Henry's Swim Lessons Round 2

Henry did so great at swim lessons this year!  We are so proud of him!  After this week of lessons we were finally able to get that puddle jumper off of him!  He swam like a fish all over the pool unassisted like a champ at Aunt Catherine's!  He had a few times where he got a little too brave and would try to swim the link of the pool, but other than that...we have a swimmer!

This week of lessons included our BFF, Jake. They had a few little push each other in the pool problems, but they did great together!  And it was nice for me to be able to chat with Leigh and for SK to see Baby Luke.  We even got to carpool a couple times to help each other out!  I love having fabulous friends.

Silly boys!

On the last day they got to do the rope swing!  How fun!  Except the boys just swung out without the help of the deck manager or the teacher! ha!  It wasn't that funny, but 3 boys who could barely swim were all in the deep end with 1 teacher.  The deck girl said they kept grabbing the rope and swinging while she was holding it!

Henry is getting ready!

Go Henry!

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Henry's swim lessons Round 1

We finally were able to get Henry in some swim lessons.  I could not figure out how to do lessons last year due to my work schedule.  This year...we are doing 2 weeks!  He is already doing so well!  He was NOT thrilled about doing lessons.

Day 1=not happy

I had to leave the pool area so he would get in.

I watched him on the tv and then sneaked back in for this picture!

Growing his confidence!

By day 2 he was kicking up a storm!

Way to go, Henry!!!!

Gammy is 60!

We surprised Mom with a family-filled weekend for her 60th birthday!  We've been arranging everything for a couple months and it finally all came together  A couple people did try to ruin the surprise, but that's OK...it worked out!  

The first surprise in our wave of surprises was getting my brother to come in from NYC.  I tried and tried to get mom to meet me for lunch or to get a pedicure.  She said she didn't feel like it!  So, I picked him up and we just went to her!  She opened the door and screamed "WHAT!!!???"  She started crying and we knew she was surprised!

My aunt and cousins came over to my house for our next surprise.  We all met up at Grub for dinner and then they all walked in.  YAY!  At the end of the meal Uncle Mike, Baehr, and Donnie all walked in for the final surprise of the day.  We were almost surprised out!

So exciting!

On her actual birthday, May 29th...we celebrated with a "Lauri's favorite things" party.  I did all of her favorites like: Scrabble, the color green, Nancy Grace, theVoice, Almond Joy, Twizzlers, raisinets, sweet-tarts and so on. 

Nancy Grace says Happy 60th!

This cake was awesome!

So glad my brother, Rebecca, and Daniel helped decorate!

My Aunt found the link to the free printable scrabble banner.

Even Mrs. Sarah came!

Our family with the O'Bannon's

Love me some Uncle Mike

Michael's friend Aubrey came by!

Sweet friends: Frances White and Chris Griffin

Siblings!

Nana and her favorites!

The fabulous Williamses

Gammy and her babies

This was supposed to be a pic of mom with her kids and grandkids...

Yay for the Echols/Garbutts!

Finally...no more surprises!  We went to my aunt's hotel and the kids got to swim.  What a fun weekend!

9 years of bliss!

We celebrated our 9 year wedding anniversary a couple days late.  I went to Ruston for Rebecca's business launch party on our actual anniversary: May 24th.  Rebecca gave us a sweet card with a #9 sparkler candle! How sweet!

Sadly, we had to stop by my 2nd cousin's visitation before our dinner.  He passed away tragically a few days before after a horrible accident.  

We went to Don Juanz (our favorite) for a delicious meal.  When Neil got the drinks I sneaked the candle to the cashier and he brought it out all lit up to us after we ate.  Neil was loving being surprised.  Not.  He doesn't like attention called to him!

Happy 9 years to us!

We had a happy day!  We are really looking forward to our 10 years when we will hopefully go on a trip! yahoo!

Summer 2016

Now that I am a full-time stay-at-home mom...we've been super busy! Not only do I have my 3 kids to tend to I ave my new business: The Festive Favor and I am doing some part-time marketing consulting for Ameriprise and Red River Brewing!  Wow!  It is a lot.  It is not keeping us from having fun, though.

Sarah Kathryn and I babysat Baby Loop (she she calls him).  SK was the biggest helper! She was a little too helpful if you know what I mean. She got him blankets, her doll bed, wanted to hold him constantly, and even put his pacifier in his mouth!  Such a little mommy!

We've taken summer as our opportunity to wear the cutest summer outfits ever.  I can't even handle her in this Beaufort Bonnet beauty.

This too.  Adorable!

Rebecca launched her Rodan and Fields Business!

How cute are these cookies!??

Good luck! She has inspired me to have my own business launch party!

Tent fort in the playroom!  They wanted to sleep in there so I let them.  It lasted 5 minutes before they wanted to get in their beds!