Fun in the Sun Part One {hey, that rhymed!}

So I said I'd update from my vacation, but Ive just been having too much fun to sit down, upload pictures, and post. Is that such a crime??!?! Right now, however, I am actually alone with my baby, a first since we arrived in Jacksonville. So many people love her and are willing to hold, play, feed, etc. with her. It's been SO nice to let other people love on her, but I enjoy my alone time with my girl as well. She is so very loved and the luckiest little girl. Right now she is chasing the dogs around the room, so I thought this was a good time to tell ya a little bit about our vacation so far and show off my FL girl!

We got here SO late on Friday night and I was nervous about her getting out of the car, changed, and into her pack n play, easily. I didnt want to arrive at 1 am so tired from driving all day and just want sleep, only to stay up and play with her bc we were throwing her a little off kilter. Well I am pleased to say she woke up a bit in the transition from car and to bed, but only gave her poppa floyd and aunt afton a little smile before going straight back to sleep, PTL.

We have had so much fun the past few days, I cant even remember it all! Saturday night we immediately went and saw Harry Potter. We were so excited to have some free babysitters and did not waste time getting out on our own. This week has mostly been swimming, laying out, shopping, fun eating out, and the beach a couple times. We were so excited to finally take Kennedy on her first visit to the beach today. She LOVED it! I dont think she wanted to leave. She could play in the sand ALL day. We will have to go back next week while we are in Pensacola. Plus the Gulf water is much warmer, maybe it wont be as cold on her little toesies as the Atlantic.

Finally, here are some pictures of the Manny family vacation so far!

Playing in the pool


I think she likes the ocean!
our toes in the sand, finally...
this is her serious model face
at Mellow Mushroom
more fun in the pool. She really does love to swim

Well we still have three more days in Jacksonville and I know we have fun plans so Ill update you on that later. I just love vacationing!

bad dog

Tomorrow we are leaving for vacation! I am SO excited, beyond words, cant describe how happy I am...can you tell Im pumped!?!? I have been waiting and waiting to go somewhere with my family and just relax. No house to clean, no jobs to go to. Just me and my guy and our sweet girl in a beautiful place with lots of fun on the agenda. I need to recharge my battery. We are heading to Jacksonville first, and then Im shooting over to Pcola for a few days without hubs =( It will be very weird to not see him and I know he is super sad about missing Kennedy for all those days. He didnt mention missing me though, hmmm, this worries me...She does however, grow and change and learn new things every single day, I swear! Ill pretty much be the same when he sees me. Maybe a little more tan, maybe a new hairdo, but I want start walking or saying new funny things while he is away. Ill just have to make sure she doesnt do anything too monumental until we get back home to him.

Speaking of learning new things, Im working on Kennedy feeding herself. She just doesnt like to. She knows that I will put them food in her mouth for her, and she likes this. However, I have just been putting the food on her tray and waiting for her to put it in her mouth, and she is doing much better. Fred of course sticks around for drops =) He really likes them puffs.


Well, Fred is coming along on vacation with us, which Im not too thrilled about bc I havnt been very happy with the Fred lately. Here is a what Fred did yesterday with his time alone at home...




I have had to just start laughing about it. Justin of course, came home, turned up his lip and began looking for him to spank him, which I did not allow. He is already skiddish and I dont want him being afraid of us. Yelling at him works just fine. I think he has just been bored bc we have been super busy. It has rained the past few days so we have had no walks, and he is just a dog that requires lots of exercise, and more attention and love than we have been able to give lately. Im convinced he is acting out bc of this neglect. Yup, that's what I think.

I hope he is better on our 13 hour long road trip tomorrow. I am hoping to get him to the dog park tonight if it doesnt rain and then a good run in the AM. Hopefully that will wipe him out for the car ride.

Please pray we have safe travels and that fred and KP arent super bored and in turn acting crazy or crying while in the car. That's just no fun. Ill update you on our vacay next week from sunny FLORIDA! YAY!!!!!!!!

its true, she is NINE months old!!!!!

Yet again, we reach another month where I am baffled at how big Kennedy has grown and cannot believe she is already 9 months old. She gets more and more beautiful everyday and I personally (as every mom does) think she is the most adorable thing I have ever laid eyes on. She had her well visit yesterday too and she was perfect! She weighs 17.4 pounds, is 29 inches long, and she didnt even cry or flinch with they gave her a shot. Crazy! She just loves the doctor...

I did a little photo session with her (duh) and so here are some pictures from that.

Isnt she such a big girl...Im in love with her.

Fun Filled Weekend

Dont you just hate when Monday rolls around and you know you have to wait 5 more days until the weekend? Well since we have fewer play days than work days we must make the most of them. This weekend we did just that! WARNING: this post contains a lot of pictures...

I dont know about you, but I love me some Chik fil a. It's probably my number one fast food restaurant. Last Friday was dress like a cow day, so of course I dressed Kennedy up all cute, I dont need much of an excuse to do that. My girl got me a free 12 piece chicken nugget =) If she dressed like a cow from head to toe, I was told that was how you got a free meal. Nonetheless, a free entree was fine with me. Besides, I really just did it for the fun of it, not so much for free food, and it was fun and she was uber cute!

After that we ran over to the Woodland Mound so I could run the trail and Justin could take Kennedy to the splash park. It was about 92 degrees, so I ended up not running and just sitting in the water as well. I love taking her there bc she sleeps sooo well after a long day in the water and a lil bit of sun. I was pretty drained from the sun as well, so going to the gym after was not as fun, but I am trying to be disciplined. boo

That night we had a nice little quiet evening at home. Justin and I are watching the Harry Potter's since the new one comes out in a couple days, YAY!!!!!! Tara, I wish you were here to watch it with me! We dont really go to movies a whole lot anymore, so I like to make it as fun as possible and so we popped popcorn and ate twizzlers (pull and peel of course), the same as when we do get to go to the theater.

Saturday we had a little day trip to Columbus. We had some friends getting married and decided to go early and shop at a really good big mall they have there. It was a fun day being outside Cincinnati and doing new fun things. I always enjoy a change of scenery. The wedding was so gorgeous and we were so happy to see our friends gettin hitched. Kennedy did pretty well too. I did have to take her out during the wedding because she just wants to talk and talk. Did I mention that on Friday she started saying uh oh. It's so funny. She says it about everything tho, so I think we need to start teaching her when it applies. (video of that on vlog)

So last night we did something sort of special. I havent been on a dinner cruise since Nashville cheerleading trip 1997, but we went on one last night for our friends birthday. Jenny and Kyle both turned 30 this year, so Kyle's parents had a big ole shindig on board the Riverboat. It was so fun hanging out with all our friends and having a whole night out (minus babies) AND listening to Karaoke. Hilarious.


me and the birthday girl!
Alas, it is monday, no more weekend. BUT my sweet little baby is 9 MONTHS OLD TODAY! I'll of course have a little photo shoot with her momentarily and post that later tonight if I get a chance. I cant believe how big she is getting. Man I love her!

WE LOVE NANNY!

It was so great to have my mom here for 12 days. She did such a great job taking care of Kennedy. Not to mention all the cleaning, laundry, cooking, and of course spoiling us, that she did. I also just had fun hanging out with her. She is my favorite gal pal, as well as a terrific mom and nanny. Thanks for giving us some of your summer time mom. It was great having you here and we hope you come back again soon for another nice long visit!

I just love my momma =)
Justin tries to hide it, but he loves her so very much too
WE ALL LOVE HER!
I was sad when she left. I had to go back to doing everything myself. Sad...I was getting used to never touching the dishes or laundry or sewing on my own buttons...oh well, such is life.

Date Night

It's a rare occasion, but Justin and I do go on dates. It always and only seems to happen when grandparents are in town and thankfully last week, my mom was here! I was seriously so excited for our date. Not that we were doing anything super extravagant, but I wanted some alone time with my hubs. We had planned to go to a movie, but I decided I wanted to just go walk around somewhere and chill so we could talk and giggle and actually see one another. We somehow ended up at the mall in the Apple store. Justin walked out with a new iPhone bc he finally decided to spend his bday money. After that we went to Cheesecake Factory for some dessert =) Then we headed over to Barnes and Noble to look at funny books and then I had to read some gossip magazines. It was such a great date night with my favorite boy!

He got what he wantedand I got what I wanted

i love this boy
Ive decided that we should go on dates at least every couple weeks, with no baby, no matter what. Who wants to babysit???

the Fourth

Im gonna take a break from updating on the week my mom was in town to bring you details, and of course pictures, of our Fourth of July weekend.

Unfortunately, it rained all weekend pretty much, but we did have a fun Saturday despite that. We had plan to go to a festival in town and possibly see fireworks, but we stayed in instead. Our friends came over and we ordered PF Changs takeout, which was funny to me, because it just doesnt feel like the fourth without a cookout and some watermelon. My spicy chicken was delicious though =) We were able to see some fireworks from our own backyard though. however, I was so nervous that they would eventually wake up Kennedy, they were so loud and went on for hours. She did wake up for a couple minutes but went back down quickly, thank goodness. Good thing babies sleep through just about anything. I know I couldnt sleep with all that noise. It was fun though standing in the back yard, in the rain, kissing my hubs, and watching fireworks. Kissing in the rain is on my faves list for sure. A lot of people are actually doing their fireworks tonight, since now its not raining. I can hear them now as I sit here and type. Oh dear...dont wake up my baby...

Ok, so here are a good number of pictures, mostly of my girl =) She was so very cute in her little red white and blue attire.
I love her sweet lil face
I love these two
Practicing the walking
Fred always wants out on the front porch, but he isn't so good at staying there, so he has to just watch from the door. Kennedy thinks it funny though that they are on opposite sides
I hope you and your friends and families had a good day celebrating our Independence!

Goodbye Grillout

Some good friends of ours, and members of our small group, are moving to New Jersey. Jin and Lisa have been friends of mine and Justin's pretty much since we moved here. They are the sweetest people and we are going to miss them so very much. Especially our pup Fred, who will miss doggy play dates with Rudy =)

Well we wanted to have a little get together so we could have one last hoorah and say goodbye to them. We had it at their house so we could also help pack them up a little, but there is no reason why I couldnt decorate and try and make it fun! Its a party right? and it doesn't take too much to get me all excited about cutting, pasting, baking and icing. So I did just that.

We had a lot of fun eating, talking, playing Hillbilly Golf and Cornhole. Here are a few pictures from the party...

i made some yummy cupcakes and thought it would be fun to top them with little "goodbyes" =)I also sat out a bucket so everyone could leave a little note about what they would miss most about the Parks. It was sort of a little goodbye gift from all the party guests and fun for Jin and Lisa to read laterLisa and II do hope you love Jersey, but Ohio will always miss you two!

yay for the BIG pool!

We finally got the chance to take Kennedy to a BIG pool. Not that the kiddie pool in the back yard wasnt enjoyable for her, trust me, she'd stay in there all day, but I wanted to take her swimming WITH me in a regular swimming pool. I kept wanting to go to my friend Kala's, but Justin was never able to come with us, and I didnt want Kennedy's big first time of anything to happen without both of us there (if we can help it.) So we went last week and she had such a blast! she really will just float around for an hour completely content. I am so happy she is a water baby. I just dont know what we would do if she hated it.

We put her in her little floaty first to check out what she thought about that. She was a fan

But mostly she just loved swimming with me...and i like that most too...

we really do have the most fun together!

Afterwards we did some swinging bc my girl loves to swing.

We love going to Kala's house bc she has such fun toys! Everything is exciting and different and I think Kennedy really likes that. I like any place with a nice pool and a beach chair =)

in just a few weeks, we will finally be on the beach!

Coney has it...

I have sooo many pictures from all the fun we had while my mom was in town. I have decided to just split it all up so I wouldnt have a post with 28 pictures in it. Today's post is all about our fun day at Coney Island Waterpark!

The girls I stay with have been talking about going this summer and it was over 90 degrees every day last week, so we needed a pool fo sho. I was so excited about going, I just love waterparks. Its not the biggest of waterparks, it has a few slides and a really large pool, but it was enough for me =) Kristin and I rode down all the slides, it brought back good memories of going to parks as a kid. I just loved it! It was also so nice having my mom there to hang out with Kennedy so me and the big girls could play. Such a great day!

Jenny let me use her little sundome so Kennedy could take a nap and we could let her chill in there to avoid too much sun
and it wasnt only for sleeping, she had a lil fun in there as well!

I think she had a good time, she was all smiles the whole time.

Playing in the pool