Annual Orange Beach Trip

The Friday of Memorial Day weekend we headed down to Orange Beach. We had an awesome weekend with Lollie, Poppy, She She, Josh, Thomas, and a few of his friends. The Cochrans, some of our very dear friends from Nashville, were down for the weekend so on Saturday we headed over to see them. Ellie always has so much fun with the boys, and Greer will be joining in on the fun real soon.

Davis, Ellie, and Greer...

This was G's first trip to the beach since last summer when he was itty bitty, and he loved it!

Daniel & Davis' Uncle Jeff was there for the fun and was SO helpful with the kids!

We couldn't keep Greer out of the water!

G excited about his new beach chair that Lollie got him!

On Saturday afternoon we celebrated Thomas' 18th birthday. I can't believe he is 18! We have a tradition of going to the beach for his birthday weekend and eating my mom's gumbo, boiled shrimp, and her famous cookie cake!

After the birthday celebration we all got ready and headed to play goofy golf.

Ellie got her own little golf club and LOVED it!

Rusty helped her a lot, but she actually played by herself too!

G was really into watching. He was suffering another ear infection but hung in there as long as he had his paci.

Thank goodness we are able to enjoy the boat this year! Ellie never even got the chance to ride last year because of the oil.

She had a great time and kept asking to go on "another boat ride" the entire weekend.

Helping Uncle Josh drive...

This was G's first boat ride. Doesn't he look like he's having a blast in that life jacket??? He never got upset one time though!

On Monday all of the "boys" headed out and left us girls, Lollie, Ellie, She She, and me (plus Greer) for the week. We started off our week by going to LuLu's. We mostly went for Ellie to get a new t'shirt, but we ate a little too!

It was HOTTT...

And our 30-minute wait turned into over an hour so we had to find activites like the ring toss...

and eat puffs on the ground...

After LuLu's we headed to the Wharf to ride the ferris wheel and get ice cream.

Love this of him looking down...

Ellie loving it while Lollie is holding on for dear life because she hates heights! She kept threatening to bail out when we got to the bottom, but she hung in there with us!

We got lots of pool time in since the beach proved to be a lot more work than it was worth!

She gradually progressed with her swimming throughout the week, and by the 4th day she was swimming all over the pool with her floaties on. Thank goodness because I couldn't handle much more of having to "hold her" all over the pool plus having G who was fearless!

Loving his first apple that he swiped out of the bottom of the fridge!

"Look what I've got..."

One of my mom's good friends told us about an alligator that she sees all along at the state park so we decided we would load up and take the kiddos to see him.

Of course we load everybody up, walk about a mile in the 98 degree heat to the "spot," get there, and NO alligator. Ellie decided he must have been "sleeping" under the water. By the way back, they were lovin life...

Mr. Alligator was supposed to be down in that marshy area behind E...

More pool time...

And some late afternoon beach time. G LOVES the ocean and would just plunge straight in, roll over, and come up with his face covered in sand.

He kept doing this, and it was hilarious...

One night after dinner we decided to do a little shopping. Bad idea because this little girl was in one of her moods. After barging into the "employee area" where one of the employees had their dog in a crate, and getting scolded for that (by the lovely employee), I walked over to browse and looked over to find her like this. She then proceeded to walk around with this on, get the double Bob that G was in, and rammed it into a clothes rack. We then headed to the dressing room area, and while Lollie was keeping an eye on her while I tried something on, I hear some lady very angrily say, "excuse me." I knew it had to be my child climbing under her dressing room, and of course it was! Needless to say, I think they were glad to see us go!

She was doing this by mid-week.

Even though I look rough I had to post this picture because I think we actually look alike for once!

Now check out G's get up! Lollie talked me into getting him this since he is a WILD MAN at the pool! We decided he needed some type of floatation device to help hold him up.

Check out the rear-view. We spent most of the time he was wearing it just cracking up!

The week wouldn't have been complete without baking something so E and Lollie made us some yummy cupcakes.

in their matching LuLu's shirts...so cute...

Mmmmm...

We had a GREAT week with GREAT weather and cannot wait to head back down in July!

And thanks to She She and Lollie for all of their help! I couldn't have survived without them!

Lots to Share!

Well, I will have to say I am glad May has come and gone. We have had some craziness going on around the Prewett house! We spent the better part of it sick...all 4 of us. It started on Sunday with Greer getting a throat virus and really high fever, then by Tuesday, Ellie had it. Both were better by Friday of that week, but on the following Sunday, they both had terrible upset tummies. On Tuesday night of that week Greer woke up having difficulty breathing so I took him into the pediatrician on Wednesday morning to find out he had croup. For those of you who have never experienced croup, I hope you never do. It was very scary, and unfortunately it delayed G getting tubes in his ears by 6 weeks. Back to the sicknesses, by the following Saturday, E's tummy still had not cleared up so we went back to the pediatrician to find out that would be fine, but she ended up having an ear infection in the ear that the tube has fallen out of! I think after that visit I counted 5 trips to the pediatrician's office in a 10-day period. I believe that counts their well visits because we had those in the middle of all of the sickness! After all of that mess, I ended up getting sick for a few days with some sort of virus that included a fever. And Rusty had some sort of bronchial infection in the middle of it all! Now, that is part of my excuse for not blogging for a month. Fortunately we are all well at the moment and doing much better!

Here are my babies when they were sick. Ellie was so great with taking care of her baby brother...

As for their well checkup stats:

Greer's 1-year Stats:
Weight - 23 lbs. 9 oz. - 60th%
Length - 31" - 80th%

Ellie's 3-year Stats:
Weight - 36 lbs. - 90th%
Length - 40 1/4" - 95th%

Once everyone felt better, we headed to Atmore and got a visit in with MeMe, Maw Maw, Lollie, and Poppy! And did I mention that this little guy is walking everywhere?! He started truly walking right at 13 months so about May 20th. He is lovin' life!

Fun at Lollie & Poppy's...

On top of everything I have already mentioned that happened in May, we found out that Baby #3 is on the way and due January 11th! We are super excited, and Ellie is starting to warm up to the idea. She wasn't too thrilled at first, but she seems to have come around over the last week. We also have made the decision to move our family to AUBURN! Given the news of Baby #3 among several other factors, we feel that this is best for our family and are truly excited about this next step in our lives. We love the idea of having Aunt She She and Uncle Josh as well as Aunt Tonya, Uncle Chad, and cousins only 5 minutes away! Being in Birmingham with no family support can be challenging at times so we look forward to having that in Auburn. Things have fallen into place for us to make this move happen. We are in the process of selling our home, and once that is squared away, we will be on our way to being settled in Auburn. Please keep our family in your prayers as we go through all of this transition. Especially my sweet babies!

We also spent a week at the beach with family...pictures of that trip to come! I am off to bed for now to let all of our exciting news "sink in." I am still working on letting it "sink in" myself!

Our Little Dancer

Ellie started taking dance back in September, and her little class had an end-of-the-year recital last week. Ellie has loved every minute of dance, and I have loved every minute of watching her. All of the moms get to sit outside of the class and watch through glass each week, and it has just been so much fun!

Ellie, Sissy, and Elizabeth before their performance...

Ellie with her teacher, Ms. Lori, who we love!

Daddy wasn't about to miss his little ballerina!

Guess who else wasn't about to miss it...She She & Lollie!

They are all so much fun to watch!

Ellie & her friend Lydia...

She did great!

But by the end she was looking more like this...

Ms. Lori even said, "I don't know why Ellie was acting like that toward the end." Well, by about 3:00 that afternoon she was running a 102 fever! Poor baby just didn't feel like herself! But, she did awesome, and we are so proud of her!

Easter 2011

We started our weekend off with heading down to Rusty's grandmother's house and guess who was there...one of Ellie's favorite people in the world...her cousin Mary Mykal! We had fun dying eggs on Friday night.

We got up Saturday morning and headed to Atmore to go see the Easter bunny. Ellie had been asking me for weeks to see him, and she finally got to. Greer missed out on the fun because it was during his morning nap
After seeing the bunny we headed to Poppy's office to pay him a visit. Ellie loves going up there and seeing all of the doggies!

We then got to Lollie & Poppy's and picked some flowers.

Flowers just don't stand a chance when she is around. Our poor neighbors lost at least 2-3 pansies a day because of Miss Priss!

Lollie spoiled Greer like always and let him eat some of her Easter cookies!

Easter egg hunt #1...

He just had fun being outside...

Easter egg hunt #2 at Momese's...

Greer had more fun playing in the water though!

Then on Sunday morning we got up to see what the Easter bunny brought Greer...

and Ellie...

She was so excited about her very own bike!

Ellie's breakfast on Easter morning...quite the healthy mix of goldfish, Skittles, and M&M's! And no, thankfully she didn't get sick!

Ellie & Lollie before church...

After church we got a few pictures.

The boys thought it would be funny to put E's bow in G's hair!

Me & She She...

Then we headed to Momese's for lunch.

Silly silly!

Practicing on her bike...

Check out the baby seat on the back!

I made the mistake of showing Ellie how to take pictures with the camera. Here is some of her work. My aunt Alison...

She only cut part of Rusty's face off!

The sprinklers came on that afternoon, and they had a blast playing in them.

We had a great Easter weekend with family. Our original plans were to stay in Birmingham, but the last minute plan to head south ended up being a good one! We were very fortunate and didn't have any damage from the horrible storms that came through this past Wednesday. Our hearts are heavy for all of those who have lost their homes and/or loved ones.