Fun Weekend!

It is Monday again but we had such a good weekend! It started off with a surprise Friday morning when mom told me that Alex was going to propose to Katherine on Saturday night. I was totally shocked and had no idea it was going to be this soon. So since that was happening MM and JD came in town! Saturday we hung out with MM while JD, Dad, Nate and Whit played golf. It was a good day just chatting about the engagement that was coming. Kat had NO IDEA and it was so exciting. MM, Abbie and I went over to Kat's apartment about 5:30 to get the front porch ready for the proposal. Alex had asked Tom(his friend) and Abbie to get it all together but we wanted to help too. So we got flowers, candles, and champagne all out on the porch. They had gone to a nice dinner "just for fun" or so Kat thought. We met the boys and mom and dad for dinner then we all headed over to Alex's friends house where he had planned a surprise engagement party. After he proposed he got her over to Walkers house for another surprise for the night. He had texted all their friends to let them know he was proposing and to come celebrate. There were about 50 people at their house when Katherine walked in after just getting engaged. She was completely surprised by the engagement and also seeing MM and her friends from Oxford. I do not have any pictures bc mine were all blury. It was a fun night! Let the planning begin!
The boys had spent the night with Deedee and Jimbo bc of the engagement party but we got up and met them to head to the lake! Ann and Dennis had invited us to come out to the lake for a few hours so we took advantage of the hot day on the water. Whit and Charlie had so much fun! Whit and Tucker enjoyed playing together and got along great. There was a trainer ski float and Whit kept saying he wanted to do it. So Tucker did it behind the boat first to show Whit how and Nate and I looked at each other and were saying there was no way he would do. Well he did!! We were shocked and soooooo surprised. He loved it so much! I cannot even tell you how proud I was. He is so big and I was so so so proud. We had a fun day!



Beach Trip 2014

This post is going to have a ton of pictures but I just want to have them so I am putting them in  :)
We had a great week at the beach with my family this year. We went back to Orange Beach. It works well to have 2 condos right on the beach so we do not have to haul stuff back and forth all the time. We put up the tents when we got there and they were up for the week! The weather was great. It only rained one afternoon. It was hot but not as hot as it could have been for July. The water was pretty every day so we were able to get in often. No sharks either! Everyone was able to make it down at some point in the week except JD. He was missed (a lot) by my boys!
Mom cooks almost every night at the beach. It is just easy and enjoyable bc we eat after the boys are down for the night. One night we ate at Fishers downstairs and it was great!
It was Charlie's first real trip to the beach. Last year he was just so little that he did not understand. This year he was all in! He LOVED the sand so much. He rolled around in it, ate it and played in it! He is my beach boy. Whit is not a major fan of sand. He is so sweet and he would just sit in a chair under the tent most of the time. He didn't complain. He just wanted to go to the pool and swim the whole time. Thankfully daddy is the best and swam with him a lot! It was a good week, exhausting, but good! These vacations are not vacations.... just a relocation of life at this point! Thanks Cookie and Doc for a great week!!!

Nate and Doc took the boys to the museum one day and they loved it!

Crabbing one night with Whit

Charlie slept with Cookie forever!

We missed you JD!

I heart him so much!

Love!

Early Early mornings were not so bad

Thankful for all these women

These 3 are lucky to have each other!