Beach Family Updates: April 2014

Little information about Me since of course I am the creator and maintainer of this blog (& of course everyone else is doing it so I must too!)
I am a 30 something year old PROUD Marine Wife (Can I get an OOHRAH!?) to a wonderfully sensitive & talented husband. We got our start in Pensacola, FL in 2003.
Our story is a funny one...ask me about it sometime and I might share it! I am an incredibly grateful mommy to 3 beautiful children and 2 angel babies.
I am passionate about being a Christian and an RN even while on a hiatus called motherhood. (In other words, I am currently a SAHM who still claims the title of RN because I worked so hard to get it!)
I also dabble in sewing, photography (I know you couldn't figure that out by my page), scrapbooking, camping, running, & a few other odds and ends.
THANKS for stopping by to visit!

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Wine of the week

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The littles

Monday, April 28, 2014

Happy birthday!!

Even though on the east coast it's past your birthday Grammy, it is still your special day here! Hope you had a great day. Miss you!!

Easter fun at Legoland

Brought to you by the letter "T"

Totally Tasteful Tubby

What girl is ready for college football?

This girl after the mail came today!!

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Our "family" project

So maybe my teacher friends can help me out?! Why do they send home family projects? I understand wanting to assign something that helps you spend time with your children but really more busy work?

We spend an hour + each night doing homework. Kendall and I will be spending part of the day working on her diorama. I think the time when they are home should be dedicated to unwinding a bit especially at their current ages.

Anyway, here was our project from last week. Kendall had fun choosing fabrics to decorate her bunny. As you can see, she ultimately decided to go with pink!

I was outvoted on the silver crown. Now onward to figure out the diorama....I think it might be a space theme!

10 weeks old

Guess who was already 10 weeks old yesterday? I can't believe she's already been here that long! This is how old Kendall was when she met Ben for the first time. I can't wait for Ben to meet the newest chunky baby in our lives!

She has been smiling tons at me. I love it when I pick her up and she grins. We are still working on this sleeping thing. I am hoping that our most recent set back is due to a growth spurt.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Ben's view

While I hate that Ben is away from us, I love that he is getting such an awesome experience both career wise and personally.

I think it is fun to learn different things about the Afghan culture. Like did you know that they are very fond of flowers? They have them in their offices, cars, homes (I'm assuming), and they even like to get their picture taken with them! This deployment has been fascinating for the both of us and so very different than Ben's time spent in the air while in Iraq.