Weekend in Georgia!

On Friday morning we loaded up the car and headed to Georgia to visit my brother, sister-in-law, and niece!  We were doing a very quick trip down because Annalise was getting baptized!!  I will also add that we took 349053 pictures, so fair warning. :)

 We had a picnic lunch on our drive down on Friday.

We stopped at a rest stop and enjoyed a quick lunch in the sun.

 We also ran in the grass for a bit. :)

Friday night in our hotel, the girls were slightly wound up after being in the car for 12 hours...

We drove 12 hours on Friday and got to our hotel around 8:30pm.  After letting the girls play for a bit, we put them to bed and they finally fell asleep around 10pm.  Ben and I watched Netflix and enjoyed our beer/wine while the girls slept. :)

Saturday morning, we showered/dressed/ate breakfast and then headed to Andy and Lolly's house.  The kids immediately began playing and we got to catch up with everyone.

Caroline loved this rocking horse all weekend.

Lolly and Annalise

Ben and Andy

Elizabeth and Annalise enjoying the ball pit we sent Annalise for her birthday

Caroline also enjoyed this rocking cow

Lunch time with my sweet niece!!

The girls questioning their Uncle Andy

After lunch we headed to the city to see some friends I haven't seen in years

Happy birthday!

We tried to get a picture of the "big" girls...you can see it went well ;)

I miss these folks and I was so happy to see them!

Mark, Erika, Chris, Leslye, Me, and Ben :)

Us and all our kids :)

After our quick trip to Atlanta, we went back to Uncle Andy and Aunt Lolly's

After some pool time, Caroline was back on the cow

Hi Annalise!

After swimming and grilling, we headed back to our hotel.  Unlike Friday night, our girls went right to sleep and slept great all night. :)

Sunday morning, we got up bright and early and headed to Andy and Lolly's for breakfast before Annalise got baptized!

Good morning Uncle Andy and sweet Annalise!

Pictures with Uncle Andy :)

Our girls took over the toys

After breakfast, we got dressed for church

Andy is ready for church

Annalise is ready to get baptized!

Annalise getting baptized :)

She did not enjoy her walk around the church

Andy and Lolly joined the church as well!

Family pictures after church

Lolly's mom, Andy, Lolly, Annalise, Caroline, Me, Elizabeth, and Ben

Lolly, Annalise, and Andy ;)

We had a wonderful weekend in Georgia.  We were so happy to see so many people and definitely enjoyed every minute of our trip. :)

After church we changed clothes and then drove back to DC.  It took us 11 hours to get back, but we did get to listen to the Penguins win the Stanley Cup on our drive!

Happy Wednesday y'all!

Life Lately

Life lately has been busy, busy, busy.  We are traveling all. the. time. and trying to have fun at home during the times we are in town.  I am also working on keeping some sort of summer schedule by starting the day at the gym and then playing, running errands, etc.

Here is our life lately...

Saturday afternoon, the girls and I hit up the pool.

These silly girls were all over the place while I was getting us ready to leave. :)

We had a blast at the pool!

While the girls and I were at the pool, Ben was in Pennsylvania at Matt's pig roast.

Ben's Uncle Tom does a pig roast at his farm for bachelor parties.

All the guys in the family get together and hang out all day.  

It was a big pig, I think Ben said 120 pounds...

Pig is done :)

While Ben was out-of-town, I cleaned out my closet.

It kinda took over our bedroom...

All my old Clinique gift bags :P

Four bags of trash

Three bags to donate

Clean closet!

On Sunday, we went to meet my friend Ricky for lunch.

We had a few minutes before lunch, so we played on the playground across the street.

I promise she liked swinging more than this picture shows :)

Me and Ricky

Sunday afternoon we went by BJs to get some groceries.

I saw this when we walked in...

Dear family and friends- please consider this for my birthday/Christmas present when we move to a bigger home :)

Elizabeth has become obsessed with smoothies, 

this is a strawberry one I made earlier in the week.

Happy Thursday y'all!

Life Lately

Our June is starting off busy and getting busier.  We are traveling this month, visiting a lot of family, and busy with lots of weekday activities.

We drove home early on Tuesday from our trip to Pennsylvania.  At lunch time, Alice and Evie came over to play so their parents could move without kids being everywhere. :)

Trying to get four kids in a picture to look at the camera...

Sword fights are awesome

Love this baby!

Tuesday night we grilled out for dinner.  Most of our meals this week have looked like this- on the deck! :)  I love these warm days on the deck, not having to worry about the kids being too messy. :)

Ben is the grill master

I had to take a picture of this!  Wednesday at lunch, Caroline drank her first juice box by herself!!  I'm never good at figuring out milestones, so I have no idea if she is doing this early/late/on time, but I am so proud of her drinking the juice box by herself and not spilling. :)

Big girl :)

Thursday morning we skipped the gym and went to a playground instead.  That's what summer is about, right?  The girls had a blast running around for an hour; with swinging, sliding, and a rock wall.

Loving every minute

I thought it was big enough for two :)

I love the look of pure happiness on Caroline's face

Sorry my finger is in these pictures below.  As we were leaving the playground, we came across this giant turtle in the road.  In the second picture, the man picked it up and then it tried to bite him, that is his second (and successful) attempt at moving the turtle off the road.

After the playground, we ran by Harris Teeter to get a couple of deals I had coupons for.

The popcorn was on sale buy 2, get 3 free (priced at $2.65/box).

The ice cream was on sale 2/$6 (normally $4.99/box)

I had (4) 50cents off coupons for the popcorn that doubled to $1.

I had (2) 41 coupons for the ice cream plus a rain check that made them buy one get one free.

So the two boxes of popcorn were $0.65 each and the other three were free.

The two boxes of ice cream were $2 each and the other two were free.

So... I paid $5.50 for everything above!!! :)

Last night we brought back Thirsty Thursday!

This morning we went to Krispy Kreme (after the gym, ha!) and each grabbed a free doughnut.

Caroline really enjoyed her doughnut :)

This afternoon I got my pedicure :)

And after nap time, we walked around the neighborhood and jumped in puddles.

#killingtimeuntildadwasdoneworking

I love watching them walk around together

Happy Friday y'all!

Thirsty Thursday!

We are starting up a new season of "Thirsty Thursday" over here in honor of summer finally arriving! 

Our first cocktail is called The South Beach.

To make:

Mix over ice
2 ounces orange vodka
2 ounces lemon vodka
3/4 ounce orange liqueur
3/4 ounce lime juice
Shake

Serve over ice or in martini glass :)

 Ben gave me copper mugs for our anniversary, so the drink picture isn't pretty but I wanted us to enjoy my new gift. :)

Cheers!

Happy Thursday y'all!