Insta-Friday

Saturday

Playing at Toy R Us after running some errands.  How much for these kids??

The boys asked us to take this picture while we were waiting for Supper.

Sunday

We decided to go spend the day at my Parent's house.  The boys loved swimming with Grandma & Papa.  We went out to supper with them, then headed home.

Monday

Memorial Day!! 

Chick fil a for lunch after Swimming Lessons!!

Tasty Lettuce Wraps, Cucumber Salad & Spring Rolls for Supper

Wednesday

 Reading while the boys play "Cars" this morning.

Reece and I got our haircut after Swimming lessons today.  Loving my new shorter haircut for the summer.  

Crispy Edamame for Snack

Cornflake Chicken Cordon Bleu for Supper

Thursday

Playing at the park before Swimming Lessons

Tigers blood snowballs after swimming lessons and the boys faces after snowballs :)

Friday

We stayed home today and made homemade ice cream from Pinterest that is suppose to taste like Wendy's frosty!!  It tasted really good, not exactly the same but good!!

We found a fun surprise in the mail from Grandma, she mailed Grady's hat that he forgot at her house on Sunday!!!

Wonderful night margaritas, movie night with my boys and my Nike+ fuel band came in tonight!!

Thanksgiving Week

Photo by: Reece

Monday 
Grady woke up Monday morning with a sore throat, runny nose and fever.  He was really not feeling good he laid around on the couch most of the day.

Photo by: Reece

Tuesday

We decided to bring Grady to the doctor the doctor said it was just a virus.  Grady was feeling better that afternoon so we decided to go to the movie theater to see Wreck it Ralph.

Wednesday 

We went to Mandeville for thanksgiving.  It was pretty warm out and the boys convinced Keith and papa to get their suits on to be the lifeguards for them.

 Thursday

Thanksgiving Day

We had a nice small thanksgiving with my parents, my brother and sister in law Amber.  We had two fried turkeys and a lot of other wonderful foods and desserts.

After lunch Papa turned on Cars 2 movie in 3D for the boys to watch, Keith and I napped.

 Friday

 We hung out at my parents house, watched the LSU game and then headed home after supper.  After we put with boys to bed Keith and I put up the Christmas tree so we could start decorating tomorrow.

Saturday

Wake up call from Reece!  We went to Lafayette for an O'Meara Thanksgiving.  The boys showed everyone the big I Love You sign that Grady came up with.

After removing a huge splinter Grady got on his foot from dance in just socks on the porch while we hung Christmas lights, we hung Christmas ornaments (or ingredients what Grady called them this morning).   Grady reading the Mister Bingle story to Reece.

 Sunday

After church we went to Best Buy to buy a new bigger tv for us (really Keith).    We also bought a movie for the boys that we watched tonight.  It was a nice lazy day to our busy but wonderful Thanksgiving Week/ Weekend.   I hope everyone had a wonderful and Safe Thanksgiving.

7 Quick Takes: Swimming, Birthday & Friends

1. Floating
           We got our float back from our niece Audrey (we let her borrow it last year, since we were not using it).  Reece LOVED floating around the pool on Saturday and it was nice to have our hands free to play with Grady.  On another note Grady does not like to float on his back, he goes crazy when we or his swim teacher tries to get him to do it.

2. Fishing
        Grady and Keith went fishing this weekend in our "lake" behind our house.  Grady does a pretty good job casting, but still not ready for a hook because it ended up around Grady and Keith's legs a number of times (right now he has a fake worm on the end).  Alligator update:  They caught the small gator he was 5' 7".  Still trying to get the big one :)

3.  Making Cake
         Grady helped me make a Chocolate Layer Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting for Keith's Birthday on Tuesday.  Keith wanted a chocolate cake so I looked up recipes and found this one.  Then when I got ready to make the frosting I saw that I had to make a custard (which I have never done before), at one point I thought I had started scrabbling the eggs.  Then you have to let the custard cool for 45mins, melt chocolate and let that cool.... oh my!!  The cake is great but very time consuming especially with a 3 year old "helping."

4. Keith's 31st Birthday
       Grady helped me wrap Keith's gift, make the cake and decorate the house.  We had a wonderful dinner but Grady would not eat a bite so he cried while we were singing Happy Birthday because he knew he was not getting any cake.

5. Reece scooting backwards
        Reece has started scooting backwards.  I don't think he does it intentionally yet but he is really starting to move around.

6.  Show-off Day for Swimming Lessons
       On Thursday Grady had his Show-off Day for his second session of swimming lessons, Keith came to watch this time.  Grady did great, he can swim farther now and this time the teacher also dropped them in the pool and they had to turn around and swimming back to the ledge.   After showing off we went to Gatti's Pizza with some friends that were taking swimming lessons at the same time.   We are so proud of you Grady, we are swimming great now it is hard to believe that 4 weeks ago you were using arm floats.

7.  Blueberry Farm
       Today we went to a Blueberry Farm to pick blueberries with some of our friends.  It was a lot of fun, none of the blueberries Grady picked made it into the bucket he ate them all.  It was REALLY hot out today (heat index of 105 degrees) and it is only June.  We had lunch at friend's house that lives close to the farm and then Grady & I got a DQ Blizzard on the way home (YUM!! I wish we had a Dairy Queen in Baton Rouge).  

Swimming Lessons

On Monday Grady started taking swimming lessons at Crawfish Aquatics.  Kids can not start lessons here till they are 3 years old and parents are NOT allowed near the pool.  Well on Wednesday when I was waiting near the gate at the end of class they opened the gate and Grady's group was still swimming and I got to see Grady swimming.  It was amazing he was swimming from the step to his teacher a couple feet away and they she would get him and give him a little push and he would swim back to the step.  AMAZING!!  I would have never thought he would be swimming like that after only 3 days.  I am so happy I signed Grady up for 2 sessions, I just can not wait to see what he can do after 4weeks of swimming lessons.

From 2010 - 05

I took this video Friday night at our clubhouse pool.