Fun day at the zoo......

Today was a perfect day to go to the zoo and to play in the water area of the play park! We invited Shadia and Baby Nicholas (as my boys refer to him) to come along with us!! It was Turner's first time in the water park and Griffin and Cooper's first time since last summer!!! Nicholas had only been to the zoo one other time, but I feel confident they will be going back many times! He LOVED the water area. Turner and Nicholas were so cute playing together....Turner wasn't so sure about the water on his head and made some super funny faces! I can't wait to take them back soon....this was one of the most enjoyable trips to the zoo so far! It was VERY warm and the humidity was awful, but we sucked it up for the kiddies!!! :) :)

Cooper and komodo dragon!
Cooper hanging on the elephant's tail!
G on the elephant's trunk! My sweet baby boys!

Cooper

Water fun!
LOVING it!
Turner and Nicholas were SOOO cute together!
CLEARLY Nicholas was loving it!

Memorial Day at the water park......

This year, on Memorial Day, we went to the little water park in St. Mary's, GA! We were so tired of all the rain and were desperately hoping for a sunny day and got JUST that! It was awesome weather and the kids (ALLLLLLL of them) had a blast...as well as the adults! It was our family, my two oldest nieces, The Hendricks Family and The Hires Family! So...9 kids in all and we could NOT have asked for better kids or a better time...and the weather was absolutely perfect! It took Turner quite a while to warm up to the water, but it was FREEZING when we first got there. He did so good once he realized he liked it! He was awake from 8:00 a.m. until we left at 4:00 p.m.....I think it's the longest he has EVER been awake. We thought he'd for sure nap on the way there, but NO WAY...I guess it was the excitement...ha ha! He was asleep as soon as we left the parking lot though....but piped up after about 45 min. and was ready to play!!! Sorry there are so many pics, but we had so much to share!!! :) :)

Our family....
Bathing beauties.....
Kyan, Cathy, Camdyn & Scott
Lenox, Leon, Susan & Lincoln
Three great friends!!!
daddy & Turner
Griffin, Daddy & Turner sliding...
CLEARLY having fun! :)
LOVING the water!
Turner, Daddy & Cooper

Where they spent most of the day playing!

Coop & Rylee

Kamryn & Turner

Turner....

Griffin trying to help Turner!

Kamryn & Griffin

Cooper....only kid I've ever seen that keeps a dry head at a water park! :) On the way home!!! :) :) He was pooped!

Fun with little girls.....

So, today after church and lunch we put Griffin, Cooper & Turner down for naps and I decided to have a little "girl fun!" My nieces LOVE to have their picture taken! I wanted to do something fun with them while the boys napped so they chose their hairstyles and outside we went for some photos! I took TONS and decided to share a few on here! It is so fun to take pictures of kids that are sooooo cooperative and LOVE it! I was finished taking pics and they were begging for just a few more poses....it was so fun for them (and me)! :)

Memorial Day weekend......

So, we are as tired of the rain as EVERYONE....ugh it's making us crazy! I have my two oldest nieces this weekend so on Saturday morning I got FOUR kids (Turner was staying home w/daddy to nap) all ready to go to the park (to play and feed the ducks some old bread) and as soon as I got my flip flops on....Jamie announces that it is raining. So, as you can imagine, I had four UPSET little kids! We immediately started looking for a plan b....so we decided to wait until Turner takes his nap and head out to Chick-Fil-A for lunch so they could atleast play for a while too! They were ok with that, but were still a little disappointed about the park not working out! Anyways...we get to CFA and seriously....if we had a dollar for EVERY time we caught someone looking at us crazy with FIVE kids....we'd have gotten lunch for free:) I'm sure they were all thinking that we have kids every year or so....I joking told Jamie that I need to get a shirt made that says...."only the boys belong to us!" Anyways....it was the first time that Turner has ever played in the play area...so I, of course, snapped a few pics....he LOVED it! After we got home, I decided (still feeling terrible about the park deal) that I would make chocolate covered bananas for the kids (well the four older ones....Turner, in my opinion, isn't ready for this kind of thing...heck it's the first time the other kids have had this TREAT too)! Anyone that remotely knows me knows this was a SPECIAL treat...we don't have this kind of thing often! Anyways....they all LOVED it and thought it was really cool...I had never made them either! Kamryn, the youngest of the two girls, doesn't like bananas (so she says) but add chocolate to it...and she'll take it:)

G's last day of preschool......

Today was Griffin's last day of preschool in the 3 year old class! He is on summer break until September 8th! He absolutely loved going this year and had two wonderful teachers....Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Gazaleh! He loved them both, but was very partial to Mrs. Gazaleh! :) So, today when she walked him to the car it was the perfect opportunity to get an end of the year picture! Griffin is so excited to be going back next year as a 4 year old, but is more excited about Cooper getting to start preschool in the fall! Griffin will be going Monday - Thursday and Cooper will go on Tuesday and Thursday! I am excited to have him home all summer....we will hopefully get to do lots of fun things! Anyways.....after I dropped G off this morning, Cooper, Turner and I headed to the Avenues Mall for some retail therapy! :) I have been so sick of sitting in this house staring out the window at the rain!! The boys played in the play area and Turner LOVED it! It was his first time and it was a huge hit! Then, daddy met us and took Cooper to gymboree class and afterwards we had lunch and it was time to go get G! So, our day was great until around 4:30 or so this afternoon....Bailey decided to dig while he was outside going potty and it was a HUGE mess.....he was covered in dirt/mud....he digs all around the patio in hopes of finding a lizard. So, I had to rush him in and bathe him and let's just say he had dirt and mud all over the bathtub and decided to "shake off" in the middle of his bath and it was a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE mess! Little specs of mud went EVERYWHERE....ugh! So, he's all clean and will probably sleep better tonight now:)

Getting ready to leave with his stingray in hand for share day and the letter "s"
Turner wanted a picture too! :)

AND of course I had to jump at the chance of Cooper WANTING a picture but of course it included "bun-bun!"

Sweet brothers!

Griffin & Mrs. Gazaleh:)

Attempting to take a pic of them together....yeah not so good!

Turner LOVING the play area!

And Cooper too!
Cooper taking a break to give bun-bun some love! He's just a wee bit obsessed!

Bailey just before his bath....he was GROSS!

Mother's Day - 2009

I had a wonderful Mother's Day....as always! We went to church (and my mom came with us) and then to lunch at Sonny's! Then we came home and all took naps! That was a GREAT feeling....I rarely nap! After naps, we played outside in the pool for a little while and then headed off to Moe's and Target!!! It was a great day and I am soooo blessed to be mommy to these three beautiful little boys (if I do say so myself)! Attempting to get a picture is SUCH a challenge these days so I had to take what I could get!