Peyton had her first day of preschool last week. She is growing up so fast! She now goes two days a week from 9-12 at Athens First United Methodist Church. She LOVES it! She has a good friend from church in her class and really likes her teacher too. Here are some photos from the day! (and yes...apparently my camera still had Peyton slime on the lens...so the pictures are a little fuzzy.)
So one of Peyton's favorite things are M&M's. We have a mason jar filled with M&M's in Paul's studio and Peyton always goes in there, grabs the jar of M&M's and takes it to one of us holding up her little finger showing "1" and says "please". Once we said "yes", she reaches in and only grabs a blue one...thus being her favorite color.
So the other night I was tucking her into bed and we were saying our prayers and the question I always ask her is "who do you want to thank God for?" And after going through her long list of family and friends and me always asking "who else" I switched it up and said "what else?...What do you thank God for?" and she said M&M's :) It made me smile. Realizing that we should be thankful for even the littlest things in life. So here's to M&M's and my little girl who made me realize that every little thing is a Blessing!
Thatcher Paul Reeves was born on Monday, July 26th at 12:16pm (3 weeks early). Weighing 6lbs, 7oz and was 20 inches long. He is very laid back and doing greaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!
Here is a picture of him (phone pic, sorry for clarity)...More to come soon!(have to find the camera:)
Well I cannot believe it, but my baby just turned 2 this week. I cannot believe how big she is. She truly is a little girl now. I absolutely love every minute I spend with her...Even the bad minutes I grow to love. I am very Blessed and Grateful to have her as my little girl.
Well we celebrated her second birthday in style. We threw P an Elmo Birthday Party!! It was her BIG day and we did everything possible to make it special for her. We blew up 40 red and blue balloons and had them covering her bedroom floor so when she woke up she started the day off with a huge smile! She kinda started the day off a little earlier than usual....6:39 to be exact. Yes, to some that is not that early, but for me who loooooooooves to sleep, it's early. Peyton will usually sleep until around 8:30 which means I usually sleep until 8:30...or really if Paul is awake...I sleep until 9:):) But regardless, she loved the balloons! She could not get enough of these balloons. She made Paul and I walk around the house, each carrying two blue balloons (her favorite color). And we were not allowed to sit down, because sitting down would mean we were not playing. So we played with balloons. In addition to the red and blue balloons, Peyton got a HUGE Elmo balloon that sung "Happy Birthday" when you tapped it. She had been asking me for it for the past month every time we went to the grocery store, and I promised it to her for her Birthday. SHE LOVED IT!!
After we hung out around the house for a while we headed out for breakfast at Dunkin Donuts. She loves the little munchkins that she gets at church on Sunday mornings, so we treated her to munchkins. Home run again! She loved them!
After breakfast we headed to Sandy Creek Park here in Athens. It is an amazing park that has a lake and beach as well as numerous playgrounds. So we played at the beach, in the water, and on the playground. We unfortunately did not plan on playing on the playground, so P and Daddy are in their bathing suits:)
After a fun time at the park we headed home for lunch and a nap followed by my Mom and Brother coming up to celebrate the rest of the day with P. She woke up to them being there and watched a little World Cup with Uncle Colin and Lisee. Then we had an Elmo cake (my first real try at decorating a cake...It was a success), opened presents, and played with all the new toys.
All in all, Peyton had a greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat day!! My little "big girl"!!
So last week we went and picked strawberries at Washington Farms. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time! We even got to see all the animals again! Pey loved feeding the goats grass and flowers:) And she loved eating the strawberries too! She had strawberry juice dripping everywhere. She was a big help carrying the bucket and taste testing some of the strawberries that were in the bucket. Mainly taking one bite and putting it back in the bucket, then trying another stawaberry and doing the same. It was kinda funny!
Here are some pictures from the day!
So we had a great week with Michelle and Audrey! It was filled with a lot of fun activities!
We went to the zoo, toured a fire engine, went to a singing story time, went to gymnastics, went to the park/playground almost every day, ate a lot, and played a lot. The girls had a blast! I had a blast most of the time, but P was giving me a preview of what the terrible 2's might look like. But as the week went on things got better! We had a great time!
Unfortunately I did not take many pictures... But here are some:)
Well for my birthday, my wonderful husband surprised me with a plane ticket to go see my best friend Michelle in Kansas! Michelle has a daughter that is 11 days older than Peyton named Audrey! So it was a treat for both of us!
I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous about flying with her for the first time...by myself...and have I mentioned I'm 6 months pregnant. But if we were ever going to go out there to visit, this was the time. Peyton was free because she was under two (only 2 months left to where we did not have to pay for her) and I could only fly for a couple more weeks before the Doctor put the nix on that. So it was perfect timing.
Well since Michelle has flown with Audrey so many times she helped Paul figure out which times were best to fly with the little ones and what days were best. So we were scheduled to fly out there at 9am Saturday morning. But little did we know what would happen...
So we spent the night at my parents house the night before, since it was closer to the airport than Athens and we would not have to wake up so early...but I still had to wake up at 5:30 and woke Peyton up at 6 and we were out the door. Checked bags, made it through security, and was sitting at the gate at 7:40am for our 9am flight. Perfect...so we thought...until a lovely woman came on the intercom above telling us that our flight had been canceled due to weather. So I kindly went up to the desk and asked when the next flight was...4PM.....4PM!!! WHAT?? Ok so now I have a toddler, in the airport at 8am and we cannot get on a plane until 4pm...Great...So I called my parents...who had just made it back to Marietta, and told them the news. So they happily turned around, headed back to the airport and picked us up...I cannot tell you how wonderful my parents are. They are truly the BEST EVER!!
We headed back to Marietta and waited, and waited, and waited. Luckily we had been checking the flights all day and my 4pm flight got pushed back to almost 6pm...so we waited some more...and headed back to the airport for round 2.
Our flight was 2 hours long and Peyton was great for about half of it. Mind you, she had woken up early, had only a 45min nap and is almost 2. Everything in my bag of tricks that I had packed for her didn't completely work after a long day and that late in the day. Sooooo it could have been better, could have been worse. We arrived in Kansas City around 8pm, ate dinner and drove for 1 1/2 hours to Michelle's house...It was a long day. But I was glad to be there!!
Here are some pic's from the plane! More to come on the week in Kansas!
Well I have to apologize for it taking me a month to post another blog. But luckily I can say that I have not been a slacker, we have just been busy.
On Easter Sunday after church we left and headed down to Savannah for the evening on our week long trip to visit family. We had a wonderful time visiting and Peyton got in another Easter egg hunt...number 4 to be exact! And she loved it! She has now become quite to little egg hunter and has figured out that there is candy in each one. So after she found each one, she stopped, opened the egg, and ate the candy. Luckily, there was only 1 M&M in each egg...so it wasn't too bad!! But needless to say, she LOVED it!
The day after Easter we hopped in the car and drove to St. Augustine, FL to visit with Paul's dad and Deborah. It was a wonderful trip and we were able to go to the beach every day. The water was a little too cold for me and Peyton, so we mainly played in the sand. Except for Paul...He went surfing! He said it wasn't too bad once you were in...but I left that up to him!
A couple days later we drove back to Savannah and stayed the night and then headed back home. It was a great trip being able to see everyone but we were glad to be done driving!
Here are a couple of pictures from our trip! More to come soon...that was only 1 week I caught you up on!
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