beach bucket painting

the little sisters watching from the sidelines
very busy concentrating

what painting pros!

Pandamania

Vacation Bible School-over 850 kids! What a great week! Claire and Caroline had such a fun time! Claire knows every word and hand motion to all the songs and on Carolines daily report they said her favorite part was the singing-she would dance and clap every time! I volunteered and had 21 rising kindergarteners-I was tired by Friday, but what a fantastic experience!
The sanctuary transformed into Pandamania!

God is wild about us!

Hilton Head-2011

"Has this crazy beach breeze messed up my hair?!"
Taking it all in with Auntie J

Mommas girl

Jumping waves with grandma and auntie j

first time sitting in the sand

JUMP!

Finding shells with Poppa

Tyler running a barber shop during lunch

have to get our sunscream on (a claire-ism)

Cheese! Silly girl! Sweet girls

precious baby face-loves her pool poppa brought her

my big girl

Our only family picture from the week

relaxing time with auntie j

Daddys beach babes

take out night-dinner on the porch

and we officially crawled this week

my sand crab

my ocean queen

looking for the perfect shell

snack break

taking a swim in timmy turtle

our little fish

grandmas girls

goggle girl

poppas girl

smile girls

CHEESE!

first capri sun...yummy!

daddys girl

eating a little more sand on our last day

WHOO HOO!!!

my favorite caroline face!!

telling daddy about her first beach trip

watching her crazy sister jump waves

living it up!

check out her tongue!

Highlights & Milestones

AHHH, vacation I can almost feel it! 3 more days until its toes in the sand for a week at the beach!

Busy busy busy packing, errands, and kids but life is good and vacation will be great!

A few highlights and milestones from the past few days....

Caroline's new thing is roller derby-yes-I mean it, she's a crazy roller and fast I tell you, fast! She can get in her crawling position, hop, scoot and leap to get there, but forget it-rolling gets you there faster! Then plop-she's up in a sitting position and happy as a clam!

She also learned 'the itsy bitsy spider' this week---precious!!! She does her little fingers and just studies and her favorite part is 'out came the sun and dried up all the rain'....oh that girl has my heart! So Sweet!!!

Also on the list-recognizing animals and making the sound-her fav-the duck! Nothing really comes out but she makes her mouth move just like mine as I say quack quack quack. And whenever she hears the word or sees a duck she makes that cute as a button mouth movement! She's getting pretty good at moo and woof too! And she loves a fishy face-makes her just squeal!


Now onto Out of the Mouth of Claire...

~'Mommy, when I get tall (that means big to her) can you get me a jewelry box so when you let me get my ears {fierced} I can keep them in it?'

~She picked a huge plastic yellow ring out of a treasure box at the doc office, looks at me and says, 'oh mom, I prayed for a ring when I was in my bed last night!'

~jewelry on-check, sunglasses on-check, my purse on her arm and my flip flops on her feet-check... 'ok, I'm going to my meeting at church with my church friends, go to bed good for daddy and I'll tuck you in when I get home!'

~'oh I cant wait to get to the beach...it's Carolines first time-she's going to love it! But mom-she went last year-you know in your belly!'

~from the backseat of the car-'mom, Caroline and I are holding hands...she's my best friend!'

Been Berrying Pickin

We had a FBI Housewives morning out with the kiddos! {Garrett, Claire, Jackson, Taylor, Patton, Harper, Caroline and a new friend Thomas}

Picking Strawberries with Garrett & Taylor
Looking for the perfect one!

Found it!

My sweet strawberry :)

two babies just haning out-Harper & Caroline