Beach Bound with the Usual Suspects

Ok, this post is a good month late, but what can I say?  Lazy?  Sick?  Too tired to blog and upload pictures from a long day at work?  Let’s go with the first one. :)  Last month, we went to Oak Island with our good friends and their children for a few days of relaxation.  Skylar had a wonderful time!  We all did really!

I couldn’t capture this all on my camera, but thought it was cute.   (Usual Suspects 2010)

On our way to OIB, Skylar was entertaining me with his comedic skills as Terry drove.   

Skylar feels right at home at the beach.  He loves the water.  I swear the kid has no fear. 

Logan loved the beach and the sand too.  These pictures are before she rolled all in the sand, lol. She even had a few “sand”wiches too…..haha…see I have comedic skills too!

  

My hubby all relaxed. 

 

Since Skylar was waking up at the crack of dawn at the beach….by the way, he never wakes up before 9 at home, but at the beach… 6AM….I was like…. **$^$%$^!!  We decided to go to the dock and watch the sunrise.  :)

 

Skylar loved our persistent new friend that followed us all around the dock.  I guess he was hoping we would jump in the water to be “his” snack.  It was funny…but I was not about to go in the water. There were crabs everywhere.  

It was nice, we had this as our backyard view.  It was great!!

There was also a hammock that Skylar and Terry would relax on.  Ahhh, the beach life!

Now, don’t get me wrong…we partied it up at night when the kids were asleep.  Check out our band!  I can’t remember the name of the band now, but Kevin made it known that he was the face of the band, lol!  He rocked it on the mic!!

 

Camryn is so pretty, don’t you think?  She finally warmed up to me the last day we were there. She even let me pick her up….which by the way…Skylar is the skinniest kid!!  Ty, Cam’s brother, let me tell you is the sweetest thing!  He flirted a little my way or a lot….  what can I say, I still got it.  lol…  Actually, he’s going to be a charmer when he gets older.  Skylar and Ty shared the same room at the house we stayed at.  We had brought the video monitor to make sure Skylar was ok during his “first ever sleep over” with another person beside me or terry and he did great…..well, except when he thought the coast was clear.  The first night, he sat straight up in bed…looked at Ty and said, “Let’s get up…let’s eat ice cream!!”.  Yep….caught!

     

     Skylar and Logan got along pretty well too.  He would treat her as a little sister.  They were reading…or something and having a conversation that I have no idea what was so funny.  It was a fun trip and I miss it already!! 

Jennifer’s Baby Shower

My good friend Jennifer is expecting her first baby (BOY) in August.  She is so cute preggo too!  I was so happy to see her and other friends that I haven’t seen in a while.  It was fun to catch up….oh by the way…. I totally racked up on the baby shower games.  Yep….I’m competitive like that.  :)

 

Very cute decorations.

 

Look how adorable she is!

 

Opening Baby J’s loot!  He’s def already loved and spoiled!

 

The yummy and super cute cake.

The girls.  

Wordless Wednesday…

Father’s Day weekend

Fathers day weekend we went to Marion and swam and ate good food.  Skylar loved playing with this small water gun.  That’s all he cared about, so of course that’s the only pictures I got, lol. 

Also, Skylar really surprised us.  We don’t swim a lot, since we don’t have a neighborhood pool or have a pool membership somewhere, but Skylar was swimming like he’s been doing for years.  He would kick his little legs as fast as he could and was doing so well.  He also jumped in every chance he could by himself.  We had to watch him closely, because of this “no fear” mentality he’s got going on for himself.  

Eating with his cousins. 

Some pictures from the weekend.  He loves his tractor. 

        Sunday, we hung around the house. 

 

Skylar made a shirt for Terry for Father’s day from daycare.  It was too cute.  We also made him a cake for father’s day too.  Skylar and Terry both, finished it off. 

 

 

Whose the cool dude?

Recent cakes…

I love making cakes, but I especially love licking the bowl clean eating the leftover icing and cake that was trimmed off.  :) 

I made this cake for one of Terry’s co-worker’s wife and daughter’s birthday.  The client said he wanted a chocolate cake with white icing.  So, I improvised and added a little more to it.  :)  (It’s vanilla butter cream icing and filling and fudge chocolate cake with sugar flowers)

 

I made this cake last night actually for one of my friends at work who needed cakes for the Jimmy V charity foundation this weekend.  I hope it raises some money for them. 

(Vanilla/Almond butter cream icing, banana cream filling and yummy strawberry cake with sugar flowers made with love for this charity)

Father’s Day Cupcakes

Or hamburger cupcakes.  :)  Whichever.  Sunday, we celebrated Father’s day early with everyone and I was in charge of bringing the desserts, so I brought these cute things and my famous nutter butter banana pudding.  Ok, it’s not famous, but it’s darn good! 

 

It’s a brownie for the patty, yellow cake cupcake for the bun and (red, yellow, green and white) icing for the different condiments.  :)  Way sugary, but the kiddos were happy with it.

Birthday wine with friends…

Memorial Day weekend was a great weekend!!  We went to Raylen Vineyards on the same day as the Wine Festival at Tanglewood.  It was awesome.  They had free wine tastings, free parking, free admission…  FREE is the word.  Our friend Jamie turned the Big 3-0, but will forever be 23….like me.  :)  Jamie’s hubby Kevin planned the whole venture. 

 

 

Not sure what the convo was here, but at this point, there was a lot of wine being drunk. 

Sweet sisters

Layla an Reggie, always being so cute.  Nice bag Reg. :)

Little Miss Sass is too cute.  (AKA Logan)

After we left the vineyard we went back to their house for pizza, beer and wine.  :)  Oh and eating cake.      That cake was yummy ice cream cake.