Happy 6th Birthday Bradley (Birthday Weekend)

My little boy has turned 6!! WOW!! As always where does the time go? He's quickly phasing out of the little boy slowly in a big boy. I feel like at this age they are between the two worlds. Still so little and innocent, but wanting to do and be bigger things. He's loving doing big things with his daddy and getting that one on one time like golfing, fishing, shooting be be guns, but will still snuggle in mommy's lap in a heart beat and want to do things with me. I love this boy and who he's becoming and although one part of me is sad he's growing so quickly the other part of me is just as intrigued to see who will be and all that God has for him.

His birthday is always bursting with so much activity being that it's centered around the 4th of July. On his actual birthday we took him to Ocean breeze as a family. Steven and Michele were able to join us and that was pretty cool for Bradley. That evening gramma and grandpa Boscoe came in town for the weekend so we celebrated with cake and icecream. We didn't have a planned party, but his neighborhood buddies came on in and join us for some cake and singing. Bradley requested a chocolate chip icecream spiderman cake so I was able to pull that off. When Bradley came down that morning we had the kitchen all decorated in his request with spiderman so he was excited about that.

The next day was the fourth and we just hung out and played. Bradley got a 7 foot rocket for his birthday that everyone had a blast either watching or participating in. The guys were like big kids messing around with it and I think having just as much fun. That night we decided instead of dragging the kids to the fireworks with all the crowds ect....that we'd just hang out here and do our own. It was very relaxing and all the neighbors joined in and said it was a great tradition. I agree!

Happy Birthday to me!

Bradley loves hitting golfballs with his daddy

Happy 4th of July!!

Preparing the rocket
Grandpa, Bradley and Daddy getting ready for take off

Blast off!!

Birthday evening

Me and my birthday boy

Birthday morning

Who gets her first

Some days it's a race to see who can get to baby Laura first and some days one is more in tune with it than the other and sometimes neither....it just depends. Bradley got there first this time and other times Alayna is more in tune with the monitor and she'll run in there and yell "mommy, come here....baby Laura is up" I'm like.... I know I can hear and already know she's in the bed with her. She continues to yell for me until I come up and see for myself. This time I just had to capture the moment.

A night at the beach

Just some shots of a beach night. I think we've learned we like going better at night. There's just something more relaxing about it I guess. The music adds some fun, it's not too hot, the icecream doesn't melt as fast ect....Alayna met a little girl this night and they danced their little hearts out. They stole the show by far. She was a year older, but by their size you'd have thought the other way around. After playing on the sand and some dancing we settled down on 31st street for some more music and the kids danced some more and ran back and forth in the big open space until they couldn't run anymore and before we knew it it was 10pm and had to pack up and get home.

Daddy and Bradley playing chase...always brings such joy to that little boy playing with his daddy. Most days he's got to compete with 2 little princesses, but when he gets him all to himself it just radiates on his face.

Finally Gotcha!

My little peanut....tiny little dolly completes our family....in some ways I sort of wish she'd stay that way forever and in others I'm excited to see who she's going to be one day. She's so tiny and fragile still but deep down I believe I detect some strength that she'll be able to hold her own one day. Just by staring into her eyes I get a little sense of who she is.
My Alayna....just makes me smile....her little mind and the things she says our priceless and keeps us laughing. The other day she said "mommy....look at me, do you know who I am?" Who Alayna? "I'm a WILD PRINCESS!" with such expression to emphazise WILD. Oh dear I thought, please calm down before the teen years.

This little guys is growing before my eyes and has a perception and in tune with things and feelings sometimes I think above his years and love that about him and pray as he grows it grows into Godly wisdom. He's going to be 6 tomorrow and where the time has gone is always remains a mystery in my mind.

Blueberry Picking

Took the kids blueberry picking. As always I love going to Pungo to feel the simplicity of country living. You can just feel it driving down the road. We filled one whole bucket. Made a few things, but mostly just ate them all by the handfuls. The kids had a great time!