Another Busy Weekend

As always, our weekend was jam packed with excitement...Brandon borrowed a few cows from a friend and had some people over to my parents house to rope Friday and Saturday.

Friday night, we grilled burgers and I made some pasta salad. While I was cooking, I was in and out of the fridge and Maddy LOVES to play in there. She pulls out anything she can find in the door. So, I let her play while I made the salad. I looked over at her at one point and this is what I saw...It's proof that she is a Lucier!

Saturday afternoon, we went over to Craig & Allison's house to swim. We knew Colton & Chevy would be there too and we were hoping if she swam with her buddies, she wouldn't be quite as scared. We were right, she loved being in the water while they splashed and jumped into the water. Unfortunately, I didn't get any really good pics because I got in the water to swim. But, she got in again later that afternoon and cried when she had to get out. On Sunday, we went to Brad & Christina's to swim with Bailey and she had a ball there, too. She even went in the hot tub!

Chevy asked me to take a picture of him swimming under the water...here it is!

And here is one of his cutie pie dimple...

Can't Wait for July!

Just about every night after Brandon and I get home from work and get Maddy settled in bed, we sit down in our chairs and say, "I cannot wait to go the beach!"


Stacey and I were walking yesterday (trying to get in shape for the beach, of course) and she said, "Man, I cannot wait to go to the beach!"


As you can tell, we are all pretty dang excited.

We are renting a house on the beach in Garden City, along with Karen & James (Brandon's parents), Richard & Betty (his grandparents), David, Crystal & Lindsay (his uncle, aunt and cousin) and Kyle, Stacey & Bailey (our best friends and their 6 year old daughter). We will be there for an entire week. It is going to be so awesome.

The house is a little old and kind of tacky on the inside but the backyard is to die for. Richard always brings his boat so he can fish and this house has its own floating dock and boat ramp. It has a pool, hot tub, several sitting areas where we can hang out at night and two grills inside a gigantic chimney AND it is across the street from the beach. Did I mention it is going to be awesome?!

Here are a few pictures...

Also in July, my nephew Jacob and niece Lilly will be staying with my parents for two whole weeks. Jake always comes up for some time in the summer but this will be Lilly's first trip. Unfortunately, Josh and Penny will be coming to pick them up the weekend we leave for the beach so we will only get to see them for a night or two. But, we all know the kids are more important, no one cares about the parents, right?

Memorial Day at the Lake

On Memorial Day we went to Kaye and Danny's lakehouse to ride the boat, play volley ball and cookout.

Kaye & Danny bought a new boat - a pontoon and it is amazing!

Maddy wore herself out playing outside.








































At the end of the afternoon everyone went out on one last boat ride and Brandon and I stayed behind in the hopes that we would be able to get Maddy to take a nap. She has really started hating to go down for a nap, especially when she knows people are having fun and she is going to miss something. So, we plopped her down on the hammock and started to swing her and before we know it she is passed out sitting up and folded in half. It was so cute. She stayed that way for about 20 minutes!

Flock of Seagulls...

Need I say more?

Memorial Day Weekend in Wilmington

We took a weekend trip to visit Zac in Wilmington over Memorial Day. As always, it was a great time. We finally got to meet Zac's girlfriend, Sarah and we all loved her, including Maddy. She was a little shy at first but by the end of the weekend she was handing out kisses like candy.

She seemed quite scared of the pool. She was ok as long as we were really close to her, but she never smiled.

The first night we drove the boat to dinner. I spent most of the dinner walking around with Maddy who was not happy sitting in her chair. She had a meltdown in the boat that night, too.

The next day we went out on the boat again and swam near a sandbar. She seemed to enjoy that a little better.

I think the thing she loved the most was Jacks, Martins black lab. He was only visiting when we showed up but every time we walked outside she would squat down and look for him under the deck.