Life With A Ponytail

Time with Family and Slip-n-slide with Friends

Today was a fun day...for several reasons.

#1. My sister and her kids, and my cousin have been in town and got to come spend the night with us.

#2. It's VBS week at church...more pictures to post later.

#3 Went to a friend's house tonight for slip-n-slide fun.

I couldn't let my nieces and nephew come visit without taking pictures.

I love the missing tooth :)

A large piece of plastic, baby soap, and a water hose...that's all you need for an awesome slip--slide. Everyone had so much fun!!! I had a blast taking pictures of everyone. It was such a great night!!

How cute is he?

A friday night photo session....

with my only willing subject. :)

Had to add the bug-eyes. te he he

Some Changes...

I'm testing out some changes to the old blog. Not sure how it will turn out but I hope it's good!!

Trying to Catch Up...

I'm getting behind on blogging this summer and I'm thinking that I better get caught up before I get too ridiculously behind. We got to spend one day in Florence last week and Paige suggested taking the kids to the big fountain at the Marriott. It was absolutely jam packed with people...almost too crowded but of course the kids had a blast anyway. I took a ton of pictures but because I'm playing catch up right now, I thought I would just share a couple of Macy. She was hilarious to watch and had more fun than anyone there. I could have sat and watched her all day...if it wouldn't have been so hot.

Camden made All Stars this year so we've still been busy every night with practices, etc. This season has been so much fun and we're so proud of both of the boys and how well they've done. Carter and Caley went to spend the night with Aunt Paigie so we decided to let Camden have some boys from the All Stars team to spend the night. Here's a pic of a glimpse into our night. I'll have more pictures to post of the team in the next couple of weeks when the tournament gets kicked off.

a fun evening with some friends

After a fun and relaxing evening with friends at their house in the country, I went home dreaming about how beautiful EVERYTHING was and wondering if maybe we should get out of the city. I don't think we actually ever would, but it was so so nice just sitting by the pool, no sounds of traffic or other "city" sounds...just the kids playing. They have the most beautiful house and pool outside, and the lawn...well, it could have been a golf course. This was how I would love to spend every day of my summer!!

Will...3 months

You may remember me taking a few pictures of my friend Rachel's little boy, Will, several weeks ago. I was so excited when she called and asked me to come take some pictures of him again now that he's 3 months old. He is the sweetest baby and I had to share some pictures with you. Thank you Rachel for asking me to photograph your little treasure!

Cotton Row 2010

We woke up bright and early Memorial Day to watch Thomas run in the 10K Cotton Row run. This was his fourth year to run this particular race and it's always such a fun one to run in and to watch. The race goes right through our neighborhood so me and the kiddos walked down the road to catch daddy at the beginning of the his 6.2 mile run. In the past, there has been no training whatsoever involved but this year he actually ran a couple of times a week before the race because he was trying the break 45 minutes.

Go daddy!

This was right before he got to the finish line. Did he break 45?

Oh yes...he did. Time: 44:42. He placed #166 in the race and that was out of about 2000 runners. I think he placed #16 out of his age group. Not too shabby. We were very proud.

Thomas signed the boys up to run the 5K this year and they did so good.

This was Carter right after the race started. He was soooo excited!

Here he is almost to the end.

This is his face when he's trying to hold his smile in (because he sees me taking a picture of him)....and then he starts to run a little faster to the finish.