Beach Time!

Well we finally decided and packed up and headed to the beach last week. It was a much needed break and a great change of scenery for all of us I think. You don't really realize it sometimes until you're away how much you needed that change. Even Wyatt seemed to really enjoy the change. He kept walking to the windows and pointing at the ocean and saying "Woooaaahh!" :)

We rented a condo at a place that was right on the pier down at Cherry Grove so Robb could fish to his heart's content :) It was a nice place with lots to do for us with the pier, restaurants, lazy river, and several pools, oh and the beach! Mom came down to join us for a couple of days as well. Wyatt enjoyed playing in the sand, but was not a fan of the water this year...at all! Last year he loved it, but this year refused to play in any of it, ocean or pool. Just another phase I suppose. But he had a blast digging in the sand with his new shovels and buckets courtesy of Grandma (thank you!!). He liked walking down the beach and finding all sorts of fun things that had washed up, but ran away screaming anytime the water came near him (it was funny!). We took him to Bass Pro Shop to see the fish and he thought that was really cool. And we ate dinner one night at a great restaurant that has lots of turtles and alligators (although we didn't see any gators),  so we got to feed the turtles after we ate. Wyatt loved going on the pier and talking to all the people and looking at the fish that were coming up. He thought that was really neat! All in all a good trip...just wish it had been longer!!! :)

This past Saturday we went over to Cherokee and spent the day with Brad and Wendy and their family for Wendy's birthday. They were camping over there for the weekend, so we came to play for the day. Had a good visit and Wyatt loved getting to spend time with his cousins! Wyatt and Jenna liked to play in the puddles after the rain...so nice to see him finally starting to really play with other kids and have a good time!

Not much longer and the summer season will be here and it will be a bit crazy around here for a few months. But I think we're ready for it to be here and get going!

Nothing else new to report....as always, here are some recent pictures.
Happy Monday!!!

Helping Daddy feed the horses.

Checking out the fishing gear

Getting ready to fish

Checking out the rest of the pier

Not too sure about the lazy river...

So this is the beach?

Daddy trying to show that the beach is fun!

Ok...maybe this isn't so bad...

 And now we have buckets and shovels?!?

Oh ok, yeah this is fun!

Building a castle with Daddy!

Yay for sand!!

Bringing Grandma presents

Dance break on the beach

Exploring with Daddy

Only our son could find a stick on the beach....

Playing in the water under the pier wasn't scary for some reason

Walking with Daddy

Classy!

Playing in the rain with Jenna!

"What is she doing???"

Tristen, Wyatt, Emma, Jenna and Brooks in Cherokee

All smiles!!!

Sorry so long!!

We have been so busy lately it seems! So I have neglected this blog a bit...but I'm back! :)

Let's see...we found out we are having another boy!! So excited that Wyatt will have a brother! And now we can finally stop with the what if planning method and start getting organized and ready for baby number 2. Although I'm finding it horribly hard to not want to go buy a whole new wardrobe for the new baby...haha Baby number 2 looks healthy and great so far, so we're just excited to get a good report!

Wyatt is doing great! He's getting much faster with his walking and I'm waiting for the day he just breaks out in a run...that'll be the end haha He's starting to try to talk more now that he's realized his signs that he uses mean words, now he'll sign and say More (which sounds like momma, but we know what he's meaning). And he's trying to mimic more sounds and words that we say. He loves being outside, so thankfully with so much nice weather lately (and a new laptop battery) that is where we spend most of our days now. He's content to just play around the house and in the yard, so I'm still able to get some work done while he's happily playing around outside, which is an amazing compromise :) He's become so in love with riding the horses lately, it's unreal. He can't be around them without wanting to be on them and he has amazing balance when he's up there. I think we're going to have a natural horseman just like his daddy!

We got a new barn up this past week to help with hay storage this year. It looks great! Wyatt loved watching them put it up and seeing all the tools they were using. I'll post pictures of that soon.

We've been getting the summer flowers and bushes planted over the past couple of weeks. We even got a couple of blackberry bushes planted, to bring our fruit total to grapes, blackberries and peaches! We're still considering adding some blueberry bushes or some apple trees eventually. We love our fruit!!

Happy Friday!!!

Father and son

Hanging out with Roger

Watching the creek

Ready, set, Hike!

Where are we going now?

I love the tractor!

Helping with yard work

Are you sure there's nothing else in here?

Showing Daddy how tall he can sit!

All by himself! What a big boy!

Ready to go!

Sticks and Kitty Cats

There has been a dramatic shift in our family this week...Daisy went from running quickly away from Wyatt, to actually playing with him!! And he loves it! haha it's been fun to watch these two evolve into friends. Sometimes she'll even let him pet her! My favorite is today we were picking up all the limbs out of the yard from the recent wind storm and Wyatt would drag a limb behind him and Daisy would run up and pounce on it from behind. This of course upset Wyatt as he thought she was trying to steal his toy limb. And so this happened several times and became funnier each time :)

Wyatt loves to run around and pick up all the sticks for us...if only he'd put them in the wheelbarrow like we want and not just insist on carrying them everywhere with us. But it's still cute!

Last night we were up at the big barn feeding the new horse we just got in for boarding and cleaning out his stall. We decided instead of insisting on Wyatt in his stroller like we've always done while doing chores, that we'd try letting him run around some now that he's walking everywhere consistently. Best Idea Ever. He Loved his new found freedom and the fact that if he wanted to walk up and down that long barn aisle 20 times, he could. He eventually decided he was done and walked out to the truck and pointed at the door to get in. Slept like a log and woke up laughing. Maybe we should do that every night!

Two more weeks and we should find out if we're having a boy or a girl for baby number 2!! Can't wait!

Happy Monday everyone!!

Playing with Daisy

Whole new meaning to pick up sticks.

Lots of sticks!

We even put some sticks in our truck for safe keeping.

Yay for sticks!

You can have this one, I'm done with it.

hmmm actually, I want that one back.

Happy Spring!

So glad Spring is here! I'm ready for warm weather and sunny days. We've been taking advantage of every pretty day we've had so far and spending as much time outside as we can. So the rainy days lately have not been very fun for a certain 14 month old...now we know what outside means...

Wyatt is walking now!! Scary for us, but kind of neat to hit another milestone. He was walking some but still primarily crawling until recently, and now it's all walking. Crazy to think our little baby is now a toddler!!

Nothing new to report here. I'm at about week 16 right now with this pregnancy so starting to feel better and belly is growing a little more. We'll find out in 3 weeks what we're having, so we're excited about that so we can start planning a little better.

Here are some new pictures from recently to share:

Playing with Madalyn at Dawn's Birthday Party

Someone figured out how to take off sleepers that aren't on
tight enough....

I see Daddy!

Playing with his fire truck

Chasing Daisy

Our pretty pansies! (thanks Mom!)

The Haircut

I will post more updates and pictures later...but for now...here are the before and after of the much needed haircut!