SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!

School for Brady and I is officially out for the summer!  While I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE teacher my little preschoolers I am happy and excited to spend some time with my own two little ones.  Well not so little anymore, Brady is turning FIVE this June, can you believe it?  I know me either!  Izabell will be three in August.  It's just so hard to believe.  Time sure does fly by.  Brady is having so much fun playing T-Ball!  I think he may be the youngest on the team so there is a lot of yelling coming from the proud mommy, daddy, and Ge-Da both cheering him on with his awesome hits but also yelling for him to pay attention!  Some of things we have had to say to Brady during his games:  Brady pay attention, Brady here comes the ball, Brady stop catching the helicopters falling from the trees, Brady enough dancing, Brady stop picking up the tuffs of grass in your glove and get the ball!, Brady put the dirt down, Brady move back.  All kidding aside he actually is doing very well for being four and being his first year.  We are working on throwing and trying to figure out if he is going to be right or left handed when it comes to baseball!  He is doing both right now and often switches.  It throws the coaches for a loop and keeps them guessing :)

Love this little man :)

Collecting some dirt or grass!

Good hit!  They have just started doing a little coach pitch and he is actually doing better with that :)

What is that in the dirt that I can play with until the ball comes my way :)

A little booty shaking to liven up the game!

Run Brady!  Really trying to get him to run home, he doesn't want them to tag him out so he runs all around and they chase him and then he touches home plate!!

That's my boy, always camera ready!  He saw me way across the field from the bleachers taking pictures

Back to school, Brady did soooo good this year.  He is doing so good academically we are just working on that focus piece.  I think he just gets so excited to answer questions and share stories about what they are discussing that he doesn't want to wait to be called on he wants to just tell them!!  My little man in kindergarten this fall, really hard to believe!

Izabell is doing good, quite the little stinker that one.  She has started saying not so nice things and thinks it's funny.  Like, "Booty" and "Look at my booty".  I told her that those things are not nice to say especially when she is calling me the "BOOTY".  That girl, she will then crinkle up her nose and laugh a little naughty laugh and thinks she is mighty funny.  She may be small but she can definitely hold her own.  She LOVES to dress up and wear dresses and get her hair done and wear Ge-Da's pretty bows that she makes her but she can also hang with the boys.  Couple things where I'm thinking you are a girl you are not supposed to want to do those things:  Picking her nose, well actually I think this is just normal for all kids and sometimes she doesn't even pick, it just sits up in there.  Then there is playing in the dirt - ALL THE TIME, if there is dirt around Izzy will definitely find it and play in it and then smear it all over her face and clothes :)  She can also let some noises out of her little body that just don't seem like they should escape from someone so little!  And she thinks they are all very funny.  She is also becoming quite the Daddy's Girl, she loves her daddy and wants to know where he is all the time and cries when he has to go to work.  She can just be so sweet and innocent sometimes!  I just love when I tell her I love her and she says "I wove you too mommy" it can make anybody's bad day disappear!  She loves her tea set and we play tea party often and she loves her baby dolls too.  But she also can't wait until she's four so she can play t-ball like Bwady!

Love this girl :)

Myrtle Beach 2012

We took a vacation to Myrtle Beach South Carolina :)  It was so much fun and very relaxing!  Brady and Izabell had so much fun this year and probably would have stayed in the pool the entire time if I would have let them.  Our condo had an indoor lazy river, an adult pool and a kiddie pool all inside and then an adult pool and kiddie pool outside.  The only downfall was the outside kiddie pool was under construction :(  The first night there we took the kids to the indoor pools and knew we would spend a lot of time there!  They loved it and the kiddie pool was just the right size.

We had great weather except for the Friday before we left so we hit some shops and just hung out and packed up so we could get an early start Saturday morning.

Anyway back to our week, we arrived on Saturday and took the kids to the pools inside that night

Then on Sunday some family friends came in from North Carolina so we went to Barefoot Landing with them and went to a few of the little shops there and had a nice lunch.  Then all the women went grocery shopping for the food for the week.  We left the kids with Mike and my uncle.  My two cousins were also there to keep them entertained!  I feel like the grocery shopping trip is always the most stressful thing to get done! 

On Monday we walked the beach a little bit right away in the morning and I was excited because Brady was okay with the ocean this year.  The past couple years he has been a little intimidated by it but this year he was actually walking right by the water and putting his feet in...until...these little buggers came along...

Lovely jelly fish!


There were tons of them, all over the beach and when I say all over I mean all over.  Because the tide comes up so far in the evening they were way up the beach too.  Then Brady was afraid to even go down to the sand!  Luckily that got a little better but he still would not go anywhere near the water after that :(  Even daddy was a little nervous about playing in the ocean because of how many there were.  Not sure why there were so many this year but hopefully if we go back next year there will not be that many!   Later we hung out at the beach for a little bit (far away from the water) and the kids played in the sand and built sand castles and did sand belly flops! 

                                                                       little diva

                                               BEFORE THE JELLYFISH SITINGS

                 AFTER THE JELLYFISH SITINGS - WE WERE USUALLY THIS FAR BACK

 On Tuesday it was supposed to be a little cooler so we decided to go to the amusement park that was just down the street.  It ended up being a pretty hot day but we had a ton of fun and I felt like a kid again going on a roller coaster with Caitie and Aleeyah (cousins).  I didn't think Brady would try much but he went on a ton of stuff and even enjoyed the kiddie roller coaster.  Everyone had a great time...until...we took Brady on the log ride!  Okay when I was younger I remember the log ride being this little ride with barely any hills and you would get a little wet.  So we thought why not we will go on as a family.  Well Brady hated it and even hurt his hand.  That ride wasn't what I remembered, there was quite a big hill and it went pretty fast!!  To this day we can't mention the log ride!

That night we also went down to the beach in the evening and had A LOT of fun on the beach taking pictures and playing around in the sand!  We tried getting pictures of us jumping :)

On Wednesday we all went down to the pool and took up a row of lawn chairs and let the kids play in the pool and had some fun in the sun.

Thursday we went to the pools again in the morning (we also had access to the hotel next door and they had a working kiddie pool).  The kids played for awhile over there and then we hit the outlet stores and I got some great deals at The Children's Place on their $1.99 rack!!  Then we all went out to eat at "Big Daddy's".  The food was good and it was nice to go out to eat!

Friday like I said was pretty rainy so we went to Broadway On the Beach, another little place with little shops and restaurants all throughout it.  We went to our favorite store "It's Sugar" and spent $45 dollars on CANDY!!!  They have every type of candy you can think of and you literally like a kid in a candy store, not good for the wallet but awesome in the tummy :)

We had a great time and I'm already looking forward to going back next year!

Look for a post coming soon on my Little Man playing T-ball!!!

Road trip and other stuff!

On Saturday we took a road trip to Ypsilanti to see my cousins Jeff and Dana, their two daughters Elia and Emma and their new son Evan.  Evan is over a month old and we have been wanting to go and see them but my kids and I have been sick for about the last month!  Don't want germs around a new little baby :(  Anyway we haven't taken Izabell anywhere too far without a diaper or a pacifier so I was really wondering how this was going to go.  I put panties on her but put a pull-up on over them.  She stayed dry the entire way there and back!  She is doing really good.  We still do pull-ups at night because I don't want to have to change sheets in the middle of the night and she just turned two and a half so I think that's still okay :)  Izabell is still a screamer and in her carseat is the worst.  If you didn't get a chance to enjoy the video of vacation last year on the way home, it wasn't pleasant,  she screamed high pitch about 90 % of the time and the other 10 % she was sleeping.  I tried to send the video from my phone but it said too large, I will have to try to figure that one out! She did better but still has her moments :)

On another note, What I'm Loving - Monday!!

I'm LOVING this Apple Butter.  I LOVE to put it on an english muffin.  The good thing too is it's only 30 calories for one tablespoon.  I've been eating for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.  This is a must try :)

 I'm also loving this new chocolate chip cookie recipe I got from this blog spot Jenna's Journey.  She has such good recipe's and I love that some of them are really easy :)

Ingredients for these awesome cookies!

Awesome cookies!

I might just add that these were some of the best tasting chocolate chip cookies I have had!  Thanks Jenna, even though you will probably never see my blog!

I'm also loving these two cute little faces, especially after their bath when they smell so sweet and look so clean!!  My two perfect little angels

Don't they look so innocent!?!?!

Izabell is such a helper lately.  I cut up a cucumber which both of my kids love!  And Izzy wanted to help make one for daddy and I told her daddy liked salt and pepper on his.  So this is her helping put salt on daddy's.  LOVE watching her make one up for her daddy :)

I know I posted about this in another post, but I'm LOVING girl's night out.  This month a friend of mine thought to do something that she has seen on some other blog spots.  Everyone picks out something that they use or LOVE and buy three of that item.  We decided to have a $5 minimum.  I racked my brain trying to think of something that I use or LOVE that is over $5 and couldn't think of one thing.  My makeup is cheap, my hair products are cheap, I just use plain old soap to wash my face.  So I decided on a bottle of bath and body lotion, because I use it everyday and LOVE all the different fruity scents that they have, a thing of sticky notes because being a teacher I have these things EVERYWHERE, a thing of chapstick, and a reese's peanut butter cup because I LOVE THESE, especially the heart ones for Valentines Day or the egg ones for Easter, because they have a lot more peanut butter in  them, okay enough about those now I want another one, yes I did already eat one today, okay enough!  Then at the get together everyone's name is put on a piece of paper and put in a bag and when your name is drawn you get to pick someone else's thing they LOVE.  I ended going home with some really neat and fun stuff!!  Here is my little gift bag of stuff and here are all of us girls! 

 

Have a great week everyone!