Floatin' down the river

Brewer Family Float Trip on the Illinois River

 

Look at this cutie in her life jacket and sunglasses...

That is how you pull off a life vest and make it look good.

I've only been floating one other time. It was when my husband and I were dating and we went with the church. He was still "chasing me" so he paddled the whole way and I just rode like Ariel in the Little Mermaid. It was a Southern Fantasy.

So I was excited to go again and this time take my daughter on a float trip.

You had a couple of options:

You could choose to have a raft, kayak, or a canoe.. we chose a canoe. Somehow I got in the back of the canoe which means you are the person that practically steers the whole boat.. which gave my husband a great opportunity to do some fishing while I was busy steering.
Honeymoon period.. Over!

Learned my lesson: Always get in the front of the canoe!

You could also choose to do a 6 mile float or a 12 mile float. Since we had the kiddo with us we chose the 6 mile. It almost felt like it was to quick.. we wanted to keep going. So next year we are going to try the 12 mile.

It was a great day. The weather could not have been any better. Summer in Arkansas is hot and sticky.. but that day it was nice and cool. Just Wonderful!

 

We packed a picnic lunch and some snacks so along the way when we would come across an area where we could pull the canoe up.. we would stop. We did some fishing, some relaxing, some snacking.. Just hanging out together. I found out my baby girl loved herself some Moon Pies.

Such a Southern girl!! 

 

I can't wait to go again next year. I will be in the front of the boat.. I will pack my own lunchbox of slim jims...and I will take it slower.. not worry so much about having everything we could possibly need.. and have a good time!!

 

Memories Made!



Sweet Dreams.

 

When baby girl pushes away the iPad to lay her head down..

She is exhausted!!

 

Sweet Dreams little one.
Momma loves you.

 

 

Birthday and Backpack

Since Lyla has started preschool..she has developed two pretty awesome friends. Addison and Darah.
They all fight like sisters... but then can't function without each other. Recently it was Darah's birthday and she had her party at Chuck E Cheese!

All the girls were excited to spend some time together .. outside of school.. just playing and having fun!!

Here is Lyla and Addison.. ready for Cake!

Darah is turning 5! What an awesome cake!

Present time! Darah opened up Lyla's present first.. which was a big deal to Lyla for some reason. I guess there is some sort of status symbol in getting your present opened first! I did take quite a while wrapping it and putting all the curly ribbon on.. so I'm glad she enjoyed it!

We got her a HUGE coloring book of Doc McStuffins.. and a DVD.

After the party I had to run by Target to pick up a few things and they already had all their back to school stuff going up.. so we swung by the school section to look at backpacks...because we all know that is also another status symbol of school.. You HAVE to have a cool backpack.

 

I , being the uncool mom, went to the backpacks that had the princesses or Barbie on them..

Lyla went directly to this one!

OMG!

Rainbow Spikes!

 

and her daddy approved!!

Not that I have anything against rainbow spikes but I just can't see my lovely little daughter walking into Kindergarten with a Rainbow Spike backpack...so I told her "Let's look around"

 

*fingers crossed that a FROZEN backpack crosses our path SOON..

I think that will be the only thing that will change her mind**

The clouds in Arkansas

I've always been one to lay and look at the clouds. I love them. I do remember as a child looking at the clouds and trying to figure out which animal they were shaped like.

I'm also a lover of storm clouds. There is something about the seriousness, the power that beholds a storm cloud.

 

In my book.. It is hard to beat a good ol' southern storm. Just a thunderstorm.. nothing rotating... some thunder, lightning.. just to clear the air. It's ironically peaceful.

Snapshot...

Here is a quick snapshot into my day.

If you open my refrigerator right now you will see this:

 

Why? Because I'm a wife who is about to ship her husband off again for more training on how to serve our country. So I have the right to own a jar of icing and a spoon.

 

And at work:

I've been trying out bullet journaling.. and I love it! It is definitely what I need to keep me organized at work. This is a cheap composition grid lines notebook and today the first few pages fell out.. which means that my bullet journal is obviously getting some use. There is no way I could stay organized at work without it!