Becks and Lola At the Park

Me and Beckett met Stacy and Lola at the park today and had SO much fun! I had missed her SO MUCH - nothing like working side-by-side with your partner in crime every day to going cold turkey and moving even further from each other - sad! We each traveled 20ish minutes to meet in the middle and get our girls together as it had been too long again - time flies! The girls immediately smiled and said hi to each other (Lola is such a good talker - said "Hi Bocket!") Beckett loved hearing her name and Lola was determined to get Beckett to learn it speaking in third person the whole time - ADORABLE. (Lola snacks; Lola swings - SO CUTE). The playground was perfect - age appropriate, gated, shaded - I will be back for SURE and hope that me and Stacy will be better about getting out sweeties together more - they really did so well! And I of course LOVED getting to catch up with Stacy - it was the perfect playdate and I'm so glad we got together!

Becks and Lola were so cute - always smiling at each other!

Becks was obsessed with this bouncy dinosaur - like she'd climb on by herself and squeal with joy! Lola wasn't so sure - she was much more into rocking the swings!

Side by side sliding = adorable!

oh a picture is being taken?! I'm ready! haha All smiles from B girl while Lola continued their conversation!

my favorite picture of our two dolls - so happy as they prepared to slide down!

More 'Balloon' Favorites

We took about 70 photos and I loved about 63. Beckett was just in a fabulous mood and loving the balloons and Austin was great about getting her all set up and then running behind me to make faces - she was eating it up and having TOO much fun. At Party City when she saw the balloons she literally squealed and everyone in line was just like - WOW that is one happy girl! haha Here are a few more favorites of our happy girl and the 'baby boy' balloons!

It's a . . .

Week 82: 7 Days of Beckett

8/30 with John Blanco!

8/31; gaming with Dad

9/1; playing in he rmarker box with dad

9/2 Webb Bridge Park with mom

9/3 cheesy family bathtime selfie with naked Becks and her shades

9/4 stroller jousting with friend Sydney

9/5 enjoying Matthew's second birthday party

Her Week in a Nutshell:

• Saturday: Family breakfast before Andy picked up Dad for a day on the Plains seeing Auburn open against Arkansas; Early morning walk with Beckett, Monica, her Mom and Baby John; errands to Target and Old Navy; evening at Monica's parents with Monica and Baby John having a yummy dinner and watching the Auburn game!
• Sunday: Family morning; church - B had so much fun in the nursery!; lunch at home; 
• Monday: Labor Day! Austin off work; Morning out with Mom at the toddler room at the gym and errands to Joann Fabrics & Staples before going home for lunch; afternoon with Dad playing in her marker box
• Tuesday: Toddler room at the gym; visit to Webb Bridge park; grocery store visit; dinner with Dad while mom went to eat with Jenn
• Wednesday: Third day of Mother's Morning out at Church; afternoon with mom 
• Thursday: Toddler room at the gym; lunch with Dad while Mom brought a casserole to Ryan & Tess's Mom Jill; afternoon playdate with Reagan & Sydney
• Friday: Toddler room at the gym; celebrating Matthew's second birthday with an awesome Cars theme; errands with mom; out to dinner with mom & dad

Week 81: 7 Days of Beckett

August 23; cutie pie at Estella's birthday party

August 24; cutie girl starting her walk to the playground after church sporting the cutest little outfit - love her in a cardigan! haha

August 25; Beckett's first day of school in the Mother's Morning Out program at our church

August 26; driving at the mall playground!

8/27; climbed the high chair and started getting into drawers - yes, she's in PJs and marjane flats

8/28; first train ride with Mimi!

8/29 running around in the plush vegetable garden at The Children's Museum 

Her Week in a Nutshell:

• Saturday: Celebrated Estella's second birthday party!
• Sunday: Became members of our church; family grocery store trip; early afternoon with Dad while mom celebrated Baby Hollis 
• Monday: Beckett's first day of Mother's Morning Out; teachers said she never even cried! Afternoon with mom.
• Tuesday: Toddler room at the gym; afternoon errands to Marshall's, Janie & Jack, etc.!
• Wednesday:  Visit to Unleashed to drop off pups - Beckett loved the doggies!; second day of school - they said she was "perfect"!; her Mimi picked her up from school with me then we had an afternoon with Mimi at the house before going out to Taco Mac for dinner.
• Thursday: Visit to OBGYN with Mom, Dad & Mimi; grocery store; shopping with Mom & Mimi and her first time on the train! Evening visit from Sharon and Baby Peyton for play and dinner
• Friday: Dad took off work to take Beckett to the Children's Museum! We had a great fun, family visit! That afternoon me and Austin took turns getting haircuts with Gary, then that night we met Monica, Andy, baby John and Monica's parents at Pepperoni's for an early dinner - so great to see them all and the kids both did awesome!

Austin to the Rescue!

Austin made my day! He was able to recover all 131 photos I deleted! He tried a couple recovery programs and one worked - YAY! Cutie pics to come - must edit- in the meantime here is the high res of our favorites!

All I Have Left

So I took well over 100 photos of Beckett's first visit to the Children's Museum. Some adorable photos of her fishing, shopping at the grocery store, painting, crafting, building, watching a musical, planting vegetables, sliding, you name it. Then I accidentally deleted them all when I thought I was downloading them. Yes, I cried. All I have is these three photos - pictures that I took of the camera screen when I was excitedly going through them on the way home. I haven't done this in a LONG LONG time. I hate this mistake. I hate taking tons of precious pictures and then poof, they're gone. I know it's not the end of the world, obviously, but it does break my heart! I know we're going back in a couple weeks but it won't be the same - Austin had taken the day off and I had gotten so many special pictures of the two of them. Oh well - all gone. Must get over it. Here are the 3 "pictures of the camera picture" - SO MAD AT MYSELF. <rant over>

This picture in the vegetables was absolutely adorable

you can see the box in the front where I had zoomed it in - her and Austin were clapping after the musical. adorable

This was her first time painting with dad - had so many pics of her in this adorable smock. UGH!!!!!!