Back to the grind...have a great weekend :)
Still pretty calm and being very silly with Uncle Eric.
Hmmmmm....starting to chill out a little and prepping for what's to come.
"Uh....what is she doing? Is she coming near me with those?"
Ok, it's time to get serious.
After a few alligator tears and a very silent wimper, Big wee one got her ears pierced!
And then we tried to take a family picture while enjoying ice cream, but it didn't work.
A "real" picture of BWO and her new addition will be posted tomorrow. We are so proud of her and her bravery through the whole process and the whole week of swimming. She rocked getting her ears pierced. 
Here are two LOs I've done so far, but believe me when I say this...this kit will go far in my stash! LOVE IT!
When we got home, look what we found!! We've been waiting for these GIANT sunflowers to 
Now that Old Market Day is over and we can chillax for a bit, Paul and I decided to sign BWO up for swimming lessons. This girl is freaked by water. Not the ocean...nope, she loves jumping waves, it's the pool. She just doesn't dig it at all, but she wants to. You can see in her face and her attitude that she wants to jump in and have fun, but she's just a little timid. 
Notice how everyone else is wet and she's just like, "Um, yea...go right ahead, I'll wait right here."
I was so proud to see her do this!! And it's only day 2! I'm excited to see how the rest of the week goes...till then :)
visit me! I'll be on the square in front of the Heritage Center in a bright orange shirt!
2)when i'm not consumed by Old Market Day I've been scrapping; much to the dissmay of Paul. He says I've been scrapping too much, but honestly it's like a drug. I can't stop and all of the gorgeous kits I get to work with...what's a girl to do???
Here's my sweet little niece!! I'm not sure I've posted this or not, but I'll be an AUNTIE again!! Little Munchkin's little sister will be here in November!! :) CONGRATS & We LOVE YOU!
So I created this page of my big brother spinning my Big wee one by her legs. Aren't uncles the coolest?? 
I used this kit to document 2 of my favorite pictures from our family beach trip to Bald Head Island. I have soooo many pictures to get scrapped (from that trip) and this kit will fit perfectly with a lot of them! Below is BWO walking the beach with her Mimi & G-pa (yes, she really calls him G-Pa...but really it's more like Ja-pa. She was French in another life!) 
This kit is perfect for so many different types of pictures...from little kids (cool messy handprint) to family vacations and everything in between!
Oh look, she's sitting, and though this is a cute picture of her, I don't think it really looks like her...hehe...it looks like her, but a different version of her. 
Here's Big wee one waiting to get her face painted. She's doing magic tricks with Mr. Bowers the Magician (I'm not sure what his stage name is, but that's his name, name...so we'll go with that). Every time he handed her the magic wand it broke! She was really getting a kick out of it. She even drew, colored and erased a whole coloring book...we are now taking bookings for your birthday parties! The girls got magic skills for sure!
Miss Penelope does AWESOME face painting, and lucky for all those attending, I work out a great deal with her and she does it for FREE! Miss Penelope also holds a special place in Big wee one's heart (vice-versa)...Miss Penelope is known as Miss Judy to BWO, and she was one of her teachers at Mother's Day Out. BWO really gets excited when she knows she can get to see Miss Judy and get her face painted! Always as a princess!
Little wee one went with a butterfly (that's her face painting of choice) and looked so stinking cute!
After getting our faces painted we walked further downtown to try out some magic ice cream and check things out. Big wee one wanted to stick her head in these bodies, so we did :) 
After we got a little bite to eat, we headed back to the kids area for chalk and music. The musical entertainment was AWESOME! They had kids up there singing and playing instruments...very entertaining...can you tell the way all 4 of these wee ones are staring in that direction...hehe. Those are friends of ours. BWO's friend Reesie and LWO's friend Mitchell...cuteness! 
The next day was the 4th of July and we had a full day of fun planned. First we went swimming at the Showalter's and then came home for naps and rest before having a small bbq that turned into an amazing fireworks specatular! Our friends the Woolf's came over with their 4 girls and we all noshed on delicious food. After stuffing ourselves we pulled out smoke bombs and all of the kids (can you tell in this picture?? It's hard to catch jumping from behind) were jumping, clapping and yelling. It was so much fun! They were pumped for fireworks!
Uncle Airwick started doing a mini-fireworks show and was a HUGE hit! By the end of the night (my camera died for awhile, so I missed a LOT of cool picture opportunities) all of the kids (there must have been about 20 kids total) were screaming "Eric! Eric! Eric! More. More. More" and my friends and I (the adults) were all yelling, "Airwick! Airwick!". The kids were turning around and yelling at us that it was wrong...it was pretty funny! Anywho, they put on an amazing fireworks disply, and even though BWO looks freaked, she's really laughing in the picture below.
This is Uncle Airwicks display, that you can't really see because my camera was getting tired and Paul had made me too many drinks, so things weren't working out well for us :) But you can see all the kids watching...lots of kids! At one point, all of them were running around like crazy mad sparkler people. Like little fireflies! But of course, like I said, my camera was being a terd and I was enjoying Paul's drink mixtures.
Here's one of Airwick's fireworks. Pretty!
Self-shot! Does it look like we've all had a good time?? hehe!
At one point, Little D (a friend's little man) came running up with a glow stick (seriously...we're hiring out Uncle Airwick for parties as well! He's a one-stop package deal, especially on the 4th of July. He brought glow sticks for the kids, and even though he didn't have enough for every kid, all of them had fun throwing them and chasing them)...he said, "look what I got! I traded Little wee one my soda for it!"
note: i did not enhance or fix any pictures, ignore LWO's red eye!
The soda certainly didn't stop her from zonking out! We were all tired, but this 4th was definitely one of the best we've celebrated in a LONG time! What was planned for a nice and relaxing evening turned into a full-blown FUN BASH! 
Thanks for coming everyone and we can't wait to do it again next year!
We are headed to the beach tomorrow for the weekend....have a great one yourself! :)
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