THE FAIR

Brookelyn-Grace went to the fair for the first time last night. Pop called me and asked if Brookelyn-Grace and I wanted to go with him and Kaitlynn. I was a little hesitant at first because this was Brookelyn-Grace's first time to visit a fair. Thankfully it went great! She had a blast! She rode the goldfish ride, boats, baby roller coaster (I'm sure everyone remembers the dragon. Lord, I rode that ride at her age!), the big slide (of course with Pop) and many more! She had a blast! She also won two blow up characters, which she carried around the entire night! We all had so much fun! I am so proud of the big girl that she has grown up to be. I can not believe we will be celebrating her 2nd birthday in 17days! Time is passing way to fast, but as the expression goes, time flies when your having fun! ;)

A WONDERFUL YEAR!

Jeremy and I celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday! He is such an amazing man and Brookelyn-Grace and I are so lucky to have him in our lives!!! :) Jeremy decided that he wanted to plan our one year anniversary on his own. I thought that, that was so sweet. I have never had a guy do something like that for me and it just was blew me away! He is such a thoughtful and caring person! I love everything about him! He is truly one in a million and I am so lucky to have such a wonderful man like him!

We started out the day by having lunch together. I was at work so our anniversary was planned later that night. After work I headed home. As soon as I walked in the door Jeremy told me that we had five minutes before we had to leave. Of course he would not tell me where we were going. So five minutes later we got in the car and headed to Curry. Before we made it into Curry he pulled into a gas station where we sat for about ten minutes. I had no clue what was going on. I would keep asking him what we were doing at a gas station and of course he would not say anything. A little while later we were back on the move. We were heading down some roads that I had never been on before. All of a sudden we pulled into the driveway of a beautiful house. He told me to get out of the car. I was like what? Who's house is this? What are we doing? I was so confused. I walked around the front of his truck and in the yard sat an old chair with two bouquets of Roses and Star Gazer Lillie's on it. I was still a little confused. Jeremy was just smiling ear to ear. Then out stepped a photographer (Sha) waving at me. Jeremy had set up a photo shoot for us for our one year anniversary. It was so sweet! He knows that I love pictures and getting my picture taken Ha Ha. We always have the kids pictures done, and during their shoot we may get one or two good pictures of us, but now we had our very own photographer. It was wonderful! Of course I cried and the photographer captured it all. It was so sweet! I have never had someone do anything like that for me! He is such an amazing man! The pictures turned out so beautiful! We got to look through them, and WOW! They are going to be great! We took them in the gazebo, pond etc.. One of my favorite pictures that the photographer took was with Jeremy and I kissing. She was laying in the grass capturing the sun behind our lips. It looks like our lips are causing an explosion. I know its really hard to image, or for me to explain, but it was AWESOME! Jeremy got major brownie points. After that we went out for dinner, then picked Brookelyn-Grace up from my Aunt Barbara and headed home. When we got home Jeremy told Brookelyn-Grace that he loved her and that it was there one year anniversary too. He then gave her a single pink rose. It was so sweet! He is truly a blessing!!! He shocks me everyday with his generosity and compassion! I love Jeremy Owens with my entire being, and I look forward to many more years ahead!!! ;)

And of course I will post the pictures as soon as we get them back :)

TOBY

Brookelyn-Grace got her first dog, a Shihtzu puppy named, Toby. He is so adorable! We bought him from a very sweet couple out of Oxford. After we picked Toby up we took him to the pet store, and of course bought everything! After that we headed to my moms house where Brookelyn-Grace was. When we walked into the room with her little Toby she was ecstatic! I had been building this little puppy up to her all week, and finally she got to welcome him into our little family :) Brookelyn-Grace adores him! She will run through the house saying, "Toby get me". It is so funny watching him run after her. Ha Ha I was so worried about her picking him up, because I can remember my little sister Kaitylnn at her age picking up there dog by the neck. But thankfully she has only attempted to pick Toby up like that once, and Jeremy and I have been working with her on how to hold Toby. Most of the time we tell her that she is not allowed to hold him, but just pet him. He has really taken to Brookelyn-Grace. He follows her around everywhere she goes. Whenever she is in her bedroom she will yell for Toby and he will just come running. They play in her room for hours. At night Toby sleeps in Brookelyn-Grace's old play pin and of course cries to get in the bed with us, which usually happends. During the day we leave him in the kids bathroom with the baby gate up so he can still see out into the living room. He is already puppy pad trained and was before we purchased him. He is such a smart little puppy! We are all really enjoying having a dog! Hannah and Parker came up this past weekend and they loved him too! He is already spoiled rotten!!!





Toby's first bath
Toby and Brookelyn-Grace sleeping :)

They sleep a like! Ha Ha

Daddy loving on Toby

Mommy loving on Toby

HURRY 4:30!

I am so ready for the weekend to get here! A couple more hours...(sigh)... I am kid free for the weeked so I am going to most definitly take advantage of it! I will miss my little Princess though. Keith will be getting her this weekend and no, she does not stay over night yet. He gets her for a couple of hours every other weekend Friday, Saturday & Sunday. I can not imagine her staying over night somewhere without me. She's my little cuddle bug and she sleeps in the bed with Jeremy and I every night! :) I know some parents have their kids sleeping in a seperate bed, and even a seperate room, but there is no way that I could do that! I could not imagine going to bed without having her role over and kiss my face and say, "I love you Mommy". ...but back to my weeked :)...

Jeremy is having to work tonight so Brooke & I are going to go to the movies :) I think were either going to watch Sex & The City or Shrek 3.. I know, what a combination HAHA! Just depends on what were feeling at the time :) Saturday I am laying out ALL DAY LONG! Very excited about it because Kayse, mom, Donna, Sister & I will be out my the pool acting all kinds of crazy! :) Then late Saturday afternoon I am going to pick up Brookelyn-Grace's new puppy!!! She has already decided that she is going to name it Toby. It is a male Shihtzu. Jeremy insisted that we buy a Shihtzu for Brookelyn-Grace's first dog. I really do not know anything about the dogs, but he says that they are great with kids. Brookelny-Grace loves dogs, but at the same time she's a little scared of them. She loves them, wants to love on them, pet them etc.. BUT she does not like it when they get all in her face, or mess with a toy that she is playing with. It is really funny because last night we were visiting with Pop and Katy-Bug's dog, Duncan was pestering her to death! He would come up and grab her toy that she was playing with, and would try to take her papi out of her mouth. She would say, "NO DOG", "PUPPY, PUPPY, NO". It was so funny! I can not wait to see her face when she gets her new puppy! I need to think of a cute way to give it to her :) I think if I wrapped it in a box like a gift, it would scare the crap out of her when she opened it. Ha Ha! I have been building up this puppy all week and I just can not wait for her to get it :) ..Back to the weekend :)

Sunday-I am planning on laying out ALL DAY LONG! Keith will have Brookelyn-Grace until later that night, and Jeremy will be working so I am just going to RELAX on my weekend!!! :)

Monday-NO WORK...Best part about the holiday! :) Excited about the family cookout at moms :)

GOLFING TIPS FROM JEREMY OWENS.....THE PRO....LOL

I FINALLY MADE IT!!!

Well guys it is official....I am an SECONDARY/ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER!!!....I have worked so hard and come so far! I am so proud of myself and I could have not have done it without the people that mean the most to me! :)

KIDS BEACH TRIP

Our trip consisted of me, Brookelyn-Grace, Jeremy, Hannah, Parker, MeMe & Sister. Since our vacation feel on Mother's Day I insisted on MeMe going, and also it was her birthday that following Monday :) The kids beach trip went wonderful! The kids had a blast! The ride down there was great as well. The kids watch Finding Nemo twice ha ha (I forgot to pack another movie) Ha Ha We stayed at the Caribe in Orange Beach. It is BEAUTIFUL!!! Our room was breath taking! It was like we had never left home! We had a three bedroom condo with a huge floor plan! The master bedroom and bath were to die for, and the views would leave you speechless! We also saw Dolphins in the bay several times. It was the BEST! :) The kids had a blast in the pools! They had 2 indoor pools, 3 outdoor pools, and a lazy river. It had so much to offer kids! The pools were awesome! Every pool had three levels to it surrounded with statues and maze like features. It also had two huge water slides that lead into the pool. Every morning when we woke up, after Jeremy cooked us breakfast(LOVE THAT MAN)Brookelyn-Grace would be saying, "pool", and of course that's where we headed. Also during the week we went to Adventure Island and played Laser Tag. Of course Brooke won! I think she holds the highest record there! Ha Ha Brookelyn-Grace also played. She did not wear the vest, but we had the entire maze to our self so she would just run around looking for us. It was so much fun! Jeremy and I rode a virtual roller coaster that scared me to death, but it was a blast! The kids had a time in there playing all the games. They loved it! Then we headed over to The Track. The kids rode go-carts and played in the arcade. Brookelyn-Grace rode double with me, and she LOVED IT! I was worried that it would scare her, but nope! ;) We also went to one of favorites at the beach, Lulu's. I just adore that restaurant! They have so much for the kids and parents. The kids played outside in their sand pit until it was time to eat and then we got to hear good music, and eat good seafood! ;) During our trip we took family pictures out on the beach. They turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!! During our photo shoot Brookelyn-Grace played in the sand. She loved it! She got sand in her eyes and mouth several times and never even whimpered! She is most definitely going to be like her MeMe! Ha Ha I will most definitely have to post some of those pics because they were great!!! ;) Also while on our trip I broke my cap on my tooth and had some of the worst pain ever! I could most definitely go through child birth again, after experiencing a tooth ache! It became abscessed and swollen..blah! Well during this pain that seemed to last hours, but was merely minutes Brookelyn-Grace got scared. I was laying on the couch with my face barred in the cushion and she made her MeMe get up and come check on me. Then she kept saying, "mon, mom" (aka come on mom) Then I went to lay in the bed and she kept giving me kisses, patting my face, checking my eyes and drying my tears. I could barley talk and I whispered to Brookelyn-Grace to yell for Jeremy and tell him I needed a rag, and boy did she. She screamed over and over for him and then when he came in she said rag, rag! It was so sweet! I can not believe she picked up on how bad I felt and that she was so worried about me! I love my sweet little monkey butt! :) We celebrated Mothers Day by laying in the sun! Got to love it! Then we came back to the room, ordered pizza and then went out for dip-n-dots. We were a little exhausted from the sun Ha Ha! For mothers birthday I bought a cake and we took her out to her favorite restaurant in Gulf Shores, The Original Oyster House. She loved it and had a blast. Afterwards we came back to the room for cake. The cake was more for Brookelyn-Grace because she is obsessed with singing the "Happy Birthday song" She sings it to herself and about her self all the time Ha Ha! ALL IN ALL THE TRIP WAS A BLAST!!! Although it was a vacation, Jeremy and I have no decide that we need OUR vacation asap! Taking three kids to the beach is a lot of work, and very tiring!!! I SEE A CRUISE IN OUR FUTURE!!! ;)