Memorial Day 2012

This year for Memorial Day we had both sides of our family up at the lake house for a cookout and lake fun!  It was so great to be able to spend the whole day together.

 The "Cathy's" in the kitchen!  This picture makes me laugh :)

 The men grilling out

 Aidan and Roman found a new fun game with Seesha and Uncle Tommy...it's called "throw me as high as you can onto the couch"

 This game went on for about 30 minutes!

 Good ol' American hamburgers and hotdogs for Memorial Day

 Seesha and the boys playing "patty cake, patty cake, bakers man"

 Roman wasn't a huge fan of the water (not yet anyway!), but he LOVED pushing people in!

 Aidan, on the other hand, swam, jumped off the "yacht" and tubed for about 8 hours straight!

 Sunbathing on the Yacht

 Aidan surprised all of us when he wanted to jump off the top of the yacht into the water!  It's a good 10 foot jump!  At first he went with Daddy...

 and loved it!  Eventually he was jumping off all by himself!

 Tommy jumping...

 Mike diving...

 Romie watching...

 and "Biggie" jumping off by himself!  He's a little dare devil when it comes to water sports!  He'll be wakeboarding, surfing and skiing by the end of summer!  We can already check tubing off the list :)

 My sweet Romie!  Cathy Dupree was up at the cabin with Saylor while she napped...but she really didn't want to see everyone jumping off the yacht because it freaks her out! :)

 Take 1: Normal

 Take 2: Abnormal haha!  I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!

 Uncle Tommy, Aidan, me, Seesha & my hubby all about to jump off the yacht

 Nana and her mini-me :)

 I love my sweet Aidan

 Pappy and Aidan swimming during our boat ride!  Aidan liked when Pappy would throw him!

 I. LOVE. THAT. SWEET. FACE!

 Could she be any cuter?  It's so fun having a girl!

 Let the tubing begin!  This is tube ride #2 for the day.  Aidan was a swimming/tubing MACHINE.

 Bethany! 

Kyle & Bethany made it up for the last part of the day after they both got off work! 

We had an awesome day as a big family and I loved every second.  I am so thankful that both sides of my family love hanging out with each other!  It's so fun to get everyone together (the only person missing was Emily, who was in NYC with friends), and we had a great time swimming and playing on the boat.  Aidan will be flipping on a wakeboard soon haha!  Roman warmed up to it at the end, and I'm sure by the end of summer he'll be right up there with Biggie!  But most of all, I am so appreicative and thankful for all the men and women who gave up their lives and sacrificed SO MUCH for the freedom of our country.  We live in a blessed....and I mean blessed....nation and that wouldn't be the case if we didn't have honorable men and women fighting for us and protecting us.  We owe them AND their families so much more than we can give.  God is so good, so faithful, and so worth ALL THE GLORY!

Circus!

 In April of this year my mom and dad took Aidan & Roman to the local Circus for a day with Nana & Pappy! 

 They loaded them up with ice cream, popcorn, candy...you name it!

 Aidan riding the Dumbo ride!  My mom told me that Roman was to short to ride this ride, but he was so sweet and just stood next to Nana while Biggie went around on the ride.  Next year Romie!

 Those boys love their trains

Apparently Aidan was super excited to meet a real, live motorcycle guy!  Poor Aidan, mommy will be WAY too scared to let you ever ride one of those!! 

The boys came home with treasures in their hands and on a major sugar high!  They loved their fun day with Nana & Pappy :)

Saylor's 3 months!

 Saylor was 3 months on May 22, 2012!

 Sweet blue eyes & rosy cheeks

 She loves those hands :)

 I love this little face

Our beautiful Saylor is 3 months now!!  She is so fun to dress and has a bow to go with every outfit...I'm not sure if it's because I had 2 boys before her, or if I'm just a "bow girl," but we love our bows!  It's so fun to have another girl in the house!

She's already cutting teeth...yes, you read that correctly.  Both Aidan & Roman had their 2 bottom teeth by 3 months and Saylor's about to join them.  She's a drooling machine (which really cramps her style lately because we've had to wear bibs lol! ;) and loves to blow raspberries.  She's so happy unless she's hungry and then the girl shows off her lungs!  Maybe it's because she's our third child and we are very used to crying, but her cry is so sweet and actually easy on the ears compared to 2 very rambuctious little boys! Aidan & Roman are the sweetest brothers to her and love to give her toys.  They'll even give her the "prize toy" that they'll be fighting over that day...now that's love. 

She's very adventurous already and will have no problem keeping up with her big brothers!  She's already been at the pool, to the beach, on the boat, tons of walks, the mall, grocery store, you name it ;)  She found her hands and loves the hold them together or stuff her fist in her mouth...already talented :)

She weighs in at 12 lbs and is 26" long.  We are so in love with our sweet Saylor girl!!

Saylor's 2 months!

 On April 22, 2012 Saylor turned 2 months old!  She is growing so fast and although she's only been with our family for 2 months, it feels as though she's always been here :)

 I LOVE this little face! She is such a happy and patient (I believe every 3rd child is "patient" by default) baby

 She is starting to get chunky!! (well, for our babies this is chunky!)

 She still has those beautiful blue eyes and tons of dark hair

We LOVE LOVE LOVE our sweet Saylor girl!  I am so thankful everyday to be blessed with this sweet baby girl.  Dressing her is SO MUCH FUN and I think I have a slight obsession with bows (I think that I've bought out one of the etsy stores online...haha!). 

On Sunday, April 22nd, we put her up in her own room in her own crib.  Bittersweet night for me. She may be the last baby we have in our room, so although I was happy to have our space back, I was sad putting away the bassinet and swing :(   She slept 12 hours straight though (praise Jesus!). We have her on a great routine now: bath around 8ish, feeding around 8:30ish and then asleep for the night!  She usually sleeps until 5:30am, eats and then goes back to beauty sleep for another 3 hours or so...just in time for one of her brothers to barge into her room and "give" her a toy or make her "cozy" with blankets!

Best part about 2 months - she's a SMILEY baby!  She smiles so much and slightly "growls"at you in a playful way.  It's so sweet and fun to see her little personality shine through.  She's a very happy baby unless she's hungry or getting played with too roughly with her older bros :)

Our first boat ride of the year 4/21/2012

 Aidan's new lifejacket (when the boys first got their lifejackets a few weeks ago they wore them for 2 days straight!)

 Our sweet Saylor girl

 Saylor's first boat ride at 2 months!

 Saylor and Grandma

 Captain Aidan & Grandpa

 Romie...he was SO excited to get on the boat!

 handsome hubby...I'm one lucky girl

 Classic Roman face

It felt so great to get out on the water again!  Aidan loved it, Roman was super still and took some getting used to again, and Saylor fell asleep.  They're going to love tubing and maybe wakeboarding this year!