GiRLs WeeKeNd in P.C.!!!

**PART 1**
There will have to be two parts since I can't wait any longer to do such a fun post! And seeing how I haven't replaced my camera, I am waiting on others to get the pics to me :) Which is probably a good thing, because there are PLENTY of pics to post! So till then, enjoy the first half!
We are the group of girlies who stayed the whole weekend. We were lucky enough to have our sista from CLEAR in Virginia even fly in for the fun!!! A tradition hopefully started, because it was too relaxing and fun to not do it more!
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Awww my beautiful Grandma even has texting!!! hahahaha Now we just need to get my two sisters on board! :)
Erin and I eating delicious lettuce wraps and pistachio salad...getting a pic to send to those we missed...
Don't worry Traci licked that plate perfectly clean :)

Traci's jumping pic dream come true! She has always seen us doing ours and wanted one of her own :)

Grandma so proud to show us her "tree" pose from the Wii...her energy/balancing bracelet REALLY works!!!
Who knew it could take so long to say goodbye to our lovely guests for the night! Probably an extra hour of just walking them to their car, picture taking and saying goodbye. So glad they joined us for dinner, yummy cobbler w/ice cream, AND 3 HUGE scoops of candy corn :) haha
Our YUMMY pull apart breakfast with fruit! After Jill was delivered breakfast in bed...
Not really sure the reason here...except me seeing the girls heading my way and trying to get their attention...and of course the camera came out...!
After shopping and dinner we settled for a little nail painting, lesson planning, hair playing, Womens conference watching, chatting and Wacky 6.
AND the BEST photo shoot to come later, but for now...our matching hero t-shirts. We wanted matching pj's, but knew our boys (since that's all we have) would think we're the coolest MOM's with Batman shirts and Grandmas Iron Man.
Wow...and it was over just like that! :( Sunday morning Ryan and Amorie stopped in for breakfast to see Erin before she headed back on the plane. Our last and final pic before Em hurried out the door to get to church on time.

GEEZ...can't say it enough how nice it was to get away with the sista's, in laws, extended family and mom! But also to realize we should have planned for like a week rather than just the end of it :) I did love the phone calls from my cute boys and hearing their cute as heck voices over the phone and Peyt crying while saying he was missing me. Glad to know they do love me! :) But anyway stay tuned, for those of you who care to see the hilarious pics, because of course we couldn't stop laughing while doing them or looking at them later!

Too MuCh FuN?!?

Never. Haha
Just love Drew's hilarious posed face that he held till I took this picture! Too cute.
Cousin sleepover AND sleep??? YA RIGHT! haha Madi got to come have a sleepover...after a movie and popcorn, we tried getting the kiddos in bed. After about 2 seconds, we heard Madi say "but we need to read books." So out came all the books on the bed followed by lots of jumping on the bed! They were having too much fun. So by 11 we decided to put on Mickey and see if they'd fall asleep...NOPE! Onto Peter Pan, Peyt fell asleep during it, but Drew and Madi were still wide awake. Finally around 12:30, Madi said "I'm tired, I wanna go to bed." haha So much fun, the boys can't wait to do it again! and I must admit it was fun having a little girls hair to do and nails to paint! :)
After brushing their teeth...the nightly routine of their horsie ride to bed!
STORY time. :)

This one is old, and fuzzy, BUT cute boys needing their daily time in the tub FROM being boys!
LAST but not LEAST of the fun...One of the COOLEST uncles, Uncle Taylor, invited the boys to come play at Kangaroo Zoo where he works. They had the whole place to themselves and had so much fun! Even Taylor played on all the toys with them. They can't wait to go back! :)

So just a little or too much fun we've had lately! Love these boys!!!

BiRthDaY SURPRISE!!!!

THanks to ALL our family for coming and making Drew's Birthday a success!!! He absolutely LOVED it, all his presents and the fun!!!

YUMMY BirThDaY cake!



don't worry, Drew was just eating the frosting off of these two pieces of cake and starting on a cupcake, I guess that's what happens when it's your Birthday, right? :)
A little of our crew for the party!
Drew's only present I got a picture of, but he LoVEd it!!!

AND THE BIGGEST SURPRISE OF ALL...!!!!! One of my favorite presents to him! We had it wrapped up and gave it to him as his last present at his party. He totally didn't get it when he opened it, it was cute! But eventually he'll understand :)

Yes, it's finally come true! The best things come in 3's...Drew's 3rd Birthday, to announce our 3rd baby when I'm 3 months along! :) It was fun to keep it a surprise from EVERYONE for so long, even our boys. We are happy that our baby is healthy as of our last ultrasound. So a Happy Birthday to Drew with such a fun surprise! Love you little guy!

***BiRthDaY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!***

Drew is the BIG 3 ToDaY!
When Drew woke up and saw the Balloons, he said "Look, it's Batman!" and then "Gosh, who did this?" Hilarious little boy!
Peyt kinda took over in the present opening. It was cute though, he'd say "Drew, Drew, look at this!"
So after his Batman shirt(From Peyton) he told Peyt it was his turn to open the next present, which I don't have a picture of. But how nice of Drew to share his presents with his brother. :)

He WAS SOOO excited for this and I hoped he would be after all the trouble it was finding the perfect one!
A little big, but I think he still looks cute AND he LOVES it! Except when I told him we should go see it in the mirror he freaked out and was scared. Funny!
Peyt wanted a turn too...
Happy Birthday to you! He sang along with us again.
I seriously can't believe 3 years have gone by since adding this sweet little guy into our family. His due date was actually September 16th (my brother Ryan's Birthday) which was also only 3 days after we moved into our first home. So I was glad he didn't come that day, then Ryan didn't have to share his Birthday and then we could get a LITTLE more settled in our house :) So finally when his due date past a couple dates, we decided to call the DR. and have him help Drew make his journey into this world. He was such an easy delivery, a 3 hour labor and a couple pushes...maybe because someone in a higher place knew he'd be a little harder once he was here :) It was such a neat experience to have the one on one time with him that we did right after he was born. We kept it a secret from our entire family until after he arrived at 11:30 am, which I'd do again in a heartbeat, such a fun surprise! Now he throws surprises at us ALL the time, keeping us on our toes. We love this guy more than words can say and enjoy watching him grow and learn. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE GUY!!!!!!!! We LOVE you!!!!!!!!!!!

SaTurDaY BiRthDaY FUN!

We decided to take Drew out for a Birthday dinner and invited Grandma and Grandpa along! Yummy Mimi's hit the spot! When Grandma shared her salad with Drew he was so excited and said "YUM"...then he got his spaghetti and his Birthday dessert and said the same but also..."mmm, this is good!". Easily satisfied is this cute little guy! So for some pics at dinner...enjoy!





Cute Drew sand Happy Birthday along with us and was so excited about his blown out candle! Love it! Yummy DESSERT!

Thanks to my mom for having her camera and snapping all the pics! Otherwise I'd have nothing to show for it! :) So another day of Celebrating starts in the morning on his ACTUAL BIRTHDAY! YEA!!!!!!!!

HaPPy BiRthDaY WEEKEND MR. Drew!

Although his actual day isn't till Sunday, it seems to always go by too fast...so we are STRETCHING IT out! We'll blog about it today, take him to celebrate with us tomorrow and have more fun with all the family Sunday! Can't wait to spoil this little guy!!! Love you buddy!

The time has come... :)

Haha...I am finally giving back the 2nd camera I broke to it's rightful owner now that it is repaired. Since I haven't dared to even take it out of the house! Oh well, maybe I will have to suck it up that I broke our $500 camera and since it can't be fixed(for anything close to a reasonable price)...I have to come to the realization that I need a new one. Aw, so depressing! Anyway, so here is the end of the memory card but hopefully not the end of my picture taking days! YA RIGHT, like I could go without! :)

*ANYWAY*
The other night, we put the boys into their SEPERATE beds so we could go watch our traditional Criminal Minds episode before we headed to bed. But the silence and lights off didn't last for long. We soon saw the light flip on and all sorts of noises. I went in to check on them and this is what I found...

DO they even LOOK tired?!!? Didn't think so. All the sheets off the bed with a new blanket, both pillows and books. After destroying their room, throwing clothes around and getting all their books out, they were laying on the bed reading and looking at books together. So cute. As soon as I came back with the Camera they both sat right up and were ready for a picture, proud of their bonding moment I guess. haha I couldn't get mad at these cute little faces! I seriously love how much they love eachother and the cute things they do together that leave us with so many fun memories.

AnOthEr YeaR...!!!

Wow, it's already here, Septmeber 7th sounded so far away...but today Peyton was more than ready to head off to his last year of Preschool! He even wanted to wear these pants that have been sitting in his drawer even though I told him how hot it'd be, he said "they're for school mom!" Cute. This year we have him going in the afternoon which worked out perfect today because this poor little guy's ear has been bothering him so this morning we called the Dr. I thought for sure it'd be weird to have an ear infection, cause he's never had one...but figured it was worth checking. Anyway, come to find out, he had earwax compacted in his ear against his ear drum, which the Dr. related the pain to having someone poking your eyes out. Yikes! and OW!!! Anyway, they cleaned it out with some squirt bottle thing that I swear I could've done at home and saved our $25 copay, which also was a surprise when I went to pay this morning...ah! One more thing. Oh well. His ear is great and he loved his first day of school. It's awesome, they even feed him lunch! Just can't wait till it's a couple minute drive instead of 15 :)

Isn't this the cutest backpack!? I have to give FULL credit to my friend Heather who spotted it at Downeast for me...Thanks Heath! Peyton seriously loves it! Cute Mr. Drew thought he needed a backpack too...he didn't get so lucky though, his says "Epo"...a new nickname I guess! haha
AND....hmmm...this won't happen often, I SWEAR! haha A couple cute things Drew has said lately: Last week while getting ready for church, I am always last one getting ready by the time we get the boys dressed and fed...anyway, he came up to me in the bathroom and said "mom, wanna go Heavenly Fader?" aka:Heavenly Father...aka:church :) So cute! He was ready to head to church and this past week, we kept the boys home cause Peyt's had a cough and so Drew stayed too. Anyway, when I was heading out, he went and grabbed his tie and put it on all by himself and said "I wanna come, ready?" This little guy LOVES church, what a good example. and no matter what, he calls every Grandma, Kampa...or something like that. It's hilarious!

Well, there is for a short update, love having some pictures to share. Hopefully soon it will be done with my own camera once I get up the guts to fork out the $$ for it! :)

OOPS! Not done yet! Just got these from our soon to be neighbors who have their little guy, Jaxon, going to the same Preschool and his mom was on top of it and got their pics taken together. So thanks to her we have these!