December/ Christmas 2019

decorating the Christmas tree, our usual Christmas tree farm closed this year so we had to get one out of a lot. It wasnt as fun of an experience but the tree was beautiful!

giant Santa made his appearance in our neighborhood

Sister had those double shark teeth for months and one finally fell out!

always working

always reading

decorating our Christmas sugar cookies

Christmas morning!

It was an extra special Christmas because Sweet Tea came to spend the week with us!

waiting to see what Santa brought

Sis had a Christmas performance at school, she played the piano and sang with he class - she did great!

pretty girl in her new earrings

Another wonderful tradition filled December in the books :) Onto the new year!

xoxo
Ashlea

Halloween

As the years go on and the kids get more and more into Halloween I oblige them and put out the cheesy spooky decorations and listen to Monster Mash 1000x

This year they loved helping to decorate the house, of course the mice on the stairs made a reappearance and a few new things were added like a giant light up motion sensor spider and a new wreath for the front door

Before the big day we also did our usual Halloween/ October activites like going to the pumpkin patch, going on walks to see the leaves and carving our pumpkins

This year we also went to the Country living fair in Atlanta and brought Charlotte along for the trip. We had such a great weekend and ate sooooo much delicious food

October never disappoints :)

xoxo
Ashlea

life lately august/september

in an attempt to catch up, life lately in photos.....

Who knew I would ever be obsessed with a cat????    not me

 found some GEMS of old pictures - Tony and I looking like babies!

 finally got my very dirty ring cleaned and it actually sparkles again :)

 sister got her ears pierced! she cried but did great and loves her new bling

xoxo
Ashlea

Beach trip 2019

This year we did our annual gulf shores trip and stayed in 30A. This was our final beach area to try, we have been to about half a dozen wanting to find the one that we are happy to go back to year after year.

The trip was as always so relaxing a lovely, we are all beach bums at heart and dont plan much expect beach time and good food.

Although 30A was beautiful it was a little upscale for our taste and would be the perfect place to revisit on a girls trip or just with Tony but as a family we had others we liked better.

Pretty much everyday went like this
- wake up, breakfast at the apartment
- beach, lunch on the beach
- back to the apartment to clean up/rest time
- dinner on the beach
- walk around, get ice cream

It was lovely

A few highlights were seeing dolphins off in the distance one morning when we went down to watch the sunrise, doing a dolphin boat and catching crabs on the beach

now for the pictures :)

xoxo
Ashlea