Springtime in Savannah!

We have had such a great past few months here in Georgia. I got out of the weird emotional funk that I was in, Dal had lots of time to spend with us, and Savannah is such an awesome city!

The Taylors came and stayed with us for a weekend! We went down to jacksonville, FL for a day and it was lovely. We love our Taylor family.

St. Patrick's Day is a HUGE deal here. People were talking about it for weeks before! There is a huge parade downtown. We got there 2 hours before it started and still had to park a mile away. It was fun, the kids loved it.

The Borups came to visit + it was so fun to have them here! We love them + Calvin is obsessed with Henry. We explored downtown, went to wormhole, spent a day at Hilton head, and had fun watching the kids play together. Mae got hand, food, and mouth while they were here which put a damper on some of our plans, but I was super grateful that henry didn't get it! Also, right when we were leaving to take them to the airport, Mae locked herself in the car with the keys. I called the military police to come help and they sent about a million guys in uniform + a fire truck and 3 police cars. It was ridiculous and embarrassing. And Jaynee had to take them to the airport. Never a dull moment with Mae!

 with my favorite young women at sunday night youth discussion

love her

bath babies with their buddy Roland

Slip n sliding with his friend Everett

Bike ride around our neighborhood

That time I drove 2 hours each way to drive these girls to mormon prom

Neighborhood buddies

I would buy lemonade from this boy any day of the week. He made  $20!

Rock climbing during a weekend trip to lumberton

Savannah wildlife center with buddies

Hanging out with cute Dale after our workout class

Date night at a cool restaurant downtown

Lots of beach trips!

Lunch date

I love downtown Savannah

I've been letting him bring his bike to my workout class so he can ride at the park afterwards, he loves it!

We have been really happy here. Georgia is cool!

Mae Mitchell (+ potty training from hell)

Our little Mae girl... she is something else. I honestly thought that potty training her might be easy for  her since everything else has been kind of difficult. We were due, haha. Plus she is really smart. Well it has been pretty awful so far, mostly because Mae is so emotional. She officially has got peeing down (4 months later) and rarely has peeing accidents. She still refuses to poop in the potty and likes to poop in her pull up during nap time and then wipe it everywhere. I now have to change her into zip up pajamas (backwards so that she can't get them off) everyday for nap time.

Calvin learns to ride a bike

Calvin has been riding a strider bike and has been talking about wanting to get a 2-wheeler. Dal decided that he wanted to make him earn it so he had a sticker chart that required him to earn 30 stickers before he could go get his new bike. He was so obsessed with that chart and worked so hard! Once he took a toy out of mae's hands so he got a sticker taken off the chart and he cried for a solid ten minutes, haha. 

It was like Christmas day when we finally got to take him to Walmart to pick him out a new bike. The strider bike really helped and he just took off riding the first  5 minutes trying! It was awesome and he was very proud of himself. The bike that we got him was a little too big so he couldn't start off without one of us helping him. I borrowed a neighbor's smaller 2 wheeler for him to ride for a few weeks while he got used to it. To that Calvin said, "thanks mom, but brave boys never give up" (what 4 year old says that??). He rode his bike literally every waking moment after that. He fell right on his face 100 times. Sometimes he would get discouraged and take a break for a little while. But now he can do it! I am so proud and inspired by him. I hope he is always this determined. and this CUUUUTE. I love this kid so much. 

Sweaty after a long day of bike riding