Always My Favorite

Love this pictures of Alexander on the boat! He loved it!



Having a snack on the boat with Mia.

Shell Island...How beautiful is this water?!?!

While on the boat we spotted some dolphins...so cool! Jeremy found some hermit crabs that the kids loved playing with and where we stopped had a God made sidewalk (sandbar) amazing!

Ahhhh Vacation!

We took our annual beach trip early this year, instead of going for the 4th of July we went last week leading up to memorial day. It proved to be the best choice, the weather was cooler and the crowds were smaller!

I think this might be the best picture I took at the beach. Alexander loved papi taking him in the waves with the float.



See the track behind Alexander, yep the hot wheels and monster trucks came with us!

The hole, papi made a chair for each kid, a TV and a fridge.

Oh no we are buried!

More Touch a Truck

Alexander and the the really cool, really LONG race car!



Pouting because the horns on the other trucks kept honking and scaring him.

Rescue helicopter

I love this photo.....carrying all his free stuff!

Fun times in the Burgess home this last weekend. Alexander came home with the stomach big on Friday and so lovingly gave it to me on Sunday night. Can we just say I am SO ready for the beach. With all this bad stuff I cannot help but be so thankful for all that we have been given. God has really blessed us lately with extra hours and extra drill days for Jeremy. Alexander has been doing so much better at school. After my surgery and the loss of the baby Alexander went through some really bad days. I cannot hardly think that all of that could have happened to our family and it not affect Alexander. Things do seem to be getting back to normal with him, using manners and we are working on attitude. What a sweet little boy he is becoming.

I am happy for things becoming normal! Easter and the up coming beach trip have been a little hard for me. Both of them I had planned on doing this year pregnant, I had even bought a few special things to wear. I have to believe that God has a great plan for our life moving forward. Yesterday Alexander said "Mommy, do you remember the baby that was in your tummy?" I said "yes" He said "That baby is in Heaven and God is going to put a new baby in your tummy" This all came out of the blue, why it still amazes me how God speaks to us but amazing!

Auburn Fest and Touch a Truck

This was at City Fest....Alexander is just crazy about aubie!



Today we went to Touch a Truck, there were all kinds of different trucks. Military, tow, construction, fire and so much more. It was this little guys dream place!

This was the coolest thing....for $6 you get an event shirt...I thought that is cheap I will get him one. I didn't know he actually got to make the screen print shirt.

Easter Sunday

Look what the Easter Bunny brought!

All Alexander asked the Easter Bunny for was a Nerf long strick CS-6. He has sounded like Ralphie from a "Christmas Story" and his red rider bb gun. That is the face of a little boy that got just what he wanted! The gun is taller that he is, but he LOVES it!



Making Resurrection Rolls, Alexander really enjoyed doing this, this year. He actually got it! He told his children's church leader all about how Jesus is the marshmallow and now the roll is empty because Jesus is alive.

Ready for church.

After church we went to one of my favorite places, Amsterdam Cafe! It was super yummy, we had a wonderful lunch.

Easter Fun

One of my close friends Jenny had a egg hunt and Easter celebration at her house. What FUN! Alexander hunted eggs, played with a goat, a lamb and rode a horse.



We were so blessed to get to have Mia and Papi at our house for Easter this year. It has been so wonderful living closer to them.

Family picture with the lamb.

Had to share this picture, the picture on the left is Alexander at 4 months and on right at 4 years. How cute!

Egg Hunt at School

Alexander had his egg hunt at school on Friday. This is his best friend Reece.



On your mark, get set, GO!!

The Easter bunny made a special trip to school.

The big perk of my job is getting to be at school with Alexander, one of the other teacher came in to relieve me so I could see him hunt eggs.

Swim Time

Finally swim time in Alabama!

and this is how we do it!

Travels around the world

Alexander helping me make sushi.....well kinda.

We made Rice Crispy, fruit roll up, Swedish fish sushi.

Our school does Travels around the world as a yearly event. Each class room picks a different country and makes their room look like that country. We choose Japan and this is what we did.

Me with my teachers in my room.

Alexander's class was South Africa and so I made him a shirt to wear.

We were so blessed to have Granny....

and Grandma come visit.

They came in on Thursday and are here through tomorrow. We have had a wonderful time having them here....even though it did include a not so fun drive through hail. We were able to hit some yard sales, the mall, the Easter bunny and even see a movie. Fun weekend.....sad to see it end.

Update

I must say this is not my favorite picture but I wanted to show you what my eye looked like when I woke up Sunday morning. On Saturday I went to an urgent care Doctor that thought it was a bacterial infection and gave me a scrip for antibotics, he also told me if it got any worse that I needed to go to the ER.

So this is what I looked like when I woke up the next morning, it was twice as bad as when I went into urgent care. So we drove back from Birmingham to the ER and that Doctor saw me for about 5 mins to tell me it was Allergies. To go home and take Benedryl.....REALLY!

The ER doctor did refer me to an ENT. I went to the ENT Monday morning and he gave to 2 different types of antibotics saying that if I was any worse he would admit me to the hospital. He also said if I got any worse he wanted me to come back in.

I had a check up today with him, he said I looked much better today, he was very happy with the way the antibotic was working.

I also so my OBGYN today for my post op appt, he also said I looked great. He released me to resume normal activity.

After this really rough 5 weeks starting with Alexander getting strep and ending with me with an unknown bacterial eye infection I believe we are done. It is time for health and healing in the Burgess home. We are praying for a time of rest and restoration for our family.

papi's birthday and more

On Thursday we met Mia and Papi to celebrate Papi's birthday and for Alexander to spend a few days with them. You can see on the paper Alexander wrote papi...so sweet.

Alexander helped papi blow out his candles.....funny thing is they had to re-light them because as soon as they set it down Alexander blew them out.

With Alexander at Mia and Papi's, Jeremy and I went to Birmingham to celebrate our Anniversary. We had a great weekend relaxing....we did have to cut it short because my eye started swelling and was swollen almost shut by the time I got up on Sunday morning. We drove back from to Auburn to go to the ER....Today after seeing 3 different doctors and getting 3 different meds we are pretty sure it is a bacterial infection.