Trip to the South Part II

After five days in Mobile we decided we should head over to South Carolina to see Whitney and Patricks place. We all piled in Whitney's van and headed on our way. Most of the kids slept the first couple of hours. Then we stopped for lunch at a KFC, fun and eventful :) Four kids eating fast food can get a little crazy!!

Then we got in the car to drive for another two hours or so. We made a pit stop at Chick-Fil-A (I don't remember where) because the kids needed a break and a chance to get out or their seats :). I don't blame them. I am not the best road-tripper either. 

The Chick-fil-a we stopped at was perfect because it had this steep hill right by the parking lot the kids could run up and down.

 Here is the trio at the top! Not sure what they were all looking at but it looks interesting :)

Lucy running down the hill 

 Here comes Alden!

 Cole deciding if he should go head first or not :)

 We got shakes and soft serve ice cream -- mmm, mmm, good!

Leigh ate some baby food, but got in on the shake after. Cole seriously ate more of that shake than I did!

 Here is Lucy with her ice cream....just a little excited :D

 Alden - I don't understand how he wasn't all over the ice cream - played on the hill and in the car most of the time we were eating. That kid cracks me up!

We ended up staying at Whitney's parents house in Atlanta for the night because I didn't want to get the kids in the car for another two hours to make it to Anderson. They were all  ecstatic to see Grammy (whits mom). I don't know how she does it but the kids all just LOVE her. 

And sadly I have no pictures :(

The next day we drove to S.C. during naptime which made a very quiet and peaceful drive :). It was so much fun to get to see their home and to spend all that time with them!  

 Here are the kids attacking Leigh. Poor Leigh. They all love her dearly, but that often meant someone 'hugging' her until she fell over or everyone crowding her to get her attention. 

Here is Alden coming to the rescue :) 

--- Stay tune for part III ---

Fun this week

So I know I'm supposed to be writing about our trip but we've done a couple of things this last week that I wanted to get up here :)

Lucy and I painted our toes!! This is one of her most favorite activities, so we try to do it at least once every two weeks. Sometimes we do it every week. It just depends on how much we like our colors :)

 Look at how good she is getting!!! I promise I didn't help her.

 Here is proof that she does it herself :) sometimes she gets super messy

 She isn't taking as long of naps anymore so she gets to stay up and we do something together the first 45 mins -1hr of Cole's nap. Then she goes to bed and they usually wake up together, because he can't be quiet yet :)

Yesterday we made SLIME! I was perusing pinterest while they napped and came across this fun recipe for making slime. MAGICAL MONSTER SLIME.  It had been a long while since we've made something fun like this so I thought we'd give it a try!
For the first few minutes the kids would not even poke a finger in! I was almost disappointed, until Cole bravely stuck a finger in, looked at me and stuck his whole hand in! I already had it all over my hands (I had been trying to get them to do the same) so it took me a minute to clean them so I could grab the camera.

 This is the slime while still in its slightly liquid form, Cole already had it all over his hands.

 Cole LOVED it! This is him inspecting it more closely.

 This is how many fingers Lucy stuck in it :) She didn't touch it again until we pulled it out that night to show Daddy :)

 Slime in its final stage :) SO MUCH FUN!

When we were done we bottled it up.

Where to start? Our trip to the South!

There are so many things I want to share that I feel just a review wouldn't do our summer justice. So bare with me over the next little while while I try to post about my favorite things that we've done over the last two months.

First of all and definitely not my favorite thing was the one month wait to get into our apartment out here in Vernal. The apartment is brand new and so of course building was behind. Thankfully Devin has a mission buddy who lives out here and he was able to stay in the Foley's camper for the month we were waiting on our apartment. But that meant that Devin was gone during the week and home on the weekends. That was ONE of the hardest things I've done. I'm glad we were still in the Moss' basement so that we had some company on days we were missing Daddy. 

Well, the end of May came along and we got the phone call that the apartment wouldn't be done for another two weeks. Because our apartment was mostly packed and Devin had a business trip the third week of June we decided to go on a vacation! haha! At the time I kept telling myself I was crazy for going on a two week trip, especially after all the complaining I had been doing about living away from Devin. Whitney my sister-in-law was going to be in Alabama visiting her grandparents, ad I had never been to visit Esperanza (my sister) since she had moved to Alabama a couple of years ago. So we booked the tickets! We were so excited to get to go out there and visit everyone!

First day in Alabama we got to pick watermelons!

 Lucy and Alden in the stroller ready to pick some watermelons

 Cole wasn't going to have anything to do with that girly hat...guess I can't blame him :)

 We walked a few minutes to the watermelon patch and as soon as we got the kids out of the strollers Cole just plopped down in the grass :)

 Here's Bama dog. Lucy and Aldens best friend while we were there.

 Grand-Daddy showing the kids how to tell if the watermelons were good. 

 Lucy was following GrandDaddy everywhere asking him if the watermelons were ready :)

 Cole hanging out in the back of the truck with the watermelons. He thought this was the best thing ever.

 Have you ever had a yellow-meated watermelon?

 I hadn't either,

 those things are AMAZING! Lucy was a fan.

We had so much fun and Gram and GrandDaddy's. Not only did the kids play with Bama every chance they got, 

but they had a cat named Zoe that they chased whenever she was near...she didn't stick around long though. She was Cole's favorite because she didn't lick him all over. 

We also got to swim in their pool (pictures to come when I figure out how to get them on the computer). We also got to feed the goats! The kids loved riding in Grand-Daddy's truck. So whenever we had scraps to give the goats we got to go for a ride that night.

Alden and Lucy loving their ride

The goats just came RUNNING!

This day we had watermelons to give them. The goats loved it.

Lucy, Cole, Alden, Leigh, and Whitney watching the goats chow down.

Every morning we would go to find the goats, even if we weren't feeding them. It gave us some exercise and the kids some excitement! We would chase them all over until we were close enough to see them. Most days they would just run as far away from us as they could.

Whitney has a cousin named Ronda who lives through the woods, about a 15 min walk. This lady had everything, from goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, even a pet deer!!! It was So fun to see all her animals. 

Most of the pictures at Ronda's ended up on Whitney's camera (and my computer doesn't want to upload the pics, as soon as I get it to I'll get those fun pictures on here)

this is the only picture I got on my camera. 

 This goat was hilarious, it thought it was a dog. It would let anyone pet it :)

 Leigh would always stand by this door and watch Bama and Zoe outside. And Lucy loved playing with Leigh. 

Check out that smile :)

WARNING: NAKED BABIES! :D

Every night we would head to our room to 'wind down' before bed..well our winding down started with the kids jumping  wildly on the bed! The only picture I got of them doing this was right after they took a bath :) 

That's all I've got time for today! And this post is already really long! I'll post more when I have a chance :)

And we're back!!

We finally have internet in our apartment here in Vernal so I'll start updating on how our summer has been! I can't believe it's been two months since i've posted. So much has happened! and we have been enjoying our summer SO much. Until then!

I'm NOT ready!

So Devin starts his internship tomorrow! While I'm ecstatic he has this wonderful opportunity this summer, my life feels completely upside down. We reserved an apartment in Vernal, but it's not available til the 2nd of June. So for the next two weeks Devin will be going up to Vernal during the week and then will be home on the weekends. I'm going to miss him so much! It's funny, I'm really not worried about how the kids and I will do. We'll be fine. I'm sure come dinner time we'll all be wishing he was home, but we can do this. This week it will only be for four days. Next week it will be five. I feel like such a wimp. We've only ever been apart for two days in a row. I know people who have spent weeks apart, and they were okay. I just don't like the idea. 
Even though our apartment isn't available til the 2nd we don't know if that is what we really want to do. Prices in Vernal are absolutely ridiculous, so we're still looking for other options as to where/how we'll be living this summer. Because we aren't certain what we will be doing I don't know how to prepare. I'm realizing I like to plan, I like to have a plan, and I like to know what is going on. I'm getting a big lesson in patience and having faith that everything will work out as the Lord has planned. I just wish I knew those plans right now. 
So this week we'll just be taking each day as it comes. And hopefully Thursday night will be here before we know it.