Memorial Day 2012

Thank you to all our service members who so willing give of their time all year round so I can enjoy so many days with my family. I have a special appreciation for military families, I wish I could sum it up in words, but the only way I can seem to is "THANK YOU!"

Today we enjoyed the day at Sandbridge

I enjoy writing in the sand :)

Em and his buddy Malcolm had a good time being pulled around on a mini 4 wheeler

They spent alot of time playing in this bucket of water and loved it! We kept catching them giggling with each other......so cute!

Here is one tired little boy, and a tired little bear, bear too!

Beach on Saturday

After our adventure at the warehouse early Saturday A.M. and Em's marathon nap.....we decided to go down to the oceanfront and enjoy some seafood for dinner :) We ended up at Waterman's, that's our usual go to, I was a little disappointed this time? Something was just off maybe it's because the party crowd was heading in? Just didn't seem family friendly like it used to? or it could have just been that my fries weren't that good! :) 

"Lemons....Yummmy??"

Look at those feet in the sand :)

Emerson had a good time hiding his feet or our feet and saying the newest thing
 "Where it go?.......hummmm?.....I find it!" 

Skippy Peanut Butter

Saturday morning myself, Greg, Em, my Mom and Dad, and Aunt Laurie headed to downtown P-town for a little adventure..........

Consider yourself warned

Creepy!

Are you wondering what any of this has to do with Skippy?

Well....nothing really?! HAHA This picture explains the reason why we ended up in this frightening old Skippy peanut butter plant......reclaimed lumbar!!!!!! I got this guy's number from a nick nack store after spending about 6 months looking for reclaimed lumbar on Craigslist, the side of the road, dumpsters.....you name it.......I looked! I don't know why this was more terrifying than a dumpster....it just felt like something out of a horror movie!!! 

I could only get pictures when we were near a light and I didn't even make it....upstairs. Well......because of some stomach issues but that's besides the point :) 

We got our wood and got out! Then we had a little break so Em could pick up some rocks in the parking lot,  always a good time :)

Greg is CLEARLY thrilled to have spent 30 minutes of his life looking through an junky, abandoned peanut butter factory for some dirty old wood ;) Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Hopefully, he'll be more excited once we have beautiful, original sofa table ;)
My Dad on the other hand, had a GREAT time, so if I ever need to go back, I'll think I'll bring Dad along and leave Emerson with Greg :)

Our Garden-1 month follow-up

We have a few tiny little tomatoes :)

And the basil is doing great, we seeded parsley and cilantro and it's coming up! 

Thanks goodness for all the rain, my crazy schedule right now has given me only a few chances to look out back and see what's going on. Mother Nature has done a good job of taking care of the garden so far, we haven't had to do much. I think I'll put our pole beans in this weekend :)

I talked to a very nice man yesterday and have finally found some reclaimed lumbar!!!! So, we can finish a table we started in the fall? Hopefully Greg's as excited as I am to work on our "honey-do" list this weekend :) If things get really crazy we might get some decks posts in to set-up good while we are gone next week? That's getting really crazy though.........we'll see!?

Children's Museum

We took out first trip to the Children's Museum in Portsmouth, VA

where you are welcomed by a kissing frog, AWWWW 

Em's taking a drive thru the ATM at TowneBank :) Needed some lunch money, I guess? 

Goobers!

He was into the trains!

And the chickens and eggs

And LEMONS!!!???

All of the grocery shopping was a workout so Emerson took MayMay for a ride on a bus, to get some lunch......Chicken to be exact :)

They had a "make it, take it" room so, we did!

Add to my never-ending "to do list"......Must make a chalkboard wall at home! I think I have the perfect spot!

They had the coolest stage with lights and sounds and dress-up clothes! Emerson wasn't into dressing up? Oh well!

This was so fun! I think we could have done this for hours. 

Emerson was pushing his little hands into this GIANT PinPression and saying "high five"

I'll spare you the images of Momma and MayMay's impressions but they were good for a few laughs! 

Overall, we had a great time. Emerson will LOVE it when he's a little older. He's still in that stage where he doesn't really know how to pretend? I think he was a little overwhelmed?

Air Show in Pungo

Snacking on "brapes" and "fishez" aka "Grapes and Goldfish"

Look at these cute little guys and the cute little car! It's called a Messerschmitt? That's Malcolm on the left, Emerson's buddy. Let me fill you in on a secret....these two were sitting the back seat on the way home bitting their toes!!! Ewwwww! Really gross but cute, especially to hear the two of them giggling about it.

Hi Baby!

Make it Monday

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It's Make it Monday once again and I wanted to give you a glimpse of what Emerson and I threw together this weekend! We combined the 2 versions above and came up with this......

Just some PVC and some fittings that I picked up at Lowe's for about 20$

We made the frame around 2 Hefty plastic containers that have locking lids since we are going to play with this outside I figured this was important to keep funky things out?

One has water in it right know and I think I will put sands or beans in the other side? We can change it up when we feel  like it and.......Em's review?

He LOVES it!