Family Vacation

2 Weeks ago we went on a family vacation!! It was such a nice time relaxing and hanging out together. We decided to stay close to home being that we do live in Orlando! :) The hotel was so nice and had the greatest pool, lazy river and water slide.
These pics were taken from our room.


Daddy and Andon floating down the lazy river.


This is pretty much all Andon wanted to do. Every time we went down the lazy river Andon met a new friend! The first day it was a boy named Sam from England the next day another boy named Nick and the next day a girl from Canada named Juwanie. She was in her early teens and just adorable! My little social guy can make friends anywhere. :)
Here's my little bathing beauty. She was such a good girl on vacation!

One thing I realized, you have to take A LOT of stuff when vacationing with a baby! It's been a few years since i've had to do that and totally forgot how much you need!


One of the days we drove to Deleon Springs and ate at the Old Spanish Sugarmill Restaurant. It is a really fun restaurant where you cook your own pancakes and eggs on your table. But while your waiting for a table to open you can swim in the springs. It was so fun!! Here are some pics from our day at the springs.



This little "staycation" was just what we needed before getting back in to the swing of things. I have SO much more to blog about and so many more fun pics to post. But one will have to do for tonight. :)

Rainy Week at the Cabin and Other Stuff

I know I have been a terrible blogger lately. I have had quite a bit going on and sometimes it's not always easy to write here. After my sister Jamie didn't come back to Tennessee with me I had a really hard time trying to understand all that happened with her. I am still struggling and heartbroken about it especially now knowing how long she may be in prison.

I am 12 weeks pregnant now... Today was the first day I didn't have to take the Zopran for nausea. I did start to feel sick around dinner time but once we ate I started to feel better. I would love to not have to take it but it is totally safe and since it helps so much I will if I have to. I do have a pooch I guess you could call it. :) I didn't show with Andon until around 20 weeks but this time around it's a little sooner. I don't have to wear maternity clothes or anything but my clothes feel tight. I think I will start taking some pics soon to post here. :)

We spent last week at some of our favorite people's cabin in the mountains in Georgia. It was such a nice relaxing week. It did rain the whole time we were there but that didn't stop us from enjoying ourselves. I did take a few pics of what we were up to. Here are some of Jared and Andon putting together a Lego airplane.

Andon made a small one while Daddy was making the big one.

The finished product.

We spent a lot of our time at the different creeks and rivers nearby. One of the places we stopped had a rope swing that we couldn't get Andon off of. He loved swinging out over the river. I decided to do it also and as soon as I left the land the rope came out from under my foot and I was just hanging on! I had to hold onto this knot while I swung way out over the river and back. Needless to say I didn't do it again! :) Here is my little guy on the swing.



Here is my sweet guy just looking out over the water. :)

Now we're back home and have company once again. My other sister Jodie called us a few weeks ago and asked if she and her kids could come and stay with us for a little while. She is going through some really hard things and we are trying to help her through this. Please pray for her. I do have some fun pics to come of the kids. My sister has a 5 year old boy and a 1 year old little girl. Andon is loving having them here! We got a fun idea from my creative friend Brittani to go on an ABC Mall scavenger hunt. The boys loved it and I took tons of pics to post here soon.

Vacation in Georgia

Well, after a much needed vacation we are back home. We had such a wonderful relaxing time in Georgia. The drive was about 4 and a half hours if you count losing an hour once you get there. But it was a nice drive. Especially through Ocoee Tennessee. We drove along the river where you could see people white water rafting! It was awesome! I hope I never become numb to the beautiful sights here in Tennessee. I have plenty of pictures to show the beauty of the land and my precious boy of course! :)
Here are some pictures from Anna Ruby Falls. What a sight to see. The hike up was pretty long but way worth it once you got there.


Here are my boys looking at the scenery on the way to the falls.

And this is what I saw the whole way up. Andon wants to play follow the leader all day every day! And somehow he's almost always the leader! :)

The next day we went out on a canoe for the afternoon. Andon absolutely LOVED it! He was helping Jared paddle the canoe.


And every night we built a fire and made smores. I don't know why because Andon dosen't even like them. He ends up cooking the marshmallow handing it to me to eat and then eating the chocolate and graham cracker all by themselves. :) Here are some pictures of them collecting fire wood for our nightly fire. They loved to go out in the woods collecting logs and sticks. :) Boy stuff...


And here is a picture of Andon down at the lake.

We had such a nice time staying in the mountains. Thank you so much Larry and Terri for letting us use your beautuful cabin!