Goodbye Jacksonville

This was our last week in Jacksonville, it was a little sad, a little exciting and ALOT of work.

Mia and Papi came up last weekend to help us move as much stuff as we could into storage. Papi had to leave on Sunday and we were so thankful for his help. Mia stayed to WHOLE week to help us finish up packing. We could not have done it without her. She is the QUEEN of packing! We even had a little help from Beckett over the weekend!


Alexander really enjoyed the Uhaul truck. Actually he really loved all of the packing process excluding seeing his toys in boxes. We closed on our house on Friday, my close friend was oour realtor and what a great one she was. Mia took Alexander and the dogs back to her house so Jeremy could go to closing. Did I mention we could not have done this week without her?

We took a short break on Wednesday to make a trip to our favorite place, the Jacksonville Zoo. Alexander feed the giraffes, played in the water area and went down the slide about 100 times. I really hope this was not our last time to the Jax Zoo. We also went to a couple of out favorite places this week. Like Cleo's, it is a SHACK that has the BEST taco salad you will ever eat. We also went to Dick's Wings.


We were so luck to get to spend Mia's Birthday with her. We had a SUPER yummy cookie cake and took a break from packing to go to dinner. We took Mia to Barbra Jean in Amelia Island, it is a really good seafood restaurant on the Amelia River.

Yep, he is doing what you think he is doing.....How did he figure this out? He is WAY too smart.


I thought this was funny, He looks like all the other Americans driving.

Starbucks in hand! All he needs is his cell phone on his ear.


Alexander is growing so fast.
He is now is size 5 diapers, 18 months cloths and size 6 shoes.
He can say SO many words we are really not counting anymore.
Some of my favorite things that he does now are:
He "HONKS" his nose and other's noses. Jeremy taught him this one.
He pushes the button to open and close the garage door, to which he laughs about each time.
He loves books, he will bring me one and sit on my lap for me to read it.
He blows kisses and when he does he say "Mawh"
Looks out the window every time he see Jeremy leave.
Loves Balls and Balloons which he can say both of.
He has got really good at his signs, he now tells us what he wants more of. I have really got to learn more so I can teach him more.


Here we are at the Jacksonville zoo feeding the giraffes. Alexander loved see them this close.

We are really going to miss this place.

Jacksonville Fun

Since we will no longer be Jacksonville folks as of May 30th we are going to see and do all our favorite things here. The best part is we are doing them with all our favorite people.

Last Thursday Alexander, me, Jacob and Becky went to the Alligator Farm in St Augustine. It was AWESOME! There were so many gators. The best was Maximo, he is the world's largest gator at 1200 pounds. His cage was being cleaned out so we could not see him very well, so I was not able to get any pictures but he was HUGE!



Our ALL time favorite place.....The Jacksonville Zoo

We went today to the zoo, Jeremy, me, Alexander, Erik, Sarah and Ava. We had to get pictures taken again in our favorite spots. The first 2 were taken today at 16 months the second 2 were taken at 9 months and the third 2 were taken when he was 1 month. The child has grew up at the Jacksonville Zoo!




Here we are at the Splash grounds, Alexander ran ALL over the whole area.



Hmmmm......Caution! Elephants are Dangerous Animals......Should I be this close?

Mom's Theme

This is so funny and true!

Worlds Greatest Mother!

I wanted to wish a special Happy Mother's Day to my mom. I miss her so much today.
This is the first year I have not not been with her and I cannot wait to see her on Friday.
Mom, I love you so much. Thank you for ALL you do for me!

The Perfect Mother's Day

I had the perfect Mother's Day today.
Of course every morning that I get to wake up to this face is perfect but today was so special.
I got to spend the entire day with my 2 favorite people, Alexander and Jeremy.


Enjoying his bagel this morning.
Yes, I know he is in Christmas PJs, but they still fit!


This was the wonderful spread I came out to this morning.
Jeremy went to Panera and got some bagels and Starbucks for some hot coco!
He got me this great "Family" frame and put pictures in it. I love tulips and look how beautiful these are.

This was my big mother's day gift! I love it.
It is a Pandora charm bracelet with 4 charms.
The charms are: Little boy for Alexander, a heart for Jeremy, a dog for Dixie and Libby and a Strawberry for me.

We had all our wonderful Jacksonville moms to our house for lunch.
We ate so much, I made ham and squash casserole and our friends brought green bean casserole,
baked beans and strawberry pretzel delight (Yummy!). It was perfect.

I have such beautiful moms in my life!
Happy Mother's Day!

More up dates

Sorry I have not updated this in a while but we have had a couple of really busy weeks. First Alexander came down with the flu then I came down with the flu and then Mia and Nana came to see us for a week. We really enjoyed having them in Jacksonville!

We went to see Jeremy's jets take off at the airport, but we made it too late and did not get to see them. Look how cute Alexander shoes are, Mia got them for him while she was here. They are little car crocs.


We did get an offer on our house and accepted it. I was less than what we wanted but we do not have the time to sit on it. We close on May 30. Jeremy will be staying up here with one of his friends through the end of June. I am going to go ahead and move in my my mom and dad. Jeremy starts Air Traffic Controller School on July 14 so he will be driving up to Oklahoma City a couple of days ahead. Man are we going to miss him for 4 months! We are very happy that we sold our house but also a little sad. This is our first home and we built it. I am also a little sad that we have to let Alexander's nursery go.



Alexander and I went to have some Mother's Day pictures taken. I have been trying to get this photo for a while, for some reason he would never give me a kiss at the photo shop. What a perfect mother's day gift!

We had to get the one of him with his blanket! He LOVES it!

Cool Off

I love this picture, Alexander is trying to blow bubbles!


It was so hot a couple of days ago we decided to set up the pool in the backyard. All Alexander wanted to do was get in and out, in and out. There was so much grass in the pool when he was done we had to dump the water.

When I was little me and my brothers would always set the pool up under the swing set so we could slide into the pool. I combined two of Alexander favorite things when I did it for him!