St. Patrick's Day Weekend

We had a very low key weekend. We decided not to go to the parade this year, but we of course got the kids together to play and celebrate St. Patrick's Day a little early. 

Sunday, my mom had us over for corned beef and cabbage. Oh and green apple sauce!

Also on Sunday, I took Baylor for his 1st haircut. I wanted to take some good befores and afters of him sitting in the chair, only he didn't really dig sitting in that chair! I ended up holding him on my lap while he squirmed! My photographer then, was a 4 year old, so none of the pictures that Brighton took made it to the blog. Here is what I managed to get though:
Waiting his turn:

Sitting in the chair before he got upset...

Before Back:

 After Back:

Before Front:

After Front:

It is cute but I do miss stroking the back part of his sweet, soft hair while rocking him before bedtime. 

We have not really been doing anything interesting lately. I guess it is just that time of year. NOT to say that we have not been busy, because that is a constant! We have had a nice week with 70 something degree weather and the boys have been able to play outside. I know we have more cold weather coming along, but it has given us a glimpse into spring! 
Brighton is working on writing his name and is doing well writing all of his letters in school. He often comes home with stories about various class mates who are his friends and I find it heartwarming.

The time change last week seems to make my boys (even Jason) tend to sleep a little later. This is GOOD. When I say "later", I mean like the 7 O'Clock hour, which is much better than the 5 or 6 O'Clock hours...
Baylor has been waving and calling out to everyone he sees lately. It's really cute. It seems he has moved from emptying out the contents of the coffee drawer, to getting IN it!

And as long as he is occupied and content...it is fine by me!

Another busy week has gone by. We had another threat of a wintery mix but it was a light dusting and nothing to put us out of commission again. I am so glad that March is here and we will be getting some warmer weather soon! I hope. This week Lacey and I have been doing Burn Bootcamp. Oh my gosh it is kicking our butts! Jason has been great and has taken care of both kids in the evenings, letting me go. He thinks it's some kind of fun escape for me, but really it has been pure hardwork/hell! I am going to keep it up though. SPRING/SUMMER IS COMING and so is boat/beach Season. Ready or not.

Baylor must think he is to busy to sit down and eat, like his mother who is always standing  up to eat dinner these days! The time changes this weekend. It has me wondering how it will change my boys' sleep schedules...

Happy Friday!! 

So glad the weekend is here. We have no big plans,so I hope to get some things accomplished! Maybe we will take this little mullet boy for his 1st haircut. :( 

Happy Birthday to Brighton!!

We had planned to go see my grandmother last weekend but thanks to the snow we couldn't go. So, we decided to go this past weekend instead. She lives in Warner Robbins, GA, which is at least a 5 hour drive. We left Thursday afternoon. Baylor hates riding in the car. Other than that part, it was a great time!! Its is always fun to hang out with Grandmother and she loved seeing the boys, and they had a great time with her at her house. While we were there, we got to see my Aunt Linda and Uncle Fred.

They took us to see their new home, under construction. Loved seeing the beautiful home,  and the kids had a ball playing in the yard. They only had 60 acres to roam!

Brighton turned 4 years old on Saturday. Time really does fly. He brought cupcakes to school to celebrate early on Thursday. He was soooooo excited about that! 

We went to a Japanese Steakhouse on his official birthday to celebrate. Then, Home Sweet Home for us.   
Brighton has forgotten about Batman and has a new obsession of Power Rangers. A full blown obsession! It's been a Power Rangers kind of birthday! 

Sunday was beautiful and in the 70's so we got to play outside all day.  This was Baylor's 1st time riding as a passenger in the jeep. Made me a little nervous and sad. He is going to be a big boy too, before we know it!

The Big Snow

I have been a horrible, slack blogger in 2014. Mostly because I am so busy at work and  then when I get home it is constant chaos and not enough hours in the day! It feels like we are constantly running around from here to there, with the kids, to work, childcare... it's crazy! So, last week we got a little break from all of that. It snowed big time! 

On Wednesday at lunchtime it started coming down, and never stopped. Here is Day 1, when we had accumulated about 4 inches. 

Playing in the snow! It was coming down hard and fast so it was hard to see. Luckily, I discovered that onion-cutting glasses make great snow blizzard goggles!! I really need to get Brighton some better snow apparel. We will be ready next time!
It turned into falling ice that night and I was petrified that we were going to lose power (this has happened in a bad 3 day way to me before). I was really nervous at the prospect of keeping two small kids warm and fed during a possible outage. On Thursday, the falling ice had turned back into fluffy snow again!

It came down again, all day! At the end of it all we got about 9 inches!! We did a little sledding and goofing off out in it. Jason decided to make a snowman. Only, he decided to be an over achiever and make a colossal snow man! 

Yes, he actually got out the ladder!
I realize this snowman looks slightly scary/ugly, but you have to realize that he was so big that finding over-sized features for him was a difficult task, so I came up with the only items that would actually show up on his huge head!! 
Finished product:

I was done with the snow after day 2. The boys were making pillow pallets on the floor and jumping around. They are normally not allowed to do this but you kind of have to say screw it, once you are snowed in for a few days! 

Luckily we never lost our power and had plenty to eat and DRINK. Yay for snow beers!! Built in cooler all around us! 
Baylor found Brighton's old snow/rain boots and was obsessed with them. So cute!

By Saturday, the sun was out, slowly melting away the snow and I was ready to get out of the house! Mickey and Lacey had us over for a low country boil and it was delicious!! 
Later that night...

 


Sunday Jason and I took the boys shopping to get out of the house again. 

And now we are back to work/school, daily grind. It was fun while it lasted though!

We had a great weekend. A fun time on Saturday night, celebrating Todd's birthday.

Billie put together a little surprise.

On Sunday, Jason and I got a lot of projects done on the house!!
Now, we are bracing ourselves for another big snow. Possibly. I never believe those weather people when they are THIS sure! That's when it usually doesn't happen. We shall see.

Circus!!

We had a fun weekend. We got to see all grandparents and Aunts and Uncles! The weekend started out with a dinner at a local pizza place for Jameson's 7th birthday on Friday. Yes, 7! She was supposed to have an all girls slumber party but it got postponed due to her school assigning Saturday as a make-up day for the snow. 

Saturday we had lunch which Rachel, Donnie, Kelly, Craig and Taylor at Chic Fil a. Baylor played on the play ground there for the 1st time. He loved it. His brother is already a pro. 

We visited Max and Connie at their house after lunch. 
Ended the day/night by having a cousins sleepover at Lacey and Mickey's. I don't know if this allowed them the amount of sleep that they needed for their big day on Sunday. My parents took them to the circus!! They took Jameson when she was about the age Brighton is now and had a blast so wanted to take them all this time (minus Baylor, who will go when he is old enough to sit through it). I am not sure why Michael is not in any of these pictures, but she was there! 

Baylor helped Jason and I at home with a project we needed to do. 

Great weekend!!     

Snow days!!

On Tuesday it snowed for about 6-7 hours. A pretty, steady steam of it. It only accumulated up to about 2 inches but that was enough. Brighton did not make a snowman this year but he had a blast zipping around on his sled!

Okay snow...CHECK! Now can we move onto spring?? 

Okay, Snow...Ch

Last weekend we all went to the mall to get out of the house. We let Baylor play in the play area for kids for the 1st time. It's funny the things you will let your 2nd child do! I would have been to freaked out about germs when Brighton was this age... but anyway. They had a fun time and it was sooooo cute to see Baylor running around to the different stations. He was so happy to have the freedom to do it! 

The weekend ended with Jason and I having a much needed date day/night. We got to see a movie and have a nice dinner. Wonderful weekend. Now it is almost midweek and I am actually watching it snow right now! I wonder if it will be enough for the boys to play in? 

Winter...

I think it is way to soon to have the Winter Blah's (Not yet calling them the Blues), but I think I might. I have not had a reason to post as we have not really done anything to mention. Trying to stay warm! Trying to kick the homemade Chex Mix addiction that I developed over the holidays (yes I really just blogged about that). Trying to tell myself that my gym (AKA, basement) will be warmer and more inviting soon. Trying to be more optimistic about my winter-clothes-uniform.  

Okay, I'll shut up. This just means I will be EXTRA happy when Spring comes. I actually wouldn't mind a couple of snow days for the boys to enjoy in-between! 

Weekend Fun

Last weekend was lots of fun for the boys.

On Saturday, Gigi and Pop took Jason and Brighton to the Monster Truck Jam in Charlotte.

This was Brighton's 2nd monster truck event, so he is a very lucky little boy! Monster truck toys have for the time being, taken over his Batman obsession!

On Sunday Jason went to the Panthers Play-Off game with my dad, Mickey and some friends. They had a fun time but we were all disappointed that we lost to the 49ers. We were all happy that the Panthers made it this far though!  
Now we are back into full swing of pre-school and work after holidays. Sort of.

2014 Happy New Year!!

2014 is here and with it came the cold!! Brrr, we are currently experiencing temperatures that are not what we are used to. The lake was actually frozen this morning. Ice Skating anyone?
On New Year's Eve we decided that we couldn't NOT do anything, so we went over to the Antley's. The kids did an early sparkling  apple cider toast.

The adults stayed up for the real thing. Happy New Year!!
New Year's Day I had the Antley's and Baygent's over to eat traditional New Year's Day Dinner. Hopefully, here's to a new year of Health, good Luck and Money!!