Happy Birthday, Carly!

Carly, my beautiful niece, celebrated her 3rd birthday party today. She is my heart! She is spoiled rotten and I take full responsibility for it! She LOVES ice cream...so she had an ice cream birthday party! It was super cute!

John Turner loved the cake of course. After he had eaten his whole entire slice of cake, I caught him over by the cake dipping his fingers into the icing and licking it off!

John Turner bought Carly a beanbag for her birthday. She is getting a new house soon and we wanted her to have a comfortable place to read and watch TV.

We actually got a picture of Gran, Grandpa and ALL THREE grandchildren! This is a very rare picture!

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY, CARLY ELIZABETH! WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!

Wordless Wednesday

Friends, Family, Food and Fireworks!

We had a busy and fun Fourth of July weekend! The fun began on Friday morning at around 9:00 when my very best friend in the whole world, Kelly, gave birth to a precious baby boy, Holden Blake.

Holden is very fortunate to be born into such a wonderful family. He has an amazing brother, Luke, who already loves him dearly. Brotherly love is so special. I was also there the day this sweet boy was born five years ago!

I decided to take John Turner up to the hospital to meet him on Saturday. This is pretty much the face he made when he saw me or Carlton even get near the new baby. He would say "my mommy, my daddy".

I finally got him to at least look at baby Holden. He would pet his blanket and say soft. Then he was saying bye bye and he was ready to get us away from that baby! HAHA!

John Turner and Carlton spent Saturday morning at the river. For those of you who know me, you know I don't do the river! LOL! Anyway, these are some pictures Carlton sent to me on my phone while they were there. They both had so much fun! As you see in the top picture, he was completely worn out when they left!

On Sunday morning we went to church. After church we got to have lunch with our friends the Hatchers and the Millers. Here is a picture of THEIR sweet kids! Of course my child would not cooperate for a picture!! But at least I got a picture of these three cute kiddos! This is Jaxon, Wyatt and Harper.

After church we had a long nap because we knew the rest of the day was going to be busy. When John Turner woke up from his nap he was so excited to see that his family was all there for a cookout!

John Turner had a blast playing with his cousins and loving on his grandparents! His favorite thing about the cookout was his Fourth of July cupcake!

After dinner we headed to the lake for the annual fireworks show. It was beautiful weather!

We have a family picture from last year that was taken in this same place. It is neat to look back and see the changes in John Turner over a year!

John Turner had fun dancing to the band, watching the ducks and just running up and down the street!

After being there for a while, we had to cool off with a sno cone!

We were worried that John Turner might be scared of the fireworks this year because he is scared of thunder. But we were wrong! Once the fireworks began, John Turner was mesmerized! He LOVED them! He was saying "fireworks, boom, boom" and pointing out the colors he saw. It was fun to watch him!

We ended our Fourth of July weekend with a good cold watermelon! John Turner thoroughly enjoyed it too!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Wordless Wednesday

Navarre Beach Trip- Part 3

After a long, fun day on the beach and a long nap, we got ready and headed out to dinner.

We drove over to Pensacola Beach and ate at Flounders. It was delicious! The coconut shrimp were amazing! They have a playground outside behind Flounders. John Turner and the girls enjoyed that part the most!

Sunday morning we had to pack up and leave. The girls made John Turner a necklace with one of the seashells that they had found. He was so proud of that thing! He wore it all the way home!

Before we headed out we all had breakfast on the water! It was great! John Turner is sporting Uncle Chris's sunglasses in this picture. He hates the sun in his eyes. He has his own pair of sunglasses but will not leave them on for more than a second. He loved wearing Uncle Chris's! I guess his sunglasses aren't as cool as Uncle Chris's!

Sunday was also Father's Day! Here is picture of John Turner with his Daddy! It was nice to get away and spend time with him at the beach for Father's Day!

Navarre Beach Trip- Part 2

Saturday morning we woke up to the sound of John Turner screaming "I Beach" at 7:30! He never gets up this early! He was so excited about the day!

We had a little snuggle and tickle time with the girls in our pjs,

played with the screen door,

put on our swimming clothes

and headed out to the beach for the day!

Of course we had to stop and play in the pool for a little while before heading to the beach.

John Turner pretty much planted his bottom underneath the beach tent and played in the sand all day long!

Aunt Krystee showed him how to build sandcastles and how to find seashells.

The girls spent all day hunting for seashells! Navarre has such beautiful water that shells are not hard to find. They found some beautiful shells.

The girls went through all of their shells and picked out the very best ones to give to John Turner. He came home with a bag full of beautiful shells!

Navarre Beach Trip- Part 1

We took a very spontaneous trip to the beach last weekend! We decided to head to Navarre Beach, Florida for a couple of reasons. First and most importantly, Carlton's sister and her family live in Navarre. They are going to be moving to ARIZONA in a few weeks and we were dying to spend some time with them before they left! Second, the beaches at Navarre were still oil free!!! So, we made condo reservations, packed our beach bags, picked up our niece, Breanna, and headed to Navarre!

As soon as we got to our condo and John Turner walked out on our balcony, he began screaming "wa wa" "wa wa"! He was dying to go down to the beach. So we headed down to take a look before dinner.

Then we headed to meet Carlton's sister and her family for dinner. John Turner was very excited to see his cousins, Camryn and Carley. As you can probably already tell, his three beautiful cousins tend to spoil him when they are around him! And he just LOVES all of that spoiling!!

After dinner we headed back to our condo for some night swimming. John Turner stayed up swimming and playing with these girls until after 10:00! This is very rare for him! Camryn and Breanna even spent the night at the condo with him the first night we were there.