Marilyn comes to visit! :)

One of my sweet friends from Virginia Beach came to visit me this week!! I have not seen anyone from this group of girls (we did Bible study for three years together) since graduation in May of 2009! She was such a blessing to have! We all dispersed throughout the US and Marilyn is now in Destin, Florida with her hubby Charles.



One of the first things we did was go onto the state house. The boys were pretty interested in the slave memorial.


Evan was stopping everyone that walked by and forcing them to wave at him. It was pretty funny. He even made the lawn mower wave. He was such a ham. He fell in love with Marilyn and even posed for her pictures.

Next we headed to the park for a picnic before I had to teach class at the gym.
Just documenting a little of the before the work out look...
Here we are after a great Sh'Bam class. Marilyn made it all the way through and never complained about the cheesy way I teach! :) Thanks friend!
I even made her come to another class the next day. She was all smiles for me... or maybe she was just laughing at us.... :)
Later we went to Harbison park and fed the ducks. We were swarmed!! One of the geese even tried to take a bite out of Brody! He was not too happy about it, but they loved seeing all the birds.
I think the best part of the visit was when we went to Nonnah's downtown and got some "chocolate temptation". We had fabulous dessert and even better conversation! Thanks for coming, Marilyn! I miss you already!

BEACH TRIP!!!!

Fire Station!!!

So i took the boys to the Devine Street Fire Station this week with a group of friends. They LOVED it. The men there were so nice and did an entire hour's worth of entertaining the kids. They went down the pole, dressed in their gear, brought out the truck and let them mess around on it. It was great!
Evan made friends with the firemen. He normally is not too fond of strangers, but I'm sure he felt safe knowing that a fireman was holding him.One of the guys was a newby to the station and about 20 something years old. (the older men let us all know this...) Therefore he was forced to climb all the way to the top of the firetruck's ladder. Apparently when extended all the way up it can reach about 7 stories tall! that's a lot of climbing. Not to mention the ladder get's more narrow as you go higher up. That is not my calling!
The boys got to climb inside the truck and Evan was in there with them. He's not going to let the big kids out show him. :)
Brody was excited to get to hold the hose. I think he was hoping some water would come out.
This is the demonstration the men put on to show that firemen sound and look scary, but they come to your house to help...AKA... don't run and hide. Brody had no fear and ran up there to give the guy a high-five when he was done.
On a side note. They may like those firemen, but there ain't no man like Daddy. Our boys LOVE him. It makes me so happy to see it too. You're a good man to love, my sweet. Worth respecting.
And then-just a little goofing off. What can I say? We have fun.

Typical morning...

Evan is now a banana addict. And we are of course, enablers of this habit. Banana is his 4th word. He now says, "Daaa-ddy", "Mo-meey", "Bobby"(Brody) and "Nanana" (banana). He gives kisses by puckering and making the "mmmm" sound. He waves bye and he will occasionally say "bye-bye" or "Ny-Ny" which means night-night. :) He also gives incredibly slow blown kisses. He very slowly reaches his hand to cover his mouth and will eventually release to blow you the kiss. It is soo sweet.Brody is a little man. Here are some of the sweeeet things he has said lately. He sat with me at church yesterday and after the Pastor spoke about a passage from Revelation, Brody turned to me and said, "Did you know that, Mommy? That God will wipe every tear away???" I almost cried on the spot. Then as two sweet little babies were baptized at church, Brody turned to me and said, "Mommy, I love those babies. Evan is almost a big boy now. I want you to have a baby." HA! crazy man. That is adorable though that he loves little babies. We'll give him a baby fix when Aunt Carrie and Aunt Megan have our newest cousins! Oh yeah and one more... so we're in the car and Brody says to me- "Mommy, you only have two boys." and I say, "but Churchill is a boy." and Brody replies, "Mommy, you only have three boys," so I reply, "but, Daddy is a boy." His response to this was, "NO! Mommy! Daddy is a man."
We love you two! You bring so much joy to us!!

When Friends Come to Town

The Eifert family came to visit us for the weekend a few weeks ago and we had a blast. They have a son a few months younger than Evan that is also named Brody. So, all weekend long Brody (ours) called the other one, baby Brody Junior. so funny! We took them to the swamp to look at the Cyprus trees and walk around. It was perfect. We love you guys! Thanks for visiting with us!