she's electric!

goooooodberrys.

 a few weeks back nat and the kids came into town on her birthday, so naturally a trip to goodberrys was in order. (what did i tell you? we always get some sweet treat when we're with aunt natalie. birthday or no birthday!)

 ooops.
the classic 'drop-of-the-entire-ice-cream-cone-on-the-ground' scenario.
oh well, shaved off the top and ate the rest. and had fun looking at the melting ice cream on the ground.

look at these faces. walking advertisement i tell you. yum city.

and no i didn't forget to put a pic of the birthday girl on the blog. she refuses to have pics taken far to often...come on niblet:)

the finger

i'm pretty sure every kid has a phase they go through where they point to everything under the sun.
lj did when she was around 12-16 months and she would always say "doosh, doosh" as she's pointing to something. jack is now in that phase and he tends to hyper-extend his finger either upward or downward and make some sort of grunting noise, "uuuhhhh, uuuuuuhhh".
cracks us up:)
i love watching a little mind at work!

sweet treat

the new joke is that when we're with aunt natalie, the kids always have some kind of sweet treat. it's true. she can't help it. but i love it, even though i give her a hard time about it.
for milana's birthday a few weeks ago we had cupcakes outside...funfetti de-lish-ous-ness:)





someone was not happy they couldn't join in on the birthday fun:(





early harvest

with the warm winter we had, there is an early harvest of strawberries so we went picking at a local grower in apex for mom and cathy's birthday last saturday!

ladies' man

7 months and the ladies already flock to matt-me...smoooooches!

nail-biter

we've got one. any suggestions on how to break her of the habit?



happy birthday {great} aunt cathy!

and a very happy birthday to my aunt cathy!! we are so excited to be able to celebrate with you and mom today. cathy we love you and are so grateful to God for you - you are so generous, so gracious and so loving. we hope you know how much we love you!

happy birthday nana!

happy birthday to you mom!! i am so thankful for you as my mother and as one of my childrens' grandmothers. you have provided us with numerous date nights, last minute relief periods, meals, and an open place for us to bring our kids and hang out when we need to get out of the house. thank you for loving us, our husbands and our children! you are special to me and i thank God for you:)

Lilly Jo says

after squeezing a shirt over her head the other day...

LJ: "biiiiiiiiiiiiiig head"
me: "haha, that's right, you have a big head!"
LJ: "like dada"


quite true lj, quite true.

happiness

2/3

jack and amelia at battery park last weekend

curious

like father like daughter.
curious to the max.
watching some fishermen help a sea turtle back to the ocean after being caught off the pier.

cooper bridge run '12

this weekend we took a trip to charleston with our good friends the hortons to participate in the 35th annual cooper bridge 10K run! the men of course ran it, and did quite well i must say, and kate and i of course walked while strolling the kiddos. seth finished 3,010th (took him about 50 min+/-) out of about 44,000 people!! he's gotten into running over the past year or so and really enjoys a good challenge! i think tim finished somewhere around 13,000th out of 44,000 which is also a great feat in my mind. kate and i finished. that was our accomplishment:) i think we did it in 2hr and 15 min. not too shabby for two pregnant mommas pushing babies.
unfortunately i didn't take the time to get any pics while walking on the bridge, but my mind was set on just getting up the bridge and then finishing the race. i think we stopped twice to give the kids a quick snack, but that was all. the men walked back to meet us when we were about 2 miles from the end, and that was a huge help as we were getting pretty exhausted after 4 miles:) but overall it went really well and we had a great time together!

kiddos watching the helicopter fly over the race starting line...the race was delayed for about an hour so that made it a bit more interesting, but they did well for the most part!

making extra sure she doesn't get any sun...sunscreen underneath her clothing:)

lots of flirting going on before the race began...

jack was asleep as we were crossing the start line, and lj soon followed.

enjoying a nice break from pushing strollers when our hubbies came back to our rescue:)