Day Party!!!

Day party is the term Lizzie gave to her and Millie's b-day party! We have talked about "the day party" for months and the day finally came!!! One of the hardest things for me being so far from family is celebrating birthdays without them. So, when I knew that we would be home near the girl's birthdays I decided we would celebrate them there. A flew in for the weekend and it was great to celebrate with our family. It made celebrating their birth's even more special! Lizzie's b-day is July 25th and Millie's is Aug. 9th so we celebrated on Aug 1st which is in the middle. A cooked kabobs which were delicious and my mom and sister's pitched in to make homeade mac n cheese, corn on the cob, salad, and rolls. We then had delicious cupcakes and homeade peach and vanilla ice cream. It was a great day!!!

I was busy but wanted lots of pics of course so I gave the camera to Maggie and she did a great job chasing the girls and taking some action shots of them! Thanks Maggs!

Zeke and Ell
Sallie and MaggieThe utensil sets personalized with their names-Maggie and Elleigh worked really hard on folding these!

Personalized cups

and banner
Personalized table confetti
The cupcakes with personalized toppersAll our girls love cherry limeades so I had to make them cherry limeade punch. It is really good and does taste like Sonic's!

Lizzie hanging out in the swing with Nanna!

Beach Trip

Here are 2 slideshows of our trip to Destin while we were home.

Video of Fearless Mill Mill!

These are some of the better beach shots.

Somehow I cut part of Ell's head off!

Vacation post 1 of ???

We made it back around 1 am Monday morning. We are all very tired and trying to get back into our routine. Sallie was up during the night last night throwing up so that does not help. We did have a wonderful trip to AL and as usual it was just not long enough! I took around 400 pics and am sorting through them as I have time. You know I like to share a lot of pics so bear with me. Here is the first installment of many!

We made our first stop at Nanna and Grandy's to spend a couple of days. Mrs. Abbey, Aunt Ang and Garrett were there also and we had a lot of fun. Nanna always has lots of help in the kitchen when the kids are there! As you can tell, she doesn't mind! This is a regular occurence as well! So thankful for a Nanna that plays with the girls!
Nanna with her babies

Garrett and Elleigh
Millie hanging out on the deck at Grandmama and Pappa's
Sittin' in the back of Zach's truck (wanting to be inside the truck!)

Zach in his element...
Millie reminds us often that she is the baby and she is! She can hang with the big kids but she does take advantage of being the baby as well and she is catered to a lot. Here Lizzie is feeding her bacon!
Not sure this tricycle is made for 2 but they do look cute!Playing on the slip and slideAnd again...

How cool is she???Zach taking care of the little ones
I love this!
2 prisses!
Maggie and Elleigh who are not supposed to have grown up so quickly!

If Zach is around he has at least one of the little girls with him!
Shrimp boil-it took lots of hands peeling shrimp to keep Lizzie and Millie satisfied. They loved them!
Millie is SO much fun!
Lizzie turned 3 while we were in AL. We had a combined b-day party for she and Millie but this was her with her Barbie cake on her actual birthday. She loved it!

Still to come-our beach trip, Lizzie and Millie's b-day party, and our second trip to Nanna and Grandy's!