Flower Girl

Kailyn and I will be in my friend's wedding next weekend and her flower girl dress came today, so we tried it on and took some pictures. She LOVED it. She was twirling and smiling at herself in the mirror. I just had her stand on the bed in my room. I got the dress, shoes, gloves, headband, and flower basket, though I didn't take the basket out of it's packaging since it's all got to make a 2 day trip with us.



She couldn't stop smiling at herself.



I picked a different headband, but it went out of stock right after I ordered it, so they ofered this one for the same price.



She was talking a mile a minute about how pretty she was. LOL

Memorial Day '09

Tim had duty on Sunday, so when he got home on Monday morning we packed ourselves up and headed over to the pool. We went to Gator Pool at the Naval Amphib base and the kids had a ghreat time. Brennan slept in the stroller most of the time so we stationed him close to the shallow end of the pool where we could watch the kids slide and him. Kailyn can stand well in the shallow end now. The water is up to her chest (it was just barely below her chin last year) but Ashton can't stand up yet. Unfortunately I forgot the camera, so we don't have any pool pictures yet this year. It started to rain, but we had been there a little over 3 hours so we decided to ehad home. While the kids napped I went and got stuff for burgers and hot dogs and we grilled those and made smores. Kailyn had lots of fun roasting marshmallows. Ashton nibbled on his smore and decided to play instead. hehe So here's some pictures.



Roasting marshmallows.



Mmmm.. s'mores...


Already ready to roast another one.


Watering daddy's tomato plants and the mounds that he hopes will grow cantilope and squash.


My lily plant from over a year ago.. they die and come back once in a while.




Swinging with the kids.



Daddy hard at work...



YUMMY!!



Helping daddy.



This is what he did most of the day..

Flowers

So my original plan was to do the garden with the kids for Mother's day, but we got the flowers and it rained for days and I decided to go out there yesterday while the kids were napping and put them in. It was nice to have some ME time. I do need to get 1 or 2 more trays of flowers, but they are so pretty. I got Petunias. They look a little "pale" now, but hopefully now that they are in the ground they will perk up.

Fishing pictures!

Here's some pictures from fishing...

Bunch of randomness

So it's been a little while since I posted, so just gonna play catch up.

Brennan was 5 months on the 11th. Can't believe that! He actually ate some cereal yesterday and didn't spit it out. I'm gonna start giving it to him at night before bed to see if it helps keep him full through the night. I think he mostly just wants to nurse for comfort since he goes right back to sleep, but I read that an extra feeding right before bed will help with that urge for a midnight (or 2.. or 4am) snack. He is also rolling pretty well both ways. I wake up to this cute little face peeking over the edge of the bassinet at me. The top of it is level with the bed, and he just smiles away at me laying there with my hair all crazy and my face still smashed into my pillow.

Kailyn isn't up to anything new. We took the kids fishing twice (the first time the boys were sleeping in the car, so it was just Kailyn) and she enjoyed it. We would cast out for her and she would reel it in. She didn't catch anything, but still had fun. She has a Princess rod. LOL

Ashton isn't up to anything new either. He did fish the second time we went, though we didn't put a hook or lure on his line. It came with a little wheel shaped weight (his was a Cars rod) and we just let him swing that around. He mostly fished for rocks (on the sidewalk) but cast out into the water a few times. He also got a (his "first" according to his daddy.. as if we need more) tick while playing under a tree at Grandma's house. That was quite an experience. We went with the burn it method and lit a match and blew it out to burn the ticks rear end and got it out in the end. (after like 4 or 5 matches...) But other than that, nothing new and exciting.

Daddy is off work this week after having his eye surgery this morning. He's on all sorts of pain killers and eye drops, so I am standing in as the 24 hour pharmacy tech and waking him up every few hours for his random eye drop and meds. I'll be up all night waking him up to do that... It's worse than having a newborn! The re-wetting drops are the worst... every 1-2 hours.

Me? Well, I am just going about my days being wife and mommy. Breastfeeding is still going strong, but I am trying to get Bren used to a bottle for when he needs one. I went out with a couple friends for a movie the other night and he took one pretty east for daddy. I think me not being there for him to smell made it easier. I have a good bit of milk in the freezer, so it's there for cereal and those occasional bottles.

We are going to be visiting LA in June. Can't wait for that. I am MOH in my friend's wedding! We've been buddies since kindergarten and she was my MOH. We'll be celebrating Timmy's birthday while we are there and even though we'll be home before Kailyn's, probably her's too. We have lots of plans for while we are there (zoo, Blue Bayou, visiting with friends and family) so hopefully we can fit it all in!

So that's about it. I'll post some pictures soon from fishing and maybe a few others.

Daddy's home!

So daddy got home on May 1st. The kids were excited. It was a nice warm day, but was kinda windy. Much better than when he left! He had duty today and takes the Chief test tomorrow at 12:45. Here's some pictures.

When he left: Brrrr! It was the one day it snowed here. It was FREEZING and the pier was icy and WINDY and slippery...



Thought this was funny... You can also see the sow on the car still in the mirror...




When they got home: It was a little cloudy and windy, but warm. Here we are waiting with some friends.



Ashton cheesin' it up.



Kailyn was jumping up and down..