Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Nailed It


For a hilarious blog to follow, try out www.knoxmccoy.com. He might be the most trivial person ever, but his blog is hilarious! 

I have LOTS of pictures to come, but just need to make time to get them on here! PS. London is adorable. It's a fact. Love you all!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Learning to count

Londie Lu Lu Lane is learning to count. She can't pronounce all of her numbers yet, but here is our normal exchange.

Mom: One
LL: Twwwwwooooo
LL: Tweee
Mom: Four
LL: BITE (five)!
:)

Monday, August 15, 2011

Pictures from Lauren's phone

We were all at Booper and Chuckles house this weekend and Lauren emailed me all of her cute mobile pictures! Woo hoo! Here's an almost exclusive Rhea family post!! :)
So ill throw in a londie lu every now and again! Here's an oldie pic of london- she used to love to play in the 'fresh from the dryer sheets' at Lauren's house!

 Barry escaping the summer heat!


 Swimming lessons!
 Caden made this lego 'cake' for his momma!
 Precious flower girl
 London went through a stage where she didn't want to fall asleep so she'd just sit up in her crib. Eventually she would just topple over asleep! Poor thing!
 These two are so sweet!


 Playing at the zoo

 Ready for school!

 Ring bearer!
 Tuckered out!
 Asleep with a helicopter in his lap! I love how kids just cant... give... in... to... sleep!
 More swimming lessons!
 Love this!

 Chilling with Dad!

Dog Days of Summer Part 2

I forgot to add the below pics from my cell phone. Not good quality, but these were cute pictures!

Most fun bath time ever! This weekend at Booper's house.





Renny's headband that she made with my sweet friend Kristine! Cute, huh? 
 You know me and free food... I had a coupon for free lettuce wraps at PF Chang. Renny LOVES their lettuce wraps so we had a girls trip one day as a end of summer treat. We had so much fun this day! I love my ladies!

 Makes my heart so happy...

1st Days of School

Here are the texts I received from Barry this morning. Today was Charley's first day of High School (eeekkkk!) and the twins first day of Pre-K. What an exciting, emotional day! The pictures and the captions were adorable!
Excited, but a little nervous about highschool!


Excited would be an understatement!


Nervous? I don't think so. The ladies are gonna love me! Watch out pre-K!



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Fast Friends

Mom sent me an email this morning. It's been raining there all day and apparently Archie's been a little mischievous today. He got quiet so Mom went to find him and found him chilling with his new best friend... Ha ha! Funny dog!!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Dog Days of Summer

I leave every summer with the fondest memories.. always thinking 'this was the best summer ever'! I love growing up. As I get older, my family gets bigger. I love all of these personalities co-existing. We have Powers, the talker, the creative one, the funny one, the entertainer, the cop. Serenity, the kind one, the patient one, the one who's up for anything, the secret performer, the one who makes the house feel complete. London, the dancer, the curious one, the most friendly one, the ever changing one, the stealer of our hearts.

This summer was awesome. My favorite memory is dancing in the rain with my two little girls. We went out to play one day and it started sprinkling. Ren asked if we could turn the car radio on and play in the rain.  We danced, and giggled, and tickled, and gave wedgies, and drank rain water (which is horribly dirty if you get enough in a cup to notice!) I locked that memory in for the long term- 3 soaking wet girls spinning in circles in our drive way. That you, gracious God for that moment. My heart smiles when I remember...

Here are some of our memories. Im sure in no particular order.  I'll try to document what time of summer these are from! I hate to see this time come to an end. We've taken Renny back to Jackson and our house isn't full anymore. There is a permanent place for her here. I just wish there were a permanent body to fill that space. This summer was wonderful! So fun, and messy, and full of joyful noise! Here's to daydreaming of summers to come!





 London's go-to snack of the summer- croutons (???)



 London cutting eyes at her daddy and showing off some of her fav shades! 

 Last weekend with Renny.. back home in Jackson





 This is from this past weekend. Anyone want our dog? She was locked up because she ran away this morning. We went swimming and came home to this. Brand new bean bag in 120 zillion pieces. 
 Memorial Day weekend



 Barry's family and Booper went to the beach last weekend. Here are a few pictures from Mom. She said it was terribly hard taking many pictures while you're chasing 2- 4 year olds around!










 i photo fun! I have these backdrops on my computer and Renny LOVED taking pictures with them all summer!











And the videos...
London has started reading books to herself! LOVE it! Sorry it's a little jerky... she'll stop if she sees the camera so I was trying to hide it!
Untitled from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.


A quick shot of one of my favorite tricks...
Cutie! from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.


London practicing some of her words!
Untitled from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.


Great summer! I loved every second of it!