Summer 2012// Aka: possibly the longest blog post ever :)

Okay, I have been pretty bad about posting our day to day lives on this blog. To be honest that is really the only reason why I started it. Fail. SOOO, in order to catch up, I have decided to do an iphone picture dump of our summer. Now, yep, yes, I am a professional photographer. So where are all of the professional pictures of my summer you may ask. Why on my handy, dandy, 5 inch iphone. People, do you expect me to carry my large bulky camera around to every park, zoo and chick fil a in the Birmingham area, while juggling two small children (one that does not walk and one that does walk but chooses to run away making me look like a psycho maniac yelling at him if we are in a parking lot), a very large diaper bag, a double stroller and all the small toys that Harris decided to drag with us that day? Nope? I didn’t think so. I know some moms do it, (okay a lot of moms) but they are supermoms and I never claimed to be one. Mmmmkay?

Anyways, here are a few hundred pictures to help us remember this FUN summer.

The Zoo saw a lot of us this summer. Harris knows it like the back of his hand now. This day we went with our friends and realized it had been a while since we had a picture of the fab four :).

Best friends forever

Ruthie pretty much will play with anything that is NOT a toy. I have to be creative.

Harris LOVES mascot looking things. Oh, you can’t tell. How come? Doesn’t he look so excited?

A little dancing in the street. 

Never a dull moment.  Maybe this kind of no fear mentality will make us a bunch of money one day. I don’t know, maybe he will be a acrobat or a stunt double. A momma can dream can’t she?

Date night! Whoop whoop! We get so excited our minds got fried and we ended up in the kids section of Barnes and Nobles looking at the train table. True story. We might have or have not been told by a lady there that we were pathetic. Pssh!

Bedtime stories.    Pretending like we were 23 again and we got to sleep in. This is not a true story.

We had a visitor. We called her the baby whisper or I think Ruthie wished momma had a little extra sumin sumin like her great grandmother did ;). Sorry hunny. What you get is what you get.

Two little monkeys. Now tell me, do you see me having room for my Canon 5D Mark ii? I didn’t think so. 

A rare family picture. To me this is worth a million dollars. Even though Harris isn’t really adding much to the picture I still treasure it and I am just glad he is there. We were supporting Uncle Richard at the Avondale Brewing Company Riverfest. What?! You have never heard of taking small children to a Brewery? You should do it, greaaat fun!

He told me his eyes were catching fire. Please hunny take my sunglasses pronto. I can’t imagine the pain ;)

Sad day. Jeremy had to leave to go out of town for work, FOR A WEEK! Longest we have ever been apart. Michelin woman packing on the pounds. Sweetie that is a good thing now, so I say eat up buttercup!

Why is she so PRECIOUS?! Yum yum and could just scoop her up! Hunny, you don’t quite where a size 17 yet.. But you better believe the minute you hit a 16 1/2 we will come back for these shoes and sign you up for the Lakers or something like that.

You know, just a little afternoon golf in our undies. 

Yes, we were SITLL missing daddy. :(

Cutie patootie shoes.

Sweet little dumpling. Messy house.  

Potty trained this silly kid. Seriously, where does he come up with this stuff?! He is very creative. 

I actually went to the pool, ONCE, all by myself, Alone.  Did I mention I was by myself. It felt weird.

We went to the Mcwane Center a lot to beat the heat. Gigi went with us this time. Ruthie thinks she is the queen of the Tot Spot. She greets each new child that comes in. 

Harris got pretty excited when he saw this tiny potty. 

Brother and sister hugs. 

Daddy came back!!! Harris wasn’t sure he would. He hugged him for about 5 minutes. It was precious. And then I left the house for a 7 hour spa day and some shopping.

Just kidding. 

Visits from Papa.

We went to the rickety fair. Sweet children of mine, if you read this when you are adults please know we went because we love you and wanted you to have fun. Not because we wanted you to pick up some kind of disease and be on the news because one of those ferris wheels finally fell apart due to a couple of the missing screws. Harris had his first blind date on the train.

Fun at Fulton’s birthday party. 

Getting ready for the big joint Birthday party. Pictures to come. 

Ruthie likes to massage Harris’ hair. I am not sure if she can be a masseuse yet or not ( I am sure that goes against some child labor laws) but it is about time she starts earning her keep around here. I kid ;)

Playing with snakes. 

Reading our Bible and learning our memory verses. 

Pinterest activities. Working on our alphabet. 

There she goes with the head massaging thing again. Can I get in on some of this action?! I am the one that birthed you girlfriend.

Loving the park. She is good now because I can sit her somewhere and she is fine to stay there. Where we are going to have an issue is when she actually wants to get up and play. Now that might be a problem. :)

Lunch dates with daddy!!

Fun with the camera.

Harris’ new obsession. Oatmeal cream pies. I asked him one day if he wanted a oatmeal cream pie for dessert and he said “no, I want a oatmeal RED pie” Ha! This whole time he thought I was saying “green pie”

Fun playdates! Lord, please help us all when these three get on the roads. 

“Oh, you know, just on my elephant phone.”  

More McWane fun. 

Ruthie was real brave and climbed up these stairs and went down the slide all by herself. Did I mention she is really advanced?

  

Ruthie, sweetie pie, angel baby. It might be time to teach you how to pluck your eyebrows. Is 10 months too early for that?

We loved the Olympics!! Okay, so maybe I just lied. I only really got into the synchronized swimming. But I wanted to pretend like I cared about all of the other stuff like trampoline jumping and archery and all that jazz.   (can you start a sentence with But? I am sure I have already done it a couple of times so I am just going to change the rules and say you can. Mmmkay?)

Zoo some more. 

Weird fact about Harris: The only animal he is scared of is the owl. He is deathly afraid of them and would probably rather touch or be near a alligator that could eat you or a poisonous snake than an owl. Ya’ll? He kills me. Is this normal?!

Or he would hug this Komodo dragon. 

Cutie!! She loves playing peek a boo!

I am going to miss these beautiful walks when it is the dead of winter. 

Working on the tractor.

Thank you Lord, she is finally eating better. 

Railroad park fun! She loves her some good swing time.   

I think she is trying to walk. Don’t mind if you do sweetie.

Family picture from Fulton’s Birthday party. 

Okay. If you have made it this far congratulations, you are through!! Now I feel so much better that I have documented some of our summer. I am sure I am forgetting a ton of stuff but you get the gist. Now bring on the fall and then skip winter and bring us back to summer ;)