July 4th 2013

This was on the wettest 4th of July's I can remember! What a bummer! So...

what to do with a 2 year old when daddy's off for 4 days?? Head 

to the mountains for some good ol' family fun that's what!

Of course we stopped to feed our bear friends first.

 This guy had his eyes locked on Olivia!

 We headed into Pigeon Forge TN for some arcade fun and a ride on the big sky WHEEL!

 And finished our road trip off with some historic sight-seeing in Chattanooga TN!

 Propping her foot up just like her daddy! So Stinkin' cute!

 Telling us all about Point Park at Lookout Mtn.

I love nothing more than creating memories for our family! This quick little two day trip was so much fun 

and just reinforced how lucky I am to have such wonderful people love me everyday! 

Love you Max and Olivia!

Pensacola Beach Vacation

This year we went back to Pensacola Beach for our family vacation. We made it into a little road trip and stopped over in Mobile and Biloxi for some sight-seeing first. It was once again a great trip!

 The U.S.S. Alabama-huge battleship!

On the hunt for seashells...

 SCORE!

 Fun in the ocean with daddy

 Look Mommy! I found a Sand Dollar!

 Everyday they had a mermaid at our hotel that did the girls make-up and 

she would sell some trinkets...Olivia was stunned to find her first Dingle-hopper!!!

We had to make our own when we got home.

 Getting her make-up done by Mermaid Carmelina.

 Oh ya know...just hanging out in a MIG!

 Inside a Chinook.,..pretty cool!

Olivia modeling the Sky Crane helicopter her "famous" Poppa flew in Vietnam. 

Pretty neat moment...