HoneyBear

Meet HoneyBear. HoneyBear is the class bear for 3P at Preschool. Every child gets to bring him home for a weekend and then journal about the weekend's happenings and adventures. Owen was so thrilled to bring HoneyBear home on Thursday. Steve picked her up from school, and I wish I had a picture of the look on her face as she walked in the house with HoneyBear. She was just beaming and full of joy. (Steve is not a fan of HoneyBear. He calls him GermyBear even though I assured him that HoneyBear gets washed frequently...and he even smelled of Lysol:)

Now we don't have the best track record with class animals. Remember Swishy, from Anna Clare's Kindergarten class? We lost Swishy not once but twice.

So far HoneyBear is doing well and accounted for. If we can just make it through Monday with the little fella we will be all clear.

Where we've been

We had an incredible weekend at the beach...just the 4 of us. Hope to be back soon after I go through the tons of pictures I took!

Just in case...

...you need a good laugh or to feel better about your parenting (or intelligence for that matter), check this out.

Notice anything odd about this poster?



Anna Clare's first project of 2nd grade was a poster on the great state of Alabama. However, apparently we decided it should be the great state of Mississippi. She brought it home yesterday with a note on the back from her teacher letting her know that her state was glued on backwards. This small detail slipped by not one, but BOTH of her parents who, at different times, supervised the placing and gluing of the pictures. How we missed this I have no idea. We got a good laugh out of it and I hope her sweet teacher did too.

Since Steve is from Mississippi, I am totally blaming him:)

Sisters

These were taken at my brother's wedding this summer. Most of them were taken by their incredible photographer.

School Days

It's that time again! As great as summer was, it is officially over, and school is in full swing.

2nd grade for Anna Clare...

AC and Mrs. P



and 3P for Owen!!

Owen and Mrs. B

Whew! Sometimes I wish life had a pause button!

Swimming Lessons

10 years

Steve and I celebrated our 10th anniversary on June 10th. My sister, Erin, was so gracious to keep the girls so we could slip off to the beach for the weekend. We had not gone on an "overnight" anniversary trip since our 5th. Budgetwise we didn't need to take a big trip (and probably didn't "need" to even go to the beach), but how many times do you celebrate your 10th anniversary?:) We found an inexpensive studio condo in Seacrest for 2 nights and we were off. (and yes, kkd, if you are reading this, I did do the planning:)


I have such a huge crush on this boy


A friend told us about

Caliza Restaurant

in Alys Beach so we made reservations to have dinner there. Dining is outside by a beautiful pool...



Steve "relaxing" as we waited on dinner...




And what a fun surprise to walk up and see Darby and her sister, Erika, who were celebrating their 30th birthdays with their husbands and friends.



We just happened to be seated right beside them. She has much prettier pictures of Caliza here.

And the biggest surprise of the evening came when our waitress flagged us down as we were leaving. She informed us that a "friend of the family" had called ahead and taken care of our dinner! I teared up at the thoughtfulness of this person. What a blessing! It was an incredible weekend with an incredible man and I look forward to many many more decades together!