Lots LOTS of pictures....

 We made a trip to the beach....it amazes me one of our neighbors has a 5 year old and he has NEVER been to the beach. We go EVERY chance we get.....but I guess if you have lived in the south all your life the ocean may not have as much appeal. We LOVE IT. It was a nice day in the 80s but cloudy and we actually got rained out everyone was in their swim suits and I was wearing a heavy sweater and was freezing....I was still under the weather but better than sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. We did however stay away from people so that we would not spread the joy.

 Baby LOVED the sad this was really the 1st time we let him play in it. He had a blast.

 Look at that pleased little face :)

 Monster ;)

 Watch out seagull baby is coming.....he chased that bird around for quite some time.

 Sweet little baby hands

Ethan and trucks....he loves em :)

We love going to the beach and can't wait to go back again. 

http://news.discovery.com/animals/marine-monster-mystery-120328.html

This sea monster was just found at the beach that we usually go to.....yuckie. Can you imagine that brushing up against you while in the water :) haha. 

We had a Dr. Seuss themed b-day party. Thing 1 (Ethan) turned 3 and Thing 2 (Christopher) turned 1. I had ordered these cute t-shirts on e-bay but they were delivered to our Eau Claire house...haha. SO I ended up buying some cheap shirts at walmart and making these. They turned out cute.

Our 3 cuties!!

 Our neighbors before the party :)

 Ohh look I do exist I'm not always behind the camera.

 Ethan got to open one of his presents before the party. When he talked to Babcia he told her that he wanted a BIG BIG BIG monkey for his b-day :) haha well my mom found him a BIG BIG BIG monkey :) He absolutely loves it.

The table

 I found out that if you call the fire department they will come to the house and let the

kids play on the truck. SO of course I had to call and they came and parked the truck in front of the house and let them play and even brought stickers and hats for all the kids. SO fun.

 Climbing on the back of the truck.

 Mommy and Ethan driving the truck.

 One of the fire fighters helping Carter try on the boots.

 Happy b-day big boy.....btw I found a really good frosting recipe I might have to share.

I gave him his cupcake and turned around for a min thinking I had time to take a picture well I was wrong it was GONE. Cutie. We had a good time and the boys had a BLAST.....thanks for everyone who came.

ok......tons more pictures coming this is the 2nd time I'm doing this. I have almost a 1,000 pictures to go through so I'm REALLY annoyed that I lost them the 1st time and have to do this all over.  I have to split them into separate posts because blogger is being goofy so bare with me. I never want to be behind on bogging again this is annoying.

Alive....

Yes we are alive believe it or not. We have been super busy and any free time I have had I've been super stingy with so I am sorry for the lack of posts lately. I do have tons of pictures coming but it may not happen till tomorrow sometime but do stay tuned :)

Almost 2 weeks ago now we were hit with a bug or a couple different bugs. We are slowly recovering from that. Kids and I had a terrible cold and a stomach bug lets just say that for a week we were like the walking dead amidst a bit of a crazy schedule. Glad to have a little down time now and finally feeling better.

And just so I don't have a post without a picture I will leave you with this cute one. Big stuff will be ONE tomorrow.....how is that even possible. We love every piece of this little monster :)

all done....

 I finished the 2nd sign for the kitchen area....good feeling to get it done :)

so now there is one on each side of the arch :) excuse the mess we have had quite the week here in our house.....I'll fill you all in on an over sized post next week :)

Fun in the sun.....

Spring here is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL......EVERYTHING is in full bloom the colors are spectacular. All sorts of shades of pink there is one house here downtown Summerville that is completely surrounded surrounded by pink all the way around the house then a pink flowering fence and a long walkway also lined with these pink bushes....I must get some :) Last night when I went on my run I looked up at the trees and it's amazing....remember those curly vines I brought home a while ago....well they have these long beautiful flowers that are just covering the trees. I now love it down here even more :)  

A funny thing though Neal has always had allergies since moving here he has NONE and I have them pretty bad. It's really strange though because the pollen down here is terrible so it's pretty amazing that he is not bothered by it.

 The monster child....this kid just screams all the time. It's gotta get better soon but I have been saying that since day one. He truly exhausts me just with his crying :( He has learned to clap and is saying quite a few things. He really enjoyed the pool for a while and splashing in the water but then got cold looked at me threw his hands in the air and said " aaaaa daaaa" all done :) he was ready for his nap.

 It's really more like summer here but there is a lot of rain like spring time up north :) we have enjoyed lots of sunshine too though :)

 Playing in the pool....we caught some kind of bug so not feeling so well. Ethan broke the fever and just has the congestion, cough now Conner had his fever last night now just sore throat congestion this morning. I'm not sure if I have the same bug or if it's just allergies.

 Loving the water....seems like he is doing a little better these days. For about 2 months now he has been super stubborn and naughty unlike him he has always been really easy going.

 I have really been holding this one tight lately we register him for school next week :( I will have a baby in school soon. Excited for him though now that he is excited too.

 the 3 munchkins....

 enjoying a popsicle.....he loves em.

Trip our next door neighbor came over to play in the water a bit too. I was in the sun for 4 HOURS and put on some sun tan oil. I don;t even have a tan line.....is that strange or what. I just do not tan at all anymore. Ohh well.

Well the monster child is crying again so need to re attach him to my hip and walk around :(

Fire pit......

 Marshmellows by our new fire pit....

It looks a little out of place right now all on it's own but there is a stone patio in plan it will go all the way around the pit. AT this point it's not even level but we just wanted to put it up to give us an idea of where it's going to go.

a little magic.....

tada.....did you know that until the 27th or 28th of this month you can stand a broom straight up? Something to do with the way earth is rotating right now. It's quite impressive and really funny if you are trying to trick someone. Our neighbors were over last week and Mr. Chris left for a minute while he was gone Neal put the broom right in front of the front door. Mr Chris came back and while he is talking he is waving his hands around the broom giving it strange looks finally mid sentence he is like alright what's going on here :) haha it actually stayed up all night.....weird!

I hope you all are having a good weekend. I've really enjoyed being unplugged so sorry for the lack of posts.

Fruit stand

 A plan coming to life :)

I'm ready to be done with this one but still needs a little work. I drilled the holes for the screws too big for the middle section so I need to get a thicker screw to connect it in the middle and make it more stable :/ and also paint the bottom spindle thing the antique white. Pretty neat I got the idea from Crate and Barrel but theirs was metal and almost $100 mine only cost $15 in wood and it matches my signs and my table box I made ;) so a success indeed!!! I'll share a picture of the finished product probably after the weekend.

slEEEEEppppp....

Happy b-day.....

dr. Seuss

Our kids LOVE your books :)

Visitors from up North :)

Neal was off for FOUR days with only a few phone calls and interruptions from work. It was SO NICE!!! He has been working a lot lately so to have him home was just amazing. I literally unplugged from the computer only checking e-mail at night and even had my phone off most the time. It's nice to do that once in a while. 

We also had visitors form up North (hehe yes we are Southerners now....I even caught myself saying NO SIR to Christopher the other day we LOVE it here) Gwandma Jenny and Aunt Judy came to spend a few days with us. I did not get too many pictures but we just had a nice relaxing time. Once again the weather did not cooperate but they had a little taste of the mid 70's that we enjoy here most of the time. We have been needing the rain though. Neal ad I even got to spend Saturday MOST OF the day alone. We packed a picnic and ate it on the pier on one of the swings down town Charleston then we got to walk around and check out all the shops, art galleries and antique shops downtown which was really the first time we got to do that. It's pretty tight down there and doing all that with 3 kids is just not enjoyable. We then went out to eat and went to a few furniture stores. It was just fun and relaxing. 

Thanks guys for giving Neal and I a little breather it was MUCH needed time alone away from the kidos. 

 We went to the Charleston Aquarium

 And saw lots of pretty fish all from the Carolina coast

 Mr. Christopher with Grandma

Touching the stingrays. 

Wow I'm really ashamed of myself I really did not get many pictures. We had a really nice time and can't wait for them to come visit us again. 

March and April are looking to be really busy months for us this year is going by too fast already!