June Visitors

Happy Birthday to my mom! She celebrated her birthday at our house.

Elijah and Madeline (one of my cousin's little girls) playing.

My cousin Erin and her family (including my aunt and uncle) came to Florida for a week vacation at Disney. They came over on June 14th (my mom's birthday) to have dinner with us.

My childhood friend Heather was in Florida visiting with another friend. We decided to meet at the beach and visit for a while.

This nest picture was taken at the Citrus Tower. It is tourist attraction in our small town. It is basically a tower that takes you up to a room that lets you look at the city. They say you use to be able to see Disney World from up there. We decided to go back this winter and see if you can see farther.

My mom got Elijah a kickboard and he is ready to put it to use.

After picking my mom up at the Tampa airport we went to the Tampa Zoo. It was super nice and we got in FREE with our Louisville Zoo passes.

In June we had lots of visitors. First it was Troy's siser, niece, and dad. Then my mom came to visit for 10 days. Then finally we had some friends from Louisville and their two daughters come to visit.

Kristen Graduates from High School

Troy and his three children. Hard to believe the girls are getting to be all grown up.

Kristen graduated from High School on June 5th. We had a graduation party for her atour house that evening.

Troy and Heather

Troy and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on June 4, 2009. Troy's sister happened to be in town for Kristen's gratuation so she watched Elijah so we could go out to dinner to celebrate. We went out and had all you can eat crab legs at a yummy seafood restaurant near our house.

Living it up in Florida

We have now lived in Florida two months. It has been a BIG adjustment for us but not too bad. We have stayed very busy! Elijah and I have been on a couple of Troy's trips, which is fun getting out of the house, they are like mini vacations. I have joined a couple of mom's group which is allowing me to meet people. We have been attending a church regularly but they don't have Sunday School which is so wierd. Finding a church has to have been the hardest thing for us. What is up with NO Sunday School. They do have small groups that meet outside of the church at night but that requires us to pay a babysitter. It is also hard because I have to find a babysitter and Troy is not always home to go to small group with me. Anyway, June is going to be a busy month. We have lots of visitors coming one after another. We are going to have 5 whole days throughout the month without overnight guests. I am excited to see friends and family but it is a bit over whelming that everyone decided to come in the month of June.

There is a fun splash park and play ground in Orlando that is fun to go to.

Easter morning we went to Church and then to St. Pete Beach.

Troy's first trip was to Miami. He had to go for a week so Elijah and I went with him.

Elijah's first time swinging on a big boy swing. This is our Neighborhoods park.




My Best Friend Shannon and her family planned a trip to Disney two years ago. We got to see them three different days while they were down here. This is the boys at our house playing.



We bought season tickets to Sea World. Our first trip was with Shannon and her family.





Our second trip to the Miami Zoo, this time Troy went with Elijah and I.




Troy's oldest, Kristen, is graduating on June 5th. This is right before she and her boyfriend went to Prom.

Elijah's Toddler Bed

We recently converted Elijah's crib into a toddler bed. He loves it. Unfortunately he also loves to come visit us in our room at all hours, 1 a.m., 3 a.m., 6 a.m., whenever he wakes up. Hopefully this transition will soon become normal and he will stay in his bed or at least in his room from the time we say night night until we go in to wake him in the morning.

August Fun

We have done a lot this summer. It amazes me everyday how quickly children change. Elijah is like a little sponge. Elijah learned how to blow his own bubbles. I can't believe my 2 year old can blow bubbles, however we go through them rather quickly when he is in control of them. This bubble session ended up with the water hose and Elijah was soaking wet after that.

Elijah loves riding bikes. Our landlord gave us a little girls bike that is way to big for Elijah but he loves to be pushed around the yard on it, so I thought lets try a smaller bike with training wheels. The only problem is, it is hard to teach a child how to peddle this way. So we went and got Elijah a tricycle. A tricycle is much better because the peddles move when the wheels move so the child can witness what to do. Elijah loves his tricycle!

Elijah loves to go to the pool, however he is not fond of the big pool, he likes the baby pool best. Well, we don't like to always be in the baby pool and after having swim lessons this past spring we have been trying everything to get Elijah to go in the big pool, but no luck. This next picture is Elijah with his new water wings on. He is actually trying to get hem off in this picture. Maybe next summer.
This last picture is one we took at Nolin Lake. Troy decided since gas is so cheap we would go on a Sunday drive. Anyway, this last picture of Elijah is of him sitting on a rock at a camp ground by the Lake. I think it is so cute. You have to be quick when taking pictures of a toddler!

Elijah's 2nd Birthday Party

Today we had Elijah's 2nd birthday party. It was much different from last years party, much smaller. This year we only invited immediate family and one friend. Troy says last years 1st birthday party was for mommy and this years party was for Elijah. I have to admit there was not as much stress that went along with this party. We only had cake and ice cream and then
opened presents. I have to say the cakes ended up being my favorite part of the party. I baked the cakes and Troy decorated them. As you can tell one is Elmo and the other one is Cookie Monster. They turned out great!


When it was time for Elijah to blow his candles out he had no idea what to do. I had to blow them out for him. I would suggest practicing next time. But when it came to opening his presents Elijah knew exactly what to do. He tore those suckers open. Over all I think it was a good time had by all.

This present, the microphone, is from Elijah's friend Ellie.

This last picture is of Elijah once we got home. Elijah's Mimi got him a big Tonka truck. This is not suppose to be a ride on toy, but as you can see Elijah thinks so. Funny boy.

Thomas the Tank Engine

We took Elijah to New Haven, Kentucky last Saturday.

We took him to see Thomas the Tank Engine.

We all had a really fun time.

Elijah got to meet Sir Topham hat and ride on a real Choo choo train.

We thought it was going to rain but it didn't and it wasn't too hot either.

The weather ended up being comfortable.