Birthday Fun

We celebrated my friend Amber's little boy's birthday last night. It was so much fun! She really thought of everything for kids and adults to enjoy, and I'm sure she will be posting pictures soon of Cooper's first birthday- Safari style! I'm sad I didn't catch any pictures of the decor, but she did an amazing job!

Birthday boy with his momma and grandmother! Sweet Family!

Baby Sadie decided to make an appearance, and we were sooo happy to see all of the McEntires!  

Non-stop entertainment

Billy and Tatum McEntire

Cake Time!!!

Ellery- giving me the stink eye! :)  Love her!

Sweet Campbell!!!

The trampoline was a HIT! 

I want that one mom!!  (poor guy, got a black eye the day before his party) :(

We (and the Hartnesses) got Cooper his new big boy backpack....I love those things!!  We love ours!

Thanks for a fun evening Amber and Jordan!  Happy Birthday Cooper!

July Fourth Week

We get to spend this first week in july with my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, and my sweet niece Gabby.  We are barely 1 day in and they have already had so much fun together.  We only get to see them a few times a year, so we try to soak up as much time together when they are in town.

Asa (20 months), Gabby (10 months)

He was sooo happy swinging!!

Playing at the park with my little man! (no makeup...but I still smiled for the camera).

 Playing in the sandbox with blue sand!!!

Asa and Gabby playing in the pool together!

Lots of fun days ahead this week!

Lake Weekend

We had a great time this weekend with some of our community group.  The Jewell's invited us to come to Greer's Ferry for the weekend, and we decided to leave Asa with our in-laws.  We needed it!  It was so relaxing and some much needed "adult" time and conversation with some of our best friends. 

The girls: Chelsea, Kara, Amanda, Amy B., Me, and Amy H.

Matt, Kara, Ellery, and Amy B.  We had so much fun just hanging out on the boat and swimming.

Me and the hubs

  We also did a little bit of cliff jumping...  only the boys were brave enough to this one.(Joseph was the one in this picture)

We all had an "Instagram 101" class and everyone (including me) spent the next hour on their phones downloading and updating instagram.  I'm getting addicted!

We had such a good time!  I'm thankful to have such an awesome group of friends!

After the lake, we drove to Little Rock to be with my family and Joseph's family for Father's Day.  I am blessed to have such a wonderful dad, father in law, and a husband who is such a good daddy to Asa. Happy Father's Day Joseph!

Goodbye Brewer's

 I don't know if I have said enough how much I LOVE our community group.  They are our best friends and I don't know what I would do without them!  All that to say, it is with much sadness that we have to wish Amanda and Blake Brewer goodbye from our group.  They are moving to Springfield for their ministry with STUMO.  So, we are thrilled for their new adventure, but will miss them so much.  We had a big cookout/going away party for them wednesday night, and will also get to see them all weekend at the lake.

 Asa tried to play ball with the big guys outside.  Maybe one day he will actually be part of it!

 Blake brewer showing some love to cooper and Asa!

 These little cuties were having fun playing outside! (Ellery belongs to my friend Kara)

 Community Group girls (minus Jordan who was at home with her brand new baby girl, Sadie! And Hallie came a little later too)

Beautiful Amanda!  She is our fashion Icon in the group!

We love you guys!

Sea Grove Beach- Part 2

It's taken me forever to get my other pictures up here...but I finally did! These are a continuation from my last post about our trip to Florida.

Cousin Bennett, leaning down to check on Asa.  Asa looooved his char.  He would sit and watch the waves while enjoying a snack.  :)

Miss Lilly Anne.  She kept those sunglasses on all day! 

"CoCo" and "Pop" with Asa

Poor paci rash from the sand, salt, and sun. : (

(Asa's) Cousin Bennett....Lots of energy and sweet as can be!  They are closest in age, but because Bennett has two older brothers he seems so much older than Asa since he is always off playing with them.  But, its so fun when they do play together. I hope they are all best friends.

Our last night in Seagrove Beach we ate at Cafe Thirty A.  Probably the best meal I have ever purchased. Amazing.

Asa having his first sucker....  and what did he do?!?!

.....he ran his little heart out!  Soooo much energy that night.

My Family

Yes, he is missing a shoe.   What's new?!