Last Days of Summer Break

Well, all good things must come to an end! I start back to work Thursday of this week, everyone else on Monday, and then the next week, kids start school. It has been such a special summer with Chase and I am dearly going to miss my time with him. Here are a few pictures of our last few weeks:

First Memphis Zoo Trip

Finger painting with his fruit!

Wolfchase Mall indoor playground

Collierville splash park

Arlington Park (Awesome park)

Pushing the stroller at the Collierville Mall (he was working HARD!)

My birthday dinner with my best buds at Bonefish!

Jason's cousin's wedding

Chase dressed up for the wedding

As you can see, we have been very busy with all of this family fun! All of these memories will stay with us and we can't wait to make more as a family soon!

Summer Fun

We have had a lot of fun this summer and are very sad it is quickly coming to an end before school starts back. Here are a few highlights of things we have done so far.... Chase loves the bookstore with the "Thomas the Train" set. He also loves to run around like a crazy kid between the shelves and look at the books. We have gone to a few of Daddy's ball games. Most recently to the USA stadium in Millington for a tournament. Chase didn't make it but 3 innings. It was too hot, but he did enjoy playing in the pebbles by the dugout and chasing around a baseball. Just yesterday, I got together with two of my best friends in the whole world, Carissa and Amanda. Carissa's little girl Mariella is 2 months younger than Chase and Amanda's little boy, Harlan, just turned 2 last month. Chase and Mariella could be twins. They have the same curly hair and are about the same size. When we went to lunch, Mariella tried to feed Chase and kiss him. He took the food, but not the kisses! Before lunch, we took the kids to the splash park at Johnson Park in Collierville. Chase would have rather just ran in the grass and pavillions, but I tried to keep him on the splash pad. He just didn't like when the water hit him in his face. He really liked turning the wheel to make the water come out. That is the neatest place for little kids! He really loved it!

Tonight when I was making dinner and unloading the dishwasher, Chase decided while I rinsing dishes to put in the dishwasher, that he would just climb on the door. I don't know what fun he thought it would be, but he looked like he was caught in the act. He gets this little pleased look on his face when he does something that he knows he is not supposed to do. He LOVES to throw all of his toys on the kitchen floor and hear them make a crashing sound. He has broken several toys and a remote for our TV doing this and always has that same look on his face. We are trying to control that and him dumping out the cat's water repeatedly, but no luck so far on stopping it!

He has been such a joy to us and we are so lucky to have such a sweet, funny baby!

Family Pictures and the 4th of July

We (I) have been wanting to get our friend Jennifer to take some family pictures since Chase is a year old. We did not have any huge plans for the 4th and since Chase goes to bed before fireworks, we didn't plan to do that. He is so tired and irritable by 8:30 that there is no keeping him up later too often. We did buy new living room furniture that we had been wanting and then ate at Jason's sister's house. Chase was amazed with a golf club and carried it around outside. Our nephew Brock caught some nice fish in their pond and Chase enjoyed seeing watching them. It was a nice relaxing day! Here are a few of the pictures Jen took: