Saturday, April 25, 2009

What a Wonderful April Day!!

Our little fisher"woman"

Daddy having a chat with Adalyn about her fishing technique

Admiring her worms

Counting the worms

Playing with the fish Daddy caught

Trying to bait her own pole

Playing with the duck umbrella

Molly, our other child, loves being outside too!

Adalyn and Binky the Clown

Feeding the goats!

Ad and Mimi petting the sheep

Hold on tight!

Ad struttin' her stuff on Teddy the Horse

Ad getting her face painted, she did great this time!

Adalyn and her cousin Emma petting Teddy the Horse

Adalyn and Emma on Teddy the Horse

Adalyn petting the "llama, llama" as she would say

Watching Binky the Clown may balloon animals

Mommy's Cowgirl

What a great God we have to have blessed us with such an amazing weekend! This weekend has just been wonderful! Friday evening Adalyn wanted Daddy to get in the "closet" as she calls the shed to get out the fishing poles. This girl is obsessed with fishing and worms-Tomboy! She got out both of their poles and went straight to the gate. So the family all enjoyed an evening of fishing and worm counting! Then on Saturday which was an absolutely gorgeous day, Adalyn and I took advantage of it, even though we are both still a little under the weather, to pick up Mimi and head out to Gregory's Orchard for their Spring Carnival. Adalyn had such a good time! She was able to pet all kinds of animals, ride Teddy the Horse, have Binky the Clown make her a butterfly balloon, and get her face painted! What a great day and needless to say, she took a GREAT nap!!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Nikki's Surprise Shower

Look how surprised Nik was! Yeah!

Baby Girl and Baby Boy cupcakes

IU outfits, of course! Go Hoosiers!

Cute gifts!

Me, Nik, and the babies! Love you guys!

Nik and our girls

The girls being silly and sticking their bellies out!

Nikki is getting so close to giving birth to her twins! Of course she is killing me along with many others, due to not finding out the genders of the babies!! Nikki and I went to jr. high and high school together and have coached cheerleading together for 7 years! Well, she and I both decided that we were "throwing in the towel" to cheerleading. Not because we were over it, it was just that she couldn't do it with having the new babies and the Pugh family will be getting bigger in the future and having a 2 year old is work enough! So, to show my appreciation for Nikki as a friend and colleague I decided to throw her a surprise shower! Boy was she surprised!! She thought we were meeting with the AD to discuss the possible cadets for the job and when we walked into the library the girls all jumped out and shouted, "surprise!" She was so surprised I am shocked she didn't go in to labor, thank goodness! We all love you Nik and I can't wait to get my hands on those babies!!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Day

Thank you Easter Bunny!

The confused and not ready to get up look?!

Wow! This is Great!

Look at all this great stuff! Thanks Easter Bunny!

Adalyn is ready! Check out that stance!

I got it! Yeah! Nice throw Papaw!

The Pugh's-boy I look really short in this pic!

Easter Egg or play in the sand? To many choices!

Got it!

Oh, I see another one!

Mimi, Adalyn, and Mommy hunting eggs

Look at all the eggs I found!

Jay helping Adalyn count her eggs

Cutest crack I've ever seen!!

Adalyn getting side-tracked!

What a beautiful day God blessed us with on Sunday. Thank you! I was a little concerned that Jay and Adalyn may have to go to church without me because I had a migraine all night Saturday and then woke up with it Sunday morning. But with a little prayer, some Migraine Excedrin, and of course caffeine, it was gone! Yeah! When Adalyn got up and realized there was a basket full of goodies for her on the table, she was a little confused as to why they were there and who had brought them?! I kept asking her the night before who was coming to visit and she kept saying, "Tammy." Tammy is Adalyn's daycare provider and she had had on bunny ears Friday and Adalyn was a little confused thinking Tammy was the Easter Bunny-too funny! So, needless to say this is why there was some confusion. She did end up digging in and spreading her goodies and that wonderful Easter basket grass all throughout the living room.

After all the morning excitement, we were off to church. Adalyn was so funny at church!! Of course it was crowded, so we had to sit out in vestibule area right outside the sanctuary. We were in the front row and Adalyn wanted to see everything so badly that we allowed her to stand on the window ledge. Well, she was something else! Needless to say several people commented on how "cute" she was being. I am sure we left evidence behind,little hand prints! She had a blast in Sunday School, which I am so excited that she is old enough to go to know. They had an egg hunt around the church and learned about why Easter is important and of course, "Jesus" as she told me several times!

After church we headed out to Mimi and Papaw's so Adalyn could get her next Easter basket. Mimi had this little bunny toss game in her basket that Adalyn thought was the greatest thing ever! She wanted everyone to play! We then went over the Jason's mom's for dinner and then to my Aunt Julies' house for the Egg Hunt!! Aunt Julie has this enormous sand pile in her backyard that Adalyn was fascinated with. She kept getting side tracked while hunting eggs saying she was going to the "beach" and to "build a sand castle!" What can I say, she is our little beach bum! The egg hunt was so much fun and Adalyn did really well finding 15 eggs!! The day ended with all 3 of us coming home and taking a much needed nap!! What a great day!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Easter Egg Coloring

Cheese! Adalyn was so excited to color eggs!

The Artist at work

Adalyn telling Mommy which color she wants

Daddy helping Adalyn make a sticker decision

Proud Daddy and Adalyn with stickers on her forehead?!

The finished product!

Looking over her master pieces, BTW nice belly!!

Double checking the finished product


Oh the joys of coloring Easter eggs! Adalyn was more excited to color Easter eggs than I thought she would be this year. I think it is because she had colored eggs with Mimi on Wednesday and then at daycare on Thursday, so when I mentioned it, she was READY!! Daddy tried to help make the boiling of the eggs go faster, but his help only hinder the process;( Jay didn't seem to understand why you don't have the eggs boiling on HIGH, so he turned it up to HIGH to make the "eggs get done quicker." Well, the only thing it did was make them bounce around in the pot quicker and CRACK. So, we had to boil more eggs. Nice try Jay, but leave the egg boiling up to me! Then I forgot how long it takes for those darn eggs to cool after boiling them so needless to say Adalyn was up a little past her bedtime to get the eggs done! I was a little worried about her wanting to dunk the eggs herself but she didn't-Yeah! She just pointed and told me which color she wanted and of course she did all of the wonderful art work!! Coloring eggs together as a family was fun!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Spring Break 2009

The Pugh Family has to leave their mark in Florida

The "Wind Blown" pic, just like the real Movie Stars!

My Hubby and my Movie Star

Me and Jay at the Seafood Shack on my 30th B-day

The Pugh Family at the WINDY beach in the evening

Adalyn drivin' the buggy

The Pugh Family lovin' Florida!

Lovin' the sand!

Adalyn and Daddy on our first day at the beach

The Green Moray and YES it is REAL!

Jay about to get his head eaten by a hammerhead!

Adalyn petting the stingrays!

The BIG turtle, which Adalyn LOVED!

Adalyn having a chat with the BIG turtle

The dolphin

Engrossed by the dolphins-love the nose!

Adalyn absolutely LOVED the ocean! Yeah!

Cutest sand-covered body I've ever seen!

Adalyn spraying down at the pool-it was Hot!

The Pugh Fam at Siesta Key Beach-nice face Jay!

Jay working really hard on Adalyn's sand castle

Adalyn realizing sand doesn't taste as good as it looks?!

Cutie at Siesta Key Beach

Me and Jay at the Oyster Bar for dinner-yum!

Back home again in Indiana-Yuck! No, actually I am glad to be home, yet sad to leave the sunny beaches and warm weather behind! We left out around 5pm on Friday, March 27 and were home at 11pm on Friday, April 3. Thanks to my wonderful, 5 hour Energy hubby, we made the 16-18 hour drive all in one day with no stopping (only to fill up and relieve ourselves!!) Adalyn was such a trooper and if you would have told me she was going to do as well as she did, strapped in a car seat for that long, I would have said you were crazy!
We stayed at my grandma's place in the Bradeton/Sarasota area which is beautiful! She lives in the largest retirement community in Florida-this place is so big that they have their own zip code!! We were able to get everywhere on the "buggy" aka golf cart that we needed. The drive to the beach was only about 10-15 minutes. We did a lot of "firsts" on our trip. Jay went golfing for the first time, we went to the dog track and bet on the dogs for the first time, and we went to Siesta Key for the first time-beautiful!! We did venture back to the Mote Aquarium, and Adalyn loved it more this year than last! What a nice, much needed vacation, but now it is back to reality! Enjoy my fav pics from our trip!