Recently, Bailey and I made pumpkin seeds together. For the record, they were far too troublesome and not very good. I don’t recommend you bother.
I get sidetracked so easily.
I placed Bailey in the sink to help me wash the seeds and get them ready. She loved sitting in the sink. She sat there for over an hour. Now, whenever I’m in the kitchen cooking or baking, she wants to sit in the kitchen sink.
If it’s clean. I let her.
He is such a stinking cutie.
Because he is so stinking cute, I try to take his picture to capture his adorability. However, like his mother, he hates to have his picture taken. Recently at a 5k I spent the morning trying to get his picture.
He literally spent the morning trying to evade me.
He replied. “Oh yeah, Mom?”
Last week my sister and her husband finally let me photograph them together. It was a spur of the moment sort of thing, at the seafood dinner, but I’m hoping they’ll like what I did enough to let me actually shoot them.
And I mean that in a purely photographical way.
Last Sunday these two really cool people had us over for Family Dinner in Blacksburg. It was awesome, they made my favorite foods:
And of course some of my favorite people were there, the host and hostess, as well as these cuties:
We had a super awesome time. So much so that we’re (the kids and I) are going back on Wednesday for more.
The previous evening we had the Seafood Dinner. That is the annual Christmas feast that my mother’s family has every year. Where the food may not be our thing, we enjoyed getting to see everyone, especially Donna and Ben who were up from Florida. I will try and post some photos from that dinner as well but this us my favorite from the evening…
Last week we went to Duck, North Carolina for our big vacation of the summer/year. It was a perfect time to go as it was the only week Uncle Tyler and Jordan had off all summer long but it was also a packed full week of birthdays and anniversaries for our family. Monday was my birthday, Wednesday was our 9th anniversary and Friday was the Big Day otherwise known as Sean's first birthday. We celebrated with a Duck Donut, glazed with sprinkles for the big man who is allergic to most things. I'm not suer the donut was completely dairy or egg free but it seemed better than a cake with icing that surely would have been full of both. He loved the donut, I will try and post pictures or video later. Duck Donuts are possibly the best donuts ever. Ever. And I love donuts so that is saying a lot. We went 3 times during our vacation. And we only found them on Wednesday. I ate 10 powdered donuts. Yes, they were that good. But back to Sean. We spent the day mostly lounging by the pool or splashing on the shoreline. In the afternoon we went to a restaurant that was overly priced and not so tasty, I won't name them. Afterwards we went to Jockey's Ridge, the coolest place to watch the sun set ever. I've been going there for 17 years and yet I never outgrow that large pile of sand. Here we carried out the rest of our day rolling in the sand and trying to get that perfect picture of our family. We came home with buckets of sand in our hair, pants and shoes, but no perfect picture. Here is an OK one of only three of us. 
