Sunday Parties

This past sunday we had our very first party scheduled at Drop Zone Kids! We were super excited. The lady was moving and had all her friends and their kids come to say goodbye and they had a great turn out. We had several people come in that had never been there. We had a couple people fill out paper work and ask about using us soon so we were really happy to get new faces! The business is starting to pick up and we are so excited! We are getting new people calling and stopping by asking about us and new kids almost everyday! I was even told yesterday that a lady found out about us from her husband...in Iraq!? Apparently the wives that have been here skyped with their husbands in iraq and told them how excited they were about us and the husbands were all talking and passed the word around to new familes. Amazing!!!!! We are super blessed so far and cant wait for it to get too busy for me and derek to handle! :)

After the party on sunday, we had our own little party for me. It was nice all of Dereks family came and my grandpa. Kind of an unofficial pre-birthday party since Derek wont be here wednesday for my birthday. :( It was nice to enjoy some of my husbands great cooking again. It has been a while. We all just relaxed and had some great bugers and snacks and hung out! It was lovely!

The twins enjoying some milk and my comfy rug :)

Bernies (i dont smile in pictures face) and Tom

Mollie and Ben-cheesin!

Jack-a-roo

Jordan picked me out a bright pink birthday cake, and they of course wanted to help blow out the candles.

High fives!!!

Derek put the candles on the cake in the shape of 23. He is such a nerd

Pink cake, with so much food coloring everyone had pink teeth, tongues and lips after we ate! Not sure how Jordan got it on her forehead 5 seconds after she got her slice...

Ben <3s cake!

Because a party wouldnt be complete without smearing icing EVERYWHERE!

CAKE!!

Betsy and Ed! <3

We had a great time just hanging out with family its always nice to get together! <3

Kayaking and Fireworks!!!

This weekend was the first weekend we have been able to go somewhere and not worry about the daycare and just have fun! Its our first vacation in a year, even if it was only a day trip. Sunday morning we were closed so Derek, Jordan and I met up with Betsy "Grandma Buntsy", Jack and Robert and went up to Jordan lake for the day to go kayaking! Which was really fun but even more of a workout than I expected!  Before we left for our trip we stopped and had breakfast at Sizzlin' Steak or Eggs, and Daddy taught Jordan how to hang a spoon on her nose!

She was so excited! She has been doing it ever since, everytime she finds a spoon. Look what you started Derek!

Jordan practicing for her audience

Betsy and her "4th son", Robert

We left our little rocky beach, and kayaked out to this little island in the middle of the lake. We decided to call it bird island, because there was about 5000 birds on this one little tiny island.

Derek on 'Bird Island'

Our grunge photo! haha

Jordan loved playing in the lake, probably more than she liked kayaking. She had to ride in my kayak in my lap, she said all the paddling was boring haha.

Enjoying the little beach on "Bird Island"

Our awesome kayaks! Yeahhhhh

Jordan and 'Grandma Buntsy'

Such a fun ride, and a good workout! I definitely need to do it more and work on some upper body strength! The extra 40lbs on my boat didnt help my poor little arms!!

Thought this was a cool picture!

This was the cliff we had to hike down then throw the kayaks down, then hoist them back up with a rope then pull ourselves up with tree roots! It was crazy but so fun! We really had a blast! So happy we got to go, Thanks grandma buntsy, for taking us!!! :)

Then yesterday we drove to Wilmington to see fireworks and to leave our favorite daddy behind for school. He is finishing up a quick little summer class 4 days a week. So monday-thurdsay he is stuck down there without his family, which leaves me and Jordan to handle the daycare alone. We will all be happy when his class is over the end of the month!  

Jordan waiting not so patiently for some Ritas! chocolate ice cream!

Mr. Doby got to go with us for the day which was really nice. He is such a good dog and he loves Jordan so much! He had to walk right next to the stroller the whole time!

Wating on the pier for the fireworks to start!

Jordan was watching all the police boats in the water!

Our pretty little girl!

One of Jordans goofy little smiles, its rare to get a authentic smile out of this girl.

Our little family, (mommy really needs a new camera!)

A lady was nice enough to stop and help us take a picture all together! Even with doby! :)

Doby was fun up until the fireworks started and he FREAKED out!!! He was so scared, we didnt even think about him maybe being afraid of the fireworks so we had to hold him down the whole time because he was having a fit! Needless to say, next year he will have to stay home! :-(

Our view of the fireworks! They were really great! They shot them off right over the Cape Fear river, over top the Battleship NC!

Another year of freedom to be thankful for! So glad I could spend this day with my family in the best country in the world! So thankful for the men and women who protect and defend our freedom! Happy 4th of July!!!

Beach getaway and the Grand Opening!!

It has been a few weeks since my last post...I was slacking again! But honestly we have just been too tired to do much of anything else! You havent missed a whole lot, because much hasnt been going on that didnt involve the daycare. So Ill do a catch up session, and hopefully things will settle down soon and we can get on a better schedule!!!

First of all a couple weeks ago we got our opening date pushed back for a second time, and we found ourselves waiting on other people to come do their job so we could finish ours. So since we had free time we took a (much needed) trip to wilmington!! We were completely lazy and hung out at our house for a whole day and watched movies. Then the next morning we went to the beach!!! When we got back for lunch my amazing husband made this. I swear it was THE BEST THING I EVER ATE!! It was amazing. He really spoils me with awesome food. ( and its so cool looking, had to put it first!)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

My view, being lazy at the beach. LOVE it, it was so nice! And if you look close that is Derek and Jordan playing in the water!

They found this wandering beach ball that blew way down the beach. Jordan had a blast with it!

Jordans beach pose! haha so goofy!

She loves the beach, dont know where she gets it from :)

This is the final product pictures of the daycare!! We are soooooooooo excited!!!

I swept up a million of these tiny footprints from my "helper" haha. Ill miss those tiny feet one day!

Jordan made a princess dress out of a trashbag. Nice to know she isnt too high maintence!

So here is the final baby room!!!!

Fooseball table!!! & Futon behind it!

Big kids room! Games and movies!

Pool table!!!, which we may be switching for an airhockey table...8 year olds arent that great at pool! lol

Our awesome little bathroom! Derek built the steps and changing table!!!! It is so beautiful!! He is so handy

Putting green!!!! For our pro-golfers-to-be! Cant have a place in "golf capital, NC" without a putting green!

Eating area!! Love our little picnic tables and benches!!!

Our big slide, all the kids love it! Jordan pretends its a princess castle!

Tea party table, dress up and lots of little games and toys!!

This was from our Open House! Derek just amazes me with his talents! This is so cool! Its our little logo guy! Wow, fancy...and tasty too! (just needed some nutella! ha)

Our open house! We had a great turn out and I am so thankful for the people that came!!! (and a special thanks to Emily Woodward!! She helped me SOOO much with getting the word out!!! Amazing lady!

Another one of dereks projects! He added the fridge to this little kitchen!!! Awesome job, once again! :)

Our rock climbing wall!!! We had a lot of fun building this! Jordan even helped me sew the cover for the crash pad! She is so excited about the daycare! She shows everyone her rock climbing skills!!!!

The ball pit me and derek made!!! We are getting pretty crafty!!! We made that little magnetic chalk board too!!!! 

This is Jordan, on a typical day at the daycare now since it has opened. She almost always has some outfit on and all the accessories she can find! She is such a girlie girl!

Ben!!! (Jordans cute little cousin) he has fallen in love with dressing like this firefighter. Every time he comes its Ben the fire fighter and princess Jordan! They are so cute!!

Clark and Carson!! (the other cousins!) They are such sweet little boys! I love having them! Cant believe how big they are already! Time flies! Soon they will be playing dress up with Jordan and Ben!

We are so excited about Drop Zone Kids!!! We cant wait to really get out there and everyone know us!!! We have had such a great response from the people who have come in so far!!! Now we just have to wait for our advertising to pay off and word of mouth to spread!! Cant wait!! :)