webcoynes: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Molly Turns TWO!

Well, that went by quickly. Didn't I just HAVE her? Let's pause to relive that moment here.

Ok, I'm back. Isn't that a fun story?

So, Molly turned two last Friday and she planned (ha ha) a little tea party for her little besties - Maddie & Gracie. She woke up from her nap, sat at the party table, applied her chapstick, and waited...

and waited....

and waited...

and waited.

Unfortunately, these are the hooligans that showed up.

Just kidding. The besties showed up in their Sunday best, ready to get their tea on.

The boys confessed that they "really love a tea party" and both were obsessed with pouring their own "tea." Given that each tea cup was made for a mouse, perhaps they were just really thirsty.

Trying out the sit n spin and quickly learning it's kind of a one-person-at-a-time thing....

New baby cradle from Oma & Opa.

Please note, the custom "mattress" on which the baby is sleeping....

There's a CHANCE that I may have gone overboard with this fabric I found (and love). Can you even see Molly's legs on top of her new blanket? I confess, even the adults' cocktail napkins were made from that fabric.

And after a cupcake made of 20% cupcake, 80% frosting....

...into the bouncy castle!

Happy birthday sweet girl.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Beach... in January

Apparently, we are beach people. Who else bundles up in fleece and hits the beach in January?

Well, beachES really. We hit four Florida beaches in less than 24 hours last weekend.

The following photos are really just a blatant attempt, by me, to record all of our beach fun.

This is Molly, trying to roll down a hill....

on the flattest part at the top.....

with a grilled cheese sandwich in her hand.

Beach #1 Seaside, FL

"a sand angel"

Beach #2 Seagrove Beach

Please note how we are the ONLY people who thought going to the beach in fifty degree weather was a good idea.....

Guitar shovel

Our kids are obsessed with making holes.

Giant holes to sit in.

Obsessed.

More hole sitting...

Brian finds an embryonic shrimp? lobster? sea monkey?

View from our room

and up the next day for a nutritious breakfast of chocolate milk and a chocolate chocolate chip muffin....

and on to beach #3 at Deer Lake State Park which has neither deer or a lake.

just a long long long walk to a beach which had...

just guess.

a hole!

and then a short drive to beach #4 Rosemary Beach where James promptly got to work....

digging a hole for Molly.

I'm telling you - OBSESSED.

a bigger hole to share...

Oh beach. We heart you.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

DeSoto Caverns

This one got left out of the "before Christmas" posts because I had to threaten my friend Amy within an inch of her life to get the photos from her camera, on which she keeps photos from as far back as three years ago. Every time we go somewhere, she has to delete a photo before she can take one because her memory card is so full. Like three years worth of memories full.

On this particular day, the kids were out of school for Christmas break, but the guys still had to work. Seemed like a perfect opportunity to walk 300 feet underground and experience the DeSoto Caverns in Childersburg, AL. The population is roughly 5, make that 6 since our tour guide lives on the DeSoto cavern property in a trailer. Not. Kidding. Also not kidding when I say "OUR" tour guide. It was just us and her, 300 feet underground and I forgot my camera.

Here's how that tour went:

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