Beach

**Sorry, we have been bad bloggers. These are pics from our vacation that occurred in late May** Please forgive the poor blog etiquette. We are from Valley, remember.

Ladies, don't fear. I am seeing over these sands and no one is getting hurt on my watch. Eat your heart out Hassellhoff!

So while Brantley patrolled the shores, he wanted nothing to do with the water.

Brantley found that the Splash Pad was much more fun and less hassle than going to the ocean. Sand is over-rated.

However, a faceblast is always a downer (except for those watching it).

The Ham cutting a rug at the Red Bar. This little thang had all the young women eatin' out of his hand. They couldn't get enough of this monkey.

The obligatory family beach photo. Dang, we forgot the white shirts and tan shorts .

This is us in front of my favorite Oyster Bar - Hunt's. It is a bonafide dump, but has awesome oysters. I went out to get Ginger her coat, and when I came back my family was outside and the baby crying. Turns out the Boy Wonder decided to "vomik" all over the place. Rernt milk vomit in an oyster bar ain't a great combo.




Pretty Mommy and baby at a free outside concert.

Stay tuned for "First Haircut" coming later this week

Random pics (and thoughts) over last month

Briarwood had a church picnic so Branltey and I decided to swoosh down the massive air slide. Although it appears that I am easily frightened or have a low threshold for gravitationally-induced aerated steep declines, I am actually yelping a hot plastic causes much friction on bare skin. Brantley is, however, quite unimpressed.

Our neighborhood recently had a Crawfish Boil with live music. Our little man really dug the band.

Brantley's favorite trick during meal consumption is to squeeze his fists and grimace with a valsalva maneuver (you'll have to look that one up, Ashley). It is super cute, but I hope he doesn't burst a blood vessel in the process.

A lovely picture with baby and DaDa that was also shared by PokieDots, who is a Hot Mess for Hire and specializes in animal-balloogenesis. This blue creation being waved by Pokie is a balloon platypus.

Easter Weekend

Easter in Valley and Brantley's first real egg hunt!!!

A few pre egg-sploring pictures of Brantley rocking, as he prepares to embark on a quest for plastic spheres.

The eggs were ready and hid, but first we have to get a few pictures and sing, "If you happy and you know it..." As you can see Brantley's got his happy on.

CHEESE!! I love this little smile.


We did not have great luck getting a family photo, but this one isn't bad.

Let me go Mama! I've got much business to attend to.

Hoppy Easter! The Bunny has brought baby many surprises...however, chocolate eggs wrapped in foil is not a great idea for a 14 month old.

This is an awesome basket to gather all my eggs in. But where are my Cadberry eggs and why does Daddy have chocolate and colorful foil on his mouth.

I like this mode of transportation...it's much better than walking (so I'm told).

Ryan's Birthday was on Easter this year! It was a great to clebrate our Lord and Savior and the day Ryan was born. God is so Good!

We will have more celebration when Ryan finshes exams.

I hate these childproof eggs.

Huh, I was wondering where that went.

I love my Nanny!!

You guys are not hunting eggs very well!

Brantley's reply: You're not focusing the camera very well.


Yeah! You found one!!

Here are also a few pics of Brantley playing in the front yard

You don't want none of this.

Our little man is growing very fast he is already 14 months old. He always has somthing to say (though we can't quite understand him). He loves his daddy, and does not like it when Ryan has to go to work. He told Ryan "no" when he said " Bye Bye". He loves to sing and point his fingers at me. He has nine teeth and we are waiting on the tenth to pop through. He is such a joy to our lives.

Finally, we went to see Wicked this week. It was incredible. Ginger is a huge Wizard of Oz fan, so she obviously loved it. I was just happy not to be studying.

Zoo

I took Brantley to the zoo with my neighbor Ashley. This is his first visit to the animal fair. We are hoping to go a lot this spring and summer. Ryan was a trooper and met us that afternoon after being on call. Brantley was very excited to see his daddy. We had such a great day.

Brantley saw the kangaroos. Which, by the way, are very lazy.

Mommy, those birds' knees are on backwards.

Mommy it's embarrassing to make me as tall as a Giraffe

Giddy up Daddy.

That was fun but I am ready for a nap.

Going home

These are a few pictures of when Brantley and I went home about three weeks ago.

The boys love to ride with paw paw.

Big dad and Grandmother

Nanny was getting some snuggle time.

Brantley got to see aunt Tawan while we were home.

This post is a little late but better late than never. We went home three weeks ago for my Friend Leanne's baby shower. She is having twin girls at the end of June. While we were home, we got snowed in. We had ba great time.

Lee lee being silly

We almost got the whole family.

While we were home we celebrated Brantley's fist birthday with the family.

El happo birthdayo

All the boys!

Momma Jean with a Bear and his blankey.

My snow bunny.

When I was your age, I walked both ways through the snow, barefoot with shorts and a wife-beater on.

A cute picture, but he sorta looks like Ralphie's little brother in "A Christmas Story"

Can we go back inside, Mommy? The snow stuff is for polar bears, not baby bears.