Fair Fun!

Once again, the Brookhaven Exchange Club Fair rolled around.  This time the girls were old enough to have some fun!

Lucy Cullen, Ava Kate, Anna Beth, and Lily Kate (whoa, isn't that a mouth full!!!) are ready to go!  

First off, the cars!!!  Lucy Cullen just sat there until the last few minutes and then she decided to drive...

Lily Kate was all smiles the whole time...

Merry Go Round...

Mimi and her girls, waiting for the train.  Anna Beth, Sophie, Mimi, Lily Kate, and Lucy Cullen.  Ava Kate decided she didn't want to be in this pic :(

Choo Choo...

Another turn on the Merry Go Round.  This time Sophie got to ride!

I hope there is always and Exchange Club Fair.  Such a fun, family event!!!

Florida 2013

Better late than never, here is a recap of our trip to Florida.  We were supposed to go with Mimi two weeks before this trip, but Taylor's work just had to get in the way.  Boo!


These three, and the sweet baby in my tummy, are my heart.  I could not love them any more!

Typical Lily Kate, doing her own thing, not looking when everybody else is!

 

Lily Kate's favorite thing to do...

and Lucy Cullen had to join in...

a few random pics...

Sweeeeeet girlies!!!

Second year at the beach, and this sweet girl eats sand again!!!

We could not have survived this trip without our Hay Hay!!!

See, there Lily Kate goes again with the sand!  And the sand got all over Ninnie!!!

More randoms...

Pancakes for breakfast!!!

And this is where Lucy Cullen ate hers...

Poppy came a few days later, and P-up and Gage didn't get to make it at all.  Boo to state baseball playoffs haha!  So we didn't get to take beach pics with them, but did get this quick pic before supper one night...

And now some for the beach!!!  Taylor could stay on the beach allllll day long.  He loves it.  And I love this pic of him.  This is seriously how he wears his sunscreen.  Globbed and uneven!!!  It doesn't bother him at all that he has white splotches all over his face.  Gotta love him!

Lily Kate and Ella loved it...

And Lucy Cullen wasn't too sure...

When she finally decided to get her toes wet...

a huge wave came and she just gasped.  I love this pic!!!

Lily Kate was so excited, she just dragged Poppy where ever she wanted to go!

Both girls loved the sand.  They didn't want to leave!

We loved the pool too, but it was verrrrrrry chilly.  So Lucy Cullen didn't get in much, she just walked around looking cuuuute...

And here is a video of Lily Kate's favorite part of our trip...

It almost sent me into labor.  I couldn't believe that Taylor was throwing her that high and that hard.  But she loved it.  Everybody at the pool couldn't believe that she liked it either!  When her head would pop out of the water, before she even wiped her eyes, she was asking to do it again.  She has NO fear!!!


Ok, that's all for Florida.  Now I have others that I need to catch you up on.  I'm trying, I promise!!!

My most favorite pic...

Ok, one of my most favorite pics...

Growing on up...

I have so many ideas and events that I want and need to blog about, but just not enough time (or energy).  Maybe one day I will actually get to sit down and do it!  Until then, here are a few stories about how my sweet girls are growing up so quickly!

** We were in church a few weeks ago, and Lily Kate was busy playing with her cars and garbage truck that she brought with her.  She was playing quietly, not being very still, but she wasn't disrupting anyone at the time.  Bro. David mentioned the fruit of the Spirit, and she looked at me and named all 9, and went right back to playing.

Galations 5: 22-23       But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 

Taylor has been teaching them to hear for a while now.  Do you realize that she is just 3, was not paying him any attention, but at the same time every word that he was saying was sinking into her mind.  Thank you Jesus for this precious girl, and that she hears YOUR word.

** Just yesterday we were riding to the baby sitter's, and out of the blue she asks me "Where is God?".  So we had a great conversation about God is everywhere and God takes care of us.  She always comments when it rains that God makes it rain, and that God made everything.

** Lily Kate went to Vacation Bible School at Ninnie's church and had a BLAST.  The motto this year was "Facing fear, Trusting God".   She loooooved the music and is still singing all the songs she learned.  Lucy Cullen was a different story.  She would NOT stay in her class, so she went to work with me in the mornings and then at lunch went with Ninnie to eat and for nap time.  I helped 2 days, and she helped me those days but was scared that I was going to try to leave her again.  She clung to me the entire 3 hours!  If you follow me on Instagram, you saw the daily pictures from VBS.  If not, here are a few from the first day...

This was before I tried to leave Lucy Cullen.  She was happy while we were walking around and meeting everybody...

And here are a few from the VBS commencement.  They did give Lucy Cullen a certificate, even though she is a VBS drop out!!!  As always, Lily Kate loved the music and all the attention...

This is her friend Jack.  She loves him!

** Both girls know their blessing, "God is great, God is good..." Lily Kate knows it word for word, and Lucy Cullen catches about every other word.  Lily Kate then will say her own "Dear Lord" blessing where she thanks God for this and that.  Sometimes she gets silly, and sometimes she is thankful for things that we usually aren't thankful for (like throwing up !!!???) but she is learning to pray!

** At night we say our night night prayers and the girls (usually Lily Kate) repeat after us.  One morning in church Lily Kate realized that Bro. David was praying, so she started repeating after him.  It was so sweet, and again she is sinking in what she is hearing in church, even if she's not paying much attention!

I'm so grateful for these girls to be learning about God and Jesus, and can't wait for the day when they accept Him personally as their savior!!!
Ok, so this was mainly about my Lily Kate, but Lucy Cullen is growing up quickly too!  When baby boy arrives, Lily Kate will be 3 1/2 and Lucy Cullen will be 2!!!  Oh my!!!