The Best of Enemies :)

Whit and Lorelei have a love-hate relationship. I find it hilarious. Here are a few cute ones of them recently. They are too stinking cute. I LOVE a baby in a diaper. :)

Sweet Lorelei!

I am attempting to edit some pictures. I have been just a point and shoot person lately. It's summer and I have time now! Isn't this baby just precious????

Babies!!

One of my best friends in the world had her first baby yesterday. :) I am still laughing because Anna was always the one who thought spit up was gross. She will learn now won't she? :) I am just so happy for her! They still haven't decided on a name yet. I'll let you know when we find out. I also have a friend from work having her baby today. I have been on baby text alert like crazy these past two days! It is so fun! And you know what else is great? I am not the one having the babies! WOO HOO! I just get to hold those sweet babies and sleep all night. I think this means I don't have baby fever. Greg is hoping the fever stays away forever. We shall see now won't we? Congrats to my friends. Babies are SUCH blessings. I'm glad God has blessed us all so much!

Safety Alert!

The first time we took Whit to the beach this year it was pretty cold. He was not interested in the water much. He LOVED the sand. Then we went again. He was so scared of the waves he clung to me for dear life. Pause here for a minute. I was super disappointed. The beach is one of my happiest places on earth and I needed both my children to love it. In the summer it is hot and around here you have to get in or you will not make it a day on the beach! So this time we go and he again is scared to death. He digs his heals in my side when I try to put his feet in. Then I get the brilliant idea to hold his hands and swing him into the waves. He begins to laugh hysterically and decides this is not a bad place anymore. From then on he became a beach boy. He would run and fill up his bucket and laugh and laugh. Man I was happy about this. For a minute at least......




So I take some pictures to document his first ocean fun. Then I put my camera up. The next thing I know he is barrelling full force into the ocean. Now, St. Simon's is not known for the clearest of waters so when he goes under we can't see him!!! Here is my safety alert! At one point he got a big wave, went under, ear plug gets knocked out....oh my goodness I could barely breathe! Mom was right there but it was the most stressful time of my life. No more beach sitting for me. BOO! I thought I had it made this year. So, now, I am enacting the safety rule for Whitfield at the beach. He must wear some type of flotation device or life jacket when barreling into waves. I like him to much to lose him in one. He doesn't weigh enough to withstand even the smallest of waves. Hahaha! I guess I did get what I asked for. He loves the ocean now.

My other water bug....taking a little break. She plays nice and safe in the water and is a little more steady on her feet. Thank you Kennedy for that. I can't have two Whit's or I would lose my mind! :)


Having Fun! Can you tell we are READY for summer?

All BOY

The day Kelly told me we were having a boy is a moment I will never forget. I went in thinking it would be so nice to have 2 sweet girls. A boy would be fun to have for Greg. I really honestly did not care what we were having, I was just so happy to be having a baby. :) Then she told me he was a boy and I wept like a baby. I didn't know that my heart wanted one so badly. I spend a lot of most days trying to keep him alive or his friends alive. He gets into trouble in a split second. Tonight Jen caught him dragging Lorelei by her clothes across the floor. You never know with this boy. I do know his heart is sweet and he loves so much. (minus Lorelei...those two have a love-hate relationship) Every little boy thing he does just gets to my heart. He is into fishing and golf these days. He picks up a fishing pole immediately when we get home. He loves what his Daddy loves. Who knew having a boy was so fun?

Yes, I know his face is covered in chocolate. I can't keep him clean! ;)

Off to fish! No need to go to the pond down the road when you have our backyard issues...hahaha.....(Greg will not laugh at this joke)

More Prayers

Blake and the fam had so super cute pictures taken this week. I stole a few. :)

In case you are not my fb friend, I wanted to get my prayer requests out everywhere I can. Tonya begins chemo tomorrow. Please keep her in your prayers.

I think sometimes pictures speak way more than words. So tonight if you are reading this, maybe a family picture, a whole family together, will inspire you to keep praying. Keep praying for healing, for strength for each person in this picture. Each of these people are so precious to me. They are all going through something none of them deserve. I do know one thing they deserve and that is to stay together for a long time. I look forward to another sweet family photo posting after Tonya has kicked this thing's behind.

MOMMY!

I hear MOMMY a lot around here. It is sometimes said in a sweet voice but all too often it is spoken in a very demanding tone around here. It comes with the job I guess. I absolutely adore Mother's Day. I think I love it more than my birthday or Christmas. It is an honor to bear the name Mommy. No matter what the tone it is spoken in it is a gift in itself. I yearned for the day that I would be called someone's mommy. Now, as I hear my name it brings me such joy. You are my greatest blessings Whitfield Daniel and Kennedy Susan. I am honored to be your Mommy. Maybe one day you will know how much I love you both. If not, it doesn't matter. Being a mom is a thankless job that I am forever thankful to have.

We had one of the most perfect days around here. Chocolate chip pancakes and coffee for breakfast, a wonderful church service and Sunday school, lunch with the family at the club, naps for everyone around here, and then the pool for the afternoon! Ahhh.....life is good.

One of the ladies in my new Sunday School class prayed the most beautiful prayer I have ever heard today. She looked at me and said she knew God would heal Tonya. Then she began to pray. I wish with all my heart I could remember every word so I could share it with you but I can't. I know God heard each word and today I am now filled with such a sense of peace. I know that God will heal her. It just meant so much for me to hear her heartfelt plea for someone she didn't even know but yet means so much to me. It made me do the ugly cry. All this in front of a totally new group of people that don't know me that well. I guess they need to learn of my deeply emotional self. :)

It would have topped it all off to have seen my Mommy today. She's absolutely crazy, that Phyllis Susan Anderson Sartin, but I love her dearly. I am thankful for each and every day that I have here on earth with her. She always says that she wishes her mom was still here so that she could be too busy to call her mom back. I get it mom. I'm not ever too busy for you.

Happy Mother's Day to you all! Here are a few pictures from our lunch. We had a little time to go out on the putting green before lunch and you know that made little Whitfield super happy!

For SuSu...all she needed was Courtney to finish the pic off!! We missed you Court!