#woodslifeeveryday2014 week 21

Day 141: Best $10 ever spent.

Day 142: This girl was having the best time at dinner tonight.

Day 143: This girl LOVES watermelon. And the pool. Basically she was in heaven.

Day 144: Family walk before a big game of kickball. Hudson is telling me here that he wants to go see the red barn.

Day 145: Since Sunday ended up being our last day at Camp Dawson, these two were looking especially cute in their red, white, and blue.

Day 146: There was a baby bird on the ground so Hudson got his first lesson in "do not ever ever touch baby birds!"

Day 147: this opinionated drama queen will be wearing her Minnie Mouse slippers to swim lessons because that's just not a battle I want to fight today.

#woodslifeeveryday2014 week 20

Day 134: Bedtime stories. Hudson told me, "just Hudson and Emma in the chair, mommy!" Well ok then. 

Day 135: These to are headed to the "penny zoo!"

Day 136: Hanging out at the park with these silly people.

Day 137: Hello summertime.

Day 138: #nailedit

Day 139: First day of swim lessons! It didn't go exactly like I thought but he thinks he had fun. And he's excited to go back tomorrow. Here's hoping for a better day! Ha!

Day 140: Today was SO MUCH BETTER than yesterday. All of the mommies hid during swim lessons which made a huge difference. We had the best day together. Some days are hard. But they're all worth it.

HUGE Texas Trip Part 4: Rehearsal Dinner

This first picture really isn't a rehearsal pic, but this was the best place for it to go. Mark and all of his guys went kayaking and to dinner for the bachelor party. John said it was a lot of fun!

Sweet little Emma inside the big house at the rehearsal. She couldn't quite figure out that statue.

Enjoying a big Texas BBQ!

My plate. worth every single calorie. I worked out CRAZY hard that morning. And the morning of the wedding to offset the amount of food I would eat. ha! And yes, that's a brisket and cream cheese stuffed jalapeño that's been wrapped in back and grilled. 

Our kids stayed up WAY past their bedtime and were out on our drive back to Lady's house.

These pics are out of order, but I'm not going to fix it. :) 

Trying to get a decent family picture these days is so fun.

This picture completely melts me.

Again, they love taking pictures. At least PJ was enjoying it. :)

Hudson is pretty much obsessed with his Aunt Betsy. 

Hudson and Lily practicing being the ring bearer and flower girl. Hudson loved all 3 of the flower girls.

The handsome groom!

Again, nailed it on the family picture.

Siblings!

With our Lady

And our new sister!

Sisters!

Sisters and Lady :)

Mama's boy :)

HUGE Texas Trip Part 3: Victoria

After our short visit in Austin, we went to Victoria to visit our old friends there. It was wonderful to be back and see so many familiar faces. 

Hudson, Emma, and Rix all played so well together. 

They were also so worn out from playing so hard together. ;)

Lots of mud pies were made.

And consumed. :)

We went to dinner at one of our favorite Mexican food restaurants with our good friends, the Ratliffs. I did a horrible job of taking pictures with all of our friends while we were in town. I'm so made at myself for that!

We also went up to the church office to visit everyone up there and I went out to dinner with some of the girls from my old bible study group. Again...kicking myself for not taking any pictures!!!

We headed back home to Birmingham on Good Friday. It was a LONG day but we made it. Hudson enjoyed hanging out in the driver's seat while I pumped gas.