Father’s Day Weekend- With No Pictures of Fathers!

Powers and I went our separate ways this weekend, then joined back up Sunday for Father’s Day. I spent Friday with my folks and Saturday visiting the Overstreets- our lifelong family best friends. As is the norm these days, all of our big events are documented with pictures of London smiling… no one else much makes it into our pictures! Sorry Mom, Dad, and Blair!

Powers and Ren went to D-Lo to play with Poppi! They had a blast doing bee stuff all weekend! Here are some pics from Baby Girls weekend…

Our great visit with Blair and Karen! I was so thankful for some quality time with my old friends! We had a wonderful visit and I am so grateful for Blair never loosing touch! We’ve been friends since before I can remember and I hope we are always in each others lives! They are so much fun! Their stories are always the funniest things I’ve ever heard! I was rolling laughing at them! Everyone wish Blair GOOD LUCK as she is up and moving to San Diego for a new job!!! GOOD LUCK BLAIR!!!

Blair tells the funniest stories!!!

 

Getting all her sugar stolen!

 

We love you blair!!

Quick Trip to Chi-Town

Mom and Dad just recently took a medical convention trip to Chicago (the same weekend we surprised dad with allie). They had a fabulous time… they ate great (I’m a budding poet!), did a little shopping, and saw some rather interesting sights!

Here are mom and dad with Sue, the T-Rex at the Field Museum. This is impressive! I forget how big and totally terrifying dinosaurs were! Sue is one scary looking creature! Cute pic of the parents though!

They were in Chicago the same weekend as the Stanley Cup finals, where Chicago’s team took the title. I know nothing of hockey, but mom and dad said the fans were outrageous!  On the night of the finals there were miles of fans packing Michigan Ave to celebrate. They went to a restaurant where the team came to eat the night after (i believe). They tried to bribe their waiter to sneak in and get a picture for them but were unsuccessful! :) (Definition of bribe for my folks- asking nicely!)

I believe the most memorable moment, scarred into my mom’s memory forever, was leaving the restaurant they witnessed an all nude bike ride- riders protesting some issue dealing with oil… but whatever the cause, a large group of cyclists wearing nothing but their birthday suits and an occasional boa, decided to ride the streets sending the world a very naked message! Nothing like naked people in the streets to shock a sweet family from Mississippi! (Sorry, this is a family blog, so no pictures!)

We’re glad you guys had such a memorable trip! I love yall!

Welcome to the Family Allie B!

Our purpose for all heading to Columbus this weekend was tri-fold. 1. Spend a family weekend together, 2. take powers’s bees to the hunting club, 3. SURPRISE DAD WITH A NEW GOLDEN RETRIEVER!!!

Meet Allie Rhea- (we’ve nicknamed her Allie B since we already have an allie!)

Allie is a 4 year old from Birmingham that needed a loving family. Perfect solution? Booper and Chucks Rhea! She is beautiful and sweet and will hopefully be a fine fit for my parents! The Barry Rhea’s and Lane’s have already fallen in love with her. Allie loved one person in particular…They cuddled in the backseat all the way to Columbus!

Meeting her new family

Dad was so surprised! He said ‘What is THAT varmit?’ Dad translation: I love you, new puppy!! :)

I forgot to include these cute one’s in my week of pics post…

Week in pictures

J momma (mi mommy)came to bham this week to help Lauren tame the tigers… (aka one infant and 2 toddlers!) It was marvelous seeing her smiling face everyday! We’re still on team ‘Move all our relatives to Birmingham’!

cute conversation J Momma, Elizabeth and I had:

Taylor: ‘So, are you J Momma or are you going by Mi Mommy now?’

J momma: ‘i think I go by Mi Mommy, so say the kids.’

Elizabeth: ‘I go by Liiisssy. Caden goes by My Brother.’

We are so excited to wear pull ups now! Oh- so greatest potty training idea ever! Yesterday I read a good trick to teach your kids to go potty… put a few drops of blue food coloring in the potty then let your kids ‘potty train’. When they are tee tee, the water will turn green!!! (Blue + Yellow= Green) How fun is that?!?!

Showing off her new big girl pull ups!

 

Caden likes to put on his own shoes….

This weekend we went to Columbus to crash my parents house while they were out of town… you’ll see why in a second! Here’s tooties ‘watching tv’ face!! Ha ha!

We visited Papa, who has moved into the retirement home and is doing awesome!! It was a great visit and we were so glad to see him!!

And just because I think she is an angel…

   

While the Boys were Zooooming….

The girls were playing (and eating!!!)

Booper and Din Din came over to spend the day with all the girls + Caden + Pow Pow. Booper brought a DELISH lunch for everyone! As soon as I get recipes, Ill share them with you! It was wonderful! We spent a few hours together playing living room baseball, watching the kids run around in circles, and then letting Caden and Liz take pictures of everyone!

This is what most of my pictures of the twins look like…. they are moving ALL the time! Good pictures are decidedly hard to take these days!

                 Batting

 

Living Room Baseball.

Elizabeth’s photo taking!! Good picture LIzzy!

ZOOOOOOOM!

As a joint birthday gift, Booper gave Barry and Chuckles a day at Talladega Racing Adventure. The idea is you can go to Talladega, learn how to drive a real Nascar race car, then you actually get to get on the track with a group of other drivers and RACE!!! Just like the real thing!  There is an instructor in the car with you, but he is just sitting in the passenger seat- he doesn’t have any emergency controls or anything. From the sound of it, he is really just an in-car cheerleader!

Barry has officially decided that he may explore being a racecar driver as his new profession. They loved it! Mom emailed that Dad had even gone to bed with a smile on his face! (And for those of you that know dad, that is not a common occurrence!) Ask Barry about his day there- then watch his face light up! It was a GREAT gift! They had an awesome time! Good job, Boopster!

Barry’s stats:

Lap #                       Top MPH

Lap 1                       105.27

Lap 2                       135.63

Lap 3                       147.65

Lap 4                       155.08

Lap 5                       159.86

Lap 6                       165.95

(which is as fast as the cars would drive!! Ahhh)

If you’re interested in sending your man, then go to www.racingadventure.com or call 1-888-gorace1 to get more information.

Dale Earnhardt’s Car (I think!!)

4 Y O

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Allieeeeeee!

Happy Birthday to YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Watch out!!!

The Matriarch is coming to B'ham!!! Yup! Din Din is coming for a girls day Sunday! Woo hoo! Dad and Barry are going to Talladega to race their very own race cars and Booper and Din Din are coming to join in on the fun!

Barry has promised to  take pictures of he and Dad burning rubber and hopefully I will be in full paparazzi mode taking pictures of the rest of the family!

I am begging Charley to stay in Alabama this weekend so we can have her in on the action with us! I am so excited about having everyone here! How fun!

Slash

Here’s caden playing the air guitar…. He wouldn’t let me film him from the front, so this is the best I could do, but I thought it was precious!

slash from Taylor Lane on Vimeo.

The twins eating popsicles! They were asking for ‘red’ popsicles and Lauren kept telling them that they were out of red and all they had left were purple- She opened the package and handed one to caden and he screamed ‘BLACK!!’ I know it was a ‘you had to be there moment’ but it was really funny!

 

I love these kids!! They are so fun!

Inducted into the Beach Babe Club…

Here she is… properly inducted! She laid out, went to the beach and got in the ocean, she went on two walks on the beach and got stuck in the pouring rain during one of them! She napped, she relaxed, she’s officially a beach babe! She was such a good sport and this mommy was so sad to leave her this morning after a long weekend of soaking in quality time with my little peanut!

Laying out by the pool!

This is the LIFE!!!

Hanging out with Booper- she is so tan! London looked like a white sheet of paper laying on Booper’s lap!

At the beach, my new favorite place! (and notice how my mommy’s skin tone matches mine perfectly! Glad Mommy didn’t take a pic with the bronze goddess above!!)

She even put her little tick tack toes in the ocean!

Worn slap out from all the excitement!