Happy Father's Day!

We had a fun Father's Day weekend, just relaxing together. We splashed around in the kiddie pool out side and Miles soaked Wayne with the sprayer. Audrey splashed with her hands, then decided to go all it and stepped over the wall. She didn't like it when she first plopped down, but loved it soon after.

We got Wayne tickets to 3 concerts for Father's Day. Mommy gets to go too, so, yay! We're going to see Green Day in Nashville, the the Wallflowers at the Bijou and the Black Crowes at the Tennessee Theatre. For the 2 here we got the front row of the balcony for both shows. It probably means we're getting really old, but we had those seats for a jazz series when I was pregnant with Miles and really enjoyed the shows without being down in the "madness" (you'd be surprise the madness Dave Brubeck can inspire).
They are blowing whistles in the photo above. These were the "prize" for completing the summer reading program at the library. Uh, thanks Knox County Library, they're loud!!! I though they might give a quiet toy. Be warned if you are working toward your prize though there's also a pretty good coupon book.
Here we are off to the pool again. Miles is in daily swim lessons for the next 3 weeks and is improving greatly. After lessons we've been heading outside to the big kiddie pool and Audrey loves walking around and splashing. It's only a foot deep, so she can stand and play. She did fall under a couple of times, but shook it off and kept going. We may have two water babies swimming around soon.

beachin' it

Last weekend Miles & I went to the beach at Perdido Key, FL (as you could tell by my mobile uploads). We rode down with Erin & Eileen, and Tiffany & Ellie flew through thunderstorms and delays from Dallas to meet us. Once we all finally got there, the kids ~an mommies~ were ready to play.
We were in a high rise condo that also had two pools & a gym (which we never saw). We hit the pool the first afternoon, then Friday headed down to the beach for the day. We had two beach tents which were great to keep us shaded while building sand castles.
The kids were fantastic and got along great. They had the same taste in movies; I think we watched Lady & the Tramp 80 times. And they really liked shrieking together. A lot. We mommies worked on our abilities to tune out all sorts of crazy noise. It's a skill worth cultivating, I tell ya. Screaming:
More screaming:
Being good because he knows there are cupcakes waiting upstairs:
Ditto, but barely:
Fun stuff. Thanks again Tiffany, we had a blast!! {more pictures have been added to the Shutterfly site}

having smoothie on flip-flop day.

the unsuccessful beach photo shoot

I'm all done.

sand & waves are the best

we made it to the beach! Miles & I drove with Erin & Eileen and met Tiffany & Ellie. We're at Perdido for the long weekend.

a surprise visit to Memphis

Memorial Day weekend BeeBe & PopPop came to Knoxville to visit and attend a wedding. Since the kiddos were out of school the next week (and there were other plans a-brewin', more to come) Miles, Audrey & I hitched a ride back to Memphis with them to stay for a while. We got to visit with both great grandmothers, and played all week with all the grandparents. We went to the Botanical Gardens and fed the koi with PopPop & Beebe; then later in the week went to the Pink Palace Museum with PawPaw Don. I thought the Pink Palace seemed a lot smaller than it used to be!
















One fun reason we headed to town was to celebrate my brother's 30th birthday. Kyle didn't know we were there, so I really surprised him when I showed up at mom's for his birthday dinner. I told him that we were going back home on Friday, since Wayne's birthday was that Sunday. Tricksters that we are, we were actually staying, and Wayne was coming all the way to Memphis to celebrate at Kyle's surprise fiesta on Saturday!

We had a great time visiting with everyone and will have to come for a long visit again soon.
Oh, this is Miles "sharing" Baskin Robbins ice cream pie with me. He almost stabbed my hand trying to keep it all for himself!



I added photos to our Shutterfly site if you want to see more.

FWD:

just practicing mobile blogging... this is Miles wearing PopPop's reading glasses when we were in Memphis last week.

First Day!

I know I owe you a big post about our fun week in Memphis, but I had to put this up first. Today was their first day of summer school! Yes, I said "their" first, Audrey had her very first day of school today. She did great! She toddled right out onto the playground and started climbing the slide backward. They said she napped great on her mat and ate pretty well (she's pretty picky anyway). When I got there at 3, she didn't even notice me, she was so busy playing peek-a-boo with Ms. Candi.

Miles moved up to the 4-year-old room and several of his buddies from the school year were there. They got to work painting a big box red to be a barn and had a great time. I forgot to take a picture before school when they were all neat & clean, so here they are after school, rumpled, disheveled and stained.