Weekend with Grandma

This weekend (starting on Thursday) Jake went out of town. My dad was also traveling so my mom decided to come up and spend a few days with us. We had such a nice time with her here! We went to the mall, went out to eat, watched movies and played games. We took the kids swimming several times while she was here.

I love these little water babies!

Chase practiced new tricks.

And wore super cute new pj's (thanks Grandma!)

When my dad got back in town he decided to join the fun.
He brought a big air mattress and my cute nephew!
We took the kids to Ghatti Town (so fun!) to eat and play
then came back to our house for a sleepover!

The next morning a few of us went to go see a play, The Little Mermaid.

My mom helped get my house clean and laundry caught up before she left. She is so sweet! She joined us for church on Sunday then headed home. We enjoyed her visit so much! We love you Grandma!

Wordless Wednesday: Love her in this dress!

8 Months!

My sweet boy is 8 months old now! He is officially mobile now. He's not actually crawling, it's still the army crawl but he has no problem getting around. He can get from sitting to crawling and can get into everything now! Our biggest challenge now is keeping everything off of the floor. This is the first time I've had a baby in the house along with someone who plays with Lego's and someone else who plays with little things like Barbie shoes! Also he likes to check out all of the electronics so we have to keep him away from the laptop and video game controls. He is keeping us on our toes! Now that he can sit so well he loves taking a bath and splashing in the water. He likes when we go to the pool but it makes him really sleepy! He has two teeth on the bottom and the top two are growing in. He likes all of the foods he has tried except for squash. He likes to be rocked at night and he likes when we sing to him. He is still just a sweet, happy, easy going guy! Everyone comments on his sweet personality and on his bright blue eyes!

My Birthday Rocked

Okay, that was pretty bad. But seriously, I got rockers for my birthday. Aren't they cute!

And it really did rock! My mom came up for the day. A sweet girl from church baby-sat the big kids. I got to have lunch with my mom and this cute guy...After lunch we did a little shopping. Then my mom stayed with the kids so I could have a date with this cute guy...
Sarah took our picture before we left, it's a little blurry! We went to the Cheesecake Factory, one of my favorites! The next day he and the kids had a little party for me with pizza and ice cream cake. AND the next day my parents had a BBQ with the rest of my family. I just got spoiled all week! It was great! On Saturday I took my gift cards and birthday money and had a little shopping spree! I got lots of fun new decorations for the house! I'll show some pictures when I get them all put up.
Thanks to my sweet family for making my birthday (week!) so fun!

The Garretts Have Talent

In the summer we love to watch America's Got Talent. The kids have gotten really into it this year. Now they like to play America's Got Talent. They are always up to something creative. They have been singing and playing instruments. (Even Chase!)
One day they painted pictures. Then they made up a story to go with them about Aliens Attacking the Earth.

And of course, they always have fun with the dress up clothes! Poor baby Chase!

A Few More Pics from the 4th

Happy 4th Of July!

Summer Update!

Sorry it's been a month since I posted here! I actually tried to add some things a few weeks ago and was having trouble getting them to post. They are up now but now Chase is almost 8 months old. We've been having a good summer. The last few weeks were really busy and we had something going on most days. This week we have not had one thing planned. It has been nice! Hope everyone has a nice July 4th weekend! Our neighborhood had an Independence Day Celebration last weekend. I didn't get very many pictures but we had a parade, pool party and fireworks! It was fun, I love our cute neighborhood!