One year older....

Over the weekend we celebrated my birthday! I have to admit that I love birthdays. I think that you should always go all out. Make a big deal. Celebrate the heck out of it. I mean it is only once a year, right? Well, I was spoiled. My fabulous in-laws watched the girls (all of them)Saturday night and we went to see Captain America. So good, and fun to go on a date again. Then on Sunday (my actual b-day) we went to church :), and Rex made me lunch, we opened presents, had a wonderful nap, and headed over to dad and heathers to p-a-r-t-y! Well, we mingled with all my best buddies, let the kids run wild and had an assortment of goodies. Rex was amazing and made me my favorite cake, cupcakes and dinner. LOVE MY MAN! It was a great day...can't wait until next year :)

Annie helping me blow out candles

Me and my girls. They were excited to help me open presents.

opening..... I got great gifts, a cute jacket and shirt, cooking supplies (of course), a gift card, a cute sewing book with great projects, a new cd, movie, and ......

THIS! LOVE THIS!! My sweet friend Amy got me this necklace. Isn't it amazing? I love having my girls around my neck. Such a perfect gift for me. Thanks to everyone who made my day special!

The Beautiful Beach

Rex has 2 days off a week. They are very valuable. One of them is spent attending church, naps, going on afternoon walks, and eating yummy food. (I often go all out on Sunday meals and desserts :) The other day is Monday. What a great day. We always plan something. Last week: the BEACH. We had a blast. The weather was wonderful, we had a spot of sandy beach to ourselves and enjoyed every minute! Being with my family is what truly makes me so happy. I look forward to these days SO much. I love driving home from a trip like this and turning around to look at all my sweet girls. They are perfect. With windblown hair, dirty feet, sleeping so sweet in our car. It makes my heart full and makes me smile.
No trip to the coast is complete without a lunch date to MO'S!
We always hit up the candy shops for taffy and frozen yogurt. Love this picture.
Love this one too, Olivia is there....just sleeping in her seat.
The girls loved this big anchor so we took some photos of the modeling on it.
And one with dad :)
We brought a kite and Macey loved it. She looked so small holding onto the kite, but she insisted she do it herself. Cute!
Love my hot hubby! (and that cute baby squished in between)
Me and my sweet little baby
I love this picture too!! And I love self timers....
I guess our camera has a mind of it's own. It took another picture after or family shot and I like how it turned out. Very unplanned :) What a great day!

Swimming lessons!

Annie has been taking swimming lessons for the past couple weeks as a present from Papa and Heather (thanks guys!) and she is loving it! Macey, Olivia and I sit and watch proudly from the bleachers everyday. Her teacher is a cute high school girl who is great with her. Annie laughs and smiles through every class. It has been really nice having a little schedual each day. Being at home with 3 little ones means we kinda do whatever we want whenever we want. So.... these swimming lessons of brought a bit of structure to our mornings and I love it! Here are a few pictures from our view.....
Listen to all the rules of the pool....
So happy to be swimming.............
A really cute Olivia enjoying swim lessons, look at that smile :).............
Macey enjoying swim lessons.... just kidding she is totally watching Word World on my phone. I know, I know, but she gets a little bored.... moving on...........
Belly floats and blowing bubbles.........
kicking to her hearts content! She is so cute. She passed her "tots" class and has moved up to "advanced tots"! GO ANNIE!