Father's Day, Slobber and Patios

We are thankful everyday for the fathers in our lives. Steven is the most amazing husband, daddy and friend that anyone could ever ask for. I am the luckiest girl in the world that he is mine! He is kind, caring, gentle, honest, funny, patient (at least with me and the kids!), and loving! Not too bad to look at either! :) He is such a rock for our little family of four and always makes sure that we keep us first and have quality time together!  I wake up smiling everyday because he is beside me!
Poppa, Grandbubba and Papa Tillie are such amazing fathers and grandfathers. We are fortunate to have such amazing men in our children's lives to teach them and play with them! Thank you so much for all you do to make our lives so special!

We started our weekend Friday night at the pool with lots of neighbors! Jack is loving practicing all the things from his swimming lessons! We celebrated Father's Day by grilling out and playing in the backyard on Saturday night with Grandbubba and Aunt Neese.  It was such a fun night!

We woke up the next morning and headed to the Wild Animal Safari in Pine Mountain! We had another really great time there! We got SLOBBERED by all the animals and everyone had a blast! It's always fun and funny to see the animals be so aggressive!

Getting in our safari van!

Cute babies with Daddy t-shirts on from Nunno!!

Back seat with Grandbubba!

LOOK AT THAT!

Brave Front seat drivers!

Mommy and Lucy in the middle!

Well hello Mr. Zebra!

About to feed the giraffe!

Yep...that's a Buffalo's tongue in the driver's seat.. .YUCK!

WHOA!

Lucy wanted to drive toward the end....She literally pushed Steven's hands off the wheel. She is VERY opinionated and independent!

Feeding the llamas!

Hey little llama!

Grandbubba and Aunt Neese headed back home that afternoon and we spent the rest of the day running around the backyard and playing! Steven and I put the kids to bed and had a patio night. We sat outside talking and grilled steaks. We ate outside and enjoyed the last night on the old patio...LOTS of memories and nights out there! It was great to have some more time at home this weekend!

Today was very exciting because the construction (or demolition!) for our new patio started this morning. The kids LOVED watching them pull up our old concrete patio. We can't wait for it to be done!!! It's VERY exciting! I will take some pictures along the way of the progress. We will get LOTS of time in on the new patio this summer!

Before picture from Sunday night

Daddy digging up our lantana (we planted them 6 or 7 years ago and are hoping to save them!)

Concrete all busted up!

Kids and friends watching the action from the playhouse!

The "Digger" working hard and pulling up the concrete

View from our back door this afternoon

Annual Weekend to Mimi and Papa's

It was an amazing LONG weekend at Mimi and Papa's house this June! We got into town a little before midnight on Wednesday night with both kids fast asleep! It was nice to wake up there on Thursday morning and start our trip! We didn't have the best weather but that didn't bother us at all! We spent lots of time playing on the porch, watching movies and even got to go on a boat ride. We headed into St. Simons on Friday afternoon to let the kids play and have a fun dinner! (We even snuck in a trip to Bailey Boys at Mommy's request!)
Jack got to hold a shrimp, reel in a sting ray and fish on a fishing rod AND got to see some blue crabs that we caught in the nets! He thought that was really fun! Jack also got to drive the boat on our ride! Captain Jack did such a great job!
We ate lots of yummy seafood (Papa's fried shrimp, hushpuppies and cole slaw all made from scratch AND Mimi's red rice!) It never disappoints and we ate until we were sick!
The weekend ended with a fun visit with the Floyd family on Sunday to celebrate Mimi's birthday! It was a really fun and special weekend for us!
We jumped right back into the swing of things today! Jack started Spirit Week this morning (Our church's Vacation Bible School) and Mommy volunteered for the day! We had a nice lunch just the two of us and then headed to another swimming lesson! It's Monday evening and we are well into our week!! Living for the weekend!

Sweet babies on the swing

Lucy Goose!

River Baby

Babies looking out at the big "Wa-Wa" as Lucy says

Frozen yogurt after dinner in St. Simons

Jack holding a live shrimp!

A little young for this... serving Daddy!

Climbing the palm tree

Lucy pointing at the "wa-wa". She loves the water (ANY KIND) and insists on getting in it most of the time!

Daddy playing with Jack

Papa showing Lucy and Jack a shrimp

Papa and Jack driving the boat!

Jack having a good time being captain!

To the LEFT SIR!!!!

Babies on the boat

Mimi and Jack going FAST!

Lucy liked going fast! 

Jack fishing off the dock!

That is a BIG ship in St. Simons

Mimi and Papa with the babies

Jack climbed to the very top of this BIG whale!

Lucy watching the big ships in St. Simons

The boys on the pier

Lucy enjoying a snack on the dock

Jack caught a FISH!!!!!

Daddy reading stories on the porch

Lucy playing in the yard

Playing ball with Gigi

Sweet girl always on the go!

Throwing the ball to Conor

Helping Mimi blow out her birthday candles!

Brothers of the Sun...and the Zoo!

It was a really great family weekend! Jack had his first swimming lesson on Friday and then we kicked off the weekend at St. Angelo's for pizza that night! Daddy had to work Saturday morning so they kids and I went to Costco to get a few things we needed and had a nice lunch outside and played. The weather was PERFECT! We decided to go to the zoo for the afternoon to enjoy the beautiful weather and see the animals! As always, the kids love going there! Lucy got so excited about all the animals and Jack was "leading the way" to tell us where to go! We went out to eat again at a favorite restaurant and had a yummy dinner! We went to church on Sunday and came back to eat lunch together. The kids had some quiet time and we took a quick nap too! Nunno and Poppa came down later that afternoon to watch the kids while we went to the Brothers of the Sun Tour with Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney! The Reilly's went with us and it was so much fun! It's been awhile since we have been to a concert and that was one to make up for it! It was a fun night!
It's Monday and time to start the week again!

Jack at the zoo!

Crawling on a BIG lizard!

Sweet Lucy smiling at Daddy

Happy girl!

Daddy with his babies on the train!

Carousel ride!

Sweet babies after dinner on Saturday night!

Big Brother!

Love these babies!

Katie and Elizabeth at the concert...Yep, that's the back wall...4th from the top!