On our way! Beach bound.

Yesterday, we left our house and traveled down to Sandestin. Haley has been to the beach twice before with me, but we have never done a beach trip with daddy. Scott and I are so excited to be able to do this and we can't wait to see how Haley will like everything this time around.

Getting ready to leave. She has no idea what fun we are about to have.

She's ready to get in the car and go bye-bye. "Buh bye" is her absolute favorite thing to say right now. She says it constantly when anyone leaves her site.

She is wondering how she is going to fit in there with all of our stuff. We are staying for 5 days, so we have tons of stuff in my not-so-big Accord.

We were packed a little tight. We had to leave a few things behind including her booster seat. We are going to have to be creative when we feed her.

It's like she is saying, "You expect me to ride like this?"

Checking out our condo.

Our condo.

This is our deck view. It's hard to see, but that's a view of the pool. We are staying on the bay side, so we don't have an ocean view. However, there is a little town just steps from our room that has all kinds of shopping, restaurants, and a big playground for kids. It's a fantastic place to stay for a family!

Here she is making friends at the baby pool. She is absolutely a social butterfly. She makes friends anywhere and everywhere we go.

Her favorite pool game is in-and-out. It's very tiring for me.

She started doing this just moments before this picture and kept doing it over and over. I think it's a new sign that she's tired.

We went down to walk around the town and found this fountain. She thought it was hilarious to put her feet in it.

We are going to beat the heat this summer

I have a feeling that Haley and I will be living in her kiddie pool this summer. Today, we used it for the first time and we didn't even notice how hot it really got. It was so nice, that once I put Haley down for her nap, I went and got back in it for a bit. She loved it too and I'm so glad.

She was dancing in this one.

She loves to drink the water for some reason.

It's like she was saying "ahhh" after taking a drink.

More drinking.

I told her not to drink it after the first time, so she looked guilty when I caught her doing it again.

I love this pool!!

Mother's Day

Well, I didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with my sweet girl on Mother's Day because of work/sleeping, but she did make me this AMAZING present. I can't tell you how priceless this gift is to me. It brought me to tears.



While I slept, Haley went to the Birmingham Zoo with her Gigi and her daddy. They rode the train and the carousel. The weather was perfect and they had a great time.

Then her Gigi took her to the Botanical Gardens and got some pictures with her in her fancy dresses.

"Talking" on her phone.

She had a great day!

The Memphis Zoo

This past week, Haley and I traveled up to Memphis to visit her Mimi, Pop and Uncle Blake. We had a terrific time, as usual. Haley is always so entertaining and loves the attention that she gets from the whole family. On Wednesday, we braved the heat and went to the Memphis Zoo. It is quite different from the Birmingham Zoo. We were there for a few hours, and only scratched the surface of all there is to do there. We loved every minute of it, though. We saw monkeys, gorillas, polar bears, wolves, panda bears, elephants and several other things. We can't wait to go back to see all that we missed.

Showing Pop the monkeys.

This monkey gave us a close-up look.

Pop, Mimi and Haley looking at some monkeys.

Watching a monkey.

Great Aunt Sandra, Mimi, me, Haley and Pop outside of the Teton Trek that housed the polar bears, seals, wolves and elk.

All of us with Haley's Great Aunt Madeline.

Haley's first time seeing elephants. She loves to try and sound like the elephants by putting her lips together and blowing (kind of like a raspberry noise).

Pop was trying to imitate an elephant.

Just an afternoon outside

We spend many of our afternoons outside these days. I took the opportunity today to practice with the camera. I think I ended up with some good shots. Unfortnately, though, they don't look as good on the blog as they do in real life. You get the idea though.

She threw her raisin box under the bush and forgot that it was there. This is her reaction when she found it again. This picture reminds me that it is still out there. I should really go get it.

This one is very blurry (it happens with a baby on the move). However, it shows how much she loves to "talk" on my phone. She is usually "talking" to daddy while he is at work. She also loves to pretend to dial and then she puts it up to her ear and babbles. It makes me laugh every time.