Garynation

Wow – it has taken me a while to post this! I hope you enjoy our mother’s day! How sweet! This is what Marielle came home with the Thursday before Mother’s Day. My heart melted!! I had told Jon before Mother’s Day that all I wanted was chocolate chip pancakes that I found on Whole Foods website, and an ice cream cake from Baskin-Robbins. I got what I wanted and had breakfast in bed with my girls! It was messy, but I just said I would wash the sheets and forget about it. I wanted my breakfast in bed, and if my girls wanted to join me, I wasn’t going to refuse! Please pay no attention to my “just woke up” face and hair. I’m just excited Jon took pics!!! I volunteered to host Mother’s Day for my family at our house. I like to get people together at my house and include everyone, so I extended the invite to Billy’s parents, that’s my sister’s in-laws. They are great and my sister loves them and since Ally and Billy had a destination wedding, my grand parents had never met them. I was...

I took a short beach trip with my sister and one of our friends from grade school and high school. Funny how we all still live here and keep up with each other!! My friend, Kelly’s parents have a condo in Perdido Key, FL and she invited me and my kids and my sister for a short weekend getaway, with her and her kids. We left Friday about noon and got there at about 4:30 or so. As soon as we walked in, the kids ran to the balcony and were running back and forth and just being silly. I think they were excited, you think so? Kelly’s kids are Riley (2 1/2) and Bobby (5). Our kids had never met, but as soon as they got together, they were the best of friends. Riley was just a few months younger than Marielle, so it worked out perfect. And just look at sweet Riley… so sweet. It started raining and after they settled down, so we had snack time, then playtime, then bath time and bed time.       All of those things went well, except bed time. We had trouble getting all the...

  Aaaahhhh….looks nice, doesn’t it? It was – It was really great. A friend of mine rents out her condo in Panama City. She offered it to us for a great deal that we couldn’t pass up. She told me about it on Wednesday and we were there on Monday after Easter. It was a really spacious one bedroom condo on the 14th floor of a beautiful resort. The girls slept on the bunk bed in the hall and loved every second of sleep on there. I was nervous about them sleeping, but they did great, and we had an awesome vacation, just the 4 of us. We didn’t do much, I cooked and we went out for ice cream. Marielle really enjoyed the sand on the beach, Aliza not so much. She cried the first several days and we had to separate and I went to the pool with her while Jon did the beach with Marielle. Finally on the last day, we were tired of that and took Aliza to the beach. She eventually warmed up to it and stopped fussing about it. She even got in the water a little!! I have tons of pics so I’ll get ...