San Diego

Brad and I took a trip to San Diego at the end of July. We decided to leave the babies home and just do a couple trip!! How nuts are we? VERY! Although it was very hard to leave the girls, we had a good time. Uncle Bryan and Aunt Lora kept the girls for us, they had a houseful, they had our two, her sisters two girls and then their three! They called it Cousin Camp!

At the beginning of cousin camp, everyone in a good mood

Brad and Alex. Alex was a student of Brad's at the University of KS, it was his wedding we went to.

Brad and I at the rehearsal dinner

About to go out with my cousin

My cousin Joli and I

Dipping our feet in the Pacific, man it's burzy cold!!

The Shamu show at Sea World, advice: Don't go to Sea World when you miss your kids like crazy!

At Alex and Stephanie's wedding, it was a great time!

4th of July Weekend

The 4th of July weekend

In the Skybox at the Huntsville Stars game

John and Emerson

Maddy and Murphy with Carsen

John with the Stars' mascot

Emerson would only give him knuckles, she absolutely didn't want to stand next to him

Too cool for school in Aunt Lora's sunglasses, those poor glasses will never be the same after being manhandled by a 2 year old

Gramma Cyndi and Grampa Bob with Carsen

Gramma Cyndi and Emers

At the pool

Emers and Grampa Bob

Only the most healthy drinks for our kid!

Uncle Bryan and Carsen

Emers and Aunt Lora, notice how Emers has a death grip on Aunt Lora's earrings

Lovin' that thumb!

Murphy and Maddy, they are too sweet

passing the baby

at our house on the 4th, we had everyone over for a BBQ and fireworks

Gramma Cyndi and Emers

Aunt Coley and Carsen

Hangin' out

Aaww

Emers and her first experience with sparklers

Carsen is 4 months old

Our sweet little Carsen had her 4 month Dr. appointment the other day. She's growing so fast! Almost 12 lbs! She got three shots and didn't cry at all, I'm so amazed! I think it was harder on me than it was on her! She did wonderful after, in fact she "talked" all afternoon, she is so adorable! She constantly amazes me!

Drive Thru Zoo

Who knew there was a little Drive Thru Zoo here in Huntsville? Well it's not actually in Huntsville, it's out of town a little, but who knew? It was a fun little adventure, Emers loved the animals and she thought it was great to throw food at them. Carsen slept the whole time, she woke up in time to see the tortoises, they had me worried, they were eyeing my little baby.

She's really driving, she loved it!

It cracked me up that she was brave enough to feed this little guy

It made me very nervous that she was brave enough to feed this BIG guy

These guys were so funny, they knew we had food and they wanted it, they are surprisingly fast!

Giving kisses through the glass, the kid needs to kiss everything!

First Time at the Pool

We took the girls to the pool for the first time a few weeks ago, Emerson went last year but this is the first time this year and obviously it was Carsen's first time. They loved it!

Can't you tell how excited she is!

This kiddo absolutely loves the water!

In the little shade tent

Taking it easy, this pool stuff is hard work

She has red lips from a popsicle

She loves the juice

Carsen's Video

I put together a little video of Carsen, just to see how easy/hard it was. Next will be one for Emerson! Enjoy!

Meredith

My great friend Meredith called me a couple months ago, and said she'd like to come down for a visit, of course I said YES! Meredith is from my same hometown of Rangely, our moms were actually really good friends when we were really little, but it was years later when Meredith and I actually became good friends. Meredith and her cute brother Isaac, and her sister Rachel used to work with me at a little place called Colorado Freeze, a great little greasy spoon in Rangely, we had a lot of fun there. I used to ask Isaac to marry me everyday, his response was always the same "but I'm only sixteen"! As if that mattered! But I digress, Meredith was also, the lab assistant in my Chem lab in college, she's actually younger than I am, but she was already in the Dental Hygiene program that I was trying to get into. We used to have so much fun having little picnics on my living room floor and watching movies, we would go and get every kind of junk food known to man, park our butts on my living room floor, and pig out while watching some 80's movie in the VCR, wow I don't even own a VCR anymore! She moved to Missouri when she graduated the hygiene program, she's actually the reason I moved to Kansas. Needless to say, we've been friends for years! She's gorgeous inside and out! I don't know what I'd do without her!

At my wedding...of course she was a bridesmaid!

At Emerson's Baptism, with her sweet daughter Bailey

At the Botanical Gardens with my sweet Emers

She looks great, not the most flattering pic of me!