sitting on the stoop ....

Love this picture of 3 of my babies.

you and only you ...

Please let me children always believe this! Work hard for everything you want! Dream big and never let anyone take that away from you!!!

First day of school

Today was the first day of school.  We had Lexi going into first grade, Carli into Pre K and Gavin into preschool.  Well, Gavin almost into preschool ... he woke up with a low grade fever, so he missed his very first day of school! He was healthy and rearing to go the following day though.  Everybody reported great first days, Gavin so excited he could barely speak.  Carli was so excited for her first day, that she found her friend, ran ahead of me and checked herself in.  Thankfully I got a picture or two at home, as I got none of her at her door.  I did sneak a few at the loading dock during pick up time.  Lexi reported a great first day as well, but would gladly like to stay in kindergarten.  She LOVED kindergarten!! I went into Lexi's class to take some first day photos for a project her teacher does and also snapped a few cool things about the classroom.  Thinking these will be really fun to look at years from now.  Did I mention that I absolutely love that my kids enjoy and LOVE going to school?!

sleepy time ....

We love Romeo!

oh so very true!

Hawks Cay long weekend getaway

What a great, fun weekend we had a Hawk's Cay! Thank goodness, because if Friday (the day of arrival) was any indication of our trip ... we would have been in trouble.  We arrived Friday and it was raining, not only was it raining but it was all wet because it RAINED all day.  We arrived to our room not being ready, raining and to put a cherry on top a no napped Gavin! We eventually passed through the hour of waiting for our room with an ice cream stop ... in the rain of course! We got our room, decided we would just go get a few groceries and hang in for the night.  Of course who fell asleep at 4:00 on the way to Publix, who wet their pants on the way to Publix? You have got it ... Gavin.  We did make it through the evening but not minus a few meltdowns.  Saturday, that was a new day.  This was the start of some fun.  We swam, we paddle boarded, we kayaked, we went on a super cool pirate boat ride and we ate fish, lots of it ... even the girls, and took a trip down to Key West! We love family vacations!