Just wanted to post some pictures from our Father's Day. We went to the Peabosy Hotel in downtown Memphis for the MOST DELICIOUS brunch ever. The Peabody Hotel is one of the more well-known tourist places to go in Memphis, they have these ducks that march out every day at 11:00 to music and on a red carpet and then hop in this huge fountain in the lobby of the hotel and swim and play until 5:00pm, then they do their little march to music back on the red carpet to leave again. Since Scott and I hadn't been there yet with the kids, we thought that would be a good place to go for brunch. There were so many people there it was bonkers! It really wasn't that big of a deal but the kids liked the ducks and they did look pretty cute marching around. It was worth it to go there just to see the lobby, which was beautiful, and for the food....of course. The breakfast was enormous, they had an omlette station, prime rib, lobster, crab cakes, mussels, mimosas...you name it, they had it. It was really good. After brunch we went back home and took a 2 hour long "famly nap," as the kids like to call it. We watched movies together and then we all made ice cream sundaes that night. It was a really nice relaxed Father's Day. I have some pics of the house to post, but Scott is finishing the crown molding in our bathroom as I work on this, so I figured I would wait until he is done to post house pics all at once.
Fountain in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel
Daddy and Jackson avoiding the crowd around the fountain
Cute little ducky
The ceiling in the lobby, it was really pretty, my flash changed the look of the colors
Daddy with the kids at the fountain...of course, Leah HAD to touch the water just to see what it felt like :)
The flowers on top of the fountain, can you imagine what that costs them EVERY week?!
We have been making quite a few trips to Home Depot these days, the kids ALWAYS have to sit on the tractors on the way in the store and pretend to drive them
The kids making their icecream sundaes, they had a blast!!
I started work this week on the Labor and Delivery unit and the people I work with are great!! It is definitely an adjustment getting used to working at a different hospital and how they do things, but it felt good to be taking care of patients and man was it nice to get a paycheck on Friday again :) I'll post pics of the house soon!!
Some people at work told us about a sprinkler park about 15minutes away from our house for the kids to play at. It was a fun little day, but WAY too many kids there on a weekend. I was a nervous wreck trying to keep track of the kids. Next time we will go on a weekday.
I thought this picture was so sweet of Leah and her daddy. She sure is a daddy's girl and I love it!
My sweet boy Jackson
Scott is finally done with our bathroom!!! These are a few pictures of him making some finishing touches, with the "help" of our children, a few weeks ago. Man is he relieved that project is over!
Jackson said he wanted to help Scott drill something but he ran out of the room first and came back with his tool set googles on, so cute! Safety first!
Successful drilling by the boys!!
Leah had to help Daddy with the bathroom since Jackson helped him, but she is a typical girl and got side tracked when she saw her reflection in the mirror. She made silly faces for at least 5 minutes! I had to refrain from posting all the pics I took.
This one is sweet! A little belly laugh :)
Here are the kids playing in the sink while they are supposed to be helping daddy. I loved Leah's little plumbers crack!
Leah was having a rough morning when my sister's were here, so what did her wonderful Aunt Stephie do to cheer her up?? Give her a giant chocolate cupcake after bathtime!! But it did the trick, see that smile on her face? Aunt's are the best
Leah being silly with Aunt Nj. This is at the most amazing chicken place in Memphis called Gus's Chicken. We had to take my sister's there and then we went to the Redbird's baseball game, they are a minor league team here in Memphis. It was a fun night!!
Awful picture of me, but pics of just the two of us are rare anymore, plus he looks so cute :)
Leah couldn't pass up her cotton candy...of course
Poor hot, sweaty baby!! Look at those cheeks!! Temp-wise Memphis isn't as hot as Dallas but it feels a million degrees hotter because of the humidity!! It's so gross!
This is my favorite pic of Jackson!! There is definitely a little bit of mommy in that boy.
Jackson after we dumped ice water in his hat...he loved it!
Jackson watching the fireworks after the game
We went to Incredible Pizza for Leah's birthday, any of you who know Leah know that her 3 loves in the world are her Daddy, Pinky the Pig and PIZZA!! So it made perfect sense to go to the Memphis equivalent of Gatti-Town for her birthday. This place was actually BETTER than Gatti-Town! They had race cars, a minature golf course and A COTTON CANDY MACHINE!! Another one of Leah's loves!! What a perfect birthday for a perfect little girl. Sorry about the pizza on the clothes and the hair in her face, she was a wild woman and there was no stopping this birthday girl!
I used the flash here so you couldn't tell how cool this little golf course was, it was all in black-light!
They even had an area to represent our home-town...good family photo-op!! We miss you Texas!!
Leah got her cotton candy as we were leaving and she was so happy!! You can see she is smiling just by looking at those eyes!
Leah had to grab one more piece of pizza for the ride home....I think this pic about sums up the day, her eyes are even a little crossed from all the sugar :)
So, we all had the bright idea to take out the slip-in-slide on the 4th of July and it only took a little peer-pressure on NJ and I's part to get Stephanie flying down that thing fully clothed! It was hilarious! We had her doing performances as she went to slide down and then we were all holding up score cards to rate her performance. Good, clean, kid-friendly fun!! That's why the kid's love Aunt Stephie...she is a kid just like them.
Steph on her first, not so graceful, slide
Jackson, getting a running start.....did I mention this was in our front yard so our neighbors could enjoy my sister's performance as well!
The Princess birthday cake I made for Leah this year, it looked better in person, the picture showed a lot more mistakes! Leah loved it and that's all that mattered! Although she was pretty traumatized to see her cinderella barbie get amputated at the knee by Aunt NJ to fit her in the birthday cake...
Birthday Girl!! Can't believe she is 3 years old!! We love you Leah! You make everyone around you so happy!!
My sister's got Leah a trunk of Disney princess dresses for her birthday and she loves them. It was hard for her to take them off. During naptime she said "I better take my dress off while I rest."
