Monday, June 22, 2026

Father's Day!

 We celebrated our guy, yesterday, and hope he felt the love! Didnt snag a picture, but Lily did and sent it to me. 

Thankful for him.


First babysitting job for Lily....................and tag along Alexis!

 The day we got home from the beach, my friend Leah and Adam texted me asking if one or both of my girls could babysit their 3 girls (Emma, Ann, and Libby).

Since they had 3, both Alexis and Lily went (even though Lily was mad and wanted to do it by herself!) :) 

but they had a great time and Lily loved having her first babysitting job! (they both got paid, so that made Lily be fine!) ha!

They cant wait to babysit again!

This is sweet Emma, the oldest. Ann is beside her. They were laughing at a movie together! Libby (3) was asleep! Alexis did a great job of getting her to sleep!



More beach!

 Another day....another sunset, more relaxing and fun!

Cant beat the view.

I mean is he an alien? ha!

Alexis enjoyed getting to come this year!

The sunset....amazing!

The car kind of took away from our picture but still a beautiful sunset!

Another lazy beach day!

Another beautiful sunset!

Always a great ending when we have SweetFrog!

The Beach!

 Always....always...always...love our beach time!

I literally didnt take many pictures at all. We didnt get dressed up, we kept it all low key and it was very relaxing!

I did have our 'beach outfit' ready and was wanting to take family pictures since we havent been all together since Alexis was in 7th grade.................

but...............

of course, my family vetoed me out and we didnt take any.

BOO!

But, its fine.

I didnt want to have to dry my hair and put make up on either so I get it! ha!

A lot of the pictures are the same of what we did because we literally did the same thing every day! ha! Beach, pool, reading, getting sun, relaxing, floating, walking the beach, playing bocce, and REPEAT! 

Our first full day....along with most of all the other days...consisted of this! Notice...Lily...reading...and Alexis...scrolling! :)

And this was me! 

There was a lot of this from allll of us!

And night swimming by them!

And can NOT beat the sunsets! Just so peaceful and gorgeous! 

Then....another day.....Lily reading.................... Alexis not.............. ha!

Tyler looking all baywatch! ha!

We went to dinner to celebrate Gran's birthday! McGuire's never disappoints! 

Happy birthday!

Then the rest of the evening was this! Rinse and repeat!

When the Messer girls are in town!

 We love when we get to see them! They are like our family! They just fit with us!

We had the best little time when they came and spent the night with us while they were in town for a short period!

We had dinner, did some shopping, did some Michael Jackson dancing and then they didnt sleep a bit while with us!

Best memories made!

They sure do love each other!

I just cant get over how grown they are! Even my 'baby' Camille! I mean, she needs to stop!

Cant sit still!

The Michael Jackson movie is all the craze right now so they were all doing their moves to dance like him! ha!

It was hilarious! 

Until next time! We love having them!

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Wordless Wednesday!

 



Life Lately!

 We have been busy busy and soaking up all things Summer....and everything in between!

We have enjoyed going to the REC Center in the evenings with Lily to swim, do the sauna, workout, run, walk.........etc! Alexis has been working so it is giving us something to do!

Snagged this picture. She loves this machine!

And then Lily has her very own personal trainer...........and her Daddy loves the job!

Celebrating Tammy!

 She is 50! ha! We call her 'old!' but we love her just the same! So, some of us coworkers (missed several) surprised her with dinner and bowling to celebrate her and have her feel the love!

Feel the love is a HUGE understatement! She was SO surprised and it was hilarious! 

I also was scared for my life....for planning this for her :)

This was her shocked face...............the entire time! ha!

Then she figured out that I had a candle.........that kept relighting (because she was supposed to have to blow it out...............50 times).........................so she threw it out of her cookie cake! bahaha!

And then said she was going to strangle me! This is MY scared face!..........because she was being serious!

The crew! We make work fun!

Love them!

And then the BIG deal! Bowling! Girls vs Guys! Yeah, the guys won............boo! Such a fun night!

Friday, June 5, 2026

Alexis' JAX State GO! Time!

 Alexis is officially a JAX State Gamecock as of yesterday!

We did all the things JAX State and she is set and ready!

We met her suitemates, Kayleigh and Allie (and I met their Moms) We had lunch with them and they seem so great! I am excited that Alexis will be sharing a dorm with them!

All fun things happening and coming up!

It was a long and busy day but we got it all taken care of and of course, bonus, picture with Cocky!

And Allie just happened to be in Alexis' group! So she got to meet her and hang with her the whole time. Kayleigh was in a different group so they didnt get to see each other except at lunch.

I am excited that their friendship is going to grow!

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Meanwhile with Tyler and Lily!

 While Alexis and I were gone, Lily and Tyler still had fun too! Tyler had to work and got to work the ROC Grand Opening which consisted of meeting a lot of famous people like Alabama, Riley Green, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Pam Tillis and MORE! It was a great event!

Lily got to hang and spend the night with friends and then both of them had a fun trip to Auburn and stayed at Grand National too!

So, they were not bored and Im glad they got to have fun too!

This is the only picture I got of Tyler and her adventures..........and this came from another Mom (so that makes sense!) ha!

Lily enjoyed watching Reese's dance recital one afternoon! I love their friendship!

And though I did not get any pictures from Tyler on their adventures.......I have ran across THIS gold from one of Lily's first Grand National Auburn trips! OH my heart!

Monday, June 1, 2026

Senior Cruise Part 3!

 The days start blurring right about here! We had a sea/fun day on ship the 4th and 6th day....

which consisted of sleeping in, laying by the pool, reading my book, playing games, having tea time and all the things. It was nice. I didnt take many picture on these!

Day 5 was the Dominican Republic! Amber's Cove! It was so beautiful! I have never been to the Dominican and it was wonderful!

On the sea/fun days.................you could find me here!

The casual dinner nights!.................with this crazy crew!

And Alexis could be found doing things like this!...........

Or like this!............a huge 80's dance party!

Then............welcome to the Dominican Republic! So beautiful! Jurassic Park films were all done here and I can see why with how lush it was!
It was like we were in a fancy resort all day!
Meanwhile, Alexis did this high up in the sky!
Took some amazing and fun pictures!

My favorite!

I mean, it is my name!!
My girl and I!


We explored and saw some real Amber! So cool! And some beautiful waterfalls!

Just so beautiful!
Got back on the ship...............cleaned up and had another fun dinner................shows......etc! The 7th day was full of getting off the ship and the trek back home! We had a wonderful time and so glad we all got to do this with each other! 20 Seniors and all their parents/chaperones...........made it back to Jacksonville!