Memorial Day Gathering

We had almost my ENTIRE family at the house during Memorial Day - 20 adults and 4 kids. It was crazy and I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off. Everyone was talking about a 4th of July gathering and I was thinking - someone else's turn!! Here are pics of all the kids - they did everything from baseball to silly string fights to water guns!

Thomas & Samara -- Elizabeth


Jackson -- Joshua -- Hunter & Josh


Samara -- Thomas

10 YR HS Reunion

These are the people I hang out with everyday, but I said HI to everyone else from Highschool. These people mean the world to me!!

Islamorada

Feeding the Tarpon


Ernest Heminways Boat
Bart's Bone Fish

We went to the Keys for Bart's work for a couple days. I relaxed and got a great tan during those days and then we had some fun together for a couple days!

MOM'S DAY

For Mother's Day, my mom and I went to PCB and my brother drove over from Pensacola for the weekend too. We went to the beach, got facials (me and mom did), ate a lot of good food, went shopping and sat in the hot tub every night. A great weekend with a great woman!!

MarshMallow Roast

I believe Hunter would eat Smores for the rest of his life for every meal if I would let him!

New Baby Thomas McKenzie

We have a new baby in the family. My nephew was born yesterday, April 30th - Thomas McKenzie Ott, 9 pounds, 21 inches long. My sister had to have an emergency c-section, it was very scary how everyone rushed around crazy!! He is here and I am again a pround Aunt.

These are some pics from a girls night out from this past weekend. These are the best gal friends I could ever ask for!!

April Happenings!

These past couple of weeks have been very busy. Seems like I can't get caught up on anything. I kinda hung up my scrapbooking scissors, but this past weekend I broke them out for 2 hours and decided I am going to get back to it - in my spare time, if that exists!! It really is a great hobby to get those memories put on paper and make them extra special.

The flood gates were opened about a week ago and it was so awesome to see! I told Hunter it might be a while before this happens again and I wanted to get his pic with the gates. I was a little nervous our house was going to be in danger and relieved to find we were safe!

We have been playing a TON of baseball. Bart is a little extreme with everything and baseball also falls in to this category. We have a pitching machine and so far we have used it everytime Hunter is here. Yesterday was the 1st day Hunter got hit in the face with the ball, luckily no black eye!



And now Hunter does not have either of his front, top teeth!! So cute, and it shocks me that they just come out and he pays no attention to it. Just turns around and hands me the tooth and goes on about his day.

Easter

Easter is one of my most favorite times of the year! We had a full weekend with Hunter, but as usual we always have fun. We got together the Sandy and Christina's families on Saturday and celebrated Braxton's bday and then Sunday we had baskets to dig through, went to church, dyed eggs, hit the State Park egg hunt(Hunter wouldn't sit with the Easter bunny). It seems like when Hunter is here all I do is cook, clean, pickup after, do laundry, play and go to bed between 8:00 and 8:30. I know this is what the everyday mom does, but I am not an everyday mom - I am need of a recovery day - massage time!!

Beautiful Park Day

This is what the kids were calling the OCTOPUS! Hunter kept wanting to do it but then he would complain it squished his leg.




I went and got Hunter today early and we met Mary, Elizabeth and Josh at the park. And of course Sammi came!! You couldnt have asked for a better day, now we wait for the bad weather. Why can't there ever just be good, good, good..it has to be good, bad, good, bad..UGH!

Great Couple of Weeks!!

We have had a couple crazy weeks - flying/driving around Florida going to fishing tournaments. We got to spend a weekend with Palmer that was all worth it ..we took him to a Braves Spring Training game. Bart and I have gone to a game in March for the last 3 years. I hope this is something we get to do every year for a very long time!

We came back to some beautiful Spring weather (thankfully we missed all that snow). I brought Sammi a new dress - she hates it, but I love it!! And I have some flowers coming up in the back yard - love Spring!!