Thank you Gammy!

So this last few months has been a little difficult to get everything done! Doctors appointments for both boys, my appointments are getting closer together and other stuff that just has to be done. It's a little wearing loading both boys in the car getting the appt. done and then unloading. Not complaining..just not always possible. I had 2 appointments last week. Clay usually stays home in the morning to watch the boys when I go on baby check up but he had a presentation at work. I called Mom last minute to ask her to come and help. She packed up the car and got here that day. Thanks Mom :). Even though she forgot half of the stuff she needed. It was nice to have the company and an extra set of hands on our Adventures! :)
I had been wanting to go to the Splash Pad, but no way was I going to do that by myself. So we set out to do that one day. Thank you GPS for getting us there. The boys had so much fun, even though it's quite a little drive out there it was so worth it to see the boys enjoying the water. And it was Free!! That's even better.
We also were able to get the boys away from Clay on Saturday so he could get the baby room painted. So one step closer to having a finished nursery for the Final time! :)

Visit to the Grandparents

We made a trip to Guntersville to visit Clay's parents, Grandmother, Aunt and cousin. We got there early enough for the boys to both swim and play with Daddy in the lake. Clay's Mom set up a blanket and toys at Momma Pat's house for the kids to play. Luckily we had really nice weather and it was somewhat cool. The boys played hard and we went inside for a great lunch. Cohen had really over done it and needed a nap. Apparently Cohen had over done it on the eating and woke up after an hour sick! After being cleaned up he was ready to play some more. He was really enjoying all of the attention he was getting! Cooper played hard with Grandpa and wore him out I am sure!
WE loved our trip even with all of the Drama! :)

Summer Fun

So once again I am way behind on my blogging, apparently I like to do it all at once! :) After going to waterville Cooper decided he really wanted to go on a water slide again. And obviously we are not able to take them to the water park often so Daddy decided to make them one! It was LOTS of fun..even Mommy and Daddy gave it a go :). Cooper used his boogie board going down the slide as well! Cohen climbed the slide and did it as well..Love having boys!!

Blueberry Banana Bread

I got this recipe off of another blog and had to try it! We had it this morning and it was quite yummy! I thought I would share..especially for my bread loving sister in law :).

2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 large ripe bananas (about 1 1/4 cups)
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups blueberries

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 9x5 loaf pan. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
In a large blow, whisk together sugar, vegetable oil, egg, vanilla and mashed bananas until smooth. Add in flour mixture and stir until just combined and no streaks of flour remain. Fold in blueberries with a spoon or spatula, then pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 60 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with only a few moist crumbs. Cool bread for 10 minutes, then turn onto wire rack. Makes 1 loaf.

Next time I would probably add some walnuts or pecans and also double recipe so I could freeze one. Very good though!

Beach

My fabulous husband decided last minute while we were in Mobile to come up with a way to get us to the beach for a few days. He knows how much I love the beach and wanted the boys to be there this summer..and was willing to take us even though he doesn't have the love for the beach like I do! He found a good deal on a condo on the beach for 2 nights. So we packed up that "night" and drove to the beach. I didn't realize the "view" we would have! Yep our balcony overlooked the Pink Pony Pub, pretty funny! Luckily it wasn't kicking while we were there. There was one bedroom, but there were some built in bunkbeds and a pull out sofa. Mom was going to come the next day but we gave her the stomach bug so she was stuck at home sick..so sorry Mom!! Cooper was ready to hit the beach when we got there, so at like 9 at night we took the boys out for just a few minutes. The next day we packed up for a Waterville trip! Mom was going to take care of Cohen while we took Cooper but she was sick so he got to make this trip too! We loaded up after a quick lunch and headed to Waterville! Crazy Crowded is the best way to describe this place, I was ready to turn around and go back to the condo. But, Cooper was so excited about the slides we didn't want to let him down. Clay and I each had one thing we wanted to do. He wanted to do the Flo Rider and I wanted to do the Lazy River. And well..we didn't accomplish either one. But, the boys played really hard at the toddler land and the wave pool! We ate at Shrimp Basket..and I was very impressed with how well the boys did with that. And the next day hit the beach for a while and played in the pool. All in a all a very fun trip. There is so much we want to do and show the boys.. I am proud we can at least do some of it! I will put a lot more pictures of the beach trip on the website..can't fit them all here :).

Mobile trip

We had a week of vacation 2 weeks ago! We wanted to make the most of it! We had been planning on taking a long trip to the beach but with the oil spill we didn't know what to expect. We also wanted to make a trip to Mobile to visit Mom, Grandma and our Aunts and Uncles. We knew this would be the last trip there before baby 3 is born! Of course Cohen and I got stomach bug while we were there so that was part of the trip. Luckily everyone else didn't get it. Grandma had a hurt leg so we had to stay away for the most part, 2 babies is a bit much when she can't get around. But, we did bring lunch over and get to visit a while. We had more to this trip but I will extend that into another post.
Gammy watched Cohen one afternoon and we took Cooper for his very first movie!! Toy Story 3. We weren't sure what to expect but it went really well! Cooper even wore his 3 d glasses. We had popcorn and he enjoyed his movie with just a little chit chat during the movie! 2 proud parents! Clay watched the boys one day and Mom and I hit the outlet malls and Oyster house. That was heaven for me, I so enjoyed us being able to just get away for an afternoon and have my FAVORITE food at the beach and shop with Mom! Thank you Honey :).
Mom did some grilling and cooking and some of my Aunts and Uncles brought over food as well and we had a wonderful barbecue and enjoyed spending time with family. Cooper loves hanging out with his Aunts and Uncles and Cohen is learning to love the attention too :). Fun Fun trip! Wish we had more pictures..really need to work on that.

Catching up

So..we have been doing a lot and I have been thinking of where to start on catching up on posts. I don't know how far I will get but time to give it a Go! We took the kids to the zoo I don't know 3 weeks ago (yep very far behind) and we mainly took them to play in the water. There are lots of fountains and a foam zone for them to play in. It was a Saturday so I knew it would be busy (and it was). But the boys had a wonderful time. Even Cohen had an area where he could just take off and crawl, he loved it! Cooper really enjoyed the foam zone but the big kids were a bit rough in there!