Puppy Love

Allie Hunter has become so attached to our to dogs we have, Duke(a boxer) and Levi ( a Maltese-Yorkie mix). Poor dogs get harassed all the time and I mean ALL THE TIME ! But she loves her "bruders" as AH says. Shes always wanting Levi to sit in her lap or for him to chase her around the house. She has to put him in his cage every morning before we leave and when we get home she has to let him out. That's her thing. Levi has learned to hide from her, but oh Allie Hunter has gotten so good at finding him cause he hides in the same 3 places, either under our bed, on top of the couch or in Allie Hunters room on top of her bed. Now Duke stays outside mostly so when we go outside AH pulls him by his collar everywhere. He just looks up at us with this saddest face like really people :( and goes where ever she pulls. She also has to feed and water them too. If we try and do it she pitches a fit. At least I can get her to help me do something. She knows exactly where the food is stored and will go get a cup full and put it in their bowls. Here lately she has been wanting Duke to come inside with us so we have been letting him in the house in the afternoons to chill in the den and yesterday AH had asked me if we could go ride the horses and I told her maybe another day next thing I know she's sitting on Duke saying "Mommie, I ride a horsey" She's such a mess. Who needs a horse when you have a boxer....

AH and Duke

Levi is probably thinking better you than me !!!

(and yes I know Levi needs a haircut bad)

"I tee tee in potty"

So it has officially been 2 weeks since Allie Hunter has been wearing big girl panties. I am so proud of her. She just one day decided she didn't want to wear pull ups and she wanted to be naked and started going to the potty. WOW, I know. It was been so much more easy than I thought. She still has #2 accidents some but this past weekend she did really great with that. She now has a draw full of big girl panties from princess to Dora to hello kitty. You name it she's got them. I believe AH's favorite part of this is picking out what panties she wants to wear and this takes 5 minutes she's so indecisive just like ME !! Last week it was all about Dora but this week she's moved on to Hello Kitty. I continue to pray she keeps this up. She has gotten so many prizes these past 2 weeks, her favorite though is stickers or chocolate. Mommie and Daddy are soo proud of you Allie Hunter !!! :)

"Look at my panties, It's Dora"

10 HOURS OF HARD LABOR=A SWING SET

This past Sunday Chad, my dad and JD came over to help put together a playhouse/swing set that my in-laws had gotten Allie Hunter for a late birthday/early Christmas present. Needless to say they started at 10am and didn't finish till 9pm. WOW took forever. Hope it last forever cause I don't for see them doing this again. Allie Hunter is for sure one spoiled little princess, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Also I will add how wonderful my mother and sister are. They helped me in my front yard trim my bushes, rake all the leaves and also helped me pull weeds. I have an AWSOME family. Now, we probably won't see them back over for a while cause they'll probably think I'll find another project for them to help me with. Allie Hunter didn't get to play on it till yesterday since it was so late Sunday when they finished and it was sooooo cold outside. She had a blast "swining". Thanks GIGI and PAW PAW for this wonderful present, now I'm never gonna be able to keep her inside. haha

Spoiled Rotten isn't even close

This is AH's way of "swining"

"Mommie, I got a Winnow"

Thanks to everybody who helped make this smile on this sweet little girls face :) Nothing lights up a room more than seeing her happy !

Mr. and Mrs. J Lauderdale

This past weekend my first cousin, Ashley, got married. It was in Meridian, MS. Allie Hunter and I were both in the wedding. So it was gonna make for a stressful weekend for me since I had to be in it and also worry about her. But she actually did very good. We went down Friday after lunch and helped with some last minute things and got ready for the Rehearsal/Dinner. After Rehearsal they had lined up a babysitter to watch the young kids, which was amazing and a wonderful idea so we could all enjoy ourselves too. Of course when I got back to hotel to get AH it was 11pm and of course she was still going strong. She loves everyone and doesn't meet a stranger. Anybody that will pay her some attention she's your BFF ! :) Very sociable like her mommie. Saturday was gonna make for a long day. We had to get up early half of us got our hair/makeup done then we had to head over to a lady's house for another bridesmaid brunch. Let me just say that had me a nervous wreck. This house was not kid friendly. They had all kinds of fancy and breakable things sitting everywhere and we were having to eat off fine china...YIKES. So after we left there I started to breathe again. We had to rush and head back to hotel to finish getting ready before we headed over to church to start pictures. Chad and some of the guys had played golf that morning and when he got back it was time for AH to take a nap. I was determined she was getting one since she was in wedding. Of course she did. Chad had to wake her up after 2 hours cause it was time for them to meet us at church. The wedding started at 6. Of course everything was beautiful. My 2 favorite memories of the wedding was right before when J and Ashley saw each other for the first time. It was so sweet and so special and also at the end of wedding they had a black choir sing "O HAPPY DAY" couldn't have been more perfect. AH did great walking down the aisle but daddy was suppose to grab her up before she actually made it all the way up front so he had to come get her(cause I knew she wouldn't have stood up there still and quite the whole time) and of course she got upset so he had to walk her out. But hey, at least she walked down the aisle. That's all I asked for. The reception was absolutely gorgeous. The band was amazing, food was fabulous and the photo booth was hilarious. Everybody had a blast. I know Ashley and J will remember this day forever couldn't have been anymore special for them. Sunday morning we woke up had brunch down in the hotel lobby and headed over to help finish cleaning up the reception area. We were home around 1 and we were all exhausted from a very busy fun filled weekend. Didn't get to take many pics due to me and AH both being in wedding so when I can get some from photographer I will post.
Congrats to Ashley and J. Yall's day was beyond perfect.

J and Ashley Lauderdale :)

AH 1st Horse Ride

As all of you may know my in-laws have a farm with several horses. Allie Hunter is obsessed with these horses. She can literally name all their names for you and she's better at pointing out who's who's than I am. Yeah I know that's sad. She has gotten to sit on the horses several times but she's never actually gotten on one saddled all up and gotten to ride around the field. So this Sunday Chad took Allie Hunter to the farm to see horses. She had been begging all week wanting to go see the horses. I stayed back home to get some house work done that I was way behind on. That might even be an understatement. When they finally got back home. Allie Hunter came running in the house saying "Mommie, I rode horses." I said "What horse did you ride?" her response "Mommie, I ride REO" (horses name is OREO) Gotta love how she says it. She was so excited. Now every time I try and bribe her like if she'll mind or be good at school I'll ask what she wants her response "I wanna ride horses" Looks like she'll be having alot more horse rides in her near future.

Paw Paw and AH riding Oreo aka REO

Ballet/Aunt Jennifers Graduation

Yay...Ballet finally started back up again. Allie Hunter was sooooooo excited to start back. I figured since we didn't do ballet the second part of the summer she would have forgotten about it. Ummm..NO, AH was so ready to go "CHASSE" and "TIPTOE" She couldn't wait. We started back last Thursday and as soon as I picked her up from school she said "Mommie, you taking me to chasse with Emma Grace?" For those of you who don't know yes my child literally has a BFF at 2. It's so crazy. She ask about her all the time and always wants to go see Emma Grace. This was our first time doing this class at ballet. We've always done the mommie and me class and now AH is old enough to move up. So mommie just gets to sit back and watch through the magic window :) She did amazing though. I was so proud of her. Of course she ROCKED her chassee and tiptoe moves. Also, her teachers are amazing. That's probably one reason Allie Hunter loves it so much. I forgot my camera as usual so I had to get some with my phone this was the best I could get. I'm gonna try and remember to take some more with my camera this week.

AH loves feeling independent. She is growing up way to fast for me.

After ballet was over we had to literally run to the car and rush over to DCH because my sister Jennifer was graduating from Radiology School. Didn't even have time to change AH out of her ballet outfit. YAY....Go Aunt Jen Jen. Can't believe her 2 years are already over. Congrats!!!!! All that hard work has finally payed off.

Jennifer's whole class

AH loves these 2 :)

Whole Family

The next day Jennifer took her exam in BHAM and of course she PASSED. YAY....We knew you could do it and she passed with flying colors. :) So we all got together and celebrated at the Cheesecake Factory. Our waitress fixed Jennifer's cheesecake up right......

Congratulations Jennifer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Afternoon @ the Park

So every since we got back from our cruise Allie Hunter has been so attached to her mommie. She missed me so much. :( She would whine when we had to go to school or even if we were at home and I walked out to use the bathroom she'd scream "mommie where'd you go, I need you". She wanted to go to school but she also wanted her mommie to stay there with her. So everyday I was having to bribe her, and The Park always seemed to work :) I took AH to this cute little park in Northport. They have so much stuff to do and AH can do pretty much everything. It's a perfect lil' place. Nobody is hardly ever there when we go. WE LOVE IT. Although she never wants to leave. I always have to make up some good excuse why we have to leave and she always says "OTAY" This particular day it was overcast and I told her that it was fixing to rain so we had to hurry and leave and also we were going to go eat beans (her favorite @ Mexican Restaurant) with MiMi. Which the going to eat beans part was TRUE !!

My sweet lil' girl

"Mommie I do it dis way"