Beach Vacation 2013

Well I meant to blog about our beach vacation um... about 2 weeks ago, but life happens. We are all excited about starting Kindergarten in 13 days and have been busy preparing for that and Houston and I going back to school as well. So we had a fabulous time on the beach this year. We went with Jason's sister, husband and her two adult kids and their kids. My mom even came down for the first few days. Before we meet them at the beach we stopped for a few days to visit my dad and step mom.

Landon's 1st time on a go-cart

We visited the Gulf Aquarium one afternoon

Out of about 10 pictures this is the best I could get

After spending 2 days with my dad and step mom, we drove about an hour down the beach and met up with Jason's sister, her family and my mom.

Best family picture I could get

Both boys did an AMAZING job at the beach and they LOVED every minute of our time there.

This was taken on Landon's 5th birthday

Best I could get of the boys on the beach together ;o)

Houston loved playing in the sand and water

The boys had fun playing in my suitcase. 

I have been trying to get Landon to nap for 2 years now and the beach gets him in 5 days

I was able to keep up my running schedule on vacation and got several runs in the early morning

Running by the beach in the early morning was wonderful

After every run I soaked my hot and tired feet in the pool

I found a Tervis store and splurged on this baby.

Another great lunch at Peach Park on our way home

We had a wonderful beach vacation with our family

Until next year

Happy 5th Birthday Landon

Well my family just returned from an amazing beach vacation. We left 9 days ago and returned Saturday night. We went with Jason's sister and her family and we just had the best time with them. The boys did wonderful on the beach and the weather was great. While we were there Landon turned 5 on July 14. Since 5 is a big one I wanted to make it special for him.

My dad lives in FL so we visited him first and Landon rode his first go cart on this birthday

The rest of the day we swam in the ocean and played on the beach

That night the whole family went to eat at Margaritaville

All our family celebrating Landon's 5th birthday

The birthday boy

The kids with the balloon artist

One of his presents was a new boogie board for the beach. He's holding up his hands saying he is 5

We returned from the beach Saturday and his birthday party was yesterday

Since we were gone for 9 days I really didn't have too much time to prepare so we just had a little front yard birthday party. The theme he choose was Ninja Turtles

The food table

Drink table with turtle punch

Little goody bags

We just threw the slip n slide and kiddie pool out in the front yard and just let them play and have fun

Little brother had a great time too

Who needs a fancy party? Kids just want to run around and play with their friends

About 10 minutes into the party, the bottom fell out and started to pour rain

The kids didn't care and just kept on playing. No thunder or lighting just heavy rain ;o)

Being on the beach for Landon's birthday and then coming back to have a birthday party was so fun for him. He is the best little boy and I am one blessed mommy.

 Now that vacation and birthday are over with, we are gearing up for Kindergarten and looking at school supplies.

Just another manic Monday

It's just another manic Monday at our house, so here are some photos from our crazy weekend.

If Landon ever naps it's usually in the van on our way to or from somewhere

This was after a long day at the pool

One day we filled up the "pool"

The boys still had a great time in the water

I just LOVE babies in sunglasses

We had a great 4th of July. Our friends came over for BBQ and fireworks that night

This was the only family picture I was able to get on July 4th. We were arriving at our college friends home for a cookout

Hurricane Houston strikes again. I put him down for just a second to hang up his bath towel. When I did, he darts back to the bathtub and jumped right back in with brother, fully clothed diaper and all.

I forgot what it was like to have a 22 month old toddler in the house who is into everything

Along with my running I am stepping up my strengthen training and core workouts. Saturday's Crossfit class was tough, but it is an amazing workout. I actually look forward to going and getting my booty kicked. 

Happy Monday!

Summer Home Projects

Since I am off work for 9 weeks during the summer I try to work on some home projects.

I bought this letter W on an etsy site, added the burlap and hung on my front door

For the last 8 weeks I have been re decorating our master bedroom. We hired someone to paint it for us back in April and from there I have been adding curtains, new lamps, bedspread, etc...

I have been looking at lamps and the ones I really like are just to pricey for me. So I just painted the lamps we received as a wedding gift 8 years ago and changed out the lamp shade. The lamp shades were $10 each and $8 can of spray paint. 

Lamp before

 Painted lamp with new shade

I took down this old builders grade mirror in our guest bathroom

I have patched, sanded and painted the wall. I hope to get our new mirror up this weekend. I finally found one I LOVED at Kirkland's on sale and I had a $10 off coupon. Love a good deal!

The last item I wanted for our new master room was new pillows on our bed. I already had the pillows so I have a good friend sew material over my old pillows

I have no idea how to arrange pillows. I really want the letter's to show so I'm still working on this arrangement.

So those are my summer projects for now. I cant wait to get my mirror hung up this weekend.

Are you doing any summer home projects?