The Last Month

Last Wednesday, Rusty, Ellie, and I loaded up and headed to my 18-week doctor's appointment. We decided it would be fun to have Ellie with us and let her see the baby AND find out if she was going to have a new baby sister or brother! Well, we did find out that we will be welcoming another baby BOY into our family in January! I totally thought it was a girl and so did Ellie, but she is super excited about being a mommy to another baby brother. I know G and his new baby brother are going to have a blast together!

She had so much fun with us at the doctor!

And lately this little fella has been reminding me of his sister at this age. Maybe their baby brother won't be such a climber because they both definitely are! We have started leaving the bathroom doors closed at all times or else...

Notice the water running! He climbs up on E's stool to get up there.

He is also into throwing EVERYthing into the toilet. Pacis, brushes, spoons, and sometimes SHOES!

But, he does have his moments where he seems nothing like Ellie. I will find him just sitting on the floor playing with different toys for 30 minutes at a time. I can even give him a couple of cars or trains while he is in his highchair, and he will just sit there and play with them for 30 minutes. Ellie would have NEVER done this at his age!

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A couple of weeks ago we took another little trip down to the beach. This time we went to Lollie & Poppy's condo in Orange Beach. I only got my camera out for this one picture.

We ended up leaving earlier than expected due to some very sad news we received. Poppy called to tell us that we had lost our dear Momese, one of the most special people in all of our lives. She loved her great-grandchildren more than anything in the world, and they loved her just as much. Ellie has asked a lot of questions and misses Momese very much. She has lived behind my parent's house for the majority of my life, and I will definitely miss just walking over there to visit any time we are in Atmore.

Sweet Momese, we love you to pieces and will miss you more than words can say. I am so glad to think about you being with Pop! We got to visit with a lot of family the weekend of her memorial service. Ellie with her 2nd cousin Ross who sang "Amazing Grace" at the service and did an incredible job!

Ellie was pleasantly surprised to find out she has a lot more cousins! These are actually my dad's 1st cousin's children, and they were all so sweet with my kiddos.

Greer and Uncle Josh being silly...

We had a nice weekend getting to see a lot of family that we don't get to see very often.

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The weekend before that we had a nice weekend at the lake with the Briens. Ellie and Greer had a blast with these two!

Jackson and Ellie were nonstop.

J showed E how to play a little baseball...

Being silly in the tub...

Such a fun weekend, and I definitely did not take enough pictures!
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And last but not least...our Seagrove trip with Lollie, Poppy, Thomas, Josh, She She, and G.G. Mama!

I had to capture this moment...the guys cleaning up the kitchen!

And Rusty cooking our fresh snapper meal, although this wasn't that unusual.

A little ice cream in Seaside...

We had lots of bike time...

And beach time. We had this day with PERFECT swimming water, and then it got seaweedy the rest of the trip!

Our adult dinner to Cafe Thirty-A, and our photographer didn't do such a good job but oh well...

My two naked babies!

More bike time...this is how Ellie rolled the entire trip, and she loved it!

Behind her daddy...

And this is how G rolled and loved it!

Ellie having fun after lunch one day...

She was swinging on the tree branches and having a grand ole time...

until I turned around for 5 seconds to chase Greer, and this happened...

Poor baby picked a branch that was more like a twig to swing from, and it snapped, she fell face down and head-butted a concrete statue on the ground. As she was whaling, she looked at me and said, "Mama, I was only trying to be a monkey."

Later that day...ice cream always makes everything better. Especially when it's the ice cream truck with Dora ice cream pops!

Me and my babies...

We had a great trip and can't wait to go back next year.

Prewett Family Lake Trip

We just got back from a wonderful trip to the lake with Rusty's family. This is the 3rd year we have all gotten together at the lake, and it was just as great as always! The kids loved being with their cousins, and I love having help from all of the "little mamas aka their cousins!"

I looked out the window and saw her doing this and had to get the picture. My grandmother has a pic of me at this exact age from behind in my swimsuit at her beach house, and it looks identical to this!

He was a little fish just like he has been all summer!

And he absolutely LOVES the boat! We went for a 3-hour boat excursion one day, and he was an angel the entire time. He even took his morning nap on the boat!

Helping Daddy drive...

All of the cousins in their matching t'shirts MeMe gave them...

We all went out to dinner on the last night.

Eating sand...he misses his sandbox from his old house. Lollie, we're still waiting on our new one you promised!

G loves his oldest cousin!

I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of Ellie riding on the tube with her cousins. She absolutely LOVED it and had no fear as usual. She rode it for 30 minutes straight one day, and we had to tear her off of it! Happy Summer!

We're Here!!!!

We made it to Auburn! The move itself was long, hot, and just as miserable as you can imagine it would be, but I can now say it was well worth it! We have gotten settled into our rental house for the most part, and the kids have adjusted very well. Having their aunts, uncles, and cousins right here doesn't hurt! Ellie got to go to Uncle Chad's basketball camp last week and came home showing us how to do push ups! It also doesn't hurt that almost every afternoon we load up in our riding toy of choice and make the 3-minute walk to our neighborhood pool and playground. So needless to say we are loving life so far! I couldn't make it through the weekend without a trip to Mellow Mushroom. I personally think the Auburn MM is the best out of all MM's I have been to! That calzone and Greek salad was just as good as always! We had some fun visitors for the 4th of July weekend...Lollie...and Poppy! Along with our first non-family visitor...Uncle Jimmy. We had a house-full just as I'm sure we will in a few months. Lollie, Ellie, and I couldn't get through the weekend without baking something special. And this little guy climbed up the barstool and popped his little head over the counter to see what was going on...

It looked pretty good to him I think...

He sees his Mama eat cookie dough all of the time so how could I tell him no?!

We made 4th of July cupcakes...

and star cookies! I found a cute recipe in Coastal Living, but it ended up being a little more trouble than anticipated. But it was fun!

Ellie standing in front of our new house...

You can see our little community of houses in the background...

She has been doing a lot of this to G lately...

Usually it is to get him to go where she wants him to go or to get him out of some kind of trouble he's getting into. Sweet little thing just goes with the flow and tolerates it!

We are loving the HUGE sidewalks for walking, running, playing, riding trikes, etc etc! We're sort of digging the subdivision life. We have never lived in a subdivision, and I will say it definitely has its advantages!

Back to the move...I had to get a picture of the ginormous moving truck that showed up at our house!

And this cracked me up. Seems as though we have no shortage of riding toys and baby gear, and this is only 1/3 of it!

And last but not least...the Henigs were so sweet to have us over for one more dinner before packing up and moving. We had a great time, and the kids had a ball.

The babies sitting in Henry's doggie bed!

Hope to be back soon and not stay away so long!