What We've Been Into....

We've just been relaxing and enjoying the last few weeks of summer. Last Friday night Levi and Garrett spent the night, that was a lot of fun. They are the super good kids and fun to have around... Cooper and Adam had a blast playing PS3 with Garrett, and Baylee and Harper had fun hanging out with Levi. We swam a little on Saturday but the pool water is so warm it feels like bath water, and it's been so hot even playing in the pool doesn't cool you off.

Baylee had a cheerleading clinic at UCF this past week with her Top Notch All Star team. She said that really fun! Cooper's had some sort of rash on his butt and thigh so he had a trip to the Dr this week. The Dr didn't really know what it was so she gave him 4 different meds/creams, one of them worked since it's pretty much gone away. Harper has had a GREAT week since her best friend Abby came home from her long 6 week vacation. Harper has missed her so much, and was just so sad and pitiful when she ask to go see her and we'd tell her Abby wasn't home and she would go knock on the door anyway and her little face would get so sad when no one would answer....so she's super happy to have her back...and Baylee's super happy to have her buddy Hannah back too!

We're getting ready to jump headfirst into football and cheerleading 2012 tomorrow with the equipment hand out. Soon my weeks will be consumed with football and cheerleading practice....plus gymnastics and all star cheer during the weekdays and high school football on Friday night, Pop Warner football and cheer Saturday morning, collage football the rest of the day and NFL of Sunday...at least it's structured...even if it does revolve around an 11inch brown leather ball.

This was 2am ish....Harper and Garrett couldn't hang with these three

I was just playing around editing and thought this was funny...

Girls Day AND Boys Day Out

The past Saturday Cooper and Adam were invited to go fishing with Chad and Michelle and the boys. Since Baylee had been asking to go to the mall with "just the girls" we decided to split up for the day. Baylee has suddenly decided that she is interested in clothes, jewelry, make up and all things girl and has been asking to go to the mall shopping. Saturday was super hot so it was a perfect day for shopping in doors! She drug me to what felt like EVERY store in there! She's decided that she loves Hollister, Abercrombie and Wet Seal. Hollister? WTF is up with that store???? It's dark, it's loud, it's narrow, it has too damn many fake palm trees!!! Ugh! I know I'd better enjoy this time of her wanting to shop with me, in a few years she'll replace me with her hip, cool friends who's young eyes can actually see well enough in the dark to tell just what it is they're buying at flippin Hollister!!! After the mall we hit up Target and Starbucks....Frappuccinos for me and Baylee and a chocolate milk with whip cream for Peanut which she LOVED and thought was the neatest thing ever! After shopping Baylee chose Cracker Barrel for lunch...seriously? what 10 year old picks Cracker Barrel? Oh well it was very yummy, we even splurged on dessert and a little shopping in the country store. After all that shopping I was tired....and broke, so we headed home and stayed up until midnight watching chick flicks! It was a PERFECT day and just what I needed!

While we were shopping the day away the boys went to Sebastian Inlet fishing with the Richard's family (well one of the Richards' families....there's several Richards' families out there) and they had a BLAST!!!! They fished all day long. Cooper caught 2 fish and Adam caught one fish...if you can call it that it was so small! They had such a good time we will definitely be doing that again....all of us this time.

Ok picture bomb time:

On the way to fish, Adam said he was in a really talkative mood, he finally got a chance to get a few words in without the girls

where they were fishing

one of Cooper's fish....I showed the picture to Harper and she said "Oh my God! It's ugly!!!"....in Cracker Barrel as loud as she could!

Cooper the fisherman

it should be illegal to be that cute!

Adam's little...um...fish (looks like bait to me)

Cooper's second fish....maybe he's gonna be a great fisherman like my dad!

sun setting....so pretty

Cooper and Chase

beautiful 

love this picture 

and this one

they were fishing under this bridge

cousin Christian fishing

Harper modeling a Roxy backpack....I was too busy shopping to take a lot of pictures of our girls day

having lunch at Cracker Barrel

Harper wants this chair

ANOTHER mini Vacation

After we got back from West Palm we spent 3 very relaxing days home before heading out again to VA.   We were lucky enough to be able to get back up there for the family reunion. We enjoyed several days there, even though it was really hot! We got hike for a little bit on the Appalachian Trail....well Adam and I walked very slowly up a mountain and the kids ran up, so I guess evens out to a hike! It sure was pretty up there and I'm glad we got to do it. The lightening bugs were also out this time so the kids got to catch those, that's always fun! Saturday we went to the family reunion where it was HOT...too HOT, but still had a good time visiting with family. We got back Sunday and I had to go back to work on Monday, which was nice to get back to a normal routine. Only one more work day left this week....thank goodness, this has been the LONGEST week I've had in ages!!! 

 Look what was in Uncle John's yard!

Baylee ready to do some hiking 

ready for a short hike

Not really sure where we are, the GPS on the phone said Balsam Mountain

you can't tell from this picture but we were really high up

Cooper on a rock

Storm rolling in

not much of a view

this is the normal view from there

looking for lightening bugs

of course we have to have a picture with Duckies

Baylee trying to catch a lightening bug

Gabby, Aubry, Harper and Baylee....20 yrs from now I want them to recreate this picture

with their cousins