Birthday Weekend!

On Saturday I turned 30! WOW

Sarah and I share the same Birthday so her husband and Josh thought of the idea of renting a houseboat for our birthday weekend. We had such a great time spending it with family and wonderful friends. Thank you so much Josh for making my 30th birthday SO special! I love you so much!

Warning: Picture Overlaod

Our little boat captain

Finally got to drive a houseboat :)

Daddy and Ella

Here is a pic of our boat. Sorry it so blurry

MK and Michael

The kids had so much fun going down the slide and playing in the hot tub!

Thank you so much Jennifer and Deborah for coming down to celebrate with me

Brax, Uncle Michael , and Cooper tubbing

Brax and Tristan

Last but not least, the Birthday Girls!!!! Thank you Sarah and Nathan for such a wonderful weekend!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Father's Day

I'm very Lucky to have one of the most caring loving fathers anyone could ever ask for. I'm so glad God picked him to be my dad :) Thank you Dad for all that you do. I love you So Very much

I'm also blessed with a wonderful husband who is the best father to our two kids! I was able to see what a great dad he was to Brax and It's probably the main reason why I wanted to marry him :)

Josh,
Thank you for being such a great father, supporter, and friend. We love you so much and are so blessed to have you. I hope you had a wonderful day.

We love you to the moon and back,

Mary, Brax, and Ella

Proud daddy to a new baby boy!

Daddy with his baby girl




This is one of my favorite pictures :)



I also want to wish my Father-in-law and my brother a happy father's day!

Ella's 6 Month Stats

Ella had her Dr's apt on Friday. She is perfect in every way :)

Weight 17 lbs and 9.5 oz

90% percent

Height 26 inches

50 Percent

Once again she had to get three shots and it really broke my heart. Thank God this will be the last time until she is a year old.

Random Pics

Here are some random pictures that I have been meaning to post :)

Braxton on Cooper's and Hadley's Slip N Slide


I love the fact that Hadley has her tongue out. She is in concentration mode :)

Cooper and his daddy

There is nothing more precious than a sleeping little boy

Ella is really starting to like her highchair

Ella trying to feed herself

Tomorrow Ella has her 6 month Dr's visit. I cant wait to see how much my chunky Monkey weighs :)

6 months, WOW!

I can't believe my baby is 1/2 year old today! It's crazy to think that in 6 more months we will be celebrating her first birthday! It really does make me sad and i'm learning that you just have to take everything in and cherish every single second! I wish life came with a remote control; a pause button and rewind button would be great!

What you have been up to over the past month

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  You have started sitting up all by yourself. I swear this happened in one day. Saturday you just decided that you were going to start :)


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  You are eating 4 to 5 6oz bottles a day. You are also eating fruits at lunch and fruits/veggie mixed at dinner. You tried a teething biscuit yesterday and you LOVED it!


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  You are in a size 3 diaper


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  You can wear some 6 months but you mostly wear 9 to 12 months clothes


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  Playing with your toys is a new favorite thing. You LOVE trying to get to mommy's phone :)


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  You are finally on a pretty good nap schedule. You take a hour nap around 9 and then you go down around 3 and nap until 4:30 or 5.


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  You are still sleeping great throughout the night. I feel sorry for your poor little leg muscles though, you kick them up and down all night. It's almost like you have restless leg syndrome, lol


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  You love the lake and the pool :)


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  You still hate being on your tummy :( This is probably my fault bc i never put you on it as a little baby.


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  You are still such a happy laid back baby :)

Happy 6 months Ella! We love you to the moon and back!

We go the dr on friday so I will post 6 month stats then.

Two weeks with Brax

I cant believe that our two weeks with Brax is already up :( I know I have said this before but we always feel as though our little family is not complete unless he is with us. So for two weeks we have had so much fun as a family of 4. We played, we swam, we did puzzles, we rode bikes, we did pretty much everything that little boys love to do!

We had such a great two weeks with you Braxton!

WE LOVE YOU!!!

Family Pictures

This past week Jessica Meinardus took our family's pictures. She did such a great job!!!!

Here a few of my favorites so far. I cant wait to see the rest!

Wordless Wednesday

June is by far one of my favorite months for several reasons... School's out, lake season starts, pools open and last but not least it's my birthday month!!!! I'm so glad summer is here!

Last night after the sun started to go down, Josh and the kids got in the pool! I love the fact that both our our kids LOVE the water! Here are a few pics...

Yummy pool toys :)