Madison's 1st Day of Preschool

My baby girl started Preschool today. I am so excited for her, because I know she loves to go hang out with kids and she has a love for learning too! Chi-ching! I get to pick her up in a little over an hour. I can't wait to hear all about her day!!!

I have seen this idea all over blogland and I plan to keep it up every year:

We gave a flower arrangement just like this to her teacher last year too. Check it out here. I got the idea from this site.

At school:

Madison and her teacher, Ms. Ashley

Brantley's 1st Birthday Party: Nautical Theme

Today we celebrated my son's first birthday! I truly can't believe it has been a year since he was born. We had such a great time with friends and family. I appreciate them all for coming out to make this a special day. Here are a few pics from the party:

The birthday boy:

Our happy family:

The adorable cake was created by my mother. I showed her some inspiration pics that I found online and she created this two tiered masterpiece!

The food table. We served sandwiches, chips/dip, fruit skewers, pickles & goldfish.

Fruit skewers:

The birthday boy's throne:

The birthday boy with his smash cake:

Yum!

It was such a great time! Now, I need to get off here so I can get ready for my father-in-law's birthday celebration!

Happy 4th of July!

Our day is going great so far! We started it off with an old-fashioned bike parade in our neighborhood.

Then, some of our neighbors came over for a quick swim.
After lunch, my little family headed out to the fireworks stand. My husband is a bit of a pyromaniac. Can you tell? :)



Then, since the local snow-ball stand packed up and headed for the Watermelon Festival, we went to Sonic.


Blue Coconut and Grape Cream-Slushes!!!


Now, we are headed home. The family is coming over in a short bit for a cookout. Then, we will top off the night by going to view the city's firework display.
Happy Birthday, America, from the Guy Family.






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Reversible Bib

I wanted a project to work on while we relaxed at the beach. So I brought all of the supplies for a reversible bib. Since we are planning a trip to Disney, I appliquéd Mickey on one side. The other side is an airplane. I freehand my designs. The Mickey is an easy one...just find two circles that are proportional to Mickey's face. I drew the airplane while looking at a design online.

Supplies:
Fabric
Felt
Coordinating embroidery thread
Needle
Heat-n-Bond
Iron
Sewing Machine/thread


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May Days

Hi! I have been MIA on my blog. Sorry! I do have "stuff"to show off, but for now I'll just tell you about our day.

It still feels good outside in May...warm but not too hot. Today has been great. It began with a brisk walk with my neighbor. Then, my lovely niece came over to hang out for a few hours. The girls swam in the pool until thunder forced us inside.


Then we enjoyed a yummy treat. Banana pudding!!! Isn't that a perfect spring/summer dessert?!


Even Brantley got a special (mushed-up) version.




Now the girls are showing off their art skills on the easels.



Hmmmm...the rain is gone. Maybe it is time to get back in the pool! Toodles!

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Easter/Spring Fun-Part 1

So, I haven't posted in a while. Our external hard drive is messed up and that is where my mac is set to store all of my pics. Since I don't know if enough about computers, I haven't been able to go around this. My husband has been far too busy for me to beg him to fix the issue just yet. So, I finally decided to use his laptop. :)
Here are a few pics from our Easter happenings.

This was a family day. We drove to Fairhope and took pics at the pier. Madison had a small egg hunt by the water (mostly so I could take pics).  Then, we ate a yummy lunch while listening to some live music in the quaint downtown area. What a fun day!

This is from our neighborhood Easter egg hunt:

We made Easter cookies with some neighborhood friends. I love the hands on learning of the real Easter story. Madison is old enough now to begin to understand what really happened on Easter Sunday. You can find the recipe here. I completely forgot to take a picture of the baked cookie. Sorry!

This is what has been going on at our house.

I'm not even going to explain why we are having to get a new pool liner-but I will say it wasn't "time" for a new one.



The water is only at about 10 inches right now in the shallow end, AND the water is FREEZING COLD...but my daughter and my husband think it is time to swim.



I attempted to get a cute pic of my frozen popsicle. First, she gave me this cheesy smile. So, I tried to catch her off guard...




She caught on, and ran !




Happy Monday!

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