Sunday, June 7, 2009

Day 2 of our trip

Breakfast of Champions...
Cinnamon Rolls & Bacon accompanied by a few Cartoons
"Life is good at the Beach"Lots of going underwater today for Thomas, this is the first day he has really been going under on purpose. He has mastered holding his breath under water today.
Grayson does a countdown as he jumps into Mommies arms...


When the music from the Ice Cream Truck is heard in the background, Thomas thinks he must have a Spongebob popsicle. He remembers this from last year and couldn't wait to get another!




Grayson using the net for a hat...
These two have it made in the shade...
The expression on Emily's face tells it all...Dinner was a disaster. We went to my favorite place, The Sea Captains House, our mouths were watering for some of our favorite seafood and we were all dressed up, in hopes of getting some good pics after dinner on the dunes outside the restaurant...our children obviously had different plans...Our little angels turned into little devils, Both had to be escorted away from the table on multiple occasions to visit the restroom for serious talks and major spankings...Nothing was helping, they were fussy, irritable, and we had all we could take before our food ever got to the table so we politely asked for to-go boxes and checks as soon as the food came.

Conveniently as soon as we got in the car, they were fine again but our nerves were shot so we opted to take them to the pool let them play till they dropped and put them in bed with cartoons and a snack. We are keeping our fingers crossed that there will not be a repeat performance of our dinner experience.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Barefoot Landing

We had Dinner at Joe's Crab Shack then we shopped and entertained the boys at Barefoot Landing...

Hanging out with the Pirates

Bungee Trampolines

The crowd cheered Thomas on as he perfected his flips!

Grayson gives it a shot, he was so brave...

Check out this huge inflatable slide, you climb up through webbed ropes on the left then slide down on the right...I couldn't believe Thomas wanted to try it, my only concern was, "who is going to climb up there and get him down when he freaks out" the lady running it assured me I wouldn't have to that she would go get him...so I let him give it a shot. He loved it and went all the way to the top like a little monkey, slid down, and said "lets do it again!"






Grayson loved the clowns and the face and hand painting!

After all that excitement we had to sit down & rest with icecream of course!

"The Brothers" as they call themselvesRub a Dub Dub, Two boys in the Tub!!

Beach Trip...Day 1

We started our day with a delicious pool side breakfast this morning...
And a couple of very excited little boys loving on their mommies...
Thomas convinced Grayson he had to wear this bracelet so they would be in a club together... (Not sure where Thomas dreams up these ideas but both of them did proudly wear it all day long)

Thomas trying to teach Grayson to make Sand Angels...(same concept as Snow Angels I guess, it was there idea)

They were loving life on the beach, they played great together all day.


Friday, June 5, 2009

Trike-A-Thon for St. Jude's










Thomas' daycare center has been participating in a week-long curriculum & fundraising program for pre-schoolers that teaches children riding-toy safety lessons while raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. On the last day of the week the kids bring in there riding toys for a Trike-A-Thon. The parents help their children gain sponsorship from family & friends. You can do flat donations or a monetary amount per lap.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is an amazing hospital. It is the only pediatric cancer hospital where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance and no child is denied treatment because of a families inability to pay.
This has become an annual event for our daycare center. And we are very excited we had the opportunity to participate!
Also Tennessee State Bank generously provided a hot dog lunch with all the trimming for all the children & families.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Roadtrip

In an effort to keep Thomas entertained I let him play with my camera...I think I may have created a little picture taking monster, within a couple of hours he took hundreds of pics and drained the battery...but he had a blast. And the camera is still in one piece. (I was keeping my fingers crossed about that...)





Thomas and Tori entertained themselves all weekend long...




Wyatt, Tori, and Thomas









Tori is a couple of yrs older than Thomas...and let me tell you he loves her...


He finally let me take just one pic... I am pretty sure he just wanted to see himself on the screen though :)