Hanging out at the lake

"Cruisin on the lake with our friends"

Hayes in AWE!!!!

Brax being his silly self!!!

Me & Brax (well more so Brax) driving the boat, talking about a challenge

try driving a boat with a very strong willed 2 year old boy.....

Really.... Mom???

Our friends Kim & Hayes joined us for a ride on the lake, it was Hayes first time to ride or even a see a boat and he just loved it. Hayes looks a little uncomfortable (due to the vest) but after a few minutes he made himself right at home. The boys really liked walking back & forth on the boat and playing in the water! The day ended by a torrential down pour that we headed into and wow that was crazy, but fun!!! It rained so hard it hurt, the boys were both crying and all Kim & I could was laugh because we didn't think that it was really going to be that bad..... Shows how much we know at least it was fun and we all lived through it!!!!!

Fountains of Fun

Hayes, Luke, & Brax getting splashed by the water!!!

"Hey where did that come from,"

says Hayes

Oh man this is CRAZY!!!

We had a play date with our neighbors , Kristi & Luke as well Kim & Hayes. We all ventured to Suwanee Town Center Park for a picnic lunch and some water time in the fountains.

The boys all had a great time trying to catch the water with their mouths as well as hitting & kicking the spewing fountains. It was great to see them all play together and for us moms to get some quality adult conversation!

More pics of SGI

Chillin in the Gulf

with my two favorite people

in the world!!!

Aren't we precious....

The beach bums!!!!

I love my Reed!!!!

Nice face Grandpa!!!

The fabulous 4

Carly, Reed, Will & Brax!!!

Too Cute!!!!

Go Fast Daddy, Go fast!!!

The fam!!!

Gotta love Katie & Carly

It's raining it's pouring my daddy is snoring!!!

Go Grandma & Grandpa!!!!

Beach Pictures; how the kids and fathers LOVE these!!!!

The sign.... We stumbled across this on Friday, 4 days after we caught & cooked 40 female blue crabs. We did not know at the time they were all females.

Can we say exhausted kiddos!?!

Brax loves riding in Kim's car, that's all he says when we are getting ready to go

I ride in mim's car!!!!!!!

What a story......

I am involved with a ministry called Teen MOPS(Mothers of Preschoolers) and this has really changed my life. I have a heart for these girls because one of my good friends got pregnant when we were seniors in high school and I saw first hand how hard it was for her. I would have never thought that 11 years later I would be help leading a group of girls that are all in the same boat as she was and they all have similar stories.

With that being said, there is this one particular girl in the TMOPS group who has been placed on my heart. I will call her Jenn. Jenn was one of the first girls to join the group and I really liked her from the start. She has a 2 year old little girl who is so cute and a mess, I mean mess!!! Anyhow, Jenn is really strong & has a good head on her shoulders to be as young as she is, 17. This girl got pregnant at the young age of 14 and that is not even the beginning of her story. Jenn is one of 4 kids, 2 of which died by the age of 5 years old from a rare disease that is literally like 1 in a trillion chance of having yet both of her brothers had it and past away from this mysterious disease. As if this weren't enough her father committed suicide after the deaths of her brothers. I can only imagine how this now 17 year old girl has lived. She has taught many me things in the 8 months that I have known her. She is an amazing young woman who knows how to keep it to together and be one heck a mom to her little girl, which is something that she has not had since her 2nd brother died. Jenn's mom tapped out and has really been inactive in her life as well as her other sisters life, who is 7 years old. It is ashame that these things happen but I know in my heart that my God is working in and around Jen's life. Jenn even says that getting pregnant at such an early age was indeed absurd but if it weren't for her little girl she would most likely not be alive due to her ways of living at that time. There again that proves to me that God really works in mysterious ways & on His terms.

Jenn is now facing another pregnancy which she views much differently than the first. She also has much more on her plate that I time to explain. Jenn can not talk to her mom about what's going on in her life so her only people to talk to are us at TMOPS, her peers, & a few other individuals she has met along her journey.

This is where I come into the picture... I am trying my hardest to help this girl in any & all ways possible. I am begging God to show me where I am in this situation and what is His will for me. I want to be able to be used by God in whatever way He desires. I feel that God has lead me to Jenn for this reason. I think about her a lot, more so than any of the other girls yet I do not know exactly what to do, there is a silence. I feel that this silence is from God and I am patiently waiting for my next move. I pray for the words and actions to move forward in our relationship and my hope is that whatever God has laid out for me it comes soon and I can be of more assistance and help to Jenn. For the time being I will continue to pursue God's will in this situation as well as all others in my life. I will also continue to pray for guidance and direction for Jenn as she doesn't even know what to pray for ( I know this for a fact from a conversation we recently had) and I want to ask that you, the little audience of this blog, keep this girl in your prayers. The only thing that has come to my mind for her and I told her this was to pray for direction and guidance. This is a start and to me is a good one....

Round 2!!!!!

We had so much fun the first time around we just had to go again!!!!

All the Glaze's decided we wanted to go back to St. George Island for one last bang before school started. It was so much fun!!!

This time was completely different in so many ways and I think this time around was more fun at least to me anyways. We got REALLY creative in a lot of different ways and some really cute things took place over the course of the week.

The week started out as just another trip to the beach.... Pool time, beach time (which this time Brax really got a kick out of this time) and nap time!!! But then it started to rain on Monday morning and the fun began. We all ended up on the beach crabbing, yes we were catching crabs out the gulf and it was raining and it was soooo much fun as well as a really a unique experience. Brax was having tremendous amount of fun at this point because he ran up & down the beach singing, "it's raining, it's pouring my daddy is snoring!!!!" So sweet and forever etched in my mind!!!! So with all the crab we caught we decided we were going to be outdoors men and cook the crab, yeah you heard it right we had to kill, cook, and gut approximately 40 or so blue crabs, it was so much fun & turned out very tasty! Then we found the sign.... You are not to keep the female crabs with eggs! Turns out that's all we had what a shame but we did not know we were not supposed to do this. The rest of the day was pretty normal with the exception of cooking the crabs, as it was family affair. Go Doug go!!!! Then came Tuesday, Wave runner day! Grandpa rented two wave runners and everyone got to & more importantly wanted to ride all day long, even Brax got to ride and he loved it, he kept saying Go Fast Go Fast!!!!

After all of this excitement came a lot of reading as you can see Grandpa along with Will & Brax enjoying themselves on the porch. I think Grandpa read like five or six books, he's a machine!!! There was also a lot of napping done by all of us, so much that Kim, Will & Brax all fell asleep on the couch one day, too cute!!!!

Anyhow the rest of the week was about the same as the first few days with the exception of shopping in Apalachicola. We rented wave runners again and oh yeah on that day Katie, Bekki, and Joan say they saw a pilot whale, they swear by it so who knows!!! The wave runners were an awesome experience this time as there was so much marine life all around us, dolphins, sting rays, sea turtles, jelly fish, and even a whale!!!! It was really neat to see all of these animals up close and personal, the dolphins would ride with us or circle us as we sat and watched them play on the wave runners.

Brax was extra precious this trip. There were a few mornings that he woke daddy & I up by singing to us, it was so cute and something that I will always remember. There has been nothing sweater than waking up to my sweet little boy singing "Ba Ba Black Sheep" along with a beach sunrise, it was awesome!!!

These two trips to the beach this year have been of the best ever. There is something about this place that is so home like and more importantly we as a family have fun together all week long!!!

Thanks again Grandma & Grandpa for a great time and awesome memories, We love you!!!!