Getting Settled

We are finally settling back into a normal routine!  We are no longer living out of boxes- most everything is unpacked and (for the most part) where we want it.  A HUGE thank you to my awesome, wonderful parents for helping us so much during this past month.  We could not have done it all without their help.  They have driven into town the last 4 weekends to help with Annie and to help us unpack and get organized.  Thank you Mom and Dad!!

Yes, there are still things I want to buy and organizing I want to do, but all of that will come with time.  This past weekend we focused on "hanging."  We My Dad and Brandon hung pictures and curtains all day long.  It is really starting to feel warm and cozy and like HOME!  I'm loving it.

My cousin was also home for the first time since starting military school so my aunt, uncle, grandmother, and other cousin all came into town to see the house and visit with us.  We ordered out Mellow Mushroom and all gathered in my new kitchen to eat and chit chat.  Can I just say now how much I LOVE my new kitchen?  We ALL ate in there and didn't feel as if we were on top of each other like we would have in my old house.  It was pushing it to even get 4 people in my old kitchen comfortably. It was so much fun to have people over for the first time.  I can't wait for more get-togethers here!  I promise pics will come soon!

Miss Anniston is LOVING all the extra space to play.  She has been so funny here lately- running around the house and talking like crazy!  Her vocabulary has just exploded these last 2 weeks!  Some of her new words include:  Poppy, Go, Bye Bye, Elmo, Cracker, Ruby, Ball, Abc, and Uh-oh.  She started saying "Abc" because she LOVES the alphabet song.  She has this bucket of foam alphabets and she absolutely loves to play with them.  She will take them out of the bucket one at a time and hand them to me so I can tell her what letter it is.  She calls the alphabet letters her "Abc's."  It is so stinking cute!  She is growing up so fast!

All photos taken by my sister, Allie.

Friday night Allie came over to take some pics of Anniston out in our front yard.  Anniston and Ruby loved running around the yard.  It is so nice to live in a cove.  We never played in the font yard at our old house because we lived on such a busy street.  We then all went out to eat at our new favorite restaurant in our neighborhood, Mellow Mushroom.  Anniston was full of energy and personality:

Sunday we tried out a new church close by our house.  We sat up in the balcony in case Anniston got fussy but she actually did really well.  She read her books and ate a snack and started dancing when the music came on!  Ha!  Good thing we were sitting in the balcony!

We went to Target later that afternoon and now that she has learned to say "uh-oh" she wants to say and apply it all the time.  She would drop things out of my shopping cart just so she could say "uh-oh."  It was cute the first 3 times.  The last 15?  Not so much.

I have to post one more pic of Anniston and her new princess vanity.  I went to a consignment sale a couple of weeks ago and scored this for $27.00!  I have a vanity in our new bathroom and so Anniston always watches me get ready in the mornings.  I got her this so she could sit at her vanity and we could get ready together:)  She loves it and she looks so cute sitting on it beside me in the mornings.  She will blow dry her hair along with me and sometimes I give her one of my makeup brushes to play with while I do my makeup.

That's about all I've got for today.  Gearing up for a great week ahead and another weekend off!  Yay!

First Father's Day

We had a fabulous Father's Day Weekend.  Brandon had a dinner to attend Friday night, and then had to work for most of the day on Saturday but luckily he was off all day today to enjoy his first Father's Day with us!

Saturday Anniston and I had a girls day- we went for a jog that morning and did a little shopping that afternoon.  When Brandon was done with work for the day we all went to eat at one of our favorite places in midtown- Bosco's.

This morning Anniston and I set out Brandon's Father's Day gifts before he woke up.

This book is supposed to be really great and Brandon really enjoys reading books.  I had the card made from Shutterfly.


To celebrate Father's Day, Brandon went and got us donuts from Gibson's Donuts for breakfast this morning.  We have never eaten them before but actually saw them featured on a TV show on the Food Network.  Apparently, they are the best donuts in town and very popular- how have we not had them yet?  Although we are not huge donut fans we decided to give them a try.  Let me just say- the red velvet donuts are to die for!  Ah-mazing!

I want to wish my dad and Brandon a very happy Father's Day!  I love you both very much!

This Weekend We:

This weekend we:

***Went to the Memphis Zoo for the first time with Anniston!  We tried to plan to go see things that we thought she would enjoy but she had the most fun watching all the other kids run around!  Either way, it was a successful and fun trip!
***Please ignore her blotchy and swollen left eye in these pics- she developed some sort of reaction on her face as soon as we got there.  I don't know if it was from the sunscreen or what but it was gone in an hour or so.  Also ignore any snotty nose pics from this weekend- she has a cold:)

Passed out from too much zoo fun!

***Went to one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in Midtown!
If you ever come to Memphis and love Mexican, you have to try Molly's La Casita in Midtown. Great non-greasy Mexican at its best!   It was nice to sit down in air condition and rest our feet after walking all over the zoo that morning.

***Had fun all piling in our bed (Ruby included) for an awesome nap.  We also watched some really big soccer game going on in Munich.  I don't know the actual title of the game, but Brandon was really into it and said it was a big deal.  Whatever.  Although Anniston does like to watch soccer with Daddy.

***Had some fun pool time Saturday and Sunday afternoon!  Saturday we put A in her baby pool again.  I think she had even more fun this time around.  She would rock back and forth and throw her hands up in the air.  She LOVES her floating alphabets and is not scared of the water whatsoever.  Sunday we went over to Aunt Allie's for some time in the "big" pool.  She did great for her first time.  She laid back in her swim ring chewing on her alphabets like she didn't have a care in the world!  She got a little fussy after awhile, but I think it was because she was really tired.

Note:  I would like to mention that beloved Tory Burch sunglasses have gone missing.  Most likely, they are at the Memphis zoo.  I was upset for maybe 10 minutes, then realized that was just an excuse to get a new pair!  Ha!

We had a great weekend and I had so much fun hanging out with my baby.  She is at such a fun age right now and I love every second with her!  It is so nice to have my husband home more and to spend the weekend afternoons lounging around and being lazy (even if I am subjected to soccer games!)