Thursday, June 19, 2008

Oh the Fun We've Been Having!

Let me first introduce you to my family.
Left: my brother Michael, his wife Amy and my nephew Bryce.
Middle: my brother Jason, his wife Jennifer and my niece Hannah
Right: our family
Jason and Jennifer drove up from Texas to spend a week hanging out with us. We started the weekend off by playing outside in the pool. Then we all packed up and headed to Atlanta to celebrate Bryce turning one! Kate had a blast playing with all the balloons Aunt Amy had out.
Uncle Michael hung a swing in their front yard that was tons of fun. The way it was hung allows you to send your kids FLYING through the air. I wish they had an adult swing like that!
My dad thought it would be fun to squirt water in the kids mouths. They loved it and kept coming back for more. It was so cute when they would crawl up to my dad and just open their mouth for him to squirt water in it.
We all went for a walk one afternoon and here are Hannah and Kate taking it easy in Bryce's red wagon. My sweet dad hauled them around the entire neighborhood.
Bryce has some really fun toys. Kate loved his alphabet toys most of all. She constantly made a dash for the dishwasher to play with all the letters every chance she got.
We thought it would be cute to get the cousins in the bath tub together...it was only cute for about 5 minutes and then the crying started!! This is a great picture for you to see that Kate takes after Jason....she is soooo tan!!We tried going to the water park one day but got rained out so we ended up inside in the pool. We did try again the next day to got to the water park and got some really cute pictures that I will post later.
After all our fun in Atlanta we headed home. Jason and Jennifer, my parents and I headed to the zoo one afternoon which was a lot of fun.
Kate is learning new things everyday. One of her new favorite things to do is climb inside our tv cabinet. She will sit for forever just playing with all her toys under there. It is really cute to watch.
And finally we had a girls night out without babies which was TONS of fun!! Jennifer, my mom, and I headed to Sips N Strokes. We had a great time and ended up with some great paintings. Thanks mom for the fun night out.

5 comments:

Whitlamy said...

Thanks for coming this weekend. It means a lot to have family to celebrate with. Hey, I forgot to mention I have that same shirt you've got in the plane photo below. Don't ya just love Target?

Deb said...

HOW FUN!!! I wanna go next time! You're family does it up right! :) Ok...seeing all those pics really makes me miss you! We've GOT to hang out this week! The painting is awesome by the way. Great job!

Leslie Harwell said...

I am so glad you had a great time with your family. Love the painting you picked out - good job! Hope we can see each other soon. I have seen you in forever (well VBS seems forever ago).

Busy momma said...

Love the sips n strokes picture. Found your blog through the Harwells by the way :) Your baby girl is precious!

Wilson's Winners said...

Hey girl - I think the pattern is MaCalls Simplicity - let me double check! Sewing is SO fun:)