taylor turns 1!!!

so this past weekend taylor turned one! time has FLOWN BY! it really does seem like yesterday that i was swimming laps in the pool followed by hours of walking and cursing her to "GET OUT!!!" oh memories! anyway, we had lots of fun for her birthday. the only thing missing was daddy of course! my sisters flew in for the week and we had a great little cookout with all of our friends.
i forget how quickly the kids grown up too...within that week my sisters were here taylor started standing up on her own...walking with the push shopping cart walker she got for her birthday, and calling mama and coming to find me...which is huge...she only used to call for me when she was upset! so that makes me happy. anyway, here are a couple of pics that summed up the week!

tregan's first fishing trip

let me start off by saying i have the most amazing neighbors. the women are great and their husbands are terrific too. the guys have been playing with tregan and taking him to do "guy" stuff ever since shawn left and it has been such a blessing. well today, mr. brad took tregan on his first fishing adventure. he took tregan up to the lake a few minutes from the house...the conservation dept was putting on a fishing event for the kids. he had so much fun and had so many stories to tell me from, the fish tried to bite me, to mommy...they are sharp! he even won a new fishing pole! so i guess that means more fishing trips!

ELMO!!!

For part of his birthday I took Tregan (and Taylor) up to Raleigh to see Sesame Street Live. They both loved it!!! I splurged and got floor seats which were right next to the stage and it made the experince even better because The characters came off stage and gave the kids high five and all that good stuff. This will definetly be a show that we continue to do!

tregan's birthday trip

so we're back from florida...it was great to see my parents & sisters and tregan LOVED all the extra attention (however i'm paying for that now). we had a fun trip but just wished we had a little better weather. if it wasn't raining the wind was blowing 25-40 miles per hour...and thats not just guts...constantly. tregan was such a trooper with it and tolerated it as much he could..but taylor on the other hand did not like the stinging sensation of the sand. but we made the most of it and tregan played outside our room a lot with his new cars he got for his birthday. and although it rained on his birthday he still had fun bowling (and beating his auntie maya!!) and "playing" video games at the arcade there. we also went to gulf world which was neat...we had been there when we were little. he is such the little man now! it kind-of makes me sad...but like i've said 10,000 times not sad enough to have anymore!
and as a side note...funny thing...i don't have any pics of him with his cake or party...i was too busy video taping to send it to daddy...so if his aunties hurry up and send me some pics i'll post them too!

FLORIDA!!!

So we're headed to Florida! Yeah! This is the first family vacation (minus Shawn) my parents, sisters and I have taken in years. I'm very excited. What's even more exciting is that we'll be celebrating Tregan's 3rd birthday on the beach...which he is very excited for. All he has been talking about lately is his party on the beach! So next post will hopefully have some great pictures from our trip! Until then...

life this past month...

Life has been crazy busy this past month. Shawn was busy with work getting ready for his deployment but luckily he was able to take 2 weeks off. He called home one day during a crazy day and told me to book a trip to Mexico. He didn't have to tell me twice! So we dropped the kids off in Oklahoma and flew down to Mexico for a few days to relax. And let me tell you...I didn't know how much I needed that along with some alone time with my husband until we were there. It was nice to go back to our "kid free" days...although I missed those kiddos to no end. (now, I don't know if the feeling was mutual though. After landing I had called my parents who went to visit the kids while we were gone and one of the first things my mother told me was "those kids didn't miss you at all.") Now, I know that is good that the kids did well without us but it still kind-of stabs you in the heart! Anyway, Shawn and I had a great trip and now the kiddos and I are making the best out the time we have while daddy is away.

deployments...yuck

So the bad word has popped up and is showing it's ugly face in our household. Yep...deployment time. We have been so fortunate to have him home for this long...these days having your husband (or wife) home for a couple years is like an eternity. The up side to the whole deployment is that it is only 6 months...so that is a blessing. So we are going to embrace it and have a wonderful summer starting with a well needed vacation to the beach!!! whoo hoo!!!