Happy birthday James!

Happy birthday to the best husband and dad in the world. We've definitely been lucky to have him home a lot in the last 6 months and look forward to doing some celebrating this weekend.

This will be the 13th birthday I will celebrate with this guy. CRAZY :) I remember it like it was yesterday.... we may be celebrating a tad differently than we did with the first couple haha

Nice weather

Hey readers. Hopefully wherever you are, you are experiencing warm temperatures. If you're not so lucky, I feel for you. Hadley has been enjoying our warm up and we've been hitting up playground after playground. We've also tackled potty training again. It's going well.... not perfect but definitely better. We shall see :)

Hadley wanted to model her Easter Dress (she loves dresses) and she is adorable. We've been practicing egg hunting and she's loving it. 

Here's a playground in downtown Little Rock on the river. It was more developed for older kids as actual rocks were how you climb up things. and the slide was HUUUUUGE. She didn't hesitate to go down it alone. Dare devil!

Hadley's great grandma in Delaware sent her some puzzles and other goodies in the mail. She loves them but especially the minnie one! Thank you!

Hitting a dog park up

We went to a pizza and salad place and you could watch them make the pizza from upstairs. Hadley loved it.

We hit up some parks on base and they have great "lakes" with some fish and ducks. 

on base playground by track 

We've had fun going out and about. We've even randomly bumped into friends from Texas that are stationed here now while out playing. Hope you all have a good rest of your week and weekend.

The zoo!

Last Wednesday was a great day! It was the first day of NICE weather (started out cloudy but sun came out with a high of 68!). James had off (ps. have I mentioned we are REALLY enjoying his training schedule so far). We decided we wanted to go to the zoo since it wouldn't be as crowded as the weekend would be. James invited his training partner, Kevin, who is from Ohio, to join us beforehand at breakfast. I looked up a top recommended one called The Roots Cafe. They try to source as much as they can through local small farms in the Little Rock and Arkansas area. I love that! James was worried it was too "hippy" for him (and his buddy did comment on how he didn't think it was James' idea) but everyone was IMPRESSED. So win for me (as usual).

The next best thing about this place was their little outdoor area that had some kids play stuff in! Hadley had a ball! Had the weather been a tad warmer we could have sat out there and she would have been content for a while! We did eat in their sunroom patio and watched her until she realized it was no fun to play without mommy.

Since we were in the company of a new friend... I decided I wouldn't weird him out and take pictures of our food haha but let me tell you. The pancakes were PHENOMENAL. and HUGE. Hadley ate those.... and they came with three gigantic ones, so James and I also took one of hers to eat. We adults all ordered the biscuits and gravy (which came with eggs). They were all delicious as well. We will definitely be back if we're on that side of town (on way to zoo).

monkey selfies

Hadley doesn't look amused

kevin, james, and hadley all looking at the crocodiles

another monkey selfie

this monkey LOVED Hadley (and James) Hadley got freaked out when it ran put to her haha

the monkey really wanted to play and give kisses

Two hands needed apparently!

James wanted to take him home, to say the least!

THE END :)

It was a great zoo and even had a fantastic playground we played at when we were all done. FUN DAY

Room planning

So we have A LOT of time on our hands here at training. We don't have family and just a couple friends in Little Rock so we don't do too much.... we've completed several seasons of multiple shows and decided we each need some other hobbies. So I decided I would plan out the rooms in our new house we just bought. I am also working on a photo book from our last base (I do that for every major life event/vacation, or whatever). We have several renovations that we HAVE to do then some that we COULD do. Since ultimately it will be a rental house, we don't want to do anything unnecessary. Here's what I created for our guest bedroom. I put together a designer mood board using olio board, I'm pretty impressed with myself.

We already have a similar dresser that we got from ikea (that we need to bring back from my sister's- which I know she will fight me for haha). I feel it's time for us to update our guest bedroom stuff because I am wanting a LOT of visitors. We have a queen NEW pullout sofa plus we are hoping to get a nice queen bed and something similar to my above collage. It's so much easier for us to host guests than for us to go places (hadley and plus James will be driving 4 hours to work on select weekends). 

Can't wait to get started. I've been store window shopping for bedding and what not (haven't found anything yet). Next room I'll show you is the dining nook and kitchen mud area (maybe). We shall see. So, what do you think??

Little Rock latest happenings

Hadley and I have been getting into a sort of routine here in Little Rock now that the weather got better. As I type this (Wed) we currently have 6 inches of snow and everything's shut down..... again.... it seems that this is the LAST winter spell as 60s are in store for next week!

we hit up a couple of different library story time/crafts
just two curly haired gals

Hit up a gymnastics place for open gym

had cookies at story time at barnes n noble

We also hit up a discovery museum (ps. why do they always have to be so expensive and WHY do they make the adults pay..... we aren't playing! and believe me we would drop them off and leave them if we could haha)

we had an OK time there, we won't go back unless it's dollar day or something

"I'm on a boat"

digging for fossils

t-rex and hadley

T-rex mouth selfie

learning about lights and shadows

Overall, we've had a pretty good time. I like the library stuff because it's free, but the story times.... aren't that great. The kids don't sit still, it's hard to keep their attention.... We did got to a music time (at the library) that was pretttttty good..... but had lots of room for improvement. We were spoiled in our little town of Columbus, MS I guess.

We are looking forward to exploring local outside parks and playgrounds hopefully this next week!

PS. Happy birthday to GIGI yesterday! Hadley celebrated with a birthday hat and cake for you!