Energizer Bunny

Just a quick up date on Ellie since she is changing so much lately and so cute. This little girl is on the move every minute she is awake. She is always carrying stuff around, climbing in stuff, pulling stuff, emptying stuff, and trying to get into baskets and buckets! She is such a happy baby and all of us watching her go, but she sure keeps me busy!

She still loves carrying purses, baby dolls, and helping with laundry. She helps me unload the dishwasher by handing me the utensils one at a time while trying to say "thank you" each time. She loves climbing in and out of the pool and loves bath time. She loves spaghetti, hot dogs, fruit, milk, and ice pops.

And she loves her favorite playmate Colt!

And she loves her blanky! She is now over one year old and starting to throw her little temper tantrums which consist of throwing her self on the floor face down and then kicking her feet for a minute. Ha, it's gonna take more than that kid!

Rachel and Olivia's Week in New York

Rachel and Olivia got to go on a special trip to New York a week before the rest of us! Michelle came and picked them up for me in Houston and turned right around and flew back with them. The girls were so very excited to go without the rest of us, kinda of sad for me that they didn't want us there but I got over it as I enjoyed a week of only half the chaos! Thanks so much Michelle and Mom for this awesome week, we all loved it!

They had tons of fun playing with Hannah and all the many toys at Grammy's house without any interruption from Colt or Ellie.

There was lots of swimming and fun trips around town to the beach. And best of all, lots of time with Grammy, Poppy, Hannah and Dan all by themselves!

They got to meet their new cousin Cora and were so attached! Every time they come over they girls are following baby Cora around and hanging out with her every feeding.

Aunts and uncles, campfires, pizza, friends, sleepovers on Grammy's floor, crafts, splash pad, and so many more fun things. You sure are lucky girls! A lot of my extended family started coming into town this week for our family reunion so there where always people around and fun stuff to do.

Rachel had lots of fun hanging out with her friend Darriel before he left on his mission! He is such a fun babysitter for them!

Painting shells was a big craft for both of them and Livy spent a long time wrapping each one and writing everyones name on one. What a sweetie!

Thank you for such a great week and special treat of coming early Grammy and Poppy. We are so lucky to have such family. We really love you guys and everyone for helping out .

The next week Colt, Ellie, and I came to visit and there will be more on that to come!

Our first attempt to get to New York was on a day that they had severe thunderstorms in New York and JFK was closed for a while so after waiting 5 hours we decided to call it quits and try it again the next day. Luckily the next day had no delays and went as good as it could have!

Where do they come up with these things?

Just a glimpse of the crazy concoction they girls made in their closet one night. There is more you can't see but you get the idea. They took everything they could find in the bathroom up stairs and decided that in their closet would be the perfect place to mix it all together and make a soup, with lots of water of course. I don't know where they think of this stuff, but they paid for this one. I thought Colt and Ellie would be the messier and more destructive ones but I was way off, these two are always doing things I would never expect and there fore can't advise them against before hand. Oh well, they are creative or curious I guess, if they could just harness that for a good cause!!

Budding Photographers

The kids love to use my little camera and take pictures of everything. If we are having a hard behavior moment when we are out sometimes then we break out the camera and take some pictures. It works pretty well to get them calmed down most times!

This is Honey, a friends dog we were pet sitting. The kids loved playing with her and trying to walk her around the house on a leash. She is still a puppy so she has a lot more energy than Pebbles and they liked that!

Ellie got hit by her powerful  tail too many times so she  is the only one who didn't like to play with Honey!

More of their photos.....

I don't know what the "photographer" was doing here to them but they a really aren't mean!

Decorations they made for me and hung on my door when they were home with a babysitter one day, sweet girls!

Photos at a restaurant....

Just some photos of what they see, from their view!