summer fun

Let's wrap up this summer in pictures, shall we?

We visited Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge per Maddox's request like always..

We played a lot of putt putt.
And Rosie completely clobbered us all.

 

 

 

We visited Dollywood and rode our favorites..

 

 

We then celebrated Maddox's birthday with a pirate party complete with plank walks and buried treasure.

 

Then it was time for the hubby's birthday..

We celebrated in blue for his and then Carsyn and I started mine off with mani/pedis.

Then we had dinner at Palmer's with the family.

 

Then we wrapped up summer with a visit to Wild Dunes.

 

 

And while I'm sure you can tell the kids and I had a blast everyday I'm sure happy Rosie was with us.

It was also quite nice to sneak away to the pool for alone time every day during nap time.(thanks sista for the tote!)

 

 

 

The view wasn't quite bad either.

 

 

 

Perhaps the funnest thing on the trip was meeting up with the adorable "Sweet Peas Momma" and her beautiful family!

 

Peace out summer, peace out beach, and peace out humidity!

 

I'm so ready for fall and pumpkin spice lattes, and football, and pumpkins and lots of fun things in store!

 

A 4 Yr Old and a Couple of Virgos

(Truth- I could have just labeled this catchup photo dump, but that's boring.  I try not to be boring).

August was a busy month.  Baby boy had just made his debut, my nephew, Maddox, turned four and the hubby and I both celebrated our birthday.  My notebook crashed and I just couldn't get some important events documented.

So, a few months and an iMac later I'm ready to catchup.

We had Maddox's baseball party at mom and dad's.  This was my favorite theme yet and the kids had so much fun!

We went out for barbecue for my birthday and came back to my house for cake.

Carsyn loves her pops!

Fall, Ponies, & Retail Therapy

Truth is the title should be weekend recap, but that just sounded boring ;)

Saturday Carsyn and I made the trip to Lexington to do several things. The mountain parkway is so beautiful this time of year I really don't mind the drive!






A while back PLL announced a little meet up she was hosting at Keeneland. Gorgeous weather, getting to finally meet PLL, and ponies-sign me up! I was so GLAD I went. If you haven't met PLL I have to say she is the sweetest, most beautiful gal. And Carsyn LOVED her (and we all know she is the best judge of character).


(stolen from PLL)

It was so much fun getting to meet some of PLL's sweet pals including Erin and PLL's little sis pictured. Please forgive the diaper hanging out-it was so hot I had to take Carsyn's tights off. (Note to self-must make sure to pull baby girl's dress down before photographing)






Carsyn loved tailgating at Keeneland but I wasn't quite sure about taking her in so we headed out to do a little shopping. I finally got her foot measured-whopping size 5- and picked her up some walking shoes (she's almost there). We met up with auntie M and visited Bella Bliss.



Have you ladies been there? I found the image above online. Isn't their retail store just beautiful? Trust me, their clothes are equally precious!

We squeezed in a little play time with Maddox and had dinner at Carsyn's favorite dining establishment-Chickfila!











Right now Carsyn's favorite thing to do is be pulled in the wagon Maddox got her for her birthday. The weather here has been so beautiful we're trying to enjoy outside activites as much as possible. Sunday after church she made me pull her for an hour. Every time we stopped she started hollering RIDE!!






Momma slept good Sunday night ;)