Born to Camp

Every time I go camping I am never ready to come back to the real world. I just love camping! And I'm proud to say that my daughter loves it too! In fact this past weekend we went camping and driving back home she was crying saying she still wanted to camp. Girl after my own heart!

We went to Heber Springs for the weekend with family and had a great time! We went swimming in the lake, watched cardboard boat races, played games, rode bikes and we enjoyed taking little walks down to the river next to our campsite. Amber loved every minute and I think she could stay all day at the river throwing, building, and searching for rocks. There were only two downfalls. There was a burn ban so no campfires which meant no s'mores. :( The other downfall was it was really hot!! We are used to the Smoky Mountains and it be cool however it was nice to have his parents RV because it has AC :)

 Some of the cardboard boats that were made to race. This is some serious cardboard!!

Goodbye Freestyle

My 2005 Ford Freestyle is no longer in the family. It was starting to show so major signs of repairs that we felt wouldn't be worth fixing and it would be better to get a "new to us" car. Did lots of looking and comparing and finally settled on a 2008 Honda Civic. I have had a civic in the past and loved it. So hopefully this car will be with us for a while. The rumor is Honda's never die :)

Let me just say I'm loving the tinted windows!!!

Learning Patience during PTT

What is PTT you ask? Potting Training Time!!

The last 4 weeks have been consumed with a lot of me asking the same question over and over. "Do you need to go tinkle?"

Amber is 2 and half almost 3. She will be 3 beginning of August. So it was time. I am glad I waited this long though because I think if we had started sooner I would have been very frustrated. The first week was sort of rough. Not gonna lie. On the third day of trying she begged to wear diapers again and honestly I wanted to just say, "Ok, it will be easier on all of us!" However, we all put our big girl panties on :) and persevered. And of course I'm glad we did. She has come a long way since that first week. Now we have had accidents here and there but I'm proud of my little girl and wowie are we saving money with out having to buy diapers all the time!!!

Crabs and Eagles...

Amber said the day before we left for our vacation to the beach that she was going to see crabs and eagles. Which we later realized she was saying seagulls but that doesn't make for a cute story :)


We went to Watercolor/Seaside Florida. It was wonderful! It was Ambers first time to see the beach and ocean and she loved it. We spent one day pretty much all day out there and she played in the sand the whole time! I thought that she would eventually get tired of it but it kept her attention. We put her floaties on and got in the ocean with her, of course Ricky held her the whole time. We weren't about to let her go. The waves weren't bad at all just perfect for a 2 year old and she would giggle and scream when one would come. It was a great week and I wish I could live there!!

We rode bikes a lot on the trip and she took a lot of her naps in her bike carrier :)