Dance!

We got our dance newsletter for the month.... Recital is june 5, 2010!
Mark your calendars!

Summer's Up :(

Wow! Its hard to believe that the summer is already up!

I have started back to work – with the grant I had to come back on July 13. SO I had a VERY VERY SHORT Summer. We have gone and done and gone and done all summer.
Ryleigh has started dance and LOVES IT!
I still do not have any pictures to post. I will work on that next week. She also starts Preschool next month. We decided on First Baptist in Dublin just because it came VERY RECOMMENDED! She can not wait until starting school – the first day is the 17th. Orientation will be the 14th. She has a new book bag that Barbie got her and we are now having to use it to take to town with us. She will go half a day for Monday and Wednesday.

Monday on my very last day of summer break, we went to Statesboro to their Waterpark – Splash in the Boro. We went with some friends and she loved it! IT was well worth the drive down there. We are now trying to figure out a day that JB can go back with us. It was not crowded at all and the day was very overcast so you did not get hot! We had a picnic lunch before we entered the park. FUN FUN FUN STUFF!
Well off I am …. I do have a little break from Georgia Southern until Mid August. I did just get an email from JB , he just sent the last payment to them--- WHOOO HOOOO!

Beach Life

Beach life would have been grand if Barbara didn’t ruin it all at the last minute.
We are back in Dublin, PCB was beautiful except for the two days that it looked like rain… But Ryleigh had fun.

We stayed at Grande Surf Club, it was a very secluded which had its ups and downs. You got to know the people that were there the week. And you never really had to worry about leaving your stuff at the pool etc. No one was even on the beach until Wed or Thurs. so all that was nice.. Some kids ended up showing up that Ryleigh had fun with.

We still wish we would have just gone back to Splash, because Ryleigh had so much fun there last year. I am trying to talk JB into doing a long weekend for Labor day……..

JB and I took her to a place down the road to ride different kid rides. She had a blast every time we took her… yes every time because we went back just about every night. She loved the swings and train. There was also a mini ‘tilt a whirl’ that she liked as long as it was not spinning to fast.

She did not want to stay on the beach too much, she wanted the ‘swimming pool’. So we spent most of the week there. Even with all the sunscreen JB applied to Ryleigh she ended up with a cute little tanline. She will strip naked and say look at my bootie… (I think she got this from coye as the pose is the same…..)

One girl at the pool had an airbrush tattoo of a butterfly on her foot. Well Ryleigh WANTED A BUTTERFLY ON HER FOOT. So we went and got her one… she is too cute with it. Her butterfly got in the pool this afternoon. … not Ryleigh but her butterfly…… I think it lasts a week. I am dreading what is going to happen when the butterfly washes off.

Jared and Will came down on Tuesday night. Ryleigh has talked about Jared, Will and Chris – who stayed a few blocks down the strip – all day today.

Places we ate:
Sunday -- Sharky’s when we arrived for lunch – yummy! We could hardly keep Ryleigh in the restaurant and out of the beach! I don’t remember where we ate for supper……
Monday – Lasagna in the room. This was the first night we did rides at Emerald Falls--- these continued nightly.
Tuesday – Cpt. Anderson’s. … Yummy as always!
Wednesday— Uncle Ernie’s. This might have been Ryleigh’s fav. She wanted it the next several days. We sat outside upstairs so she could listen to the music. She danced with a little girl.
Thursday – Mellow mushroom for lunch. Boar’s head for supper – probably the best meal apart from Cpt. Anderson’s.
Friday – The Shrimp Boat – good but service sucked!
Saturday – Boon Docks – it was very good!

I have one more week until I go back to school! Yuck! Ryleigh wanted to go to Glenda’s in the morning…she packed her bag mid afternoon. So she will tomorrow. I don’t know what we will do the rest of the week……..I’m sure something fun!

Oh yea... Cody turns 16 tomorrow... LOOK OUT EVERYBODY! Happy Birthday Cody.

Catch up

Well we are at the beach…. Its raining…. Yea. So I am being productive. Posting to the blog!

Well the week of June has been a VERY VERY BUSY month. We had an Early Reading First summer school session from the 1^st to the 25^th. I am so glad that is over with!!!

Ryleigh went to Vacation Bible School at North Poplar Springs Baptist Church. This is not our church but it is Patricia and Robert’s. They actually have VBS for all children’s age levels as opposed to starting at 3 years old. Ryleigh had a blast. They jumped and played and sang Jesus Loves Me. She was in a class with MaKayla from Glenda’s house. MaKayla’s daddy is the youth minister at NPSBC. So she knew someone going in --- this may have helped her nerves.

Ryleigh before the first day of VBS

We had a Pike Family reunion at Nanny’s on Fathers Day. Here are some pics of Ryleigh, Coye, Colton, Ashton and Brynnley.Ryleigh and The Lane's have the same matching Kelly Kids outfits. Brynnley wouldnt let us take her pic but Ashton would sit with Ashleigh.

Ryleigh and Coye

We borrowed the VBS tent from PP's class.

Ryleigh holding colton.

Blowing bubbles outside with Peggy.

Ryleigh also started DANCE CLASS!!! WHOOOO HOOO… I do not have any photos yet. So I will post those later. Ryleigh is going to a summer session of 6 wks. She will not have a real recital at the end of this term, just a short 10 min performance the last day of class for momma and daddy. We peaked through the windows as they have blinds up--- something that JB doesn’t like he wants the mirrors you can see through one way and not the other. Emma Rae is in the class at dance so she has friend here too. We walked in with her that first day and she went up to a little girl --- I think her name is Bailey --- and said ‘ you going to dance class with me?’ ---‘come on lets go’ Ryleigh did not understand that she could not barge in and interrupt the prior class. She learned to wait until the teacher came and said line up… Ryleigh was off…. Never looked back.

We arrived in PCB yesterday. The ride down was pretty uneventful – good considering we rode with a very rambunctious 2 year old name Ryleigh. Hopefully the storm will pass and we will go back out!

Enjoy the pics… not very many!

Just a Random pic of Ryleigh on her Bike!

Potty

I forgot to add this to the last post.... and it is VERY IMPORTANT!!!

We have gone to the potty every time since Friday... that's all weekend. She still will not poop in the potty :( but she is now going by herself mainly to the big potty.

She has gone 2 nights without wetting her pull up. She also has worn panties all day long throughout the weekend :)

YEA RYLEIGH!!!

Quick Update

We have finally gotten our house back in order….although tornado Ryleigh comes through every afternoon, sometimes hitting two and three times a day. We have been working (or maybe JB) diligently on the pool, its still cloudy… :( Ryleigh is starting dance (ballet) in three weeks. We signed her up on Friday and she is wearing her leotard and dance shoes constantly. Its so cute. I got to to get a video of it. She wears her leotard but ‘booty dances’…….I have some pictures to upload from our CF Walk last week as well as a few more pictures --- gotta find my camera for that….. Have to ask Miss Priss where it is. I start back to class tomorrow. I have 2 classes this summer and one in the fall with practicum.. WHOO HOO! Well that’s all for now, just a short update.

Pictures from the past few weeks

Here are some Easter Photos and from the strawberry patch!











Kitchen makeover

Before

After

Strawberry Patch

One of those .....

Well I have become one of those……. One of those people who do not take the digital photos off the camera. Well I don’t guess its me, technically its JB, since its his camera and all.

We have pictures from Easter (and some video), we have pictures of the Strawberry patch, and maybe several other things.

Fact of the matter is we have both been too busy to sit down and take them off the camera.

For starters, my semester at Ga Southern ended last week, so it was rush time for that. In the middle of that we started ripping out the kitchen and doing (well we didn’t ‘technically’ do it (or maybe the correct word is physically) a complete remodel of it all. It looks really good! We are just finishing that up right as I type this. I can say (something I never in my wildest and scariest dreams thought I would say) I am tierd of eating out. We have eaten out all meals of the day for the past three weeks.

With all of that being said…. I will post photos of everything hopefully this weekend…. Including our new kitchen…..

PS. One thing I did learn during the remodel is Ryleigh may have some of Ma in her! Every time I try to throw “shit” away…by that term I mean items such as old cups from various restaurant kids meals, solo cups that had been used and in the sink, markers with out a point, etc. Well I started calling Ryleigh ‘Ozie’ because she (my grandmother – daddys mom) would wash every single solo cup and throw away silverware…. Why because I may be able to use it….. Everything Ryleigh would take out of the trash she would say “that is my _____” and take it to her play room to store. Lol

Introducing.....Chip and Dale

Chip and Dale

Introducing…… Chip and Dale!

Chip and Dale are Ryleigh’s new chicks.

Chip is pink. Dale is blue. We got them today. She has sat and talked or held them since we got home. I am worried about bedtime tonight. More Chip and Dale stories to come J

Sleeping Peacefully

Kiss Kiss

Boats, Leprechauns, and Lambs

Spring Break is finally here! Woo hoo! I have used today to catch up with my Georiga Southern Classes that I have let fall to the way side the past couple of weeks. Now I am starting on laundry.

The past month has been a busy one. Lets see the last post was about the aquarium. What have we done since then?

Well the end of February or was it the beginning of March? We had some snow. Yes it was the beginning of March.

We were sitting in church at FBC Covington when we looked out the window and saw snow. Earlier it was just yucky cold rain. We had time to go eat at Smilies and get to mommas before it really started accumulating. It was so pretty. But we didn’t stay for long once it started because I had a feeling we wouldn’t get any in Dublin (I was right) and we would have school. If we stayed in Covington any longer, we would have became stuck there….. oh and that would have been horrible…. (I say sarcastically).

Ryleigh did not like the "wet" cold snow.

She was happier if someone was holding her!

She was much happier in the house eatting a snow ball.

JB went fishing with his daddy in Brunswick (I think). Allison stayed the night with Ryleigh and I. J Cause we all know I don’t like staying by myself.

The next week I went on a Cruise for Nanny’s 75^th Birthday. We went out of Orlando an
d did a Thurs-Sunday cruise to Nassau. We had a lot of fun. During that time Ryleigh went and spent the night with Daddy and Joan and JB’s parents. On my cruise I even went swimming with the sting rays! It was very cold but very neat! On the cruise were my Grandparents, Aunts – Kathy, Peggy, and Betty, Momma, and Cousin – Ashleigh. 8 Stitts on one boat…and no one died…. Truly a miracle!

Picture of all of us before we boarded.

Standing outside the limo.

In the limo on the way to the boat from the hotel.

At Senor Frogs. Gotta go there in Nassau!

Formal Night....

Me and my stingray.

We went to the St Patricks Festival last Saturday. It was fun. We watched the parade with Nathan – and of course his parents Steven and Melinda. Amanda, Brentley and Dorothy also met us there. We walked around the park for a while also. (more photos to come)

One day last week JB had to go to Savannah for work – I am talking a lot of work here – I got a text saying he was eating crab trap…… and Janna spent the night with me and Ryleigh and kept Ryleigh for me Wednesday since she was on spring break.

This past weekend we went to Eastman and had easter pictures taken with a lamb. They all turned out so good. (I will accept any donations offered to help pay for those photos…haha). I am hoping to have proofs back tomorrow so I will try to post some.