Happy Birthday America!

We had a weekend filled with lots of swimming, cupcake eating, flag waving and red, white and blue wearing…

They LOVED their first visit to a local water park

Madden & Rocco (Jagger is under there too just hidden behind the pole)

Madden seriously enjoyed celebrating his friend, Carli’s 4th birthday!

3 cool dudes and the diva!

Sassy Sister

Band of Brothers

Madden – proud to be an American!

Happy 4th of July!

Oh yeah, and Saturday was my birthday too!  Happy Birthday never sounded so sweet…

A look into my iPhone

I’m following in the footsteps of some of my blogging buddies and posting my iPhone pics. What better way to remember all of the special (or not-so-special) moments in our day to day lives.  Who knows? This could become a regular blog post…I like the idea so much!  For now, I’ll save you the picture overload from going back to the beginning of my iPhone relationship and just post the last couple of months…

(my apologies for any repeats to my FB friends)

Cookies at Grandmama’s & Grandaddy’s

Leave work to find my window busted.  Nothing stolen and no foul play suspected.  I can think of a million and one things I’d rather spend $250 on! ugh.

Hide and Seek.  “I found you!”

Baby girl partied out but still not letting go of her balloon

Me with two of my favorite mommas Jac Tubre and Sandra Cochran -
having dinner at Tsunami’s with our hubbies

4 naked monkeys – waiting on mommy to bring swim diapers and swimsuits

Rocco overcoming his fear of clowns…one Bozo at a time

Nick in the ATL airport with Ralph from Survivor – too bad it wasn’t Boston Rob ;)

Me on a weekend getaway to Destin with my BFF’s

Nick showing the boys the pretty rainbow

Popsicles on a hot summer day

Daddy reading to Missy ma’am – yes, she is shirtless and there is a bow in his hair.  She was about to take a bath, but I make no excuses for him!

Grandmama lovin’ on Madman (or the other way around – hmmm…)

The light fixtures are being hung!  We are getting SO close…YAY!


Furniture shopping!  Don’t worry, we could never do that color even though it’s pretty

The kids watching their cousin Nate and his team win the championship game tonight! GO BEARS!!!

Boy, am I thankful for iPhones!  And videos?!? If it weren’t for my phone, sadly, I wouldn’t have very many!

Weekend Rewind

I thought I would share about our weekend in reverse just for fun.

The Quadfather with his munchkins on Father’s Day

(L to R: M, J, R)

The boys really had a good time playing on the couch tonight before baths and bed.  It's always fun to watch them be silly with one another.

"Hey guys, let's move the pillows!"

 (J, R, M)

This afternoon we swam but I have no pictures because with these four (and no floaties) it takes all hands on deck. We had a wonderful Father’s Day steak dinner (by G.G.) today after church. Speaking of church, today was the first Sunday we’ve been back that we didn’t have ANY tears when dropping the kids off at Sunday School. Oh yeah, that’s progress folks! Nick and I gave each other a little fist bump as we walked down the hall!

We had a nice morning with the kids getting ready for church and loving on our daddy.

Eight little hands helping daddy open his present

Oooh – pretty shirt daddy!

Sloan wanted to wear it

On Sunday mornings we are like a tag team. I get the kids dressed while Nick is getting ready and then he comes to the playroom tags me and I go get ready. While he was getting ready, I snapped some more pictures.

My attempt to get them to sit still for a group shot – it doesn’t last long!
(R,M,J,S)

LOVE this one, but look who’s on the move!

“It’s SOOO funny, Momma!”

Oh and how cute are these shirts that I recently got for the boys!? The sayings are so appropriate for each of them.

 Rocco – call me CHIEF!

Madden – RAD like DAD
Jagger – I run this TRIBE

They were really into reading their books this morning.

And found weird places to do it…

Outgrowing the ball pit too?

Hilarious!

No pictures from yesterday, but last night, we got to visit with Grandmama and Grandaddy. And the kids spent the whole day and had a blast with Nanny Alicia and Mrs. Cindy. Since we were kidless for the day, Nick and I got to run some much needed errands for the house. Always feels good to get things done!

Friday was Nick’s birthday and we had CAKE!

Mmmm….Daddy’s favorite – cookie cake!

The kids had been practicing singing Happy Birthday all day.

Singing HBD

Here is a video of their performance. It really starts around 28 seconds but I didn’t know how to cut the beginning out.

Hope y’all had a great weekend! And of course Happy Father’s Day to all especially to our Daddy, Big Pop and Grandaddy!