Trip to my Cousins

Last week my dad I took a trip to my cousin, Julie's house.  She lives in a little city north of Rockwall, TX.  They live in the country and since Ryan and I hope to live in the country some day, this is a lot of fun!  Julie and her husband, Kevin have 3 great kiddos!  Jacob is 10, Shelbie is 7, and and Carlie is almost 3.  Julie and I are far apart in age but ever since I got married then had kids, we have more in common.  I love that we were pregnant at the same time even for a few months.  (Me with my first, Julie with her last)

We had a great and exhausting time.  It is just a lot of work keeping up with my kiddos or feeling guilty if I don't :)  Oh well...

Here's a lot of pictures from our trip!

I never remember my dad jumping on a trampoline with me as a kid, but of course he'll do it for Cade.

This about sums up Julie's personality..if you can sum it up at all!! She is so full of life and I love that her kids are too!

Me and my sweet Shelbie

Perfect!!

Julie bought some 50 cent Frisbees...and we definitely got our money's worth and more!  We had a great time with these!  My dad went to Wal-mart the last night to try to get Jacob a "real Frisbee", but they were sold out?!?!

We also decorated flip-flops.  There were some for Nana as well as Carlie, but they were both sleeping when we took this picture!

This is going in a frame!  I love these two so much!

I wanted to try to get a group shot of the kids...super hard!  (by the way, I wish Cammy had been here and we'd have the entire great grand kids)  Anyway...I thought for sure Popsicles would do the trick, but I think a motorcycle or horse caught their attention here.

And Cade is done!

Julie's 3

Cade dripped Popsicle all over my back while I was taking pictures!

The horse across the street...he was so sweet.  Cade was a little taken back

but not Lyla.

Cade's (and Lyla's) first fishing trip.  We went to one of Julie's friends house.  They have a pond they built and were so kind to let us come out there.  Jacob was really sweet to Cade and was excited to show him.  Cade was really excited until someone caught a fish and he saw that squirmy thing.

you mean, that's what all this is about?

sweet Carlie!

The family...(minus Granddad, Ryan, Nana, Eric, Amy, and Cammy)...other than that, there's my family!

Photo a Day July

Fun day with my "childhood" friends

For those friends and family that aren't on Facebook much (or ever) I wanted to give you the link to Becky's blog about or play date the other day!

http://awalkdownbaileylane.blogspot.com/2012/07/friday-fun-day.html

Thanks Becky for taking the pictures!!! These are priceless!

Butler Park Fun!!

Here's a few pictures from our small group's outing at Butler Park!

 

Lyla and Stephanie sure are best buds!  Steph is so generous and always helping me with Lyla!  She was feeding Lyla some raspberries and she ended up getting raspberries on both of them!

Lyla in her "two-piece" from Aunt Angie

How could I not get a picture of this??  Ryan enjoyed this humor!

Cade and Bishop taking turns putting their feet (and bottoms) on the water!

My two sweets!

Cade loves him some watermelon!!

Messy Marvins

My kids don't get a bath every night...I know shocking right?  Sometimes I look at the clock and wonder how it's already 8:00 and neither kid is in pajamas!  So, if I know they are due for a bath then I just let them have some fun playing and not worry about how messy they are.  These are cute pictures of my kids even with their messy hair and faces!

I love it when Ryan looks at Lyla and says, "I thought girls weren't supposed to be messy".  Why can't a girl get messy?  I used to spill guacamole on my new outfits at school when I was younger.  It's ok, Lyla...you can still be a lady and be messy sometimes!

I mean...look at this girl!  :)

Cade loves his messy sister!

This is the face of a little girl who ate spaghetti and then had her brother poor flour in her hair!

There's a piece of spaghetti!

Independence Day Photos

I love matching or coordinating outfits.  With a boy and girl it's not always easy to come by (or at least within my budget).  So, before I send the kids to my dad's house for the day I decided to snap some photos.  It always sounds better in my head than what happens on the camera!

oh well...

Why aren't they looking at me....oh yea..Cade had a flag that he brought out there because it matched his shirt.  That's all they cared about :)

That's my happy girl!

yup...that's the best one I got of both of them.  I took about 50 in 10 minutes and this is what I got.

I kept taking a bunch of Lyla because she was some what cooperating.  Then I realized I had the focus wrong and they all turned out blury.  Then...I was wondering where Cade was.  He was all excited we were going to "Baba's" house so I fugured he was trying to get in the car.

of course..he was in a box!  Thanks daddy for all the fireworks boxes that are now covering our living room! 

Hope you had a great Fourth of July!!