Empty Nest

I have this strong feeling to write for my therapy..... this house is strangely quiet again. For the first time ever, Lyds is at school and I am not! I know I should be cooking, cleaning, or preparing for my wonderful husband to come home. But I can't help but write and post the most precious pictures.

We decided after all summer at home, that Liddy needs something else in her day besides me! We signed her up for a MMO program, so far we love it! Everyone there is so sweet, the classrooms and even the hallway are painted perfectly for children and best of all, they will learn about Jesus!

Some days this summer, Lydia would sleep until 8 in the morning. So we got off to an early start this morning. I woke her up at 7, so we'd have time to eat breakfast and drink her milk before school. About 8, because I'm "that mom", we started taking pictures :) See below. I dropped her off at 8:30, Alan was able to meet us there, and at 8:40 we were on our way out. No tears from either of us (weird, huh?) Lydia  immediately took to playing and we told her bye a few times before she turned around and with her best effort, gave us a fake cry/whine.... but we continued to walk out and she was perfectly fine!

Here's this precious baby, that unfortunately is not a baby anymore!

This is our attempt of the picture in front of the door.... she saw the wagon and jumped right in!

Just running around and playing.

In the car.... she LOVES her carseat, and never wants to get out anymore. She will try to buckle her seatbelt back while screaming carseat, carseat.... Yesterday she actually had tears when I drug her out. 

Staying true to our Methodist roots!

I couldn't resist cropping this as if the sign was saying she is God's Masterpiece...... because she is!!!

It is supposed to rain today and it's VERY humid, but I  LOVE how it brings out her curls. 

I set her down in the room and she is instantly running around and trying to grab ALL the toys. Sorry this is blurry, but she wouldn't slow down.

Found a friend at the kitchen and finally stopped.

CURLS!!!!

The teacher did a great job on the door.... yes, she has 7, 15-24 month olds.... yikes!

Bye mom and dad! Not a care in the world!

It's been a while

For some reason, I think about updating the blog daily and I get real anxious ab it because I never know what to say or there's too much to say. But I've missed a WHOLE month and I'm procrastinating even more because I'm embarrassed......

A few weeks ago, my computer just refused to turn on. It has always run slow, but it's never done this. So I made an apt at the genius bar at the apple store and without any effort, the girl looks at it and says, "There's nothing we can do." I felt to betrayed! It seemed like she didn't even try hard! AND it was only 2.5 years old.... I thought Mac's weren't supposed to do that! She politely says, well at least you have everything on your backup hard drive, huh? And then I start freaking out..... I DID NOT have a back up.... so everything is gone. My pics of Lydia and Baylor, my files from design jobs, my programs, my fonts..... I got a new hard drive, but it had NOTHING on it. Super sad day. Very disappointed in Apple.

Anyway, going to try to pull pics from my phone and remember what we've done the last part of the summer!

First of all, Baylor was born!!! July 6th! But this has to be a whole other post!

Liddy's first movie in the car!! I found a Bubble Guppies at Wal Mart. She LOVED it! I think she got a little sleepy, but didn't fall asleep the whole way to Oxford.

Darcy and I went to meet Coach Freeze at the Ladies Forum.

Alan brought Lyds up there at the end and they got to meet Coach McGriff.

Finally got meet Coach.... he probably said this to everyone, but when I got done with my pic, he said, "So you went to Ole Miss, right?" and I said, "Of course." He said, "I thought so, you can just tell, you Ole Miss girls take pictures differently." Maybe I got too close to him?!?!?!

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At Volta!

We stayed at Sam's house so the parents could hang out after the kids went to bed. It was so much fun, kind of felt like a sleep over! Lydia loves Sam and Moe!

This became our morning time.... we were both sleepy but enjoying our milk and coffee together. She'll hit our cups together and say, "Cheers!" I love it!!!

Beach Trip 2012

Whew........ is all I can say. We've been home for a few days and my body still thinks it's on vacay. It thinks I should sleep however long I want to, be lazy all day, and eat every 5 minutes! I'm going with the whole, I'll start back to normal life on Monday, haha.... hopefully!

(That was written in anticipation of finishing this post last weekend, but then Baylor was born on Friday, July 6th, so I basically feel like I've been out of commission forever!)

The beach was an absolute blast! We can never have enough time at the beach! We all love our family time, but Lyds became best friends with Aunt Shaunna this week! They played, and played, and played..... and if she left the room Liddy cried until she got to go with her! It was all of us McCormick's and the beach! (The Hickman/Wallis family were also vacationing there at the end of the week, so we had fun with them too!) We had beautiful weather and great fun all week! Everyday we packed a cooler of sandwiches and drinks and hauled down to the beach to camp out for the day. Some days SuSu or Bo would take her back up to take a nap, but a couple of days, she slept on the beach! On Saturday, Alan and Robert played in the round robin at Topsl and it was HOT watching them play! Liddy had fun yelling at them though and saying, "ball, daddy, ball" or "ball, Robert!" Robert also became her new favorite word to SHOUT! She just kept on yelling it while he was playing tennis.

Here a few of my favorite pics from the week.... I haven't had a chance to edit them yet b/c there's just over 400 of them and my computer is going so slow!

finally in the sand!

Headed to the water!

To say that she loved it is an understatement! She was not afraid at all!

Swimming diva in my smocked suit!

Uncle Robert and Aunt Shaunna

Sleeping beauty!

Ready to play tennis!

Robert vs Alan 

 Yes, we finally got our act together to take the family "beach pic!" A big thank you to Clint for taking them for us!! And I'm not putting a lot on here, b/c you may see these in our Christmas card this year :)

This is how we got Lyds to smile.... Robert held her juice and ran away from her and then he'd jump over her and run the other way! Smart thinking!

So glad we got to hang out with Cletus for a bit and he jumped in our family pic!!