My Revelation

I know I have been absent from the blogging world for a while now. I can tell you all the reasons but I kind of don't want to hash it out now. And I keep telling myself I need to catch up. I will catch up. Well I figured out that I will never catch up. There is just too much and I kind of don't want to. So I am just going to go. Just start where we are at, it is a much better place than where we were before anyways. I am not guaranteeing great success but just starting out slow and see where it goes from there.
I know, pretty deep for just talking about updating our blog....
~Whitney

Weekend With Grandma

This past weekend Derick, O'lena, and I headed to Jacksonville to visit his mom who is watching her grand-kids while their parents are in Italy...Yes, Italy! So jelly! Derick had drill so after dropping us off he headed to Camp Blanding and O'lena and I stayed to help grandma. (Though I think we might have been more of a hindrance than help. You know how cousins get when they get together.) It was also first trip back for TANK. (We got him from Jessica and the family, I will post more on him later.) This is a picture of the happy puppy in the car on the ride up. I know he doesn't look it, but he really is enjoying himself.

 This is my nephew Vance. He has gotten so big since I last saw him at the beginning of the year. TANK and him were best of buds by the end of the weekend. TANK would lick all the food off his face and Vance would poke and pull on him. It was cute....until TANK wouldn't leave him alone. 

 So it was Tighe's birthday a little while back, and Grandma wanted to party. He is into Ninja Turtles right now, so Grandma and Natalie made him a Ninja Turtle cake, from scratch! It was awesome. Yes, Natale did the decorating. She is awesome! It was yummy!

Soooo, somehow Natalie got green dye on the underside of her nose from her master piece. I was teasing her about it and asked how in the world did she get dye on her nose. She replies, as serious as someone can be, "I don't know. My mom calls me a 'hot mess.' " I about died!! I laughed so hard. I am still giggling about it as I am writing!

Last, are the pictures of the party. The cousins ate turtle cake off turtle plates, opening turtle presents, all while dressed like a turtle! TURTLE POWER!!

So beside trying to kill one person, losing a baby, a couple of times (sorry Jess, we found him, each time...he's just so fast!,) and being inside the house the whole time because of the rain, all in all we had a great time. I am excited because they are all heading down this way very soon!!

Olena Learned to Swim

O'lena leaned how to swim this summer! I am super proud of her. She swims like a fish now! This video is from the beach week at FMBeach in June. She was kind of scooting around in the beginning of the week, but by the end this is what she was doing!

Things I need to remember about Olena

You know sometimes she drives me absolutely nuts, but something I absolutely love is that she bust into song about anything. She is a musical (broadway) star in the making! She also pick up a tune only hearing it twice! It is ridiculous but totally cool. :)