Randomness This Spring...

In March we attended the Seabee Ball here in Gulfport at the Convention Center. As always we were bound to have a wonderful time!

Our amazing neighbors who we live and spend everyday with! 

Playing school

It melts my heart.. Claire LOVES to play school with her dolls!! She would play this all day and talks to them!! It's SO cute!!

Teaching all of her students, letters:)

Field Trip Day

Last week I went with Drew to the Institute for Marine Mammal Science. I was able to go and help out with his adorable class!

Learning about manuals they rescue on the Gulf Coast.

Digging for shark teeth! Once they found one in the sand they were able to keep it and identified what type of shark it came from.

Yay!! He found one!!

Drew and our sweet neighbor girl Teryn are in the same class!

Touching a sting ray!!

We had a great day together!!

Easter Camping Weekend

Andy had Good Friday off so we decided to take advantage of the long weekend (kids were off of school as well) and went camping! A beautiful state park is just a little over an hour away. We loaded the car, rented a boat, and headed north into the wilderness!

Looking for the perfect camping spot..

Then it was time to set up camp! Claire really loves this part as she says it best.."it's like playing house!"

Brooke was exhausted from all the fresh air!

She woke right up when we took her fishing! We had no idea how she would do in a boat.. She LOVED it and couldn't have behaved better!

We caught a hand full of fish, however to small to keep! 

Then it was time to hit the nature trails.

Brooke took her first swim in water and did great! Claire insisted in swimming with her.. So we stripped her down to her undies... Which she loved!

We even woke up to find out the Easter bunny found our campsite!

We had a great and relaxing Easter!

Catch Up!

WOW!! I need to catch up on the last three months! Needless up say.. We've been busy! After Andy returned we took a much needed week long cruise to the Caribbean!! We had an amazing time full of fun, relaxation, and great family time.

The ship had so much to do!! We were usually torn on what to do as there was so much!

Andy REALLY enjoyed to relaxing ship time...

Ok.. Maybe I did too!

And the kiddos did too...

Crystal clear water in Cozumel.

We coldly have asked for a better ship! This is what we walked onto after each port stop! They had music playing loud, people dancing, and nothing but smiles!

We took a two hour tube ride down a river in a jungle in Belize!

Andy and Drew went on a chartered boat trip and came home with dinner! The cost included a restaurant cooking the fish for us!

We had an amazing time and it was just what we needed.

Daddy's Home!!

A few weeks ago Andy returned home from his six month deployment! (This post is a little late.. It's been crazy in this house!)

We were told to meet at the base theater at 5a.m. The escort all of the troops onto base in buses and cop cars escort them on with lights on and all!! So I woke the kiddos up and we hurried off to the theater! They then announced due to the fog they could not land at the airport and were being re-routed to New Orleans!! The fog lifted and they arrived at noon!

Everyone was do excited!! 

And the search was on to find Andy's bags!

It's so great to have him home and to have our family complete again.

Love Brooke!

Brooke LOVES the kids and wants to be where they are all the time! Here are a few photos..

Claire came into my bed the other night and Brooke was laying on her dog bed in our room. She is NOT allowed in our bed!! However, she somehow noticed Claire had snuck into my bed while we were still down stairs and jumped into my bed and laid right next to her!

After I put the kiddos to bed Brooke and I go down stairs. The other night she snuck back upstairs and was sleeping with Claire!

Drew had a sleepover and again, Brooke laying on the air mattress to be close to them!

We are so lucky to have such a relaxed puppy!! (She has her moments though..!)

Puddle Fun

Yesterday it rained allllllll day! By the time Drew was home from school it had stopped and was actually really nice out, just wet. So I put my crazy hat on and told the kiddos they could go puddle jumping with some neighborhood friends!! They were ecstatic!!! 

The kiddos were running Brooke through the puddles!! 

Three loads of laundry later, one dog bath, and two baths for the kiddos with extra bubbles.. We were clean! Energy was exerted and they slept hard!