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| We'd always planned to finish out the basement someday, but our plans got moved up in schedule a bit when we learned we were expecting baby sister earlier this year. |
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| The room to the right here will be Jeff's office. He'll be getting kicked out of his current home office in about 7 or so weeks. |
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| Future wet bar. |
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| Family room/playroom. |
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| Built in shelving/tv straight ahead, storage behind, bathroom and workout room to the left. |
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| Ry and Uncle Patrick ready to launch the rocket! |
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| Juls thinks it's pretty cool too. She ran and caught this one on the way down. |
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| A boy and his toy. |
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| Love! |
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| It was a full birthday day. I dropped the kids off at Kids Bible Camp in the morning and headed to the OB and got to hear our sweet baby girl's heartbeat. Then Jeff and I went for a fancy-schmancy lunch at my favorite sandwich shop, Jimmy John's (I'm a high maintenance girl, ha!). Then I picked up the kids, we spent the afternoon together, and headed to the KBK carnival in the evening for fun and games (hot!). Jeff then headed to his softball game, and the kids and I couldn't head home until we stopped in The Cupcakery for some celebratory cupcakes! |
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| Always surprising us by her food choices and mature taste buds, Juls chooses the lemon cupcake... |
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| Colin Anderson Rudd meets his brothers. |
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| Isn't he super precious? |
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| Daddy love. |
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| Ryan and Julia are in love with their newest nephew already! |
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| I've got some of the BEST girlfriends! Here are some of "the notorious 9" crew at a Peel lunch. |
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| Amanda, Kel, Em and I pose with Ryan as he shows us some moves. =) |
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| We had a fun 4th hanging with family at the pool and then spending the rest of the day cheering on the Cardinals. (Thanks, Mr. Busch for the tickets!) |
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| The munchkins pretending to be statues...one of their favorite pastimes these days. I can't figure out WHERE they ever got this idea from!?! |
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| Happy 4th of July! |
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| Emily! And she let our little flower girl enjoy a bit of heaven by helping her open presents. |
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| Julia hangs out with her new best friend Melissa. (Who bribed her way into this position by sharing her cupcake!) |
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| Bridesmaids, bride and flowergirl. =) |
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| High school girlfriends! |
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| Ryan was super bummed that we wouldn't let him buy a turtle on our Destin trip. He saw a little one in a gift shop and has yet to let us forget about it. My parents found this little guy in their landscaping and brought him over to try and appease our little man. Mission successful. |
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| After a few days in captivity (and seriously, in my opinion torture by a 6 yr old and 4 yr old!) we convinced Ry it was best to let his little friend go free. That if he was so happy staying at our house, he would stick around, and if he missed his family he would be free to go off and find them again. |
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| While spending time with Glammie and Papa, Ryan found this egg near their house. |
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| Of course, we had to bring this little piece of nature home too. Papa said whatever was inside was no longer living. Naturally, my little guy had to remove it from it's location and bring it home. (Thank you, mom! AUGH!) I did check with our scientist neighbor to make sure it wasn't a snake egg or anything. She confirmed it was most likely a duck or goose egg. Ewww! |
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| I think Ryan's favorite part of playing teeball is the post-game activities. Ice cream! Here, he asks us to pose for him to take a photo. |
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| Excited kids heading for the boat. Julia has been growing out her hair, and it's finally long enough for a ponytail. On another note, I just want to squeeze that little tush! =) |
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| Jeff bought a wakeboard and this was our first trip with it. He wasn't disappointed with his newest toy! |
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| Julia decides to take the plunge and goes for her first (I think??!) ride in the tube with Daddy. |
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| Uncle Brian, Lucas and Tyler chill and watch to let us know when our skier/wakeboarder/tubers are off. |
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| Ry gets cozy with Aunt Amy. |
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| Uncle Jeff and Ry let us throw them around on the tube for a bit. |
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| And photo proof Glammie even went for a ride on the tube! |
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| Look out world! We've been practicing hard! Lucas, Andrew, Tyler, Jake, Emma, Maddie and Julia cool off from their hard work with icy treats. |
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| The kids had a BLAST playing in the pools at Destin West. |
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| Our condo had the ocean on one side, and the gulf coast on the other. Our surfing boys preferred the big waves of the ocean! |
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| Julia and Mommy like the pools best! |
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| Chilaxin' |
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| After our condo rental in Destin, we went on to stay a few nights at the house of friends in Navarre Beach. Navarre is rated one of the top beaches in the nation...we know why!! Beautiful, relaxing, and not nearly as crowded as Destin's ever popular beaches. |
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| Beach bums! |
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| Julia loved playing in the sand with her Ariel doll and making castles for her. |
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| Ryan LOVED surfing. |
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| We lucked out and some great friends, the Morris family, were in Destin for the first portion of our trip and we stayed in the same resort. Tarra, the awesome planner, even brought along two sitters, so we were able to have some adult time on our trip. Horray! |
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| My munchkins! |
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| Humoring me for yet another beach photo! |
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| We can't WAIT to go back again! |
