Cinco de Mayo, Family Visit, Mother's Day!

Happy Cinco de Mayo! The kids made Mexican flags and then waved them in front of our house. For dinner we had tacos and margaritas...any excuse to celebrate!

Here is Ty's cheering section. Thank you to Nana, Papa, Darrin, Jill and Connor for coming down and rooting him on!

Marley Mo loves her some Connor!

Ty did great at his ballgame, here he is afterwards with a special #6 cookie!

Thank you to my mom, Josh's mom, my Granny, Josh's Mimmie & Mamaw, without all of you we would not be the people we are today...Happy Mother's Day and we love you! 2nd thank you to my family. Josh picked up sushi and doritos for me on the way home, the kids made cards and then Sunday they cooked me a steak dinner. It was grand! Lastly Ty said the blessing and it was so sweet, I started to cry.
So blessed!

Go to your happy place, go to your happy place...

Last Monday we headed to Atlanta to fly out to Cancun to stay at an all inclusive resort with the Beard's, the Master's, and the Grau's. Our parents watched our kids while we took our vacation and a big thank you to them. We went to Excellence Riveria Cancun for 4.5 days of relaxing, reconnecting, and laughs. We took it easy by the pool, we danced, we karoaked, we ate delicious food, had great conversation, met people, and the list goes on. What a wonderful time, thanks to everyone especially Josh!

This is the Martini bar, where we met up every night.

The ladies did the spa thing twice while the boys did a cigar tasting and had Cubans! The Mile spa was awesome!! The marine therapy (12 steps of sauna, steam room, cold water plunge, bubble bath, etc.) followed up by Edgar's scalp massage, and then our real massage, really spoiled me.

Here was our nice room.

When we got there, Michael said we were all going to look like this after we had eaten and drank all week...ha!!

This is where we laid by the pool/beach for 4 straight days. Ahh I am relaxed just thinking about it!

My rock star children...oh their imaginations!

I will cling to the ole rugged cross...

We had a great Easter! Here we are Sunday morning before church.

Of course we had to dye Easter eggs!

The fam.

We always love Easter egg hunting at Alexian.

We waited an hour to see the Easter bunny and then he left. Argh! We took some pics of these kids anyway!

Easter hunting at our house with our neighbors.

Thanks to everyone who made our Easter so special! And so nice to worship our risen Saviour!

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today!

Sunday we went to a Braves game in Atlanta. We stayed with our friends the Master's in their new house. It is so nice, and we appreciate their hospitality! Then Sunday we went to watch the Braves play and see the Avett Bros concert. What a great day! I "soaked in" a lot of good memories yesterday, like Marley falling asleep on me while I was hearing some of my favorite songs live, and looking over and seeing Ty singing I and LOVE and You while sitting on his dad's lap...ahh...good times! Saturday Ty and the Timber Rattlers had their 1st ball game of the season. It is so much fun to watch our little guy play! Friday night the Beard's came over for dinner and it was fun! Then on Saturday morning Marley had her 1st and free manicure. Here is performance in the Master's concert hall. :)

Projects, Projects!

Yesterday Nana & Papa came to visit with us and we had a good time, here we are at one of our favorite restaurants, Pastaria!

Well the last few weeks we have been working off and on, on our new playhouse. We took the old one down alogn with the fence and planted grass there and then built a new one. Josh found the design, used recycled parts of the fence (for the fireman's pole), of our old deck (roof and platform), and of the old playset (slide, handles, swings, etc.). He did a great job and the kids LOVE it!

Project 2 - We sold our old bedroom set and we agreed to spend less than what we made since this was a want and not a need. Almost all of the profit went toward the mattress, I bought side tables, lamps, mirror, cool antique dresser, and then Josh made me this bed for $150. I love it!!

Now for a small break and then on to project number three! :) My poor husband!!

Powerman Alabama

This past weekend we went to Birmingham, AL and Josh and Ty did a duathalon. It was a lot of fun to watch them compete and they both did great, we are so proud of them!! While we were there we also went to the LEGO store and that was a big hit also. Here are some pics from the weekend.



During the week last week we were in Lenoir City visiting family and it was so good to see everyone. Hopefully this week we will just rest at home. Speaking of that, here is a pic of Marley asleep in her baby doll crib in her bed. Oh that girl!

Where do the days go?!

Sometimes I wonder, where do the days go? Here lately we have been outside all the time. Part of the time working on our new playhouse and the rest just hanging out. Here is a pic of a play date with Mags!

We also picked up my parents from the airport after 2 months in Thailand. Right before we had a fun sleepover with the Beard kiddos!

We love Star Wars, and this is about the only way Ty likes his pic made. He is doing well and baseball starts in a couple of weeks!

A couple of weekends ago we went to Gatlinburg one night (btw the Smokey Mtn Brewery & Pancake Pantry were great) and then 3 nights with the Harper/Nichols clan. What a great time we had! Thanks to N&P for the great cabin and for everyone else for making it so much fun!! Here is one of Andi's pics.

The days do go by, and I can't imagine them any sweeter than these!