Memphis week # 2

We took the kids to an amusement park and we had a blast!  Bailey even got to ride everything this time around!!

Nana took one for the team and got soaking wet! LOL  She let Jackson have the wheel and controls-big mistake ;)

For my birthday Nana and Opa took us to Japanese!! My favorite and now the kids too!!

John even got to sing Happy Birthday with us and watch me open presents!  Gotta love Facetime!!

Not sure if you remember Jackson's obsession with Nana's angels, but he talks about them day and night while we are there!  She got another one from one of their friends and he was so excited to see a new angel. People give them to her b/c she truly is an angel...she is just so giving and loving to people that they think of her as her angel and give her ones to put up in her house :)

Yep, I am crazy.  Packing up 2 kids, all this stuff, and a dog-by myself!  Hey-you only live once right!!!

Cooper stayed with my best friend Meredith and her girlfriend Brittany.  He said he had the best time ever, but was glad to be on the way home!

Speaking of home, this is how it looked after I went grocery shopping this morning!  Eeek!  

Kids didn't seem to mind the mess! LOL

Ahhhhh, after many hours, much better!  Even cleaned out the fridge!

Jackson and Bailey dressed up (thanks to Jessi for giving these to us!!!) and said he was the pink fairy and Bailey was the yellow one and I was the mean witch!  He would get mad if I laughed and got out of character b/c "you are supposed to be mean Mom!".  hahaha  At least they were entertained while I unpacked!!

Our Trip to Memphis

I drove the kids up to Memphis last week for a visit with Nana and Opa.  I left right after VBS ended on Friday-I think I was out of my mind, because I was exhausted! Lol  Here is some of what we have been up to...






Mrs. Hill gave this to the kids and they LOVE it!

They spend a lot of time in the front hall, which I don't like b/c they always want to play on the steps ;)

On a walk!


Nana let them take a bubble bath in her tub :)

We went to see a magic show too!


Washing Opa and Mama's cars :)

Lots of wrestling...believe it or not, it is almost ALWAYS started by Bailey.  She now has wrestling name "Bam Bam Bailey" !!!  Thank goodness Jackson is a good sport and likes it most the time ;)


Playground

And feeding the ducks!


This is Bailey saying, "NO, NO duck!" haha

Here we are at the little playhouse right by Opa and Nana's house.  We went to see Sleeping Beauty, put on by kids.  It was GREAT and the kids loved it!  Love this pic, they are both looking at each other in anticipation :)

Vacation Bible School

We had our first experience with VBS last week and we all had a great time!  The first day was an eye opener for all of us!  We were exhausted! lol  I was a leader with one of my best friends from church and our group was mostly made up of kids we knew (including her twins).  I decided not to lead Jackson's group b/c he would have been all over me all day and would not have paid any attention.  He did great-considering he had to see me all the time, but couldn't be with me.  

The picture above is all of the preschool kids & leaders.  (We had about 500 more elementary kids in the main sanctuary)

 The pics above and below are of our group of kids and youth helpers.  We really had a wonderful group!

 At the end of the week on Friday we did a show for the parents.  Of course Jackson had to have me sit by him and you can see the progression of him actually getting into it ;)

It took me a few days to recover-it really is exhausting!!!  Well worth it though, I said to Jackson, "no matter where we go & what we do..."  and he responded with, "trust God!" .  I am one proud Mama!!

Girls dinner!

We went down Atlanta & had a girls dinner.  It was the first time all of us Mom's and kids got to get together :)  It was so much fun!  I know Allie will be joining the Mama club soon ;)

It's still wierd to think we have this many kids in the group now!  Love it!!