Trip to St. Louis

Last week I took Parker and Caleb with me to St. Louis. For about the last 8 years I have gone up to STL for a long weekend for a Girls time. Once we all started having children then it became a cousins time along with sisters/mom time. Traveling in a car with only me and the little boys is a huge undertaking esp. when Caleb was so sick of being in the car seat. But we made it. It was worth it to see the boys play with their cousins and make memories. One of the days we went to my sisters lake house to play as the whole Wiggers clan. What a blast that was and we look forward to doing it next year. Parker loved playing in the water, jumping off the dock and riding on the boats. He didn't like tubing with me, he thought it was too scary, at least he did it once. Parker enjoying a sucker on the boat. Caleb eating Watermelon.
Both of these pictures are great and I can't wait to have them made into canvas art to put on our walls in our home.

Eat more Chicken

On Friday, it was cow appreciation day at Chick fil a. We love this place. Since I didn't know about it last year, I was prepared to do it this year. The deal was to dress up like a cow and get a free meal. We went blueberry picking in the morning with Parker's friend from school. We planned on going to lunch afterwards. Well David called me to tell me that the deal was all day. So we stopped at the chick for breakfast, lunch and then dinner. We convinced Daddy to dress up at last minute to get his free meal. It was so much fun to watch other families come in the door all dressed up. I actually met another mom who had been to 3 chicks that day. So, I guess I wasn't the only determined to get free meals. Now we have our shirts read for next year when this deal comes around again. Caleb like to eat his cone this way

Caleb was so happy to get Parker's ice cream cone

Our sweet little boys dressed up like cows

Cute little cow

Parker had fun playing on the indoor playground while we had dinner with Daddy

I monogramed MOO on the back of their shirts

Mommy with her little boys

4th of July

That week on Sunday we went down to UAB green area to listen to the UAB band play and enjoy some DQ ice cream. It was fun to hang out as a family of 4 on a blanket and just be relaxed. Parker enjoyed playing soccer on the green before the fireworks started at 9. Caleb had his little soccer ball as well and loved throwing it back and forth to me and anyone around us. Parker climbing on a traffic light pole while listening to the band.

Caleb looking at everyone and making friends while eating DQ ice cream

Our sweet boys sitting together

Parker and Mommy taking a self photo of the two of us

Parker loved taking photos of the fireworks. Both boys loved seeing them and it was a great cool evening of us to watch the fireworks.

Our Backyard Gardens

This blog post is for my dear 4 sisters. They have been wanting to know what our gardens look like ever since Dad and Mom were here for Caleb's 1 year old birthday party. We were finally able to mulch all around this year, it hadn't been done in 4 years. This August will be our 5th year in this house. Lots of our neighbors always comment that they love what we have done with our yard. If they only knew what we did inside as well. Of course we want to do more projects in the house, but all in due time. Parker being funny in our patio area. We are trying to grow more grass in the shaded area. We cut down 3 trees on the fence line and now we have more light coming in this area. So we also lined the garden bed with rocks from our yard that we found.

The pictures don't do justice of what it really looks like. We really enjoy our backyard and it looks even better with my cushions that I made last year while I was 8 months pregnant with Caleb.