Just our Normal

Savvy will teach any and everyone who comes her way.  She taught herself power point and has slideshows about colors, feelings, animal sounds and several more all with sound effects and hyperlinks.  She is just amazing

What I love about this morning is that no one said a word about Caleb… just our normal

               I was cooking supper and Savvy managed to do this…

                          I can't keep clothes on her for the life of me

She has destroyed 3 of my lipsticks… she finds them and hides and then feels so so so proud

             This lipstick she managed to get on the bottom of her shoe and ran around our bedroom…

 Here was sisters favorite nail-polish.  Somehow this was only on her and

she felt so so so proud

Caleb… 9 month old romper he loved it and was convinced it fit him perfectly because it could still button.  He wore it for 2 days

Schools Back

This summer flew by and here we come 2nd and 3rd grade!

                                                     Goofballs

         My Caleb and Norah both absolutely love school and are doing so good!

Key Largo/West

Mom called me one morning and said "MA wants to go to the beach and wants to go somewhere she hasn't been…. So do you want to go with us to Key West?"  Twist my arm…. I love them so much.  We took a long weekend and flew in to Miami then drove to Key Largo.  We had so much fun being together but the Keys were NOTHING like what we thought.  Pretty much no natural beaches and you have to pay to go to them and they all smelled like swamp.  Our hotel had a man made beach and mom and I kayaked with manatees (mom and I kayaking was hilarious, neither of us knew what we were doing and she would say "do I paddle on the left or right" and I would yell right with all confidence but had no idea which side we needed to paddle on:).  We laid outside and ate seafood and went to bed by 7:) So absolutely no complaints but just not what we had imagined.  We did realize we are Gulf of Mexico type girls

This was the drive to Largo from Miami, it was the Florida swamp on one side and the ocean on the other

       

 A few weeks before we left mom called and said "ASHLEY I booked us to swim with dolphins!!!  You know this is on my bucket list"  and I said "yay" but was absolutely terrified.  Don't get me wrong I LOVE dolphins… but swimming with them,  especially after watching Black Fish this year… NO.  But I love my mom more than fear so I was going to do it.  I waited and told her right before we left that I was really scared…  But we did it and I survived.  We were in the bay so the water was really dark and I couldn't' see the dolphins until they popped up right in front of me or behind me or pushing
my feet or in my face… One of our dolphins was Bob who was the alpha male and he was not listening to his trainers so instantly my brain started playing Jaws theme music and I knew he was going to pull me under.  This is what my face looks like in most all the pictures

And here is mom seeing Glory and that is 100% a fake smile from me

Mom loved it, I will never do it again but have absolutely no regrets getting to do this with mom:)

Digging for Diamonds

There is a state park in Arkansas where you can hunt for diamonds.  Mom, M.A., me and the kiddos all loaded up and took a road trip to find us some diamonds ;)  We stayed in a hotel Friday night and swam and swam and swam.  

Savvy and I were showing off our gymnastic skills in the SHALLOW end to each other.  I did a perfect handstand with toes pointed then finished with a grand finale of a forward role when full fledged vertigo over took my body.  I'm still underwater and I can't figure out which way is up and I'm flapping around like a fish out of water then panic thinking I'm going to drown in the shallow end of a pool from vertigo.  Somehow my feet find the bottom of the 3ft pool and I survive.   VERTIGO is real people ;)

This was the best picture we could get of all of us together. 

 The next morning we drove to the mines and on the way there Norah throws up…. 15 minutes later Savvy throws up…. we are 10 minutes away and I can tell I'm getting car sick, I made it and the girls were fine once we got there.  We all loved the park.  No one found a diamond but we found tons of other stones and were able to keep everything.

We made it home event free minus Caleb peeing out of the car on the side of the road.  We've heard rumors that there is a ruby mine in North Carolina and we might try it next year

Hatchie and Ducks

We took a Saturday and drove to the Hatchie to play and have lunch.  It was a beautiful day and such a neat place, we will defiently come back.

 The Stutts came to visit us!  We went and saw the Peabody ducks march in then had lunch at Bass Pro that literally took 4 hours.  The kids were great and being hungry and stuck in the same building for hours is still fun when your with friends

Savannah Rose is 9!

Savannah came up on her own that she wanted a Cupcake War party.  So we got little aprons for everyone to decorate and then they decorated their own cupcakes.  It was so much fun and Savannah was just amazing and precious when she was opening her presents.  She loved it all and was so grateful, she is one amazing little girl.

This and That

Savvy and I stayed up to see the "star of Bethlehem"

                        We had a ridiculous bubble bath.  I ended up taking Norah out because the bubbles got over her head when she was standing up :)

 My caleb was jumping on the bed doing "cannon balls" and on one jump he landed head first on our footboard and got a huge goose egg, it scared me to death

 Then the next day him and Cohen were running and he tripped and went head first into the piano and got a small gash that bled big and again Caleb scared me to death.  I have pictures of both injuries because in emergencies my first thing to do is still... call mom

 We had family come over for July 4th and Michael and my dad made a DELICIOUS fish fry

           Norah's eating pickled okra… they will eat things that I wouldn't even look at when I was young

   We had a Friday night in and watched home movies…. be still my heart!  Watching home videos is hands down one of my favorite things