On July 11 our sweet friends Brooke and Justin welcomed their first baby, Mary Ellis, into the world! Jennifer and I were so excited we couldn’t stand to wait to meet her so we headed up to the hospital and sat in the waiting room until we could see her!
A few days later I went to Brooke’s and took some photos for her. I could snap pictures of this beautiful girl all day!
We spent July 4th in Birmingham. We cooked out with friends and watched the New York City fireworks show on the t.v. William was actually still awake but he didn’t want to walk up the hill to see Birmingham’s fireworks show, Thunder on the Mountain. He had bitten his tongue earlier in the evening and it was still bleeding and I think I had freaked him out a little about it. Eventually I just put him to bed and he was fine when he got up the next morning.
Friday we packed up and headed to the Mac’s lakehouse. Saturday morning we got up bright and early and headed to the Santuk Flea Market. It’s the first Saturday every month during the summer and it is FUN! You can buy just about anything there….peanuts, chickens, bras and underwear, movies, laundry detergent, tricycles, pigs, toys, fried corn, turtles, rabbits, and they even had a few peacocks for sale this time. The best part is the people watching. My two precious children in their monogrammed and appliqued shirts stuck out like sore thumbs!
Here’s William sitting in the jogging stroller we bought a few summer’s ago at the flea market.
We came home with a tricycle, a ball that you sit on and bounce around, hair bows, an Auburn dress, and some movies-one of which will only play in French 
For the most part it was a pretty rainy morning. We sat around and watched our new movies we had picked up at the flea market. Thankfully the sun came out after nap and we were able to get out and play some.
If there are clothes laying around then Virginia will pick them up and try her best to get them on…even if they are not hers. She has completely dressed herself in William’s clothes before. I am thrilled because I LOVED to play dress up and have really tried to get William to enjoy it. He has a basket full of cowboy stuff, pirate hats and swords, and all kinds of dress up. He will put it on and almost immediately takes it back off. I need to start collecting some fun stuff for V to play with. I just know she will love it!
I haven’t blogged in over a month and I have some catching up to do. At the end of June we took a trip to the beach for weekend full of fun with some good friends…10 adults and 9 kids in one house.
Even though it had been just two weeks since we had been at the beach, William had already forgotten that he finally liked the sand (notice his feet).
My kiddos LOVE taking pictures with me….
Goin’ Crabbin’
And on our way home we stopped to pick up the newest member of our family….
