Our Super Fun Memorial Day Weekend

I'm linking up with Melissa at Bless This Voignier Nest for Weekend Rewind

We had a great Memorial Day Weekend!

♥ Friday night was low key. Jackson and I spent the evening at home. We had been invited to go to dinner with some friends for one of our friend's birthday, but Jackson had a bit of a runny nose and I knew they would be out late, so Jake went and I stayed home with Jackson. I was tired and was perfectly happy to stay home with the baby. :-)

I was able to get some cute pictures of Jackson that night. He pulled up to standing while in his crib and he was pretty proud of himself. Ha.

♥ Then Saturday I had my DSLR camera class at 9:15 in the morning. It was a great class. I feel like I learned a lot and love practicing what I learned.

Then later that day, I took my mom for a pedicure for her Mother's Day present. It was nice and relaxing!

The rest of the evening we just hung out at home. I cleaned the basement and did some things around the house.

♥ Then Sunday we went to church and then went to my parent's house for lunch. After lunch we went home to get our swimming gear because we had planned to go to a splash pad with my sister and her family. On our way home, Jackson fell asleep and it was so cute how he had his hands holding onto the handle of his car-seat, I just had to snap a picture when we got home.

After getting our swimming stuff, we headed to the park. Unfortunately, there was a birthday party, so the splash pad was very crowded. We decided to go to another one that was not to far away, but it wasn't quite what we had in mind. After driving around searching for something fun to do with the kids, we ended up going over to our Pastor and his wife's house to swim in their pool. It was a little chilly when you first got in, but we got used to the water pretty quickly. It was Jackson and Mason's first time swimming. They loved the water!

My sweet boys swimming.

My cousin's girlfriend, Nadine, holding Jackson while he was laughing at his daddy.

My nephew Landon.

My nephew Mason swimming.

Nadine and Jackson.

My cousin Travis and Jackson.

My nephew Mason.

Mason splashing in the pool!

My sister and I with our boys.

Jackson and I.

My little family of 3.

Sweet Mason!

Later that evening we went to dinner at Chili's with my cousin Travis and his girlfriend Nadine.

♥ Monday, we spent the morning and afternoon at home. Then later that afternoon we went to my Aunt and Uncle's house for BBQ and a little more swimming. 

Jackson in his Mickey Mouse raft that Maw Maw got him. :-)

Mason swimming in his cute raft.

Landon swimming in his raft.

Then that evening my cousin wanted to go fishing, so we all tagged along. We had a fun time watching him catch a fish and playing on the playground with the kids.

My cousin Travis, fishing.

Myself, Jake, Jason, Landon, My Sister Ashlee and the babies.

Travis caught a small bass. :-)

His girlfriend Nadine, taking the fish off the hook, Ha!

My brother in Law Jason with his son Landon.

Jackson and Mason swinging together.

Jackson

Mason

Jackson and I sliding down the little slide.

Jackson sliding down the little slide.

By the time we got home last night, we were exhausted!! Now we're back to work today. Boo! 

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend!

Jackson is Crawling!!

We officially have a crawler on our hands. Jackson started crawling on his hands and knees yesterday for the first time. 

Here's a little video. 

It's so hard to believe he's crawling already. It feels like just yesterday that he was born!! Time is going by so fast and really needs to slow down.

The Nail Files: Mochacino by Essie

I just bought this nail polish yesterday and I'm loving it! Its called Mochacino, by Essie.  Its got some glitter in it, which is kinda fun!

 The product details online say: "A perky gray with shimmer."

For Mother's Day I got my mom a gift certificate for a pedicure and I think we're going to go get  our pedicures tomorrow. I plan to take this color with me for my toes too.

 What fun nail polish colors are you wearing this weekend??

Gray and Yellow Love

I don't know about you, but I'm really loving the gray and yellow color combo these days. Those two colors together just make me happy! 

Here are some fun gray and yellow pins for inspiration.

Jackson is 30 Weeks Old!

Jackson turned 30 weeks old this past Thursday, and he turned 7 months old this past Sunday!

He has started saying Dada and is trying to clap! Its so cute. He looks at his hands and then tries to clap them. He goes crazy sometimes hitting himself. Its super cute! Here's a little video. In this video you'll also hear him coughing after hearing us do it. He's been doing this for a while, but a lot more lately. Its really cute how he mimics some of the things we do.

He's also really close to crawling on his hands and knees. He gets up on them and goes a few places, but then goes down on his belly and army crawls the rest of the way.  Here's a quick video of him army crawling.

And he's begun to pull up on a few things... the rail of his crib and the couch! Let the fun begin.

Scrapbook Page "Pinspiration"

I'm linking up today with Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday and I decided to do a scrapbook page idea theme. A group of us ladies from church are going to be scrapbooking June 1st and 2nd. I haven't scrapbooked in over a year, so I need some new ideas for sure. I went to Hobby Lobby on Monday and got some new paper and ribbon. I plan on starting Jackson's album that weekend. I'm excited to finally get started on it. 

So here are some page ideas that I've found on Pinterest that I might print and take with me for some "pinspiration"!

I love the paper fringe below the picture on this page. I hope to try this on one of my pages.

I like this page and the idea behind it. Jackson loves when we sing "You are my Sunshine." It almost always calms him down and has since he was a newborn.

I love the pieces of paper along the side of this picture much like the first page I posted.

I like the whole idea of this page and the similar pictures used with one black and white photo in the middle. This is great for using several similar pictures of Jackson.

Though I won't be scrapbooking any Christmas pictures next weekend, I really liked the layout of this page and may try to use it with pictures of Jackson from the hospital and use some baby cut-outs in the upper right hand corner and a baby themed border like the ginger bread men.

I love the owls on this page and the title. I may do something like this with pictures of Jackson.

Love everything about this page.

This page is so cute! I thought I could just use random pictures of Jackson in his first week at home with us and instead of doing "a year of you", doing "a week of you".

I love the bunting on this page and really want to do something like this on a page.

This page is cute, clean and seems fairly simple. Which is great because I have so many pictures and will need some more simple ideas to help me get more done.

I love the patchwork behind the pictures and the bunting in the top left. So cute.

Again, I love the bunting and I like the idea and layout of this page.

This page is so cute! I just love everything about it. I thought I could do something like this with some pictures of Jackson from the hospital, but instead of using pink paper, use blue!

I really like the pieces of paper along the edge of the picture and the ribbon tied in a bow in the middle of the page. :-)

So I'm hoping to get at least all of the pictures we took at the hospital, scrapbooked next weekend. I'm hoping with some cute paper and ideas, I can at least get that part done. I'll post my pages here for you guys to see that next week. 

Are any of you scrapbooking in the near future? What are you working on?