The Biltmore...

This past weekend my Mom took my sister and I too the Biltmore for a mother/daughter trip! It was the perfect birthday present and I had such a great time not only seeing the amazing Biltmore Estate but getting to spend time with my mom and sister!


The Biltmore was a place I have been wanting to go to, and now that I live just 3 hours from it, we decided to make a trip up there. My mom and sister came in on Wednesday and spent some time with the boys and then we drove up to the Biltmore for the weekend! My mom's birthday was the day they arrived, so it was fun to have the boys be with her on her birthday!


I loved North Carolina, it was beautiful! I think I could move there. I wanted to move to Charleston when I got there too, so I am thinking I actually like laid back cities rather than busy big cities!


Here are some pictures from the weekend!

Easton wanted to assist with blowing out the candles.. too bad I accidentally bought the trick candles!  

We went to the Children's museum too!  

Has to play with trains... because he can't do that home or anything! 

THE BILTMORE!! 

Going through the winery to our wine tasting! 

Wine tasting time! 

The view at the Grove Park Inn, the prettiest hotel! 

More wine! 

Champagne Tasting Time! 

Learned how Champagne was made! 

More Drinking! 

We got to sample all of these! 

We have no had to much to drink! :) 

Saturday at the park when we were back home! 

Sweet Easton! 

Love the Swings! 

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

83%....

Well Everyone 30 has come..

and the results are in..

I got a B..or 83%

on my bucket list..

I didn't do five of them....


However, I loved every minute of trying to do all of these. It was a lot of fun, and challenging at the same time!

1) Go one week with out getting on facebook

2) Go one week with out eating dessert

3) Sponsor a child and write to him/her every month

4) Make a batch of cookies from scratch

5) Read the Scarlett Letter again

6) Pass out a homeless bag once a month for 6 months

7) Try Caviar

8) Learn Photoshop ( or at least create something I am proud of and would use)

9) Visit Chicago

10) Sew my own pillow

11) Eat at Hula Hut ( Austin TX)

12) Go to a History Museum

13) Visit San Deigo

14) Ski in Tahoe

15) Memorize a bible verse

16) Take a yoga class at my gym

17) Stomp Grapes in Napa ( or anywhere)

18) Watch shark week

19) Cook a turkey for a holiday fest

20) Make my own jam

21) Watch the original cutting edge over again

22) Go on a sail boat

23) Get in the water in Tahoe

24) Eat at Gary Danko ( in the city)

25) Eat Organic for a month

26) Join a wine club

27) Sew a button on to a pair of pants ( one that will stay on)

28) Read the 2nd two books of the Hunger Games Series

29) Get a mud bath at the spa

30) Run in a 10K

I was never a B students, so I not 100% pleased with this.. but it's not terrible either.. I think I am going to make another one for 40, but really put some thought into the things, and I better get a 100% if I have 10 years to complete it!

My Big Boy...

I have been holding off on posting about this since I didn't want to jinx myself.. but a month ago we got our second ice storm, and after the first one, I knew I needed something to do at the house and something to feel accomplished at the end of our 5 days stuck inside! Once the storm hit, I think figured out we would be out of school for  8 days.. SHOOT ME! :)

So I decided the time has come.. Easton is going to get potty trained. So that is what we did over the ice days, and it was nice, because I couldn't leave so it made it much easier to just focus on his potty stuff rather than trying to run just one errand and him have accidents.

He has done really good, I am not hear to say that he does not have an accident every now and then, and we are still 100% reminding him that he needs to go, like when he wakes up, before we go places etc.. but for the most part he does pretty good!

He is pretty cute, he started this thing with my mom when she was here watching him and after he goes potty in the potty he looks up at you and says " I make your heart happy"... ahh melt me.. so cute.. because Yes, it does make my heart happy that we have no more diapers! :) He has not worn one since the day we started about a month ago, minus his pull up for night time.

This might be the first thing in parenting that I have dreaded the most, had no clue what to do and felt the biggest weight lifted off my shoulders once it was done! :)

GO EASTON GO!!!! YOU MAKE OUR HEARTS HAPPY!

A perfect little Saturday...

I had a perfect little Saturday with my family! I spent my 30th birthday with my boys at the Aquarium. I had heard so many wonderful things about the Aquarium here, so we decided to go check it out. It was a really good Aquarium, my favorite was the beluga whale and the octopus. :)

It is happened to be one of the most beautiful days we have had yet, so everyone was out and about in Centennial Park so we let Easton play on the play ground.

On the way home we stopped at Varsity's.. which for those not from Atlanta, is a famous hotdog/hamburger fast food joint. It was really good, but in sane how many people were there, it was 3 pm and it was packed.. to the point that people parked across the street and were getting rides over in a golf cart!

It was so nice to spend the whole day with my family, and it was nice to knock two things off my "Atlanta Bucket list"! :)

Girls Trip 2014...

Last week a group of my college girlfriends and I headed to Mexico! It was so amazing, and one of the best trips I have ever taken. Mainly because I did ZERO of the planning, I literally sent checks when I was suppose to and then jumped on a plane and really didn't even know where I was going! :) I mean I knew it was Mexico, but all the details were taken care of for me, and well it was just so nice!

I got to the airport and had that feeling of " Oh my gosh I left something" the whole time.. I think it was just because I only had a half empty purse with me and not a ton of kid crap! The trip almost started off on a bad note, when I got a phone call the day before I was suppose to leave that my flight had been canceled.. I of course had a small panic attack  at first, but was lucky enough to get on a late flight that night so that I could meet up with the girls in the morning. In the end it worked out even better!

The rest of the trip is really boring to write about because all we did was:

wake up to a fully cooked meal by Rosie
make our way to the pool/beach
lay out all day
DRINK DRINK DRINK
come up to our own pool at dinner time
finally make dinner
shower but never dry our hair or put on make up
Stay up late

REPEAT all 5 days! :) It was Wonderful!

It was wonderful... here are some pictures of the beautiful house we stayed at!

 

Till Next Trip...

Swim Lessons...

McCoy started his first round of swim lessons today.. He did great! Clearly I know he is not going to come out of these swimming by any means, but I want to make sure he is used to the water and not scared! If today was any indication of his comfortableness in the water, we might just have a little swimmer on our hands one day! He did really well, and didn't cry once as I literally dunked him! ( And Yes, all the other new moms looked at my like I was crazy for just throwing him in to get his face all wet)

Then it was Easton's turn for swim lessons. He does not get the same grade on his report card as McCoy did! If you can picture the mom running after her child at the park every five seconds, well that was me but in the pool! So Easton would swim off, run off ( its a beach front pool) and then I would splish/splash after him.. we were quite a sight. Meanwhile all the other sweet little kiddos are standing in their spots on the wall where the teacher told them to. The problem lies in the fact that this swim lesson program makes me get in the pool with him, and he doesn't listen to me. He also thinks it is play time, not lessons when I am with him. So we will not be doing these lessons for him again.. till they let me sit nice and dry on the side of the pool!

Not to mention, after two hours of shuffling kids from the pool, to showers to the childcare room so each of them could get a 30 minute lessons, I was beat! So next week hopefully Easton gets to go to another class!

McCoy and his buddy Jackson before Class started! 

He is ready because he thinks it's play time!