a little bit of me.

{HHI}

"I saw 7 jellyfish & 4 dolphin!!!"

...Is what Evan had to tell his class about our weekend in Hilton Head, and I kinda love that.

...I couldn't have asked for a better mother's day.  HHI is officially my #happyplace

:)

{No Better Time...}

than bathtime for a photoshoot i say. :)

So glad i pulled my camera out at bathtime two weeks ago to snap these.

...because things change WAY too quickly.

Since taking these, N's little forehead met it's match with the corner of the coffee table & the DAY AFTER I snapped this E lost his first tooth and we said goodbye to his baby smile.

(no stinky feet in this house!)... Happy Monday Everyone!

Grab your camera sometime today and capture a moment of your EVERYDAY that you normally might not.  You won't regret it.  ;)

{April Revisited}

Seriously where did the 2nd half of April go to?  I didn't quite believe it when i visited the blog to grab a link for someone on something and realized my last post was April 15.

Here's a little bit of what we've been up to...

*these are all a mix of iphone pics, point n shoot pics, and "Big" camera pics!  ;)

We got away mid-month to Tybee Island for a little wine festival, withouthekids(!!!).  We lived it up while we were there, stopping at what turned out to be a FAB local recomendation for lunch (we felt like official foodies), and then touring Savannah the next day...

We had our first real beach day (or afternoon i should say) of the season.  Bring on summer and endless days of this - the boys & I can't think of a better way to spend our time off!

We spent the day at Animal Kingdom (first for all of us!), rode Noah's new fave the Dino ride, & then met mickey (after being REALLY rained on) -- Mickey's keeping his distance after Noah had a freaked-out reaction to being so close to him.  ;)

We lost our first tooth...

We had our forehead (N) glued back together (last friday) after a coffee-table collision...

We splished and splashed lots...

:)

{snapped last week}

I'm quite sure that 20 years from now, these types of photos will be some of my very, VERY faves.

& I'll feel as blessed then as I do now that so much of our time was spent together, and at home. 

:)

ps - i think i need a new hashtag for noah along the lines of #inaboxAGAIN ;))

{spring teeball}

documenting...

...the start of a new season of teeball...

...and lots of evenings to be spent at the field...

...and a little boy who's come SO far since this time last year.  We are so proud of him.  :)

(...If you look close you can see the ball from his first hit of the evening in the upper left corner of this pic -- he was 3/3 with no tee needed!)

I've decided that the start of teeball games means that it's officially spring.

:)

all photos taken with my canon 5D Mark ii and canon 50mm1.2L

{Friday Phone Favorites}

on Sunday... oops.  ;)  here we go!

...1. UF mascots on campus.  2. Our own rowdy reptile cheering section!  3. Evan's first Gator Basketball game.  4. Noah and my dad.  5. Mid-week McD's drivethru for a diet coke (me) & Cookies (boys).  6. What N looks like after eating a chocolate chip cookie on his own in the car.  ;)  7. Look Momma, It's a hat!  8. "Hungry-Potomas" Playing.  9. Antique Market Morning Me.  10. Sunset on the beach Friday night.

{Friday Phone Favorites}

Here we go again.  I'm loving that posting these is prompting me to get the pics OFF my phone in a timely manner - and I even ended up using five pics from my phone for last week's PL spread (out of 12 total photos for the week).  >> I'm officially caught up on project life - just need to find some time to photo and blog it to share here!

...1. A walk on the beach before dinner last Sat night (I'm trying to include more of Eric and I in the PL album!).  2. Sandy path.  3. Lunch this week 2x: strawberries, avocado, cucumber, & gorgonzola.  4. Eric was in shock when i ordered a beer (I'm such a wine person!).  5. Beach football.  6 Toby turns 11.  7. Noah's cute alphabet flashcards - I love that he calls this one "hungry-potomas".  8. Trophy day on the last day of the winter YMCA Bball league.  9. Sushi lunchdate.  10. Noah rocking HIMSELF to sleep one night this week when it took me too long to get there.  :)  11. Time out for hitting Evan.  I think I was texting this one to the hubs!  12. The birdfeeder N made at school this week.  I'm pretty sure a racoon stole it off our tree last night...  oops.  13. My coffee combo.  14. Blooms in our backyard (SO early this year).

:)

{Currently}

LOVING: Winter walks on the beach.  We've stopped off three times in the past week, and I'm not going to lie - that's one of the biggest bonuses of living where we do.

snapped from my phone:

HEARING: Noah ask "What was dat?!" at least 3 times a day.  ENT surgery has literally opened up his ears and it's kinda amazing.  My favorite was about a day or two post surgery when he must have heard the "whooooosh" from my phone sending a text for the very first time and looked at me like "what the heck?!".  :)

READING: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover - and LOVING it.  She's an amazing author.

PROOFING: The past two weeks worth of snapshots, so that I can catch-up on my project life!

LAUGHING ABOUT: Pics i just uploaded from my camera of these glasses that always seem to pop up at least a few times a week on one of the boys - they know that they crack me up and i love that.  ;)

WATCHING: Bachelor.  (what else?!)  and also my very very VERY favorite this season... Nashville!

EATING: too many girl scout cookies!  :(

& OBSESSING OVER: these water-color crayons, as recommended to me by Lisa T. for coloring in stamped images >> I have a 12 pack on the way to me and can.not.wait to break them in!

happy monday everyone.  :)

{eleven}

If you've been following along with my little blog here for a few years - you will know that we love celebrating our poodle's birthday... (ten, my favorite pic @ six, five, seven) etc etc...

...and so THIS was eleven.

The "party" consisted of hats, balloons, and what else but toby's fave...

...his own little Krystal Burger - minus the bun. 

He got a big walk on the beach afterwards to work off the calories!

:)

{Friday Phone Favorites}

I've seen this done in various formats on other blogs - and in an effort to blog more than once every other week ;) I'm thinking I might start dumping some 'phone faves' onto the blog at the end of each week.

So here we go...

1. crazy cold temps to start the week off (our flowers finally died for the season).  2. noah's beloved "mcqueen ka-chow" collection.  3. toby on his way to a much needed haircut.  4. after school beach stop to run off some energy and feed the birds.  5. mid-week me.  6.  aqua toes, seashells, and sand.  7. blue skies ahead.  8.  one day i'm know i'm going to miss pushing this damn "car cart" around and look longingly at the (much younger than me) momma with 2 adorable boys in it that she gets to push around...  9. N & i riding the "zoo train".  10. next up for my nails.  11. penguin exhibit at the zoo for ev's kindy field trip.  12. noah on the "elephant" - his fave!

xo, happy weekend everyone!