You Don't Know Jacques!

Tula treated me and Aunt Mak to a pedicure and manicure on Saturday. It was wonderful!

Makenzi and I should get an award for our ability to turn magazine pages with plastic baggies on our hands. The ladies used the baggies to allow the cuticle oil to seap into our nails making the manicure process easy while making magazine reading almost impossible. That didn't slow us down one bit! We were too into our magazines to give up so easily!

Thanks to spying it on a cute girl we met while out shopping Friday afternoon, I decided to give the OPI color "You Don't Know Jacques!" a try! It's not my norm, but I'm quite enjoying it. Well, except for the comments from my peanut gallery (AKA the men in my life). Walker wanted to know why I had purple on my hands, and Matt referred to me as Elvira.

I don't care. I LIKE IT! See what you think!

You can try it on yourself here.

Fun & Family Filled Weekend

We've been blessed to have Aunt Mak and Uncle Brad staying with us this week. And to top off a great week, Tula and Pops came to visit over the weekend.

We started a rainy Saturday morning off at Bogues followed by football for the guys and some shopping for the girls.

That afternoon, we made it outside for some trampoline jumping and basketball throwing.

Tula even got in on the action!

Sunday, we went out for breakfast again (did I mention breakfast is my favorite meal?). This time we drove out to Ross Bridge. They have a fabulous breakfast buffet! My two cannot resist a fountain!

We had a fun weekend visiting, eating and just being together! We love you guys!

Community Helpers

Walker and Kathryn are learning about community helpers at school this week. The kids were invited to dress like their favorite community helper.

Meet Dr. Busbee... And the other Dr. Busbee...

Kathryn, completely in the role, was too busy compassionately caring for her patient, Ariel, to smile for the camera.

I did capture this brief smile...

Happy Thursday!

A Weekend on the River

Walker and Kathryn spent a weekend on the river. Nana and Papa very generously offered to let them visit Camden, giving Mommy and Daddy an entire weekend without little ones!

I don't know who enjoyed the weekend more, Matt and I or Walker and Kathryn!

Here are Walker and Kathryn having a tea party with Polly Pig (seated in the middle chair).

And of course there were arts and crafts!

Nana even created an art gallery to display their masterpieces!

They had lots of fun playing in the shaving cream!

Walker loves the tire swing--well, really anything that goes around and around!

Playing in the sand box...

Dressed for church....

And a little flower pickin'....

Picture-takin' with the "Tree Man"....

Now you've seen how Kathryn and Walker spent their weekend, check back to find out what Matt and I did with all of our free time!

Let the Season Begin

October 1st seemed like the perfect day to enjoy my first one of these...

PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE! YUM!

I am sure this is the first of many for this fall season! Happy Fall, Ya'll!

Spanish according to Walker and Kathryn

Walker and Kathryn have Spanish class this year, and they are really amazing us with their grasp of the Spanish language. For example, they are currently learning the colors in Spanish.

They must really be overachievers because they have also picked up a few words on their own. According to Kathryn and Walker, the Spanish word for night is space (as in outer space). And Kathryn informed me yesterday that the Spanish word for acorn is nut!

I think they are slowly grasping the idea of translation, but with their own little flair! That doesn't surprise me coming from these two:)

Two Little Hurricanes

The rainy weather this past Saturday necessitated a trip to the McWane Center, a great place to expend energy on a yucky day! I loved these pictures of Walker and Kathryn in the hurricane simulator.
I won't lie. There are days these two act like little hurricanes, running here and there with speed, leaving me feeling all tousled and making my hair stand straight up!