ONE BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND !!

I am so excited to say that this weekend was wonderful !! The weather was gorgeous and I just couldn't let this weekend come and go without going to the park. We actually went to the park Friday and Saturday.
Saturday we met Valerie, Ethan, Avery, Sonia, Sandra, Bailey, Patsy and Conner @ Mr. Gatti's for lunch. The pizza was good but we just had to have more together time so we decided to go the park in Livingston. We picked up Greg in route so we added one more to our crewe. This is the best park I've been too because there was NO SAND !! The ground was covered in mulch which was so much easier to play in. Livingston is an extremely small community so the park wasn't nearly as crowded as the Denham Springs parks.

Kaleigh bug loved the park. She enjoyed all the new sounds and views. She can't wait to go back.

I'm not sure what she was doing with her hand but it made for a cute picture. By the way, isn't she the prettiest thing??

Bailey and Avery having fun. The contraption Avery is sitting on spins around and OMG, it makes me sick just watching them spin around really fast. NAUSEA !!

Tyler overcame his fear of slides. Friday Ethan and Avery put some sort of spell over him and since then he is a child with no fear. Whatever they did sure worked.

Philip loves to swing with Tyler. It's their special thing, I don't even try to get Tyler to swing with me anymore b/c apparently I don't swing as high as his daddy. WHATEVER !!!
Conner had the best little time. Just a side story, somehow or another the adults got on the topic of whether or not we could still do cartwheels so Valerie did one, really well by the way, and next thing you know all the kids began trying to do them. Tyler would just run really fast and then jump onto his butt and say he did it and Conner would run around with his arms out like he was an airplane and say he was doing a cartwheel. It was hysterical. Bailey was doing backwards flipflops and then there was poor little Avery struggling just to do a forward tumble. It was really cute.

Conner just a swinging.

Another thing that would make you dizzier than all get out. Ethan & Greg loved it though.

To end our day out with the family we noticed two girls riding horses around the park so we went by and asked them if the kids could pet them. The kids pet them and fed them grass. They were so excited. Now Tyler wants a horse and every cow or horse we see in a pasture he thinks we should stop and go pet them.

SUNDAY :

Today we enjoyed the outdoors yet again but at home and it involved a lawnmower, rakes and pruning bushes. Not nearly as fun but just being out in this wonderful weather just really made me feel so much better. I can't wait for Spring. That darn groundhog, he just had to see his shadow! At least for the time being the weather is nice and warm. We cut the grass and I pruned most of our crape myrtles and other random trees around the property. After the cutting we began raking all the little limbs that fell during the snow storm and put them into nice little piles and then burned them. I love the smell of fires. The fires then gave me the idea of cooking hamburgers on the grill and maybe having some SMORES afterwards. We called Sonia & she came over for dinner. Sonia nor Tyler had ever had S'MORES so me and Philip prepared them for them and I think they both enjoyed them, I know me and Philip did. I think we both had two or three a piece. I'll have to burn those extra calories at the gym tomorrow.

One more piece of my thoughts, this week is my last week of maternity leave. I report back to work on the 16th. I am really sad about it all so please keep me in your prayers, the baby blues are already pretty storng. I don't want to leave my babies :( It seems like only yesterday that Tyler was born and next month he is going to be 3 years old.