Family Time!

Less than a week to go before we pack it up for S.C ! I am getting up early to get in a run so tonights post is going to be short and packed with great pictures from the weekend. We celebrated Grandpa Everhart's Birthday on Saturday, he is 57! So we got him his first "Happy Birthday Grandpa" cake.

We then headed to Cleveland on Sunday for an afternoon picnic with Ben's family. Ben was working OT so Audrey and I made the trip solo. Good thing he was in Toledo while Audrey was being pumped full of cake, icing, and yes...reddi wip. Ben's favorite. He is always feeding it to Grace so turn about is fair play Ben! Lucky for me all of the activity left Audrey exhausted and she passed out on the way home then went straight to bed without ever batting an eye!

We've decided to drive over night to S.C instead of trying to stop halfway Friday night. Wish us luck! I will post, if I have time from our "busy" schedule next week. Have a great week!

Girls Just Want to have FUN....

We are SO fortunate to have such wonderful friends and wonderful friends parents! BFF Peyton shares her Grandma Rita's beach with Audrey on those HOT HOT HOT summer days.

So for the past 2 weekends we have been hanging with the Aller's at the Beach. These girls are so darn cute together! HHI is going to be a blast. What is so wonderful about these little swim dates is that Miss Audrey will sleep for a solid 3 hours afterwards. She doesn't even make it to the car without passing out! The girls took time out of their busy play date for a few pics, Audrey fell in love with Miss Rita's anchor (rope) and would scream every time you would try to take it away (yes we are developing a slight temper).

On Saturday night we headed to Maumee for Taste of the Town, I think this was Audrey's first official Festival, and Yes we refrained from the beer garden (how would that look?).

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Bye Bye Chair!

In the event you haven't heard, I scored a La-Z-y Boy Recliner at a recent golf outing, not a result of my golfing capabilities but I won it in a raffle. So I have 60 days to figure out where this glorious chair will go. Well to make a long storey short, I have been hanging on to this rocking chair since I don't know...college? I have lugged this chair around with me for the past 7 years with the hopes that some day when I had a baby, I would use it to rock her to sleep. This chair had been in my parents house for many years. As a matter of fact, I refinished the chair as a 4-H project and took 1st place at the Attica Fair with it! So when I found out I was pregnant I was so excited to finally put this chair to use. I ordered seat and back pillows for it and then when it came down to it, the chair was just to UNCOMFORTABLE. So the chair left us this past week to make room for the new chair. I sold it on Craigs List and even sold the cushions on EBAY. So before parting with the chair, I took advantage of one last photo op. Audrey really liked it and I hated to see it go BUT she (and I and Dad) liked the La-Z-Y boy much more. Adios wooden rocker!

I'm Hungry!

It didn't take long for Audrey to get the hang of eating with her hands. She is so cute to watch! She uses both hands and shovels the snacks into her mouth so fast she doesn't even realize that she is missing her mouth or that the snacks are still in her hand! She is a eating machine (she must get that from me :) )!

Blog Over Load!

I admit, I have been slacking. So tonight I am playing catch up. The Beach Picnic was a great time, Audrey slept great for her first over night at the cottage, probably better than mom and dad did on the inflatable mattress (nothing beats a pillow top!). Sunday morning we packed it up and headed to Medina to meet Julia and spend time with the Ben's sisters, Grace, Julia, and Mark. It was nice to see the family and we are looking forward to getting together with everyone again soon.

Ben celebrated his 31st Birthday on the 27th and Audrey surprised him with his favorite, a peanut butter cup cyclone from "the barn".

This past weekend we met up some some sorority sisters for a cook out and got the babes together for a group pic. These kids are going to be so much fun together!

On Sunday we met up with BFF Payton for a swim and you can tell the swim lessons are playing off. It is so funny to watch her in the water, she loves it! Can't wait to get her to the beach in S.C. Less than 3 weeks to go! Wahoo!

We have practicing the crawling position, I can see her picking this up relatively soon. Here is a cute video I took yesterday. It appears we found an instrument to play! She keeps knocking herself in the head with it but doesn't ever cry. She is one tough cookie!