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!

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!