Thursday, September 16, 2010

ballet

Getting ready to go to her first ballet lesson Fall 2010 she was very exicted and kept asking if she looks like a real ballerina!

Ashley posing with her favorite winter cap that is a bit small

Warming up in class with miss Jenn





Her favorite part at the end free dance with fun magic wands and great music!




Stoneboro Mile

Pre Race Mom & Dad

Ashley with her northern Bff's Abigail, Amber and Ms. Lisa

Amber speeding thru the race finish

Abbigail Finishing her 1/2 mile race

Tyler Finished his first 1/2 mile race on his own, last year mommy carried him part of the way....


Ashley ran the whole way by herself with a little encourgment from mom behind her while running with Tyler Good Job Ashley!!


Wade Survived his first 5,280 ft. race!! He is glad it is over and he finally made his debute at the Great Stoneboro Fair!! He rocked it witha 6:57 mile!!!! I am so proud of you!!!

Mommy finishing her race in 6:36


Post Race Family photo!

We wish we could make it a tradition to run every year together, but with school starting next year the southern kids must start mid august and we will miss the fair. Very sad to all, especially Dadddy he loves the fair!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Precious!!


Shannon got these precious moments while practicing with her new camera! We love you two to the moon and back!! XOXOXOXOXOX

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

summer recap needed!

Ashley & Jackson enjoying the sand

stacey and her baby savannah


Ashley at Folly Beach august 2010

Savannah had found her own little swimming area free from the crashing waves


Stacey & Savannah

Ashley, Tyler and Jackson feeding the seagulls, i am normally not a fan of this but the beach was not crowded and they had a blast! so they feed the seagulls a whole can of salt and vinegar chips!

This is my Favorite of Tyler he really loved the birds and was trying to coax them into eating out of his hand!

All of the kids 4 years and younger at Folly Beach august 2010 we will have to do more day trips next summer because this was a great day had by all!!

Summer 2010 was great! we had tons of fun took lots of pictures and will probably take me till spring of 2011 to catch up!! I have had issues with the computre reading my sd/hd card and when it does finaly read my corel program messes up and won't edit so i having no patience for electronics have given up and want to start fresh just haven't had the time to reload my 20K plus pictures and be sure i have them all backed up before i erase!! ANy one want a part time job in reorganizing my photos!! LOL!! Here are a few pictures from a recent fun mom and baby trip that stacey and i took the middle of August. We decided to pack the car and hope for the best in weather and beach bound we were! After spending 4 hours on the beach we hit the outlet mall for another couple hours the kids had a blast as well as Did the mommies in having some girl time!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Disneyland and Seaworld June 2010

We were very Blessed to take our most recent trip to California to Celebrate Our Niece Olivia's First Birthday and do some fun family activities. We had great flights both ways. We couldn't have asked the kids to be any better on the flights and Tyler cracked everyone up on the landing of our second flight it was a little bumpy, everyone was quiet and Tyler cheers and says that was really fun! Wheee! It was so funny broke the silence of those around us. Then he continued to tell the pilot when we left that it was a really good landing!! At least someone appreciates the rocky ones!! The first two days we just relaxed At Chip and Abby's home as they graciously opened their home to our crew for the whole week!! ( send us the cleaning bill!) It was a bit cold the first two days and we soon found out that june is the " June Gloom" month in california! Back home eveyone was sweating in the 100+ degree weather and we were in jeans and long sleeves!! LOL . Thankfully the Sun came out for the rest of our trip. Saturday we Got to experience our first "football" (Soccer) game USA Vs. England They had a party for it, Abby is from England and all of her family was cheering for them, Chip, Wade, Me and the Kids were for USA. Chip and Abby's kids are divided!! IT was cool to see people so excited over soccer like The american's get over football. Following the Game ( a tie) we celebrated Olivia's first Birthday and she was a princess! I think she is the happiest baby i have every meet. She went a lot and never got cranky!! I will post more pictures later.I wanted to get a few up before the days turned into weeks!!
We went to Seaworld, disneyland and then Laguana beach. It was very relaxing, tons of fun,and so sad it is over!!

Mommy was very excited I got to meet Mickey for the second time in my life, this time with my kids......

Ashley was so exicted to meet Belle, she was Beautiful!!

Tyler finally got to do some boy stuff and Meet Buzz

Ashley with her Pink sparkly Minnie Ears!

We had not been in the park long and i think she is still overwhelmed by the crowds and the sites!

Kids and Mommy getting ready to go ride theBuzz ride. It was really Awesome, you got to have a laser gun that you shot out the space invaders....


The Wardlaw's sitting in front of Mickey mouses's Fireplace Disneyland


The Kids meeting Tiana.... Tyler asked her why she kissed a frog! Then she told them when she left that she had to go make her Gumbo, Ashley thought that was funny!

Shamu.... It was amazing!



The start of our day at seaworld with the Turtle


Me, Tyler, Ashley and Abby getting to take our picture with the awesome swimmers from the Dolphin show at seaworld


Daddy Playing the Dolphin role with ashley, She loves her new dolphin puppet. Tyler got a shamu 4x4 truck!

Ashley and Tyler Got to meet Elmo and Abby at Seaworld, I was surprised how eager and excited they were to meet the characters!

Tyler petting the Dolphin prior to feeding him.....

Ashley getting a good look at the Dolphins prior to petting and feeding them!


At the end of a great Day with Family at Seaworld, I am so thankful that the sun came out, our first two days in "Sunny" California was COLD!!



We returned to South carolina at 1130 pm, to get to baggage claim and have no luggage and no car seats! After the paper work and loaner car seats were taken care of we were all wide awake ( california time) and starving! We headed to the Waffle house (Only thing open at midnight) WE had many strange looks when we brought the kids in at this hour. Tyler devoured his food and Ashley ate enough to tuck herself in to a nice long summer nap! WE did not make it to our house until 3 am, but Ashley slept until 1130 and tyler until 1pm the next day. I would say that, they had a great time and we wore them completly out!!

Summer 2010

Ashley Taking a ride on The hood of the Jeep!
Daddy says this is not safe and i should have not taken a picture but stopped before some one got hurt! LOL Mr. Safety!!

But he is so serious about his driving, it has to be safe!!
Ashley Loving the Tire swing !

It is obviously HOT out, but Ashley insited on wearing the long sleeve shirt!

Tyler taking his sissy for a ride!


Tyler playing in the rain

AShley Taking the 4 wheeler for a ride in her Tutu!

Ashley Playing in the rain!


Tyler riding a 2 wheeled scotter! We are totally amazed by his balance at 3 years old!

Brothers Chip and Wade June 2010


Nick taking Ashley and Tyler for a ride on his motorized scooter!

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Uncle Wade and Niece Olivia