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Date Night, VBS and Mom's Birthday

My husband and I enjoyed a Date Night last night. We rarely eat anywhere without a playground anymore. We had dinner at Atlantic Grill in Greenville and it was wonderful! They make everything from scratch and their radio advertisement says their beef is from a local grower. I had the molasses glazed pork chop. It was at least 3 inches think but cooked perfectly. Chad had a steak - which he said was one of the best steaks he's ever eaten. And then we split a little vanilla cheesecake for desert. The dining room is small but it would be worth the wait if you wanted to splurge for a special occasion.

I would have taken pictures but my husband frowns upon that sort of thing. Last week we had Bible School at my church. By the end of the week the girls and I were exhausted. It is hard for a working-mommy to get home, change clothes, feed everyone and make it to Bible School by 6:30. Luckily I have a lot of help. The theme was "Upside down and inside out on Main Street- where Jesus makes a difference everyday!." The girls had a great time and learned a lot. Here are a few of my favorite pictures.

Happy Birthday (a little late) to my sweet Mama! I love her SO MUCH and I'm so blessed to be her daughter! We went out for dinner last Saturday night and then had cake and icecream at my house Monday. I may have been the last one to get there but everyone seemed to have a good time.

AveryCakes

I feel like McKenna gets a lot of love on the blog because she is getting big enough to be involved in more things and is constantly saying something hilarious that I want to document. But I want to make sure I give equal "blog-time" to my little one. So here are a few things you should know about Miss Avery-Cakes at the old age of 19 months.

10. She can count to 13!! It is so adorable to hear her do it even though most of the time she won't do it when I try to get her to. Instead she will randomly count all by herself when we are riding down the road and I have no way of documenting it.

9. She is starting to have "NO!" fits. Not familiar with "NO!" fits? Its when everything you try to give her or do for her to make her happy just causes her to scream "No! No! No!" It's really fun at church to do this.

8. She's a little on the clumsy/accident prone side. She falls a lot. I haven't had her 18 month pictures made yet because I've been waiting for her face to be free from goose eggs etc. She has no fear. She will climb on anything in sight and proceed to jump off. She is my brave girl. She isn't afraid of a dark hallwall or to be left alone in a room.

7. She loves books. Her favorites are the "Big Red Barn" and "Goodnight Moon" - both by Margaret Wise Brown. I guess that is her favorite author at this point.
6. She loves Thomas the Train, Calliou and Barney. She usually wakes up around the same time as Chad and I and she will lay in our bed drinking a bottle (yes that leads me to #5) in the mornings while I get ready and watch Calliou and then Barney.

5. She's still on the bottle train. She LOVES her bottle. In my mind, I know it is time to take the bottle away. But since my husband informs me that she is our last baby, I can't stand the thought of the bottles being gone from my house. I can't stand the thought of taking the bottle top holder out of the dishwasher. Once it is out, it will be out for good. I can't think about that right now. She is a milk-a-holic. She probably drinks 30-40 oz of milk a day, depending on her mood. She LOVES milk. 4. She has a sweet tooth too. Two of the words we hear most often are "Candy" and "Cookie." She learned many months ago exactly where Granna kept the cookies and how to get in the cookie jar. Now she goes and gets a cookie and puts the lid back on all by herself. Oreos and Chocolate Chip are her favorites. At the Easter egg hunt at church she started picking up the eggs, opening them and taking the candy out and then throwing the egg back on the ground. I guess she didn't want those plastic eggs taking up precious candy space in her basket. 3. She loves SHOES. She will put on any pair of shoes she can find and trapse around the house in them. She especially loves high heels. May be related to #8 and her injuries.

2. She loves her big sister. She thinks they are the same size. She loves to follow her around and try to do everything "Sis-ta" or "Menna" does. I love to see them roll around in the floor and love on each other.

1. She is the MOST LOVING child I have ever seen. Everytime you pick her up she lays her little head on your shoulder like she is so glad you picked her up. When she gets too big for that, I think I will miss it the most.

Those are just 10 of the millions of things that I love about my baby girl. We are so blessed to have her as a part of our family.

Bluegrass Festival

We went to a Bluegrass Festival in Denton, NC the first weekend in May. (I told you I have a lot of blog posts coming about fun stuff but have just not had the time to get it posted.) We had a blast! This was the second time I have been to this particular festival. Just camping and spending time with my family is fun in and of itself but I also really like Bluegrass music.

This is a picture of the host band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Bluegrass band names seem to always start with the name of one person and then some sort of catchy name for the band. Anyway...I digress. They were singing "Sadie."



I heard a new band called Newfound Road, while I was there (new to me, not new in the they just started sense). They were AWESOME! Not only did they play two sets of their own on Saturday but they also played two sets with Joe Diffie. I am obsessed with watching their videos on Youtube and am totally buying their new cd along with their old ones. This one is my favorite song (so far) on youtube.



I may be friends with the lead singer on Facebook now... :)

The park is really neat as it has a real train that you can ride and a lot of old buildings, stores, old houses that you can go in. Here is McKenna and Averycakes sitting on the side of an old well.


Me and the girls on the train! All of these pictures were taken from my phone so...you get the idea. My real camera is, yet again, unlocateable.


Did anyone notice that I finally figured out how to make a pretty link?? Oh yeah. Who's got mad blogging skills?? Just kidding. I still struggle to figure out how to post and get this thing to do what I want. Extremely slow internet only adds to my dilemma.

OK. It's 7am, I've already washed a load of clothes, unloaded the dishwasher and reloaded and written a blog! Now its time to get ready for work!