A Visit With Papaw

Papaw came to visit us! We don't get to see our extended family too often, so this was a fun visit. Bryce had changed so much since his last visit in April and Brennan loved playing basketball and wrestling with Papaw. We missed seeing Ms. Linda this time and hope she can make it up for the next visit!

Home Sweet Home

Seven years ago today we closed on buying our very first house. It was the first house our realtor showed us and we kept coming back to it after seeing anything else. It was brand new and ready for us to move right in. We were home owners. Well more like house owners because it has certainly gone from being just a house to being a home. So thankful we have been able to stay here as long as we have!

My original plan was to show some older pictures of our house (us with the SOLD sign, Kyle putting up drywall in the basement), but apparently when the computer crashed several years ago we lost those pictures, so instead I'll just share two of the big reasons our house is now our home sweet home!

Love this song!

First Family Photo

I just wanted to share this here too (finally) even though it's been on Facebook for a while now. It only took us six months to get a picture of the four of us together! A friend took this one a few weeks ago at church. So glad we finally have one!

I snapped a few on my phone before church too!

Papaw Meets Bryce!

Just a quick post about our visit with Kyle's dad. I was horrible about taking pictures while Papaw was here. Brennan passed his cold to me and I wasn't feeling too great during the second half of his visit. It was fun watching him interact with Bryce and Brennan. Brennan loved playing ball in the basement in Papaw! Papaw loves his two grandsons!

Tot School in Florida - 19 Months - Alphabet Box Letter F

This week's alphabet box focused on the letter 'F'. It was excellent timing because we spent the week on vacation in Florida! This Tot School post is actually just a post about our trip! I did take some 'F' items with us, so Brennan could be exposed to the letter. His 'F' box contained:

• Leapfrog 'F' magnet
• Baby Einstein 'Ff' book
• Go Fish card game
• frog toy
• fox stuffed animal
• The Foot Book
• F is for Fish
• Fun With Numbers

We arrived in Pompano Beach, Florida last Sunday. My parents, sister, and brother-in-law had arrived the day before. We checked into our super nice 4-bedroom suite. My parents are timeshare owners and treated us to this vacation! Not only did we stay for free, my mom was super generous in other ways too. The first night at dinner, we each drew an envelope with someone's name in it. During the week we had to buy a gift for that person. Included in the envelope was $20 to use on the gift! At that same dinner, my mom gave each couple a $100 Visa gift card to spend on ourselves with the directions, "Buy something you wouldn't normally spend your own money on." We spent ours on clothes for Brennan, which in our defense we usually don't buy him many clothes, so I think we still followed her directions. Later in the week my mom put $50 towards jet ski rentals for the guys. I know you're reading this mom, so thank you so very much for this vacation!

Check out Brennan's loot!

We had a wonderful trip! Brennan was a super traveler. He loved everyone even though he sees my family so infrequently. I think Skyping with my sister and looking at lots of pictures helped him recognize everyone. He was great about letting anyone hold him. Anyone could put him to bed or down for nap and anyone could get him up when he woke. He really was so easy going and that made the week that much better.

Our resort had an amazing pool (it actually had three). We swam at least once a day and Brennan LOVED it. He has always loved the water. The pool had fountains that he really liked, but his favorite was the water slide. He was too little to go down it, but loved watching others (especially Momma) go down. When the slide was turned off, he loved to sit at the bottom of it and let us toss a ball up the slide. It would roll back down and he'd catch it. We did this MANY times!

Our resort wasn't on the beach, but we did go to the beach twice. Brennan loved the ocean too! He liked being held out in the water and didn't mind waves splashing him at all. He also like walking in the sand. We even got to have fun watching Dada jet ski too!

We didn't even have to leave the room to have fun though. He loved snuggles with Momma and Dada. And really loved playing peak-a-boo with people behind the couch! Nightly bathtime was always a hit, but I didn't get any pictures of him there.

On Saturday, we had to say goodbye to my parents, sister, and brother-in-law. They were headed back to Kentucky. But not before we took our annual family vacation pictures the night before.

Since Kyle, Brennan, and I had Saturday to ourselves, we decided to drive to Miami and go to Jungle Island. It's basically a zoo, but has a ton of birds you can touch and feed and even squirrel monkeys walking around this one area right within reach. Brennan really liked the petting farm! There are a ton of pictures here because my family hasn't seen these yet.

All in all, it was an amazing week! And mom, it's time to start planning next year's vacation!

A Visit with Papaw

Kyle's dad was here visiting last week. I did a horrible job of taking pictures during his trip, but thought I'd share a few that I did capture.
Brennan loved being tickled by Papaw. Papaw would sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and change it at the end and say, "is gonna get your belly!" Brennan thought it was the best thing ever! As soon as Papaw started singing that song, Brennan would start smiling.
We love you, Papaw!

Miss You, Lala