Beach Bums

We took off on a much needed family vacation last week. Our destination...Destin, FL. It was awesome. The weather was great, the kids LOVED the beach and the pool and we all got to spend some MUCH needed quality time together. The kids enjoyed hanging out and playing with their Daddy and they were worn out by the end of the day so Josh and I actually got to spend time with one another with no kids asking for this and that. We spent most of our time on the beach or at the pool. The kids loved digging holes and finding sand crabs. Conner wanted to catch and keep every sea critter he could find.

One afternoon, we went down to the harbor. Josh wanted more information on deep sea fishing. The kids got icees and helped a little girl feed some fish. She was sweet enough to share her bread. Another day we headed to the outdoor mall to play at the sprayground and playground. The last day (well, the day we checked out) we headed to PC to visit Gulf World. Conner was all pumped up. He could not wait to see alligators, snakes, sting rays and dolphins. It was super fun!

I want to get this posted so I'm going to do different posts for each place. I have lots of pictures to go through and this has been sitting as a draft for 2 days...
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Summer is here!!

My kids are both such little water babies. They LOVE it. We are very blessed to have family members that own pools that we can use when ever we want. I LOVE the puddle jumpers b/c Conner can be more independent and I don't have to hold Parker as much. Win, win for everyone. They really love when their daddy is home and can play with them![gallery]

Outside, outside, outside, everybody outside...

ok, what's that song from?

The favorite at our house is to be outside. They love it and so do I. Some days it's the only way I get a minute of peace! These 2 LOVE each other but fight like crazy! They fight over everything...if Parker could steal Conner's shadow (and visa versa), he would!

The power wheels are still a huge hit around here...great investment, if you ask me.

We also got a new pet...check it out.

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Shameful

I'm ashamed that this tiny blog (for me) has been dumped all over and forgotten about. well, I haven't really forgotten about it but everytime I sit down to type something up, one kid is naughty (C is in the friggin dog food now, really, he's THREE and knows better).

Since Feb...hmmmm....we've been busy. Conner had school twice a week, I started working out w/a trainer and have lost about 13 pounds. we play outside a lot. They both love to be outside. Josh has been working a LOT. Seriously, in the last 8 weeks, he has been home ONE saturday. It's a lot on me and by the time the boys to go bed at night, I want to fall over but I have work to do. Speaking of work, my business has boomed this year (thank you Jesus)! I'm so, so thankful and am loving every minute of it.

We had a great Easter! The kids loved the egg hunt and dying the eggs. There were about 50 people at my MIL's house. [gallery]

Other than the kids keeping me busy, we're just busy. Parker is talking a LOT. His vocabulary is very large and Conner is growing up soo quickly. They are getting way too big way too fast. Conner needs 4t shirts (that's HUGE!) and Park is already in 2t. It definitely makes this mama sad.

I'm going to try to be better about blogging again (I've said that before). it's really the only way I've documented what they have been doing and I need to get better at it again for ME. I know there are zero readers left and that's ok. :)