3 years ago....

on June 24, 2006 I married the man of my dreams.... my best friend! I love you babyface, more and more everyday!

Happy Anniversary!!

Vacation!!

DAY 1: Depart from Charlotte, NC; Arrive in Clearwater, FL

This summer my parents rented a condo on Indian Rocks Beach near Clearwater, Florida for the week of July 4th! We drove in on Friday night and are staying until the 5th of July!! We have been looking forward to this ALL YEAR (thanks Mom and Dad).

We loaded up my Explorer with me, Eric, Ty, Caiden, Kate, and our dogs Buck and Ellie Mae! We are all able to fit and only pack 2 suitcases!!! The ride was long, took about 11 hours, but the kids and dogs did great!! We stopped twice at rest stops for the dogs to run around and had a lot of fun.

When we got home, my mom had baked some yummy lasagna for us to eat for dinner!! We stayed up and chatted, had a couple glasses of wine, then hit the sack so we can start our vacation on Saturday!!!

DAY 2: Clearwater Beach, check in condo at Indian Rocks Beach
Kate's friend from college was playing in a beach volleyball tournament Saturday at Clearwater Beach so Kate and I went over there that morning to watch her play a match before we headed to the condo!! It was nice seeing the beach where I grew up at!! Love it!

We got to our condo around 4 (beautiful!!!) and then went straight to the beach! Caiden and Tyler loved the ocean. We finished the day with a dip in the pool then went to eat some fish at Crabby Bills!

1st grader in the house!

Tyler you did it! You made it through Kindergarden with flying colors! We are so proud of you!

Tyler accomplished many things this year; he reads independently now, can count to 100 (I first told him a little trick I knew " one, two, skip a few, 99, 100!" but he told me "that's not right mommy! LOL ! He can write sentences and he loves to draw pictures. He's also pretty good at Math (like his mommy!)

After the ceremony in the cafeteria where he got his diploma, we went back to his classroom where his teacher handed out individual awards. Tyler got 2: "Accelerrated Reader Award" and "Most Well-Rounded!" It brought tears to my eyes!! It's amazing how fast he is growing and maturing. He facinates us everyday. We are so pround of him not only as a son, and student, but he's a pretty awesome big brother too!! We love you Ty-man!

Has it been THAT long?

I promise to update this at least once a week. I apoligize for waiting a month since my last post. We still don't have a camera (sent both in to get fixed!). Here's a small list of things that have happend since Tyler lost his tooth....

1. Katelen and Dustin's sister, Chelsie, have moved to Charlotte! They are currently living with us until they find jobs and a house! We are SO happy to have them stay with us! Kate and I are finally together again!

2. Since Kate's here we obviously had to make a room for her, so we decided to bunk the boys together in Tyler's room!! Eric found an nice wooden one on craigslist! The boys LOVE it. Now we just have to find some matching bedding. We also learned that "nap time" for Caiden in a big boy bed was harder than we thought....

3. Country summer concerts have begun. We've been to 2 already- George Strait and Brad Paisley!

4. Tyler is finishing his last few days of Kindergarten. Last week Tyler had a Feild Day at school where Caiden and I went to help out/watch and it was tons of fun! He has his graduation on MONDAY!

5. We completed our flower garden out front and the leaves had started to sprout up! Hopefully we'll get to see some flowers soon

6. Kay (Nana), Wayne (G-Pa), and their dog Duke came to Charlotte for Memorial weekend! We had a blast together.. eventhough it rained most of the time! Buck and Duke had lots of fun together.. such wonderful dogs!

**Kay took some pictures since I didn't have one :( We saw something really facinating while they were here too... the inside of a golf ball... pretty sweet!

7. Kate, Morgan, Falyn, and I went to Sunset beach for Morgan's birthday!

8. We went camping for the first time this season at Kings Mtn. Since it was in SC during that huge forest fire, we weren't aloud to have a camp fire! What's camping without a camp fire!!? We still had fun though!