncle Trey is around, they always come running to him asking him to help build something. Here is Trey with Hunter and Kyle showing off the house they built. He was so proud.

Grammie made matching outfits for the kids and here she is with Sophie, AM and Drake before we went to Church in the Pines.

After the service there was a puppet show for the little ones. AM LOVED it! We joked that it was like seeing Praise Baby live.

Grammie and Pop with all of the grandkids.

It was a wonderful weekend with family. And a great celebration of our nation's birthday! I hope you had a great weekend too. Now it's time to get ready for Anne Morgan's 2nd birthday party on Sunday. Can you believe that she will be ONE next Tuesday? See you after the party!!

A Visit with Aunt Kate and friends

Today was a fun day. Anne Morgan, Mollie, Beasley and I headed to Montgomery to visit with my best friend Kate (a.k.a. Aunt Kate to the dogs and AM). I wish I had my video camera out upon arrival. You see, our dogs go way back. In college the dogs, Kate, Trey and myself were together ALL OF THE TIME. We had such a blast. Whether it was hanging out with a HANDFUL of LARGE dogs in the apartment, cooking dinner or at the park we had great times. We've always said that if anything happened to one of us the other would take care of the dogs. We get each other. And our dogs.

Kate lives in Montgomery and we don't see each other as much as we would like. That means the dogs don't either. Mollie and Kate's Rottwieler Cash are girlfriend and boyfriend as are Beasley and her lab Dixie. Seriously. (I would find an old pic of the group but I put everything on discs and don't know where to begin). She's added a Boxer, Chop, to the mix now who fits in great. The point of all of this is that they go NUTS and I mean NUTS when they get to see each other. Most people would probably freak out, not us. We think it's great and apparently Anne Morgan did too. I really wish I had video of it. She wasn't phased at all.

After lunch we drove down the road to visit her horse Clipper. I pulled the camera out for this one. I have always loved horses and I hope AM does too. Hopefully she will actually get to spend more time with them than I have. She had her first experience today. We are going to have to keep this up- make it a more regular visit. I know she and I would enjoy it as much as the four legged friends do!

Anne Morgan will be the last person to ride Clipper.

Here is Clipper and his sidekick Josie Jr. (mini donkey)

Weeeeee!!!!!!

Yeah! The swing set is finished! (Well, for the most part! We still have to hang two more swings and screw in the rock wall after the ground is level but little miss priss won't be doing that anytime soon anyway)

We finished up just in time to let Anne Morgan swing for 5 minutes before she went to bed last night. Of course this morning, right after her bottle we went out for more swinging and sliding. Last night it was so cute- she's been playing with the slide for the last couple of days since the swing wasn't up but the second that she saw me hang the swing she made a beeline for it! I loved it! She knew exactly what it was and couldn't wait to swing. She did not want to stop either, same thing this morning. Here are a couple of pictures from this morning.

She loves the slide too. I have to be careful b/c she can climb all the way to the top by herself!!!!

It is so nice to have it finished. I have a feeling we are going to spend MANY MANY hours out there and there will be many pictures to come through the years. I love you Anne Morgan! Happy early Birthday!

Here and There

I've become really bad at this whole blogging thing. We have been extremely busy-that's my excuse. If we haven't been on the road, we've been home keeping busy with the yard (which I still owe you a post on the renovations) and building a play set for AM's birthday, sewing like crazy or fixing up other things around the house.

Here are some pictures from some recent places.

1. Trey's mom's lake house for her birthday.

more please!!! and hurry!

2. Cook out at Forrest and Teresa's. AM was slightly obsessed with their dog Daisy.

(Her hair and bow look funny b/c she was so sweaty from being by the pool earlier!)

3. My grandmother turned 89 Saturday so we had a little party for her!

AM and my cousin's daughter Olivia playing in the "tent"

Olivia passed out leas for everyone to wear...it was a luau! :)

4. Daddy's Day ice cream cone!