Our new chairs...but BETTER!!

So if you saw my post a few weeks back you already know that we found some great PBK knock off chairs. Well I finally got around to having them personalized and they came out GREAT!! I LOVE THEM! I had them done by a friend of a friend and I could not be happier! Her name is Crissi and she and another friend have a cute little store..The Paisley Gator (www.thepaisleygator.blogspot.com) She has some adorable stuff...I already told her to expect some more orders from me as football season approaches:)

Our Summer Road Trip and 4th of July

We headed out last week for our summer road trip first to Alabama then over to Atlanta for the 4th of July! The boys did not do so well with the car ride this time around. They only slept about 30 minutes up to Bama and about 30 minutes home from Atlanta...then proceeded to scream the last hour of the trip home! Needless to say our car was not a fun place to be on Sunday afternoon!

After spending a few days with Daryl's family we headed over to Atlanta to see some of my old friends, all who just happen to be current or former Delta flight attendants whom have all had babies in the last year! It was so great to see everyone and all their little ones! Our good friends Margo and Mike had a BBQ on the 4th and all the babies played together! It was funny to see all of us in a room full of babies...just 5 years ago we would have been hanging out at a local bar living the single life and now we are all mommies! Very surreal for me:)

All and all the trip went pretty well. WE did have a little mishap with Cameron though. He decided he was going to get into a fight with a very large coffee table...and well the coffee table won unfortunately:( Poor guy caught the corner of it and it missed his eyeball by a millimeter maybe? It was awful! The second it happened he had a HUGE lump and a cut. I would have taken him to the ER but Daryl's sister is an RN and she assured me it wasn't necessary. He's got a pretty bad shiner right now but it didn't phase him a bit. Uncle Bo told him it would make him grow whiskers seeing as he was so tough! No whiskers yet Uncle Bo!!

Oh and Carter enjoyed his first Rib in Alabama as well. He chewed on that thing until there was no meat left! He really is just like his Daddy!!

Walking 101

Well Cameron is pretty much full on walking and Carter is a few steps behind! My life is now officially more stressful with 2 toddlers "walking" around my house!!

" Hey Dad..let's get a picture of you with all the boys!"

YA RIGHT!!!!! Total chaos trying to get a 2year old, two 1year olds and a 60 year old to look at the camera and sit still!!! LOL

Happy Fathers Day....another look back

I guess since I am the only one who posts on here I will speak for Daryl and say that he had a good Fathers Day! On Saturday my mom, Dad, and brother all came over throughout the day to watch the boys while Daryl and I headed out with our friends to Disappearing Island. It was so much fun to be able to spend the day together without the boys...not that we don't love having them around but every parent knows a little time away from babies is a necessity to a marriage!! LOL! Our friends Tracy and Al invited us out on the boat for a day of floating, boating and a little adult beverage consumption. It was about 100 degrees outside so good thing we spent the whole time floating...although we were a little pruned at the end of the day! Gotta give a big thanks to my family for watching the boys all day:)

Meanwhile on Sunday we had the family over for some BBQ that Daryl had been smoking all day long. That was actually a treat for Daryl because he loves to BBQ!
The boys made Daddy a very special framed picture collage of themselves. They even finger painted the matt..well I helped out quite a bit but still!! I took pics of the boys holding the letters D-A-D and framed it so it spelled out DAD! (totally stole the idea from some other moms!) I think Daryl was very pleased:)

I had to post a pic of Daryl holding the boys back when they were in the NICU just to show how much has changed in the last year...WOW!!

Cameron's new place to play

Under the table:)

Our New Chairs

So last week I wandered into Big Lots to kill some time before meeting with Amber for her photo shoot and stumbled across some toddler chairs. Now for months now I have been wanting to get the boys Pottery Barn Kids anywhere chairs but just couldn't see spending that much money on chairs that they may or may not want to sit in. If I were buying one, I could see it but not two! Any who....so the chairs I found at Big Lots are IDENTICAL to the PBK ones and about 1/3 of the price:) The chairs were only $25 each! Now I am sure the PBK ones are far better quality but seriously for what I need them for, these will do just fine:) And to top it off..the boys love them! Now I just have to find someone to embroider the boys' names on them and we will be all set!
Oh and they are the perfect Gator blue so we will be embroidering the boys names in orange...much to Daryl's dislike! hehe!!