Family Vacation!!!!!! (Part 1)

I cannot tell you what FUN we had on our family vacation! There were 8 adults and 6 children in a 6 bedroom house with its own pool. The house was located in a gated community with a clubhouse, movie theater, pool with water slide, etc. Needless to say it was AWESOME!!!

To say the least we really enjoyed all the "pool time."

While we were there Blair turned FOUR!!! Where has my baby girl gone? I cannot believe next year I'll be dropping her off at school. Enough of that....we celebrated Ava and Blair's birthday while we were in FL. The girls loved their Minnie Mouse birthday party. They are my favorite four year old girls!This is "the fam" outside of our house on Sunday morning. Aren't we a good lookin family!!!

Now for the real fun!!! SeaWorld and Disney World were AWESOME! The kids had the best time. I had some outfits made for Logan and Blair for Disney World. I figure two things: (1)You might as well dress them like you want while you can (2)If you're going to Disney World you might as well go all out. I think they looked precious!!!!

My favorite part of Disney World was seeing Mickey and Minnie. Logan loved Mickey Mouse and Blair loved the fact that she matched with Minnie! The rest of the day Logan was constantly looking for Mickey...it was so cute!

SeaWorld was just as awesome as Disney. Blair and Logan adored Shamu. I think it was the highlight of their trip. Both of them came home with a "stuffed" Shamu and they have continued to carry it around since we've been home. Logan loved the Shamu show. He never took his eyes off Shamu. When Shamu was under the water Logan would stand up and yell, "Mu, Mu, are you!

Too much fun, too many pictures! More to come soon!!!!!!!!

August FUN!

It's been a long time, but in my defense I've had some computer troubles. So....here's a catch up. Hold on!

Blair and Logan got to experience a FIRST together. I was so excited for both of them when we got invited to spend the weekend at the lake (thanks Scott and Becca). We spent the riding jet skies, tubing and cruisin on the pontune boat. Logan wanted control of the wheel and Blair just loved being with her "favorite friends."

About a month ago, I got a new car!!! We were really out growing the Xterra and I hated to see it go, but I'm LOVIN my Tahoe. It's just perfect for our family, but I have to say it's been an adjustment getting use to. At first I felt like I was driving a school bus. So...Jared and I have been keeping a secret from one of our favorite 16 year old girls at church...we consider her and her family apart of our family. She has such a sweet heart and a fun personality. We were thrilled when her Mom decided to buy our Xterra from us. One night after dinner we cleaned up the car, put a bow on the windshield and surprised her with her new car. To say the least she was excited. Congrats Catlin, we love ya!

Last weekend the Craig's came to stay with us for a few days. We had the BEST time!!!! The kids played so well together and us adults laughed until our stomach's hurt. To top it all off the ORIGINAL BG 5 got together for the first time in two years. Things sure have changed for all of us, but one thing that remains constant is our friendship. I'm thankful for them.

It sure has been a busy, but fun August....Now for some real fun in September. Get ready for Blair's fourth birthday and a trip to Disney World with the WHOLE Nix family! We cannot wait!

Growing up!

My sweet Blair-Lizzy is growing up. We hot rolled her hair for the first time the other day. She felt soooooooo big. I cannot believe in a month she will be FOUR. Seems like just yesterday tears were rolling down my face as I held her for the first time. The Lord knew just what we needed when he blessed our family with Blair.

I am more in love with this kid everday. I cannot get enough of his smile, laugh, kisses, hugs and the way he says momma! Logan seems to be growing so much faster than I remember with Blair...maybe it's just because he's the second child. I wish I could put a brick on his head to stop him from growing.

Kyle took these pictures of Logan not too long ago and I think he captured his personality and of course his "pretty smile."

When I count my blessings, I always count my children twice.

"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you." Philippians 1:3

Weekend with Noni and Papa!

Jared's parents came for the weekend. We had a wonderful time as always! They hadn't been to our house since Logan's birthday, so Blair was so excited they were coming. But of course whenever we are expecting company or going out-of-town one of my kids always gets sick. This time it was BOTH. They started running a fever on Tuesday morning, so I took both of them to the doctor on Wednesday. Both of them had hand, foot and mouth disease. It was rough for a few days, but today they are feeling much better.
On Friday Noni and I took the kids to Jackson's Orchard. They were so excited to get out of the house and run outside.

Of course since Noni and Papa were coming, Blair wanted to take them to see the HotRods baseball game. Blair was prepared with her tee-shirt and hat. Normally she eats a whole bag of peanuts by herself, but since her mouth was sore, she decided not too. But, she did of course sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the seventh inning strech.

Saturday morning we took the kids to the park to feed the ducks and play for awhile. Logan is so funny trying to throw this bread. He throws chunks instead of pieces and his chunks never quite make it in the water.

My kids love to play at the park. It always takes Blair a minute or two to get warmed up, but Logan is prepared at all times. He loves ALL the slides...big and small.

Then after some lunch at a delicious Mexican resturant here in town we went and took a few pictures at the "wildlife overlook" in our neighboorhood.

Such a fun weekend!!!!! Now we are on the count down to September when we leave for Florida and take the kids to Disney World. I'm not sure whose more excited, me or the kids.