Our 5th Anniversary

Ryan and I had our 5th wedding anniversary on July 10th. We decided to do something special. I've been dying to see Wicked for a long time. We found out that it was going to be in Memphis and was going to be playing on our anniversary. I knew that's exactly what I wanted for our anniversary. It was so nice to have a night out with no kids, eventhough I thought about them the whole time. I only texted the babysitter once to check on them. I can't believe it's been five years. A lot has happened in five years - we bought a house, moved to Memphis, had THREE kids, Ryan finished his residency, Ryan started his pediatric cardiology fellowship, I've worked as a speech therapist, I've been a stay at home mom, we found a wonderful church, established some great friendships, and so much more. These five years have been great and I'm looking to many more!

We started the night out going to the Magestic Grille in downtown Memphis. It was great! Definitely glad we had reservations, it was busy. They offer a pre-theater menu with a set price for three courses. We enjoyed having dinner at a nice restaurant with just the two of us, not having to worry that our kids are distracting everyone around us. Then we headed to The Orpheum theater for Wicked. I was giddy like a little school girl, I was so excited. We had great seats! The show was fabulous! Whoever wrote and came up the idea for Wicked is very creative. I went into the show not knowing anything about it except that it was the story of the witches before the Wizard of Oz. There were so many twists and surprises in it. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth the money!

Here are a few pictures from our adult night out:

My flowers from my wonderful hubby!

Me and Ryan in downtown Memphis

The Magestic Grille

The Orpheum Theater

It was a great night! We definitely need to do more date nights!!

4th of July - Take Two

We went to the fireworks that our church, Faith Baptist, put on. It was great and the girls had a lot of fun playing with their friends!

The girls in their 4th of July outfits mommy made them

Emerson, Julia, and Davis playing

Emerson, Palmer, and Julia eating candy

Emerson and Marianna

Best Friends - Emerson, Marianna, Julia, and Chloe

Quinn and Palmer

Emerson and Palmer enjoying ring pops

Palmer and Emerson waiting on the fireworks

Marianna, Emerson, Julia, and Chloe

Palmer watching the fireworks

Hudson watching the fireworks

The big girls watching the fireworks

Palmer and Hudson with Daddy watching the show

The 4th of July

We've had a fun weekend so far. Ryan had to work all day and all night on the 4th, so we had a little family fun on the 3rd to celebrate. Emerson got a new pool and the girls swam in that. We played outside and had fun while daddy grilled for us. On the 4th, I braved going out to a festival all my myself with all three. We had a blast and the girls were really good. Emerson got to jump on several bounce houses and the big girls got to ride Thomas the train. The biggest surprise of all was getting to meet Dora!! The girls loved that! Hudson of course slept through most of the festivities

Palmer sliding down the fish slide

Emerson sliding

Palmer playing in the spraying water

Palmer playing with the water table

Fun with the tricycle

Daddy grilling some good food!

Chowing down! The girls love to eat outside!

Hudson hanging out in her red white and blue

My three patriotic girls

Emerson climbing up

And sliding down

Emerson jumping

Riding the train

Thomas the train

Hudson snoozing

Eating snowcones

Getting patriotic tatoos

Palmr decorating her cup

Meeting Dora!!

Eating dinner, Hudson actually woke up for that

Tomorrow night we're supposed to go see fireworks that our church puts on. Hopefully it doesn't rain, so the girls will get to see some great fireworks and get to hang out with their friends. Right now the girls are supposed to be in bed, but they are staring out the window in their bedroom watching all the neighbors fireworks. They are amazed with them.

Hudson is four months old!

Hudson is four months old now. Wow has time flown by!!! She is such a joy! We gave her cereal today for the first time. She did great with it! Emerson decided she needed to feed her baby cereal too! Here are a few video clips of Hudson.

Hudson eating cereal for the first time:

Hudson talking:

Hudson rolling over:

Here's a few cute pics:

Hudson

Hudson is almost four months old now. She is the best baby in the world. She doesn't fuss much at all and just goes with the flow. I just moved her to a four hour schedule and she adapted beautifully and sleeps 12 hours straight at night. I stopped waking her up at 10 just to eat and it didn't phase her at all. She is just a blessing and a happy little baby. She's been rolling over both ways since she turned 3 months and is a pro now! She loves to smile, laugh, and talk all the time. I'll put her in the swing and Palmer and Emerson love to swing her. The higher they swing her the harder she laughs. Here is a couple of her 3 month pictures and a few short video clips.

Here is a video of Hudson rolling over. It's really dark, b/c there weren't many lights on. I had to post it b/c I finally got her rolling over on camera. She rolls over all the time, but when I put the camera on her all she does is look at me and refuse to roll over.

Here is Hudson hanging out on her blanket talking to me.

The shots are here

Palmer's medication has arrived, she's taking Increlex. The nurse came to train me on how to give her the shots. She is getting two injections a day. We have to rotate the injection site, so she doesn't get sore or build scar tissue. She gets the shots in her leg, arm, stomach, and bottom. Palmer is handling it pretty well. She know what's coming when she sees the shot and usually tries to run. She just fuses for a second when she gets the shot and is over it pretty much immediately. The needle is really small. I've adjusted pretty well too, it's just part of our day now. We go back to the endocrinologist in August for a check up to see how much she has grown. Here are a few pictures to see what we're dealing with and of course one cute one of Palmer playing:

Emerson's Latest

For those of you who know Emerson very well at all, you know she's always up to something. Here's her latest. Tonight when it was dinner time she wanted to go get in her pool. I told her no and that I was getting dinner ready. Emerson and Palmer were playing nicely in the living room when I left to go fix their plates in the kitchen. I went back to get them and they were in my bathroom. Palmer walked out laughing with her hair soaking wet. I asked Emerson what she put on Palmer. She gladly told me "sunscreen". When I asked her why, she told me that they wanted to go swimming and she was putting on their sunscreen. Emerson somehow sprayed her and Palmer's right eye. They both had a swollen, red right eye. It's was crazy, the eye was red, the skin around the eye was red, they had red splotches on their forehead, and half of their nose was red. Thankfully, we just took a bath and rinsed them. By bed time the redness was almost gone. It didn't seem to stop either one of them, they were both still happy and playing. Here are a few pictures of their red eyes. Palmer's were worse than Emerson's. Somehow or another Palmer always get the short end of the stick. These pictures were after their bath at dinner saying "cheese".