Beach pics!

Beach vacation!

We had the best week at the beach! Perfect weather, perfect company, perfect food!!
Day one.
We left our house around 10 and headed in a caravan of 4 cars to the beach. We stopped to eat around 1 and all got to finally see everyone! We were headed to the beach with my mom, my aunt Nola, my cousin Rachel her husband Ed and their two sweet boys, my cousin Mitch and my cousin Tina her husband Kevin and their 4 kiddos! 17 in all!!!
We were headed to alligator alley before we got to the beach and the kids loved it! We got to see them feed the alligators and we got to do a little feeding ourselves! We left alligator alley around 5 and got back on the road for the beach. We had a new passenger with manny joining us and tinzley rode with grandma! It was so much fun to listen to manny and Jonas discuss the sights! We stopped at a farmers market and the grocery store before arriving to the plantation around 7! It was a long day but such a good way to start a great week!
We ate pizza got unpacked and settled in for the night!

To be continued. Hopefully with some pics!

Too cute!

On our way home from church this morning I turned around to find two little friends buckled in the backseat! Jonas and tinzley take care of their friends :)

Dr check ups!

We had our yearly check ups on Wednesday! The kids did so great! They had so much fun peeing in a cup, getting weighed and measured and getting stickers from the doctor! Something new this time was getting their blood pressure! It was so funny watching their little arms get squeezed and their reactions! Something we did not like was the dreaded finger prick! Jonas cried and tinzley did fine... Until she realized Jonas was crying! So silly!!
Here are the facts:
Jonas 43 pounds(50%)
45 inches tall
Tinzley 28 pounds (20%)
35 inches tall

Struggles of every mother

Let me say this... I LOVE my kids... MOST of the time ;)
So summer is in session and my kids are driving me NUTS!  They are fighting, whining, complaining, asking for this and that all day long.  I cook for them, clean up after them, take them to the pool, take them to the library, make snacks, get them drinks...and it never seems like enough!  Jonas has developed a major attitude where he does not listen and Tinzley has definitely hit the fit throwing threes as they are known in our house!  I feel like I am going crazy sometimes.  I feel like nothing i do is good enough and that I am not being heard. 
I have just been having a rough couple of weeks.  I am coming down really hard on myself and I am getting the feeling my kids are picking up on it.  Kids seems to know when you are not yourself or when something is up and they either are sweet to you or they seem to find the things that get under your skin and make you even more crazy!  My children seem to be doing the second one.  I am trying to be patient, I am trying to read my bible more, I am trying to take time to relax...  I feel satan winning sometimes.  After the past year and a half I just get the feeling like satan is there and when he is not and he is circling right now. 
School ending was suppose to help me relax to give me time with the kids, to get pool time, to get scrapbooking done, to have time to read and focus on cooking, and saving money, all the stuff that gets put off because work gets in the way.
So I dont know what I am trying to say or prove but I guess I am trying to figure out what is going on with me and writing it out was something that I had not tried.
I feel like I am having out of body experiences... I get around a group of people that I dont know or I am not completely comfortable with and I clam up.  I have nothing to say, nothing I want to say, I just want to move out of there and be somewhere else.  I have never been a person that doesnt know what to say or a person who feels uncomfortable in those types of situations.  I get the overwhelming feeling of needing to be home, needing to be alone, feeling uncomfortable.  I dont know who to talk to or what to even say.  I dont feel like there is anyone out there who will understand or know what I am going through. 
I just feel like everything I have done and been through has made me feel like I am half a person.  I dont like talking about all of the hurt, the pain, and the uncomfortable things I feel because I dont want pity, I dont want people to try to understand what I am going through because no one should have to feel this way, or go through this.  I just keep hoping something positive will come out of it and God is not done with me yet.  I hope He knows how much I am trying and how much I truly want to make this life work.  I want to do all that I am suppose to, and to live the life He wants for me. 

Memorial Day Weekend

This weekend we headed over to Pontotoc Mississippi to visit our good friends, The Mills Family!  It is always a good time!  We got there Friday night and the house was in full swing.  The kids were instantly playing, laughing, and having so much fun!   We got to bed around 11 or 12! 
On Saturday we all headed over to Tupelo to watch Judith play in a soccer tournament!  It was so much fun to watch her play and to hang out with everyone outside!  It also was SOOO hot!!  We were all sweating and hot but still enjoyed being together.  Judith's team ended up losing thier first game and winning the second!  We headed over to their house that afternoon and played lots of games including kickball... I am not a fan of that game at all but did better as an adult than I ever did as a kid!  We had so much fun singing and dancing to Just Dance 3!
On Sunday we got up and headed over to church, ate lunch and did some more singing, dancing, playing, and puzzle building!
Thanks so much to Judy for being an incredible HOST!  :)

Happy Memorial Day!

Swim Lessons

The kids are taking swim lessons at the YMCA and we LOVE it!  They love it and it is so much fun to watch!