The alien invasion

Mackie's Second Birthday

Last night we celebrated the birth of MaryAnne Coker Presnell. Our sweet but fiesty baby girl. The past two years have flown by and each day she grows so much.

It was an evening full of family, friends, cake and of course lots of swimming.

Cake...

Presents...

Our little birthday girl. We love you!

Fripp Island 2010

Building Sandcastles

Swimming with Daddy

Joseph and Leanna

Finn and Mama in the Frog pool

Ready to play on the beach

Looking for dolphins

Look at me

Ready to go -- swimsuit, diaper, and even our sun shirt

Finn's favorite thing - minnows

Daddy in his favorite chair

Finn's ready to go...

Lil Mac

Sleeping Beauty

Lake Burton 2010 ..... Finn - Our little Daredevil

On your mark.....

Get set......

Go.......

Splash.........

Oh the summer....

Well, summer is slowly coming to a halt. We have throughly enjoyed ourselves with trips to Fripp Island, Lake Burton, Uncle T and Bec's wedding in Highlands, and of course lots of boat rides and catching of crabs.

Finn can now swim under water - though Tripp needed to rescue him once as he jumped off the dock at Lake Burton with no one in the water to help (my heart almost stopped, but all was well). He has jumped off the diving board at the pool and several boat houses at Lake Burton (pics to come in a separate post).

Mackie thinks she can swim.

School starts next week for Finn and Mackie. This will be Mac's first time in "real" preschool. She will be going Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Finn will be going Monday through Friday. We meet our new teaches on Friday.

Finn at school

Finn seems to love his school, but every picture, and I mean every one, taken of him at school shows his now famous photo grimace. This includes the christmas picture, our valentines day picture, etc. I even have a picture of him facing the wall instead of smiling in the camera.

But Ms. Susan finally got the perfect shot. I must say my little boy is quite handsome!

PS - He has now added Ms. Susan and Ms. Emmy to his God Blesses everynight.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Presnell household. If only, we had remembered to wear some green today. But alas, mama can't seem to remember it all so Finn went to school with no green. Thankfully, pinching is not allowed in pre-school and most of his "sinns" (Finn's pronunciation of friends) generally overlooked the day.

The Mackster is recovering nicely from an ear infection, but still has a really nasty cough and runny nose. It really can't warm up fast enough for all of us.

Speaking of warming up. Tripp and I have been working hard in the yard and garden. So far we have some carrots, lettuce, arugala, cabbage, okra, broccoli, and snap peas planted. I'll post some pictures for all to see as soon as I can.

Nanny or Nana is headed this way on Friday to help babysit.