Zebra Print

Just wanted to post of pic of the girls at church today! I really don't dress them to match all the time but I just couldn't help myself this morning! Little girls clothes are so much fun!!

Family Pictures

So I am realizing really fast that taking family pictures is much more trying with 3 kids, but thankfully I am much more relaxed than I use to be when it came to my family photos. ;) You know, they my not be the "perfect" picture with everyone looking at the camera with a "perfect" smile on their face, but they are perfect to me. This is my life, this is my family and this is just the way I want to remember us...the way we were at this exact moment in our lives. Sometimes it is quite chaotic, hectic and crazy but I couldn't imagine it any other way. These pictures are a snapshot into our lives right now and I could not of asked for a better depiction of my family! Thank you so much Dad for taking these! One of these days I am going to miss this and thanks to you I have these wonderful pictures to look back on. You did an awesome job!! I LOVE them!

Oh how I love this man...because of him my dreams have come true!

My three little angles!

One on the hip and two hanging off my legs...this is exactly how I spend most of my days!!

Lakelyn has found her hands and realizes that she can reach and grab stuff...she was concentrating hard on getting Oakley's arm!

This is honestly how we sneak a few moments to ourselves! haha :) There is always a couple of kids under our feet and one that wants to be held!

My Family!

Mamaw Earline's

Last weekend the kids and I headed down to my Mamaw's for the weekend. As always it was so much fun seeing all my family! We had quite the welcoming when we got there Friday night! Almost all of my Aunt's, Uncle's, and Cousin's were there...that's about 30+ people! The kids have so much fun because they have so many cousin's their age to play with. Here are a few pics of how we spent our weekend at Mamaw's...

Oakley loves his Dr. Pepper...wonder where he get's that from? :)

Lakelyn spent lots of time in Mamaw's lap!

Avery and Emily blocking traffic!

The kiddo's riding down the road.

Little Limmie...can't wait to meet his little sister Emma in another month or so!

Uncle Boogie

Avery and Emily

Dakota making faces at me

Jeremy Lynn with one mischievous look on his face!

We spent most of the weekend sitting on Mamaw's front porch.

That is one dirty face after a day of playing hard!

My cousin Justin has a new album about to come out and he asked me and my Dad to take a few pics for his album cover. This is one of many that we took for him to choose from.

Just being Silly

The other day Avery and I were goofing off with the camera. We had a little impromptu photo shoot while we were waiting for Jason, Oakley and Lakelyn to get home!

Miss Independent

Avery has such a mind of her own, she is very strong headed, and so independent. This is one of the many things I love about her. She reminds me so much of myself and it's kind of scary sometimes! haha! She also loves to dress up and pick her own clothes out to wear. Some days it can be such a battle to get her dressed because she doesn't want to wear what I have picked out. It can be hard because for years I could put whatever I wanted on her and she didn't care...and not to mention I am pretty picky about what my kids wear. I always want her to look a certain way, but I am learning to let go, let her have a say and let her be her own person. I guess she is breaking me in for when she comes home as a teenager with pink hair and her nosed pierced. :)

So...a few weeks ago we were going to a benefit for some good friends. I had Avery all dressed and ready to go when she came up to me with these huge, fake, plastic, dress up earrings on that my Mom had got her to play with. Seriously, they hung down to her shoulders. We were running behind and I really needed to get her in the car so when she asked if she could wear them I said fine. You pick your battles right? Needless to say she got many compliments on her earrings that day!

A few weeks later I had to run to the post office and the store. I told Avery to go get dressed so we could hurry up and get back. She comes up from her room with this huge, bright pink, big brimmed dress up hat on. She asks if she can wear it and again I say what the heck...let her express herself a little...remember I am trying to work on this. Again she got many compliments on her hat and that is all she talked about the rest of the afternoon!

Fast forward to this past weekend. We are getting ready to head to my Mamaw's for the weekend. We go through Bowling Green to get there so I was going to swing by the mall and exchange something. Avery comes out of the bathroom and say's she fixed her hair herself and was ready to go...

Although, I am doing better about letting her express herself through her own style I had to put my food down on this one! I think that is every clip she owns in her hair and we were not about to go to the mall like that...guess I still have some work to do on letting her express herself! :)

Papa Crawford and Granny Lucile's

A few weeks ago we headed to my Granny and Papa's for the weekend. It was so nice to spend some time with family and have a weekend to just relax. All we did was sit around and talk, eat Ganny's amazing home cooking, and watch the kids play. Jason and I even got to go for a run together Saturday morning since we had plenty of babysitters around!

We spent a lot of time on the back porch just relaxing...or playing school with Avery.

Avery and Oaks spent probably an hour wrestling over this ball.

My Granny's new quilt piece on their red barn.

Granny with Miss Lakelyn

Papa and Lakelyn

Mommy and her baby girl!

Avery, Oakley, and Bonnie watching Papa climb the short silo. You can't go anywhere on the 4-wheeler without Bonnie!

Papa on top of the short silo. He didn't attempt the tall one this weekend! ;)

I spent may hours with my cousin Jill and sister Katie playing in this barn as a kid. We always had so much fun together!

Oakley swatting fly's on the back porch.

Avery wanted me to take a picture of her silly bands. This is no where near all of them!!