Fun Wedding Week!

We had a great visit to Knoxville last week for Jack and Lori's wedding! We all had such a good time and loved getting to see everyone. We also took day trips to Nashville and to Chattanooga- it was a fun/busy week touring TN. Of course the highlight of the week was the beautiful wedding- more wedding pictures to come. We had lots of late nights and good times with family...most of which ended with James or Tyler making a run to Sonic or Taco Bell around 11:00. We played ping pong, made wedding signs, had a Girls Night Out, and Minde and I got to play her new Twilight board game:)
James and Minde hosted a really fun Memorial Day cookout...

Taking a little rest after our trip home from Nashville..

Baby Pool!

Loving Caroline's toys..

Wrestling with Daddy

Here are pictures from late night wedding sign making. I am sure this was a lot funnier in person, but Tyler and Minde pulled a hilarious MacGyver move to help us make an M monogram. Minde had these little stick on letters that we wanted to use, but they were too small for a big monogram....so they rigged up two cups and some plastic to hold the letter up, then Tyler turned the flash of his phone on and used it like a projector to cast the shadow of the M on the poster for us. Good times! I love that it also involved a toy tool box and lots of snacks in the background.

Family Girls Night Out for margaritas before the wedding... Jill, Minde, Lori, Cathy, Jane, Becca

New sister-in-laws!
We had a fun night!! We visited Cotton Eyed Joes but didn't stay too long because it was pretty dead on Thursday night....but it brought back some fun college memories. We got to end the night at Ray's with some live music at the outside Tiki Bar.

Outside Weekend

We had a gorgeous weekend and tried to soak in as much sun and fresh air as we could. The girls were very excited about their new baby pool Daddy got at Target. I think it is the perfect size for them and has really fun attachments. I foresee lots of days this summer playing in the baby pool. Probably everyone will get so tired of seeing the same pictures of the girls in the pool with their same 4 bathing suit selections. But, that is probably what we will be doing at the Meece house with this hot summer comin:)

Bbbbrrrr! It gets a little cold when you get out.

Sunday we went to a new beach we had heard about called Yorktown Beach. It was only a quick 1 1/2 hr drive. It is on the bay side- so there were hardly any waves and it was fairly shallow wading water. As soon as we got to the beach and I put Savannah down she immediately took off running straight to the water and I had to drop everything and chase her. She ran straight in and then froze in about 2 seconds with water up to her ankles. She clearly didn't remember the ocean from last year and I think she was thinking it would feel like bath water or something. She was so shocked that it was "cold" (it actually felt very refreshing), she didn't really want to have much to do with the ocean the rest of the day. I finally at least got her to get her feet in the water and throw a ball out to me in the water.
The beach got really packed by the end of the day, but we had gotten there early and had a good spot up by the water. Not as nice as the Outer Banks of course, but a really nice beach for such a short drive.

Lunch break...the girls did so good eating out of their element. They don't really do "picnic" style meals very often, but they chowed down on some PP&J, cheese, grapes, & goldfish. (which actually sounds like a yummy lunch to me too)

Sky playing with the cool bubble wand.....

Heeyyy!!! I want that wand....

And now I have it .......

Savannah ended up spending at least our last 30 minutes on the beach playing with the beach cart. She was tipping it up and down and then laid it flat on the ground and jumped on it like a trampoline. Whatever works:)

Easter Outfits

We missed getting to dress up for Easter because of the stomach bug...so here was our attempt at some late Easter pictures. It was a gorgeous day, but Savannah was not feeling it at all. She can actually be quite the cry baby sometimes, and she was pitching a fit. She's so tough about some things, and then has such a short fuse about other things. The other day at the park she basically face planted on this basketball court and she made a little noise and looked at me like I had made it happen or something- and then she just took of running. I guessed it wasn't that big of a deal and then a few minutes later I saw it was a huge dirty goose egg on her head. She had shaken it right off. But heaven forbid she can't fit herself into whatever tiny apparatus she's trying to fit into, or a toy she knows talks/plays music and doesn't work now because the battery is dead, or she can't get her shoe on by herself, or the dog with the pull string falls over and won't roll anymore- she loses it! And lots more things that for some reason send her over the edge. And apparently on this day it was way too much to ask of her to sit still for 30 seconds to take a picture. I think we got some good ones of Sky, and actually now I just think the pictures are funny because they are very "real life."

Skylar's Birthday

Skylar turned 3! She had a fun day and got to see lots of her favorite people. She got some new books, babies, Cinderella toys, coloring pad, and a giant Aquadoodle pad. She loved her cupcakes and singing Happy Birthday and always wanted us to sing to Vanna too. She is so sweet about her sister and always wants to know where she is and what she's doing. (until she tries and takes her crayon or Aquadoodle pen- and then a big sister brawl breaks out)

Skylar with her therapists Mrs. Donna and Mrs. Phyllis

Skylar wearing her new Cinderella jewelry from Fegan

Daddy and the girls

Playing with all the new toys. And a sweet picture of baby Skylar....