Nana and Papa Swoop Visit!

Back in October we had the best visit with Phil's dad and stepmom!  We love spending time with them and always have so much fun!  We rented a pontoon boat one lovely afternoon...

I stayed back home while Davis finished up his nap and then they stopped back by and picked us up when he woke up.  Then as soon as we took off again J and E fell asleep!

The boys LOVE their Nana!!

We parked at the jetties again and the boys had the best time climbing up this "cliff" and jumping/running down into the water.

When we came back to dock up this big bird was standing here next to some men who were cleaning fish.  The boys ran up and were saying, "Hi, bird!!" and then he started to slowly side-step away from us.  It was so funny!

Davis had thrown Jackson's flip flops over the side of the boat at some point (he also threw his bink overboard at the Navy base marina and we had quite the time manuevering the boat and leaning over the side to retrieve it out of the water.  We thought for sure it was lost at one point but we managed to get it!).  Anyway, J really wanted to walk home with Nana, but since he didn't have his shoes he wasn't sure if he should do it in bare feet.  I told him he would either have to ride in the car or "suck it up" and be tough and just walk in bare feet.  He said, "I'll suck it up" and walked back.  Emmett wanted to join, too.  :)

Chris and Charlene stayed with us for a few days and then we all went over to Destin to stay with Charlene's parents and go to the Destin fishing rodeo for a little bit.  Yummy corn dogs!!

Nana took Reid to get his face painted and this is what he picked.  He looked SO cute!!

Watching a fish get weighed...

Reid really wanted a sip of my beer...

When we got back to the house Reid sat on Papa Chuck's "tractor" almost the entire day, and then Papa Chuck gave him a ride in the afternoon.  He was in heaven...

Here Reid accidentally started the tractor moving forward when he wasn't ready.  Lol!

Juilene and Chuck have this fun game in their backyard where you try to swing this string with a ring on the end and catch it on a hook that's stuck in that tree there.  It's fun but not easy to do, but Jackson was awesome at it!  He hooked it three times!

The boys were SO zonked after our long, fun day and fell right to sleep...

Unfortunately, Davis was tired, too, but he woke up around 1 AM (he was in the same room as Phil and me) and would not go back to sleep.  He was babbling and throwing his bink out of the pack and play and we just knew it would take forever for him to fall asleep again.  So Phil decided to drive back home with Davis and let me stay there with the boys.  It was an hour to get home and we knew it would have been more than an hour for Davis to go back to sleep so we figured that was the best choice.  Ugh!!  It worked out okay, though.

The next morning when the big boys got up they were so excited to find a crab in the crab trap!!

Checking the bait bag.... Mornings on the water are so great.

We stopped by and visited the big fish at Bass Pro Shops before heading back home.  Davis LOVED them!

Reid and Davis were SO tired!!  They had had so much fun!!  They passed out quickly after we got into the car.

It was so great to see you, Chris and Charlene!!  We love you!!

We are all so excited about our upcoming trip to visit them in Denver in January!  The boys are counting down the days and praying for snow!  :)

Random

These pictures are months old, but better late than never, right?

The most gorgeous sunset one night at the beach.  That's a ship out there right in the middle of the pink.  

Reid all decked out ready for "work".  I got the best video of him telling us all about how he had to go work for the "man."  "I have to go to work because the man says I have to go to work today."  He is the best.  :)

Reid was measuring with this tape one day... He came up to me and wanted to measure me.  He said, "How do you feel?  Do you feel 21?"  Lol!  Why yes, Reid, I do!  Then he "measured" me and declared me 21.  Hooray for me!

Everyone had their special Nemos from Nana in bed one morning...

There was obviously something very interesting on Daddy's phone... Jackson is in there, too, underneath Davis.  Lol.

I made rice krispy treats and Emmett voted them "Best Food Ever."

I had a girls' night with my friend across the street and we went to a place that had an entire menu of chocolate.  I got the peanut butter chocolate molten cake.  Obviously.  :)

Then we went to a bar at a ritzy hotel in Rosemary Beach for a drink and made the mistake of telling this guy he looked like Matthew McConaughey.  He seriously did from the back, though.  We really thought it might have been him!  From the front... not so much.  :)  Then he wouldn't leave us alone.  My friend is very cute and he was quite enamored with her.  I was trying to get a picture of him here by being all stealthy but really he was a little tipsy so I probably could have just taken a full-on picture and he wouldn't have noticed.  Haha!  And by the way... rich people people-watching is almost as fun as WalMart people watching.  Lots of interesting faces on the older ladies.  :)

Our little lime tree out back has produced some fruit... Very pretty, but unfortunately the limes aren't very lime-y.

We took the boys mini-golfing one night and they had a blast.  We posed with this pirate just as if we were beach tourists.  :)

Davis had the absolute best time running around everywhere over all the hills and bumps and putting the ball in the hole over and over again.

Humid and hot but happy!

A few months back we upgraded everyone's bike.  J got a new one and we passed down his to Emmett, and then Emmett's to Reid.  Reid was dying for a bigger bike.  He zooms around like a madman now and absolutely loves it!

In their cool fort that Daddy made on a rainy day.... :)