weekend recap.

well. this past weekend was so busy. as you can see i had no time at all to blog & def. forgot my camera.

wedds came in to town on friday! we are all so excited to have him here & i cannot wait to post pictures of his adventures. he had a really busy weekend filled with fun & friends so the next few days he will be relaxing with his favorite little brother zeke.

friday we had a photoshoot with a family of 5 & it was super fun & an incredible learning experience. when you are doing photography with someone there is so much to learn. what are each others strength and weaknesses and how to work  around all of these things. i am so thankful for ronda, she is so gifted & def.  more experienced than i am so she is showing me the ropes a little.

saturday jessica & i threw our dear friend jena her baby shower for lily. her first baby girl! jessica should really be a party planner bc she is so detailed and everything she does is extremely thought out. here are some of the pictures from the shower. *please excuse the quality as they were taking with my iphone*

all in all it was a great turnout. amazing food & amazing people getting together to celebrate a new baby coming into this world!

after the shower i went over to the pool at our friends house and hung out. little zeke is the cutest you guys!

his mom is too.

sunday we went to church & cory lead worship. i always enjoy watching him lead it makes my heart skip beats. courtney took wedds to the aquarium & there will be more on that later, but here is the sweetest picture i took of them at church on sunday. 

we asked wedds what he was most excited about while being here & his response was, "seeing zeke".

heart =melted

this was on the bus going back to marta.

this was picking him up at the airport. i almost cried. it was the sweetest moment. 

we have so much more in store for him while he is here. i am so excited to show you all of his adventures.

cheers,

mrs. estes

i finally chose.

i have been searching for swim suits for a while now. i have looked everywhere you can think & they are either too much money or the site has horrible reviews. so. i have ordered from the site 6pm before & they have really good deals & i have never had a problem. i usually buy pieces instead of whole suits so i decided to order some nike bottoms from there. they are a good color & look super comfy.

then i went to the adidas site & ordered these bottoms.

i only have 1 top so far, but i decided on black bc it will match everything. kohls had some good clearance items & i chose this one.

i want another top-pref. on the sporty side so we shall see how the search goes. i should have all of these in by the end of the week so i will let you know!

i am so excited about this summer. it is going to be magical! daytona in 1 month! let the countdown begin.

cheers,

mrs. estes

saturday night with the crawfords.

one thing you will learn about me is i am a little picky when it comes to who i spend my time with. time is special & something you can never get back so i like to choose wisely when it comes to friends. the crawfords are very special to us & i feel so blessed to call them friends, but i also consider them family. they were there for cory when he really needed someone. russ married cory & i. they did our pre-marital counseling. alison has been on the other end of some really serious phone calls from me frantic & a little lost. needless to say they have been a godsend to us.

i met "abomb" when she was pregnant with her first little girl lily rain. then lyla came along & now little will. i love watching her be a mother, i love all my conversations with her kids, taking their pictures, playing with a card board box, pushing them on the swing, reading them stories or taking all the pictures they colored for me and putting them all over my fridge. it makes me excited to have these wonderful women in my life to look up too as wives & mothers.

we feel so blessed to have such special people in my life. i know if there is something i really need or someone to really talk to that will be honest with me, pray with me & for me i would call abomb. so abomb if you are reading these i hope you know how special you are to cory & i.

this past saturday we went with the ivey's to take them some dinner since they just had a  little one. we ordered chinese in case you were wondering. we blew bubbles, ronda played chase, we colored some pictures for their new cardboard box house & sat on the porch telling stories. one of them was lyla picking all these tomatoes at her grandparents house. she picked 19 ahahhaha. they were not ready yet so now they are sunbathing on the porch.

here are some pictures i took of the day. 

abomb wouldn't smile for the camera. 

the many faces of russ.

will.

lyla.

lily.

i have learned that lyla loves the camera. she loves for me to take a ton of pictures which i love. lily is a little camera shy, but every once and a while she will say, "hey look at me", & i snap the button. 

like this one.

she is the sweetest & so motherly. she was leading zeke around & showing him where the bubbles were so he could pop them. she was trying to pick him up & it was the sweetest.

we made a little window out of their cardboard box. 

it is amazing how much fun you can have with a box, scissors & sweet kiddos.

sweet lyla & her bubbles.

ronda played chase with them.

lily had some sweet time with zeke in the eno.

one in black-n-white for good measure.

that sweet little hand around him. makes me giggle.

playing hide-n-seek.

lyla and her lightening bug.

zeke & nick 

some more for good measure.

to me this past weekend is what summer is all about. being with friends & the ones you love. the weather was incredible, so much laughter, good food, relaxing & enjoying life. i am so richly blessed with friends & family & i  never want to take any of these moments for granted. i want to cherish them all. these kiddos make me excited to be a mother. 

one day i will be posting pictures of my own children & the thought of that makes my heart leap. until that moment i will have my camera ready to capture all these sweet moments.

cheers,

mrs. estes