Flashback Friday--Vacation 2004

Since we just returned from vacation...Flashback Friday (on Saturday) will be about our last vacation.  This was going to be my Flashback Friday the week before we left, but with work & procrastination it didn't get done.

Our last vacation was November 2004, which was a beach vacation also.  The kids were small...Morgan was 3 and Spencer had just turned 2.  We went to St. George Island in Florida and spent a week with my aunt & uncle, my grandmother, my dad, Cathy, Eric, Blake, the kids & me. 

Our house for the week

Spencer

Morgan & Spencer

Morgan playing in the sand

Spencer playing in the sand

Spencer in the ocean

Morgan in the ocean

Grandaddy digging the kids a hole

Spencer fell in the hole & he wasn't happy

The kids in the hole

Grandaddy, Morgan & Spencer

I have more pictures somewhere that haven't been scanned to the computer.  Now I am on a mission to find them...maybe I will share them at a later date. 

Flashback Friday

Since the 4th of July is Monday...Flashback Friday this week goes back to July, 4, 2006.  The kids love playing with sparklers.  This particular year Spencer was terrified of the fireworks.  He didn't like they were loud...even though they were beautiful.  Morgan always loves the fireworks.

Morgan dancing around

Spencer

Spencer

Morgan

The "light-up" glasses :-)

I love doing Flashback Friday post.  It gives me a chance to go back in time & see how "little" the kids were and how much they have grown over the years....even though it makes me kind of sad that my kids are growing up...WAY TO FAST!!!

Flashback Friday...Summer Fun 2007

Flashback Friday this week will go back to Summer 2007.  Summer has always been my favorite season and we are always looking for fun, exciting things to do.

Most activities contain some type of water.
Here the kids are playing in the pool...

Morgan & Spencer

Spencer

Morgan

attending area county fairs...

Spencer & Morgan watching the Demolition Derby

Morgan

Spencer

 trips to Holiday World....

one of my favorite pictures of Morgan

Spencer

Morgan

Tori, Morgan, Spencer & Ransome

water park fun...




The kids & I

Spencer sliding

Morgan & the girls

water balloon fights...

all the balloon's filled up

the kids getting ready to play :-)

and other activities

Spencer feeding the ducks

Slip-n-Slide action

pool time

 This summer we haven't got to do to many activities since I have starting working.  Classroom orientation is over next week & I will go to a three day work week...so hopefully we can pack July with lots of fun activities...one including the beach :-)

Flashback Friday...on Saturday

I promised HERE that Flashback Friday this week would be about the kids first year playing ball.  Flashback Friday got pushed to Saturday this week because I was wore out after a LONG week of orientation (which will be another post)....so here is Flashback Friday...on Saturday :-)

Morgan's first year playing ball was 2006.  She started in T-ball, but at the time they were thrown five pitches by the coach and if they didn't hit any of them they got to hit off the tee.  She played for the Pirates her first year. Here are a few pictures of her first year of "Tee-Ball/Coach Pitch"

Morgan playing pitcher

Morgan made it 1st base

Morgan crossing home plate

Morgan's 1st baseball picture

Spencer's first year playing ball was 2007.  Him & Morgan were on the same team this year (so you will see Morgan in a few of the pictures).  He played on the "Peanuts"  It was strictly T-ball.   Here are a few pictures of Spencer's first year of baseball.

Morgan, Spencer, Madi & Audi

Spencer made it to 1st base

Spencer got his trophy

Morgan & Spencer

Spencer's 1st team picture

While doing this post I was amazed at how much all the kids have grown.  I will have to find Morgan's first year team picture & Spencer's first year individual pictures and post them in a later post.  Stay tune for my first week as a RNA...will blog about it soon (maybe tomorrow)

Flashback Friday

Today's Flashback is going to be all about tattoo's.  I have a total of three tattoo's...all of which I got during/after major life experiences.  I got my first tattoo in June 2006 while I was going through my divorce.

My 1st Tattoo

My second and third tattoo's are VERY special to me.  I have always said that NO matter how old my kids get the will always walk on my feet...therefore I have their baby footprints tattoo'ed on the top of my feet.  I also have their name and birthday.  They each wrote their own names at the end of their first grade year.  I got both of these done in May 2008 when I got accepted into the nursing program.  I went and had Morgan's done on a Saturday night & was going to get Spencer's done the next Saturday

...needless to say I couldn't stand just having one child's done so I went back Tuesday to have Spencer's done. 

Spencer's foot didn't have his name on it for a long time, because I wanted both the kids to be the same age when they wrote their names.  In May 2010 Spencer wrote his name. 

The reason I flashbacked to tattoo's is because I am fixing to get another one.  I have thrown a few things around, but I am not 100% sure what I want....that's why it isn't already done.  I have thought about getting something RN or I have thrown around getting something CF for my step-brother Eric who passed away in 2006.  Graduating College/Nursing School and becoming an RN are both major life events...so after I pass my NCLEX and get my RN license I will get my next tattoo....what will it be???