Life Lately

Let's catch up. Nothing too exciting, but here's life the past two weeks. 

Two Sundays ago (the weekend of our camping trip) we met up with our photographer for some family pictures. Mom had been wanting a whole family shot and we usually do our little family and Fulton's yearly pictures at this time, so it worked out good. You can tell Fulton is thrilled about it. Our photographer gave us a little sneak peek and I think they turned out well. 

                                   

Monday I decided to start tackling Fulton's closet. It's crazy, he is three, but can still wear a lot of 24 month and 2T stuff, so we went through everything to see what we could put away and what to keep. It was quite the mess, but we made some progress. We still haven't moved him to his big boy bed yet. No rushing this process. I want to keep him contained as long as possible. He hasn't attempted to crawl out (cross my fingers) so we have had many people tell us--keep them in as long as you can. It's all over once they have that freedom. Yikes!!

Later that morning we grabbed our rocket launcher and 

headed to the park to meet a sweet friend. 

Andrew gave Fulton the Rocket Launcher for his birthday and he has one too. So they had a ball playing with them together and throwing rocks in the creek. 

 Wednesday morning we had plans, but headed up to my classroom to change my door for October. Woohoo. This bulletin board/changing door thing is all new territory for me. In middle school, we put a bulletin board up in August and may change it once. Not so much with the little ones. But I am trying to let creative juices (and Pinterest) flow. 

From there we headed to Aldridge Gardens to meet up with the Ness family. Fulton and Ellie loved feeding the fish and had quite the discussion over what the proper name is to call a geese. We had a picnic lunch and then headed home to rest. 

Right after school on Thursday we met up with Sister, Mom, and mom's friend Ruth Ann to head to the beach. This was on Friday. We were up bright and early and out to the beach to play in the sand. It was a last minute girl's trip, but Fulton was excited because he got to tag along. 

We spent the day playing and headed to Sea N Suds for dinner. Kiki kept him entertained while we waited for our food. After dinner we hit up Hope's Cheesecakes. I really could eat a piece of this every single day. Of course I got red velvet. It's simply delicious. 

Saturday was a little overcast and breezy, but it didn't stop this hot natured child. The beach is great in September. I have never been because I would have always been in school at this point. So thankful the Lord has allowed me this season of life. 

Later that afternoon we cleaned up and headed to Lulu's for dinner. I don't think we have ever taken Fulton there, but he loved it. They have a great area for kids and he played in the 

water and sand until our food came. 

KK braved the sand too and kept us company. 

After dinner we took F over to The Track to have some fun. He chose three rides and did the planes, the carousel, and the ferris wheel. He really wants to do the kiddie go carts, but he still isn't quite tall enough. Maybe by next summer. 

We had not taken a group picture all weekend, so we snapped a quick pic before everyone got comfortable. Sunday morning we headed home. 

 Fulton and I got back in time for a little nap and then we headed to a birthday party. These two are a mess!! We sure missed daddy while we were gone, but he was the rockstar husband that he always is and went to a birthday party on Saturday to represent our family, worked nursery duty at church by himself, cleaned the house, washed my car, and did the laundry. He is amazing!! This week has been a little slower and I am thankful for that.