Kait, Sean, and Boosky Action

It's such a nice feeling when friends make no big deal out of coming a long distance to sit around and do nothing.  That's exactly what happened one day when we were speaking with our good friend Kaitlyn that we know from Jeff's office in Boca Raton and said - "Man - we miss you." Her obvious response is "Oh yes.  I'll come up with Sean and Bailey."  Oh of course you will  - it's only a 12 hour drive!  Wow - anyway - it was so good to see these guys around the beginning of June (yes - late posting I know) and take them around Charlotte for the weekend - we got some playground time in, hanging out at one of fav Charlotte spots, Heist, some firepit action, and even stumbled upon the Taste of Charlotte festival in uptown.  We had a blast relaxing - cannot thank them enough for visiting!  How cute is that Bailey boy?!  The kids had so much fun together.  Thanks Kait, Sean, and Boosk!

Fourth of July 2013

Our Fourth of July was pretty low key this year - as many of you know it's been a rainy summer so we haven't in general, gotten outside too much and the rain gods made no exception on this holiday.  We relaxed inside during a cloudy, humid and  threatening afternoon and I experimented in gluten-free pie making.  We met up at my parents' house for dinner and some sparklers action and then went up to Uptown's Met area to view the fireworks from the rooftop (Jeff won tickets off Facebook!).  We waited and waited and had an awesome view of the city, however, we were rained out with no fireworks at all.  Huge disappoint, but it's always nice to do anything different as we get to know Charlotte.  Hope everyone had a nice Fourth celebrating and recognizing how lucky and blessed we really are to be Americans. 

Carowinds According to my iPhone

Last weekend we finally got out to Carowinds to enjoy some Planet Snoopy action.  Tyndell absolutely loves the rides there and it's a good way to tire her out in a few hours and get outside.  We are looking forward to going back a few more times and getting to the water park even.  Silas got to ride the train, skytower, and the Whirly-Birds but by the time the Snoopy Pirate show came on, he was hot and tuckered out.  I always love seeing Jeff at amusement parks too - he turns into a little kid all over again and gets so excited.  Too cute!  He was sharing some fun memories while we were there about him growing up and his parents surprising him and his sister about going to Six Flags but they didn't even know ahead of time.  We'd compare notes on if we ate in the park or brough picnic lunches and went back out to the car. 

Karm Bear

Oh Karm Bear....just thought I would give a little update on our Karma since I've had a few asking lately - many of you know that Karma hasn't been doing well this past year between cancer and skin issues and well - she seems to be hanging out as best as she can.  She is still eating and drinking and playing like any other dog and even her skin looks better than it has in some time to be honest (notice no bare skins patches or bright red areas).  She still wedges between me and the kitchen cabinets most days cooking and whines every morning til I wake up, but I still love this pup and am hoping she holds out with some happiness a while longer.  We have ups and downs like cancer seems to affect most.  Plus - Zen has to have someone to dominate right?  Oh Karm Bear - love you puppy bear! 

End of Year CCDC Program

 A couple of weeks ago, Tyndell's class had an end of the school year program with some cute singing and my brother took some pretty sweet pictures.  One of the kids in class, Thomas, was moving up to Kindergarden so they wanted to do something special to help send him off.  The kids sang "The Rainbow Connection" and "What a Wonderful World," which was super fun.  Tyndell was really into it and did so well although I think she held back b/c a lot of the other kids were shy.  I can't stand how beautiful our girl is!  I love her little wild and free spirit running and dancing in these pictures.  Girl after my own heart.  LOVE.

Happy 10 Months to Silas!

Where is this year going!?  Wow - it's unbelievable to think that Silas is 10 months already - and this kid is turning hardcore on us!  He is just so into everything - food, moving, playing, sleeping - when he does it, he DOES it all the way.  I love it.  He has 4 lovely teefers right now and they are just too cute - between that and his gums, he can find a way to mash most anything into his mouth and whines til he gets it full.  I can hardly feed him anything myself anymore b/c he just wants to stuff whatever we are eating right into his mouth himself and not wait for me.  Silas is also so into toys - now that he can crawl really well, he wants to get right on the floor as much as possible and he usually makes a beeline for the playroom.  He loves his bug catcher, balls, Mike Wasowski (or "Monstersowski") puppet, cars, magnet letters, books, his drum, his Little People farm, and of course unscrewing every single door stop in the house off.  It's nice we are getting a second life out of the toys that Tyndell hardly played with.  It's like Christmas just hit b/c he just starting playing with everything that he got back in December and he is exploring Tyndell's.  And the kids play pretty well together which is super wonderful.  Anyway - he is on the move!  Silas is starting to pull up and stand sometimes so we'll see if he walks before Tyndell did at 15 Months - we are pretty sure he will.    Anyway - this is a fun fun age - what a joy this boy!  Don't you love the spaghetti face?  Who can resist a baby face full of tomatos and nooooooooodles!?