Jessica's Shower and Bachelorette Trip

While I was home for the twin's birthday, we had Jessica's wedding shower. She of  course was a beautiful bride-to-be.  The decorations were rustic, which is the theme of her wedding and we put together a few of her favorite finger foods. It's hard to believe that the long awaited day is quickly approaching. But we are all ready for her to became Mrs. Watson!

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February flew by and before I knew it, I was headed back home for the Bachelorette Trip to Gulf Shores.  Since Lee could not get off work and Arlee (obviously) could not go with me, my parents graciously took vacation time and stayed at the house. I'm not sure who enjoyed the trip more...me, the grandparents, or Arlee....lol 

It was another long trip but my GPS took me through Branson and the drive was beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed the alone time and  took full advantage of  K-Love singing to the top of my lungs and listening to a few inspiring CD's. I felt like my soul had been revived and I had been on a spiritual retreat before I ever started my girl's trip. 

I stopped at Sarah's house that evening and we loaded everything up in her van and took off early the next morning. The other girl's left the night before, so they could take full advantage of the beach.

We stopped for lunch at the best little Greek spot! Wow, was the hummas dip amazing..

Once we finally made it to our destination, the girls were coming back from the beach to start getting ready for a night full of fun.

We put our matching Mer'maid shirts on and grabbed our wigs and headed out for dinner...

                                                       

After a fun night out we went to the hotel for face masks, cupcakes and presents for Jess...the face masks were a very bad painful  idea!

The next day was beach day so of course Sarah and I had to do a Walmart run first..lol

The older I getvhe more I realize I should have lived near the beach. Its my happy place for sure!

The cute little Captian...

It was a great trip but I sure wish I could have been on the beach a whole lot longer! The next time we all meet up will be the wedding weekend!

The twins are 2!

I was so excited to be able to go back home and celebrate the twins birthday. I was very nervous making the trip alone with Arlee, but he did amazing and we had a great trip. He obviously  couldn't wait to see Lilly and Jackson, so this made the trip very exciting for him.

 It's so hard to believe how fast these small premature miracle babies have grown. They are very active 2 yr olds and I'm not quite sure how their mom keeps up...lol Lilly loves and adores her "Dor-t" and is a total Diva. Jackson is happiest watching TV or playing outside and is a total boy!

It is so sweet to watch them play together,  we have noticed that Lilly and Arlee seem to gravitate more to each other and are most of the time inseparable.

They had a Mickey and Minnie birthday party which of course Arlee loved. He, however was is an ornery mood and refused to take any pictures, what is a picture taking mom to do??? I let the ball drop on pics!

At the end of the day and the sugar rush, they had the time of their lives playing in a huge heap of deflated balloons. It was like a giant bouncy ball! It's always the little things that they enjoy the most.

All 3 of them were jumping into this like is was a trampoline...they were so funny to watch.

A New Year 2017

2017 brought in a new year and some snow. With that snow brought lots of fun for one very excited 3 yr old. He got to sled for the first time, make snow angle and instead of a snowman he made a "snowbaby"..he was a little bitty snowman...lol

Snow is always so pretty. I was a little nervous as to what the winter would be like in KC, but surprisingly it was not much different than Mississippi and a lot of fun memories are made in a snow day!

I'm looking forward to what all 2017 will bring. I know it will bring 2 weddings back home, a girl's trip to Gulf Shores and a few camping trip adventures. The twins will turn 2 and Arlee Bug will turn 4. Boy that was hard to even type. How is that possible? My baby is growing up so fast. But , thank God he is a big "Mommy's Boy"

 I'm excited about these family times, I'm also excited to see what else God has in store for our family. I have several goals for this year, spiritually, physically and monetary. My prayers are to accomplish each one of these for the Glory of God.

May 2017 be a wonderful year for you and your family!