REWIND…..

I must admit, I am little shocked to have neglected this blog.o.mine for the past 2 months.
Its been a fun, but crazy couple of months.
I think I’ll go back to early March. Our baby girl was the FIRST of the TripleSmiles to lose her first tooth. This was so exciting for her to finally have done something before “her boys.”

In mid March, we celebrated Zachariah’s 7th birthday a little early, because we had plans to be in TN for his actual birthday that he shares with his nana.
We had a Monster Theme Truck Party.
Now…pause for a moment. My big toe hurts. Its just sore, it will get better. After telling myself this for DAYS, I finally broke down and went to the doctor. Guess what? Staph Infection. Yep! After spending several hours at the Urgent Care, and after having a minor surgical procedure, I went back home and started getting this ready:

Because after all….guest were arriving at 10:00am! The Party MUST go on….despite how bad my toe hurt.

This boy was in Monster Truck Heaven!

Then AFTER The party, I got to go BACK to the Dr. because my big toe had gotten huge again. I had to have another procedure and was told to come back Friday. FRIDAY? What, I m leaving town tomorrow to go to TN…..and I hear the whisper of the Holy Spirit….SLOW DOWN.
Ok, so Friday, I checked in and out of the doctor…and off we went to Nana’s.
This is the first time I have attempted this trip alone and the kids did SUPER! We had lots of activities and snacks to keep us busy.

We had a sheet from Every state to go in our USA Road Trip Notebooks.


On our trip….we stopped in Atlanta Georgia to visit cousins…and also a trip to Stone Mountain.
I love this picture!

After stopping in Atlanta, we headed on over the TN border to see Nana. There is never a shortage of things to do at Nana’s and this time was no exception.
This time…..we…….
Visited the Titanic Museum. This is probably now in the top 5 of the best things we’ve ever done!

We were able to pan for gold!


And our sweet Nana and Papa treated us the Wilderness of the Smokies Waterpark for a day.

This was on Zach’s ……and his Nana’s actual birthday! He was 7….and she was 70!

I’ll have to Rewind April….another night!
Thanks for stopping by…..

I blinked…..

and this precious package….

turned F.I.V.E!

Oh.My. Word…..where did the time go? My B.A.B.Y. is F.I.V.E! Of course there is no better place (in my opinion!) to celebrate than The American Girl Store! I love love love teaching Ava about the values and characteristics  I see in the American Girl books…and I love to encourage her pretend play and the way she plays with her dolls. I want her to play like a little girl for as long as possible!
We made a reservation for afternoon tea on the afternoon of her birthday!

We had Tea….



We had friends….





We had LOTS of food and yummys….

We had presents……



We had Present “Security”

We EVEN had Daddy…..

And as crazy as it was…..2 hours later we went to EAT again…..at Japanese Steak House! Ava loves to cook and we thought this would be a super fun birthday dinner!



Such a fun fun day…..I hope my dear Ava, you have many many more wonderful birthdays!