~Future Garden?~

I think this is the perfect spot for my future garden!

~Bowdre's School Valentine's Day Party~

Bowdre's class had a Valentine's Day party. My mom came with me to celebrate, and unfortunately, Bowdre didn't seem that excited about the party. Kids...

For all of Bowdre's school friends, we made sugar cookie Valentine's!

Here are a few pictures from the party!

~Olivia and Evan's Engagement Party~

My friend Olivia is getting married this October to her fiance Evan, and back in February we went to their engagement party in Atlanta, which was hosted by Evan's parents. It was such a great party, and we had a wonderful time! I love any reason to get to spend time with my friends in Atlanta, and it's even better when we are celebrating such a wonderful event! Can't wait for the wedding!

Our close friend group! (From left: Natalie, Me, Liz, Olivia, Katie, & Janice)

The bridesmaids: (From left: Natalie, me, Liz, Janice, Rose, Jessica, and Olivia and Katie in front)

~Build-a-Bear~

For an early Valentine's Day gift, and for being such a big 18-month old, Warren and I took Bowdre to the Build-a-Bear store in Hilton Head, for her to make her very own bear. Now that it's all said and done, I think she was a bit young to appreciate this experience, but she did pick out a bear! Here are a couple of pictures from the day that "Rose," Bowdre's pink bear, became part of our family!

~18 Month Checkup~

Bowdre turned 18 months old on January 23, 2016. We went for her 18 month check up on February 2, 2016. Below are her stats...my how she has grown!

30.1 lbs and 34 inches tall!!!

~Bowdre is 18 Months-January 23, 2016~

So unfortunately since things have been so busy, it's hard to exactly remember each and every thing that was happening when Bowdre turned 18 months! But hopefully, in the next several blog posts, I can talk about more specific things.

All I do know is that at 18 months, she was busy, fun, and super sassy! We love her so much!

She is a little girl who loves her doggie Elle'...

Riding in her wagon, especially when Elle' can ride too...

She loves her Uncle Mark...

Taking baths...

Reading books...

Going shopping...

Eating...

And watching Bubble Guppies...

She loves many other things, but these are a few of her favorites! Happy 18 Months sweet girl! Time sure is flying by!

~Blog Update~

I have to say that I am extremely upset that I am so behind on my blog, and I mean wayyy wayyy wayy behind...as in at least 6 months behind. Ahhh! I don't know how 6 months flew by so quickly.

I think sometimes when we are bored with certain aspects of our life, we try and pick up additional hobbies to keep us occupied, in a way. With my last couple of jobs, I literally found myself just sitting (most of the time) not busy at all, even though I wanted to be. When I say sitting, I mean every day of the week from 8AM to 5PM. What's someone who is bored with nothing to do supposed to do for that many hours. For me, blogging became my outlet. Blogging about my life and family made me feel better and it made the days go by somewhat quicker. So in other words, I could totally keep up, no problemo.

Well, when I started teaching, a new life started. It was the career I always dreamed, and it's busy...all the time. I also have a toddler, and it's busy...all the time. The times I am in front of my computer usually consist of grading papers, paying bills, and yeah, that's about it.

I'm behind in this blog, I'm behind in my recipe book, I'm behind in Bowdre's baby book, I'm behind in downloading pictures.

So right before the spring semester ended, I told myself that this summer would be the catch-up summer. Yeah right. I didn't blog, I didn't update my recipe book, I didn't update Bowdre's baby book, and I haven't downloaded one single picture.

What I did do, however, was enjoy the heck out of my summer. I was with my daughter every day just getting to be a stay-at-home-mom for a little while. We spent weeks at the beach, went on fun trips, had lunch dates, slept in as often as we wanted, stayed in our jammies all day sometimes, I taught a summer class, saw a friend get married in North Carolina, visited the Biltmore, went to Warren's family reunion, watched my baby turn 2 with a great birthday party, spent another week at the beach with a friend and her daughter, spent lots of time with my parents and brother, went swimming as often as possible....and sooo much more!

So yea, I didn't really get around to blogging because I was doing! Now, I'm ready to catch up on all those things I was going to do. And, I will, in time.

Now that I have been teaching a year, I feel that I have a better sense of what is expected and the time is requires, and I'm going to try and make time for everything that is important to me, and blogging is definitely one of them.

So now, hopefully you will enjoy getting caught up on the last 6 months of my life...because I know I will love sharing and reminiscing myself.

What this experience has taught me is that blogging is a way to document my life (at least that's what it means to me), and it's okay if I get a little (or alot) behind, because living life is what my blog is all about anyway! Most of all, I love living life with my family!

So it make take some time (weeks...maybe months) to catch up, but I will. Slowly but surely. But, I won't stop doing and going in the process!