Frozen and Fall

Saturday we celebrated at the cutest birthday party!!!! Miss Elynd turned four and had a frozen party! Keleigh is so talented at throwing birthday parties! No detail goes undone!! Ryder kept saying... It looks so cool in here!! You know it was good if it made an impression on a 3 year old boy!!

 

Sweet Elynd getting ready to blow out her candles!!

 

One of the food tables

The tree!!!!

My boys got really sugared up!!!

 

And covered in blue icing!

 

Piñata time!!

 

Maddox knocked a good hole in it!

 

Hey boys... Grab the chocolate for Mommy!!!

 

Do you wanna build a snowman..... or do you want to just eat all his parts??

Elynd got some makeup and stopped in the middle of opening her gifts to go ahead and put some on....too cute!!!

A Queen and 2 Princes!! The boys love Miss Elynd and had a blast at her party!

After the party the boys had to work some of the sugar off so we stopped by the pumpkin patch! I got a few pics before my phone went dead.

He was almost too scared to go down the slide... I had to convince him that he has been going down tht slide since he was a baby. Going backwards but I totally get it!!! The older I get the more I'm a chicken.

Swinging in sync!

 

Tire mountain!

A rare shot of Ryder.... He's looking and smiling! Love that sweet smile!!

Brothers putting corn on each other.

It wouldn't be Fall without a few trips down the Sworm!!!

Ryder would only go down if I put my hand in!!

Growing!!!!

I'm sure this one is not very acurate!!! Legs are not together!

My 4 ft 5 year old!!!

Another slide!!

The boys did not want to leave... They love playing at the Pumpkin Patch!!

We came home and settled in to watch Auburn and South Carolina. Chris left early that morning to meet a friend and they went to the game. I was so excited for him to have a little guy get away. He had a great time catching up with childhood friends and being in Auburn. We were just bummed our Gamecocks lost!! I made cinnamon bun muffins and used pumpkin in place of the oil and eggs!!! They are delish!!

Today was church and since Daddy was away... Me and the boys ate Mexican!!!! Chris is not a Mexican fan so we took advantage of eating it since he was not with us. The boys wanted to sit beside each other and they made a huge mess... I couldn't keep up! We were excited for Chris to get home to finish watching the Panthers game with us.... Another loss!!! We enjoyed a lazy Sunday evening at home!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maddox's First Field Trip

On September 25th.... Maddox took his first field trip!! It was to Carrigan Farms in Mooresville. I was so excited to be able to join him. The first few weeks of Kindergarten were a hug adjustment for our whole family.... So I was so excited to see how Maddox interacted with his new friends. I also got to check in with his teacher and she was very complimentary of Maddos and how he is progressing beautifully. I was so excited to hear that!!

They got a lesson about honey bees

 

Took a wagon ride to the apple orchard.

 

Smelled some pigs!!

Tried to hide in the corn field...(which made me nervous)

 

Fed some goats

Maddox was so fortunate to have a little friend in his class who he has been with since 2 year old preschool class. Sweet Campbell

Picking some apples... Maddox loved it!!

Heading to get some apple cider

 

Lunch time!!

One of Maddox's new friends... Hayden

We were finished with the trip after lunch so I was able o check Maddox out and take him home with me. I'm excited to be apart of many more field trips!!!

 

 

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Anniversary Trip to the Dominican Republic!!!

September 13th at 6:00 am we drove to Charlotte Douglas, hopped on a plane and flew to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. It was time to start our week long celebration of our 15 year anniversary!!

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We arrived in the Dominican around 11:00 ! The airport there was very interesting....mostly open air.

 

We were honored to be celebrating alongside with our good friend the Travis's... They were celebrating their 20 th anniversary.

We got a taxi and headed to Dreams Resort where we would be spending the next 6 nights!!!

And it was very dreamy!!

We had a swim out room so this piece of property right here was ours for the week!! Just a few steps from our room to the 400 meter long pool!

Flamingos just hang out on the resort!

This is the only pic from the first night.... A room selfie.

The second night at dinner. We had the hibachi grill!

The first few days we did nothing but RELAX.... And it was amazing!!!!!!

The boys making fun of us girls.... Posing for pics before dinner.

We definitely do it better than them!!

On this night we ate at a French restraunt on the resort and it was an amazing atmosphere.... The beach was our view and the weather was absolutely perfect for our outside seating. It did start to rain right as we finished dessert... Perfect timing!

My love!!

Just a little sample of what some of the food looked like!!!! This steak was so good!!

Tuesday we headed out for an excursion. We went zip lining! It was lots of fun and the views were breathtaking!

 

 

Getting ready to get harnessed up!!

There goes Chris!!!

One of the lines was 800 meters long.... It was awesome!

Comin in!!! Watch out!!

 

 

Brent and Kim

This made me think of cruising.... We had a towel animal on the back of our toilet.

Another room selfie!

This night we ate seafood! It was also fabulous!!

Brent refuses to smile too big.

The seafood restraunt was at the same place the French restraunt was at. They just alternate nights. So we had another night eating outside in an awesome atmosphere!!

This chair makes him look little!

Wednesday morning we had booked a boogie excursion. Unfortunately Brent woke up sick and couldn't go so Chris and I went solo. We missed our friends but we did have a very fun time!

We had no idea there would be an option for a photo shoot on this excursion. I was totally unprepared with my appearance but I love how fun the pics turned out! We drove our boogies to this beach and then they took the pics..... Thank goodness I wasn't muddy yet.

 

I wasn't afraid to get a little dirty!!

 

 

It started raining after we left the beach which made the second half of our trip very muddy!!!

We rinsed off by jumping in this water in the cave!

I loved this tree on the resort... I hate I didn't get it all in the pic.

On the resort

 

Heading to breakfast!

Thursday morning....Kim and I had a date with the spa.... And it was Devine!!!! The amenities we were able to use was almost as good as the 80 minute hot stone massage. I've never had a true spa experience so this was my first and I'm in LOVE!

I could have stayed in here all day!

Yes please!

Meanwhile back at the room.... The boys are living a pretty rough life. I mean.... It's tough having nothing to do but eat and relax in the pool all day!

Believe it or not we didn't spend a lot of time on the beach at the resort. We just really loved floating around in the pool... We just stayed there most of the week. But I did capture a pic of the beach.

We just about missed our chance with the beach photos... It was really kind of dark.

Last night at dinner.

Getting ready to leave.

Somebody's going to have to drag us out of here!

Goodbye birds who hang out at the bar!

And flamingos.... It was fun!!!

But at the end of the week..... I can really deep down be super excited to leave because I have two precious little faces waiting for me to get home and I absolutely could not wait to see them. This Mommy was getting homesick missing those little boys and the fifteen minute hug I got from them when I walked thru door was priceless!

But I did love all my quality time with Chris.... That was priceless also.

I'm so thankful to my family who watched the boys for us so that we could have this time away.

 

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