Destin with the Petitt's......

Our friends Cali and Jim and their two boys were so generous to invite us up for a little getaway in Destin in June. We had such a great time with them- we spent lots of time at the beach and pool and the boys did lots of playing together. It was so nice to spend time with all of them and we hope to do it again each year!


Luke and Austin had a great time at the beach!


Dada and Mr. Man chillin at the beach.....


The boys buried Luke in the sand!


Jonah was just too cute not to put this up!


The view from our condo....


Family pic at Pat O's.....


Me and my buddy in front of the Pat O's fountain....





Boys watching the boats go by....


Riding jet skis.....


Goofy glasses on Jonah....


Goofy glasses on Luke.....


AND goofy glasses on Austin!


Showing off the boys' crafting activity for the night!






















I love this picture.....this face of austin's just about sums it all up for us!

Geaux Tigers!

LSU won the College World Series last night so we will be sure to be sending all our relatives Championship tshirts that keep sending us fan attire for those OTHER teams!

Happy Birthday Austin!

We cannot believe Austin is already 2! Our baby is now a big boy....to watch him change, grow, and learn so much really is amazing when John and I sit down and think about it. He loves to challenge his mama and dada these days beyond belief, but his hugs and smiles make it all worth it! We love you buddy!


Gifts from Grammy and Grampy.....





One of the gifts he wanted most- his baseball glove, or "glug" as he likes to call it :)


My handsome birthday boy!


Since his birthday was on a week day and dad had to work, Austin and I spent the morning at a little aquarium downtown here at the Pier and then had lunch at his favorite, Chick fil A....


We had a little dinner and cupcakes for him that night and Aunt Amanda, her boyfriend (!!!) Mr. Mark, and his daughter Hannah came over. Mark and Hannah brought Austin a pop up baseball tee, so you know my child LOVED that!


Austin with his cool new golf clubs from mom and dad.....can't wait to show these to my granddad!


Blowing out his candle on the horrible looking baseball cupcakes I attempted to make!


Oh yeah, and I got a cool new 4 wheeler- definantly a Louisiana boy! :)

Happy Father's Day! We love you DaDa! xoxoxo

We had a nice relaxing Father's day this past weekend and hope all the dads had a well deserved happy day as well.....Austin and I made John a special dinner of muffaletta pasta and a cookie cake the 2 of us decorated!


Our masterpiece....


Austin's first taste of cookie cake evidently made him VERY happy!


A very handsome (and tan!) dad and son on our little trip to the beach recently :)

A Few Extra.......

I have a ton of pictures to post, so here a few randoms to start out with....


We did fingerpainting with actual paints for the 1st time a few weeks ago- my rotten fingerpainting face.....


My serious finger painting artist face.......


The next two pics are for my Grampy- helping dad cut the grass!





This is what he did one morning while I was getting dressed :)!

Birthday Party Madness....

So the past couple of weekends have been birthday party madness for us....all of the kids in my mom's group were born within about 6 weeks of each other, so needless to say to Austin's absolute enjoyment we have been partying it up! We have been to 3 parties and we still have a group birthday party for the kids and Austin's party to go.....here are a few pics:


This was at Gabe's beach party....a good day of playing at the beach, grilled hotdogs and cupcakes!


Discussing the art of eating cupcakes with my friend, and the only girl in our little group, Miley!


Oh how I love cupcakes!


This was at Miley's party at a park playground- Austin decided to take over Miley's new birthday gift!


Playing on the sticky ball dart board with dad....


On the playground taking a break...


Adorable cupcakes Miley's mom made!


At my buddy Ethan's party at his house....


Playing Bob the builder...


Cooking lunch in Elmo's kitchen!


Getting ready for cake time....


The birthday boy digging into some chocolate cake!

Ray's Game

The main doctor at the eye center where John is working is the team doctor for the Tampa Bay Rays, so once in a while he gives his season ticket seats to the employees, so John got the tickets two sundays ago and we got to take Austin to see them play the Indians- a nice little job perk! Austin is completely into baseball so he L_O_V_E_D it and we actually made it all the way until the 7th inning....


Watching all the action.....


BJ Upton and somebody else....I can't tell who.....


This is actually how close the seats were- probably about 10 rows up.


The fan with his cowbell!