Vacation Adventure Parts 2, 3, 4

The past three days have been wonderful but so tiring. The kids are loving the beach!! We found this great secluded spot to go on Monday evening. We saw the sunset and a huge Carnival cruise ship....Matthew was so excited!

We bought some nets for the kids, but I think Steven and I are having more fun with them than the kids. Steven saw a huge crab and yelled at me to bring the net....I ran out there with the net, almost had the crab, and then the stupid thing came after me!! I don't think I've ever gotten out of the ocean so fast.

Somehow Matt got a jellyfish sting...we don't remember him coming out of the water crying or anything, but he has a spot on his leg that is really hurting him. A woman on the beach said it was a jellyfish sting and that it's possible he got stung by a loose tentacle floating around. Poor guy, I hope he's better tomorrow so he can enjoy the water more.

Today we went to the outlet mall and had a great time. I could have spent so much more money than I did!! I took Emily to Stride Rite to get her some shoes fitted and found out that she wore a 6.5 WIDE!! I have been trying to squeeze that little girl's feet into a 4. No wonder I haven't been able to find any shoes! So now she has two well fitting pairs of shoes.

We got home from the outlet mall and we were dead on our feet. Steven cooked some steaks and we watched tv for a few minutes, put the kids to bed, and now we're getting ready to go to bed.

Tomorrow we plan on going to our new spot on the beach and just having fun all day!

Here is a pic from our first day at the beach...at the end of the week, I'll post the link to my photobucket with all of our pics! Enjoy!

Our Vacation Adventure Part 1

The first day of our trip started off so badly. I was in a terrible mood...I had so much to do and the kids would not listen and I felt like Steven wasn't pitching in enough. I felt like I had PMS x100. We finally got on the road around 11:30 am. The trip started off okay....Emily fell asleep as planned and Matthew was happy as a clam with his headphones on watching toon-toons. We made the mistake of stopping about an hour south in Hattiesburg to eat. Don't get me wrong, the food was great and everything. However, Emily of course, woke up to eat. No problem, right? She'd just go back to sleep when we got in the car. Wrong!! She fussed on and off the entire trip down there. I felt my sanity slowly slipping away.

The sanity started to come back the closer we got to the beach. My dad and Beth came down on Thursday to get the condo ready for us. They even bought a portable crib for Emily to sleep in and a movie for the kids to watch. The crib came in so handy and I was so appreciative of that. Anyway, they stayed to see us before they headed back to Madison.

After they left, we unpacked and decided to head to Wal-mart to do our grocery shopping. We were all so tired and hungry that we rushed through Wal-mart so we could get back to the condo and eat. I picked up to nets for the kids to catch crabs and stuff with because the sign said $.45. I got to the register and the sign said $3.43. What?!? No! I told her the corrected price and she called someone to go check. He came back and said they were $3.43. Being just like my mom, I told him no and that I was going to go back there and check myself. I walked all the way back there, saw the sign, walked all the way back to the front, told the guy to come see, walked all the way back to the back, where we found the 3 that had fallen into the basket. I felt like such an idiot, but still think he should have given me that price, but whatever. I had to get the nets anyway because Matt was so excited about his and had carried it throughout the entire store.

After we left Wal-mart, we headed back to the condo. We were overly tired and overly hungry and, of course, Emily cried the whole way! We got home, ate corndogs and went to bed.

I feel so incredibly blessed to be here with my family. It seems like yesterday when we used to come here for a week every now and then when I was little.

Hopefully when I post tomorrow, I will have pictures. Yesterday was too crazy of a day to even think of taking pictures.

Just another day!

Wednesdays are our playgroup days so this morning I told Matt it was time to get ready to go to Pizza Hut to play with his friends and the little booger climbed onto the bed, got under the blanket and said, "Matt wants to stay home and watch toon toons" I told him that we had to go and he said, "Mom, leave Matt alone." What?!? Isn't he way too young to want me to go away! I thought I wouldn't have to deal with that until his teenage years....boy was I way off!

Well we went to playgroup and he had a great time just like I knew he would. Mommy knows best, right? Our next stop was Wal-mart. As usual, I walked down the clearance aisle. I found a 3 pack of Cars cars. I didn't think Matt was even paying attention to me when I picked them up. I took them to the price scanner and they wanted $5.50 for them. I thought that was too much to pay for 3 little cars, so I put it back on the shelf and didn't give it another thought. When we'd been home for a little while, Matt came to me and said, "Where's my race car?" I had no idea what he was talking about and then he said, "My Lighting Queen race car" I knew then that he'd seen me and I felt like the worst mom in the world. I told him they were too expensive and mommy had to put them back. I think he cried on and off for like an hour. Then when his daddy came home, he started searching all over the house for the stupid car again. So I told him again that it was too expensive and the waterworks started again. It was all I could do not to drive all the way back up to Wal-mart and get my baby his car. Don't worry, I didn't.

My little bean is such a dada's girl. Every day, he comes home and she runs to him and sticks by him until she goes to bed. Poor guy can't even go to the bathroom without Emmy standing outside the bathroom door crying. I'm so happy she's a daddy's girl. I always wanted to be but wasn't, so the fact that my daughter is makes me ecstatic.

We leave next week for Gulf Shores. I'm sooooooo excited. It's our first official family vacation. We've gone out of town once since Emily was born, but it was only to my dad's wedding for the weekend.

Just a Start....

Okay, so this is my first blog. Please excuse me if it's boring, but I'm still getting the hang of it.

Today was really an uneventful day. I was feeling kind of crafty and (finally) finished the sign for Matthew's room. While I was at it, I made a picture frame too. I know I'm not a real creative person, so I was kinda proud of how they turned out. Wanna see?

Okay, so I know they're not magical or anything, but not terrible either.

Emily and I watched Hairspray this afternoon (Matt was asleep) and she loved it! She was dancing to the music all around the living room.

I will probably say this about a million times over the life of this blog, but I'm so incredibly blessed to have these babies. They are my heart and I could not imagine life without them. I could, however, imagine life without The Upside Down Show, which is playing in the background as I write this.

Matty is getting to be such a big boy. It's hard to believe he's going to be 3 in November. Where did the time go?? All the nostalgia gives me baby fever big time but I know that this is not the time to be thinking about having another child. The two I have keep my hands full and my wallet empty.

Poor Steven is in there right now trying to get Emmy asleep and she is laughing and screaming. She has been so difficult to get to sleep at night for some reason. I don't know if she's teething or sleeping too much during the day, but I hope it changes soon....maybe the time change will fix it. She'll probably just start getting up an hour earlier though. That's always been my luck in the past.

Okay, well, I guess this is going to have to cut it for my first blog, because I have to go deal with my children. :)

What's that? You want to know what my children look like? Well, if you insist...

Now THAT'S magical!