Callie Dance- Take 2

Callie had her second week of dance and she was SO excited!  This time, I didn’t forget my camera- and neither did the other mommas.  I could barely get a picture of Mac because of every other momma taking a picture of their kid, so this is the best I could do.Usually when Callie goes somewhere new, for the first couple of visits she likes to hang on to me and cries when I leave.  Well dance is a different story, she runs into her dance class!

How Ms. Haley keeps the little girls to stand in a line I don’t know, but they do, and I find that amazing.  Last week she said that nobody really danced, this week, Callie and another of the girls were the “leaders” and got the others to dance along.  My child still has no rhythm or good moves, but she is loving showing us all she has.  We’re looking forward to many more dance classes in the upcoming year!

Catalog Living

I recently came across a new website while “blog surfing” and I just had to share it.  It’s called Catalog Living and it gives you “a look into the exciting lives of the people who live in your catalogs.”  And it’s hysterical.  If you’ve ever taken a look into a Pottery Barn catalog and thought “Who really does this” or “What are they thinking?”  You need to check it out.  I linked it below and even copied one of the posts….  Your welcome 

http://catalogliving.net/

I knead to believe…

Despite his age, Gary still held on to the childhood belief that when dinner ended he should leave a baguette on his chair for the Starch Fairy.

JJ and Jill

A couple of weekends ago we threw an Around the House shower with Justin & Chollet and Travis & Emily for our good friends JJ and Jill who are getting married in two weeks.  We had a great time and I think the newlyweds to be did too! The hostesses with the bride to be! I don’t think we’ve ever taken a decent picture of all of us….  Some of the girls at the party!  Can’t believe that in only two short weeks they’ll be getting married!  We love y’all “Jeeel and Moke!" :)

Our Little Ballerina

This week Callie started dance class!  We’ve been dancing around the house now for a long time so she was so excited to finally get to go to actual dance class.  Sadly, this mommy left the house without her camera, I blame the pregnancy brain, so the cell phone had to do.  She had two other little girls in the class that were around two as well and Ms. Haley (her teacher) said that none of them actually danced the first day! haha  Either way, it was nice for Callie to have something to do for an hour and she is still talking about dance class and twirling for Vaughn and me.  She goes once a week and I know that before long she’ll be dancing up a storm for Ms. Haley!

Progress

We are making progress on Callie’s big girl room- FINALLY!  It’s now painted, and I love the way it turned out.  Next- getting her bed frame, dresser drawers, and making her headboard, no problem, right?! 

Blogger Help!

Okay, I need some help from my fellow bloggers!  I would love for my blog to be a “full”page- meaning taking up the width of the screen… I cannot figure out how to “stretch” the blog to make it that way.  Right now if I make anything bigger, it’ll just cut it off. I don’t know where to go in and change that.  If this makes any sense, please HELP!  :)

Sunset Beach, NC

We just got back from another awesome trip to Sunset Beach, NC!  My parents were going down for the week and Callie and I weren’t going to pass up an opportunity to visit.  We’ve been going to Sunset Beach now for over 20 years, and I hope we get to go for another 20 more- it’s my favorite beach to go to in the US.  Callie and I were in vacation mode the whole week which was awesome- we ate what we wanted, slept when we wanted, and played the entire time.  It was just what we needed before the ciaos of Fall hits us- our last vacation before baby girl arrives!

We got down there on Saturday night, which happened to be my mom’s birthday.  We got there late and we didn’t get to eat the yummy cupcakes that night- so we had them for breakfast instead!  Vaughn was able to join us for a couple of days, but had to leave to go back to work- we missed him while he was gone but so thankful that he works so this mommy can be with her little one!  Callie missed him so much that she we colored “Daddy” on every sheet of paper every day. :)Callie loved the beach this time which made our trip even better.  She spent hours down by the water and if she ever got tired, she would say “Night Night” and go lay down on her towel under the tent.  She also enjoyed looking at all the birds so one day we popped some popcorn to take to them.  Mac was not afraid of them- at all.  And if the birds wouldn’t immediately pick up the popcorn, she would go pick it back up and re-throw it to them.  One night after dinner and the sun set, we went out “ghost” crab hunting.  I have no idea how we came up with that term for our late night crab hunts, but that’s what it’s called.  We’ve done it for several years now and it’s so fun.  Papa got Callie her very own flashlight to find them with, and when we weren’t trying to look directly into the light- we found some crabs!  Papa and Callie even tried to dig for sum- she thought it was great!

Hurricane Earl threatened our beach fun, but thankfully he passed right by us.  We did get some clouds and ruff waves, but it didn’t ruin our trip- thank goodness!  The waves did get up to about 6 ft, which is HUGE for the Carolina coast so it was fun to watch.  We went to go see the big waves on the pier- kind of scary but still awesome! While we were there, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take some beach pictures of Callie.  So here are several, I mean a lot, of the pictures I took …

We are now back home and settling back in.  We’re going through beach withdrawals, or as Callie says- “water”, and cannot wait till we can go back!