LLL Picnic

we had a wonderful World Breastfeeding Week Picnic this year at Maynor Creek Water Park. as with every outdoor charity event i've participated in this year, it rained (and i really thought it wouldn't!! only 20% chance of rain). but it didn't rain until near the end of the picnic!

left to right: lexi, michelle, christy holding shepard, monicah and chrimson, scotie, me and oscar, denise, melissa, patrick and kristen

top photo is me and michelle, bottom photo is me and denise. i love these LLLadies! michelle was a huge help with the picnic and denise is just so sweet and crazy!

i did some face painting - pretty much just butterflies and batmans (i totally love that chrimson wanted the batman face - coolest little girl ever - am i right?) here is patrick with a batman face and scotie with a butterfly

top photo: christy, shepard and monicah

bottom photo: aunt janie, oscar and nana

had lots of fun just hanging out and visiting - sorry i didn't get more pictures!

manly men

....or not

oscar and aaron have been getting in touch with their feminine side by carrying babies in their tummies (aaron uses the giraffe because we only have one baby - i think we'll have to get another)

and oscar was breastfeeding his baby. someday i'll have to explain to him that usually mommy breastfeeds the babies, but right now it's just too darn cute.


i'm not sure if this is still breastfeeding or not

and this is oscar using his bug grabbers to pluck daddy's eyebrows..

soggy boy

oscar finally got to take his boots out for a good puddle splashing. maybe he needs a raincoat to go with?

rainbow cookies!

the boys and i made some rainbow cookies a few weeks ago - they did a really great job and had lots of fun (making AND eating). we were doing things with the letter R that day.

gold standard

had a great time at breastfeeding: the gold standard conference! i learned so much new information and had tons and tons of fun! here we are playing in new orleans:


now i'm in high gear to get everything ready for the world breastfeeding week picnic! one of our fundraisers is a cash drawing - chances are $2 per ticket and the winner gets half of the ticket money! the other half goes to la leche league (with most of it staying in waynesboro!). if anyone wants to buy a ticket just send a check or use paypal and i'll put your name in the drawing.

a few easter pictures

this year we had a picnic at turkey fork for easter. the weather was PERFECT and it was hard to keep the boys out of the water (aaron actually fell in).

relaxing after lunch

oscar had so much fun with the egg hunt this year. he would get super excited and run and make all sorts of silly noises every time he spotted another egg. he ended up finding most of the prize eggs and we had to re-hide a couple for aaron to find!

relay for life

jeremy's mom's church was having a special fundraising event in state line for relay for life. they planned a bake sale/live music/food vendors/face painting(me). i made some treats for the bake sale: mini loaves of pumpkin, sweet potato, and banana bread, flower cupcakes and bunny cupcakes. a lot of work went into the event, but it started raining just as we were about to start! it poured and poured and no one came. they still raised some money by calling people and selling food plates and baked goods over the phone.

oscar came to buy a cupcake and he let me give him an easter bunny on his cheek, so i raised $1 with the face painting! (yes, that is chocolate cupcake on his hat...)