A 40th celebration in New Orleans....

John turned 40, so I surprised him with a weekend away in New Orleans. We spent the weekend in New Orleans exploring the beautiful French city. We fell in love with a handful of incredible restaurants, appreciated the gorgeous architechture and of course loved the Southern charm. We ate as many oysters as we could, took in live music and strolled up and down the Garden district.

We toured the plantations and they were stunning and the history was fascinating

I loved this nursery. Look at that cot?!

Laura House plantation

The fan over the dining room table in the Oaktree plantation that a child slave would manually swing for hours

Oaktree plantation

A swamp tour 

This place had amazing pork belly sandwhiches

We went to Commander's Palace for dinner, which has been around for a century and still serves turtle soup!

We went on a run to this place for breakfast and it was well worth the sweat in the humidity.

It was an incredible treat to spend the weekend being together with no agenda celebreating John. Lucky me, lucky us. 

Levi's turning 6

We celebrated Levi's 6th birthday today with his friends in LA. He started planning his party early and was dead set on having 'the worlds biggest bounce house' AND everyone from his class.  We had a fun filled party at the PARK (not our house) complete with a Pinata, huge bounce house with obstacle course and pizza. Levi loved having 23+ friends there.

His real birthday is in 1 week, so it hasn't quite hit me he's turning 6, however it is hard to believe that he's growing up so quickly - he has an incredible wit to him and inherited his mother's 'cruise director' skills, so he spends a lot of time trying to project managing.

Levi continues to be extremely compassionate, fiesty at times, extremely creative and very athletic. I love watching him share his gifts with the world!

I bounced for a good 20 minutes before the other children arrived and I could have stayed in this bounce house for hours. It was awesome!

Two of Levi's best girlfriends from pre-school - Niamp and Sierra

Levi's Pinata (Candy picked out)

Candy and Dianna with baby Gus Gus

Grace and Jennie (my BFF from growing up)

Penelope, Siera and Niamp (that hair)

All Felix wanted was Dusty Crophopper from the top. Levi promised he could have it after he blew out the candles. It was one of those brotherly moments- he had made a promise that morning and he absolutely stuck by it.

We've entered the world of legos 

Levi's other best girlfriend from pre-school Paige, wrapper her present up like a robot and made him a book- so incredibly thoughtful! We had such a fun day celebrating our sweet boy, Levi! 

Felix turns The Big 3!

We celebrated Felix 3rd birthday on May 9th.  I took Felix in for his 3rd year check up and the doctor couldn't believe how big he is. He's in the 100th % for height and 90% for weight. He's going to be a big boy. We celebrated with a chocolate chip pancake breakfast and his soon to be godfather Matt, suprised him with balloons and bubbles during breakfast. Felix was in heaven! We followed up the morning with a family party at the beach and dinner back at our house with our cousins! It was simple, which made it perfect.

John and I are shocked that our baby Felix has turned 3. Here's what we want to remember about you at this age:
1. You are really starting to talk, and have truncated the word helictopter, to copter to taco. We all now call them tacos
2. You are airplane obsessed
3. You LOVE reading your huge airplane book your grandaddy gave you
4. Your super attached to mama
5. You're the strongest of the brothers
6. You have a very gentle side and yet you can be quite rough
7. You eat just about everything and don't stop
8.  The brothers go to bed at 7, and you have discovered that by staying up later you get 1:1 time everynight w/ both parents so that's what you do
9. Often wonder into our bed around 3am
10. You can be kind of grumpy in the morning
11. You are in love with both of your brothers
12. Every night you request a BIG bear hug and a kiss on both cheeks after we tuck you in bed
13. In general you are incredibly happy, loving and very mischivious, funny little boy
14. You're really not interested in potty training
15. You love to snuggle your mama