One birthday girl and one birthday boy

Jeremy and Olivia share the same birthday month in August! So we celebrated a lot in the month of August. 

For Olivia's birthday we celebrated at Kids Time N, in Hurley. It was perfect! They sat everything up, and only had birthday party at a time. I can't believe this little girl is 7. I remember taking the pregnancy test, the first ultrasound and her being a baby. I thought she would never grow up. Oh how she has! She is my heart! 

For her birthday day jeremy and i took off and went with the daycare class to dauphin island sea lab. 

      That night we had cupcakes from                            Anderson's and she got Wendy's.  

  

Here are a few pictures from her party. 

We went to Atlanta to celebrate Jeremy's birthday. But of course Olivia was still not done with hers. She has been asking for an American doll for a while. She saved her birthday money plus borrowed a few bucks from mom and dad ;)! And she got one. 

Catelee didn't want anything from there she wanted to go to the Disney store. She got Sophie the first outfit. 

     I love these girls more than life itself! 

 Now, for Jeremy's birthday. We just spent time in Atlanta with his aunt and uncle and went to a braves game and did some shopping. Poor jeremy couldn't find anything. But I left the mall with a few bags ;)!

    The girls found their proms dresses at the mall! Oh, my they can't grow up that fast. 

       Late night ice cream run. 

      Birthday cake from publix! 

 

        Are you surprised this is what he                     

                 Picked for dinner?!? 

           We went to a game just us! 

We had a busy month in August. Now we have one more birthday to start celebrating in August.

       Charley Hope cheramie now! 

She was born August 22nd, 2013. Welcome to the month of August to celebrate birthdays! 

 

August was a great month full of blessings and Gods wonderful promises! Thank you Lord for all the great things you have done for my family and many others. I can't be more thankful for the family I have. 

Thirty-licious plus a few months

            Will you know how blogging goes, I always forget. I just got my birthday pictures from my surprise party. I know a little late, but you know being a mom and working full time you forget things like that.
                                                          Thirty-licious

                                                    Yes, you read right it says THIRTY!!!

                                                                This birthday was the

                                                 BIG

                                                 3-0

                                                 I will say that I was a little worried about,

                                                                     How I would feel?

                                                                     What I look like?

                                                              Where I would be in Life?

When I was younger, I thought of 30 year old as people that had great jobs, college degrees and their head on their shoulders and knew a lot. Well that's not exactly how it is. This age people are still trying to figure out were they want to be and what life purposes is. I have to say I could not be any happier with the Life Jesus has chosen for me.
                                                                        I am a wife
                                                                        I am a mother
                                                                I am still working on my degree
                                                           I am still trying to figure out my career

The day started off with my best friend Kelly and I doing some shopping. She tricked me into saying we were going to eat crab legs at the casino. Which we did not end up doing as you can tell. Jeremy had the bank open up and we got to use the conference room.

I will have to say I believed everything that was going on. I was surprised!!!

                                                      Here are a few pictures from that night.

                                                       Jeremy waiting on me and me walking up

                                                        Just a few pictures from the night.

Love my cake!!! He had some of my favorite things there.

We had a photo booth there. That was so much fun!!!

The theme was Thirty-licious!!! It was a great night. I am so blessed with a wonderful family and a group of friends.

Thank you to all my family and friends that made it and helped with everything. Thanks to my BFF that drove 3 hours to come spend the day with me. She left her children at home and husband because she could not miss it!!

We survived Kindergarten

Well we made it Thur Olivia's first year of "real school". It was not that bad at all. Olivia is going to be like me and not care for school.

Here are a few pictures.

Olivia's last day of school

                                                               Mrs. Perek and Olivia

The family after graduation.

                                                             Mrs. Paige (asst. Teacher)

I  saw something on pinterest, were you take the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the places you will go, and have all her teachers sign it til she graduates high school.  The teachers wrote some sweet things in there. I could have not been more proud. One thing her teacher wrote is she saw Jesus everyday in her!!!!

Olivia,
I can not believe you will be a first grader next year. You have grown so much. I am excited to see what the Lord has planned for you. I know he has great things for you to do.
Love,
Mom

                                     I can do all things thur Christ who strenghtes me.
                                                                  Phil 4:13

Mother's Day!!!

Mother's day started Saturday morning, with a brunch at a lady's house from church. Let me start by giving you a background of why we had the brunch.

There is a lady named Lynne Underwood, who passed away 2 years ago with brain cancer. She went to the same church as Jeremy and I, and LOVES young couples at the church. She was always throwing some kind of fellowship to get the young couples involved. At first, Jeremy and I were the only couple but it has grown now.
There is a lot that I can say about her. One thing I know I can say is she loved her Lord and Savior. Oh, her Faith gives me the chills. How she loved her family was amazing. She got to stay home will her children were little and then went to work as they got older. When I say she was a Christian she meant it.She is just an amazing person.
So, her best friends throw the "young moms" a brunch to honor us and remember Mrs. Lynne. We got there and ate some yummy food. We had a pamphlet  with some question's about mothers of the bible, we talked about our own moms and grandparents, and our own children. Of course, we talked about Mrs. Lynne.
Her daughter was there and of course she is a mom now. For her daughters wedding a few years ago,she needed a necklace to borrow so, she went to her best friend and borrowed one. At the brunch the friend gave Mrs.Lynne's daughter the necklace she borrowed as a gift to her. Yes, we all cried!!!
             
This is Mrs. Lynne at her daughters wedding.This was at the entrance at Mrs. Darlene's house



                          A few of us at the table eating. Some of our faces are funny.
                                   Mrs. Lynne's daughter is sitting to my right.
Some of the things there were Mrs. Lynne's favorite. Yellow roses were her favorite and that was the center pieces of the tables.
                           It was a great time. I can't thank these women for thinking of us.

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kidness is on her tongue.She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
                                                                Proverb 31:25-31

Sunday we went to church that morning and then my parents and his moms. It was a great afternoon of spending family time together. I am still amazed at how God wanted me to be a mom and gave me some amazing children. My biggest struggle is do I love my children enough, do I give them enough attention, show them God's love and be the best what I need to be.

                                                 Olivia had a Mother's day  tea at school.
                                      The purse is flled with questions she answered about me.
                                               The part is she said I weighed 78 pounds!!!

                                                                       Olivia and I

                                                          Me and my favorite girls!

                                                                      Jeremy and I

                                Thank you Lord for everything you have blessed me with.

Fun in the Sun!!!!

We had our first beach vacation this past weekend.  My friend Amy and her parents own a condo in Destin, Fl. right across from the beach.

We got there Friday night, so we could not do anything. Saturday morning the girls were READY to go!
We had breakfast and headed to the beach. I will say it was windy and cool. It did not phase the girls one bit. Jeremy got them some cute sweaters to wear over their swimsuit, that didn't work. They took them off and off to the water they went.

I took over 300 pictures.





                                     These are the wonderful sweaters, they didn't want to wear.

                                                    Catelee Bug enjoying fun in the sun!!
                            I will say she just ran around and kept saying "Destin, Destin, Woo Hoo!!!

                                       Olivia was more relaxed and loved looking for seashells.
                                                                         She loved it!!

                                        She was the only one that would jump off the sand hill.

                                     Catelee would jump off if Jeremy or I would do it with her.

One... two... jump

Funny faces!!!!

I saw this on pinterest. I tried to get a family picture done but the girls were not having it.

We took a dolphin cruise. It takes you out around the gulf for about 2 and half hours. You get to see dolphins and a sunset.

There are some pictures of the dolphins. There was a huge pod of them. This wave runner get going by fast and making them go back in the water. The kiddos weren't happy.

We had a wonderful time in Destin making great family memories. Can't wait til our next trip.

Field Trip Time

Olivia had a school field trip to the Marine Life in Gulfport. I know it is not called that anymore. The name has changed since Katrina. We had a great time learning about sea life.

                                                      Waiting with a few friends to go in.

Goofing off while waiting.

Mrs. Perek and Mrs. Pagie classes.

 
    When we first got in there, we saw a video about mammals. After, the show this lady came and showed us tricks this parrot could do.

He showed us he could recycle.

First he picked the paper up.

Then walked it over to the trash can.

TaDa he put it in the trash can.

The bird picked up rubber toys and put them in a small wagon.

Then starting pulling the wagon. It was so neat.

Olivia was so proud of herself for touching the crab and the sting ray below.

This is a collage of pictures from Hurricane Katrina, that hit in 2005. Oh my, that thing was a hot mess. It just brought back so many memories. People just kept saying, " I cant believe it was that bad." We have came along way since then.


                                                                The Dolphin Show
                                                           The children enjoyed it!!!

                                                                      Waving to us

                                                            Swimming by talking to us

                            The trainer and a little helper throw this hula hoop in the water.

                                                              The dolphin swam to it.

                                                        And brought it back to the trainer.

                                                                    The big jump!!                                           We had a great time spending the day together.