A Fun Weekend with Family

This past weekend we enjoyed having Troy's brother, Jeremy, Aunt Jessica, Cylus and Elijah come for a visit.

What a great time our kids had playing together...

Elijah checking out the bubbles.

some swinging

and sillies

Hot fun at the Fort Worth Zoo

Laina discovered Aunt Jessica's snow cone...and then some grapes...lots of grapes...

We discovered some caves...

then we discovered some water...

Laina LOVED the water!

What a fun day at the zoo!

Then, after church on Father's Day, we went to play in the water for awhile...

some nice cool ice cream before going home

the weekend came to an end as we enjoyed an evening playing together

and visiting with Granny Hilda...

I think these girls really enjoyed their Aunt Jessica

Thanks for coming guys. We hope you'll come again!

Morning playtime...

My girls love to play together in the mornings.

Nettie loves to supervise

Mommy taking care of baby

(This baby bed was mine when I was little. Laina loves to get in it.)

And in another bed (we had the pack n play set up for baby Quinn.)

This bed caused a bloody nose for Alaina the other day.

Audrey thinks it's fun to climb in and out and was trying to help sissy.

Now off to swimming lessons.

"The Charlie Brown Show"

If you've been around Audrey much lately you know that she is pretty obsessed with Lucy and the Charlie Brown Show. In fact, most of the time these days she introduces herself to people as Lucy. And I have decided to leave it alone and just let her. Although most of the time I do let the people know later that her real name is Audrey.

And much of our time is spent singing songs from The Charlie Brown Show....

Thanks to our cousin Cate (below) for inviting Audrey to her performance of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" (where Cate played Lucy.) We do enjoy Charlie Brown, Cate, but please make sure you pick a good musical for next year seeing that we will all hear about it for the rest of the year.

Moving on...here are some fun pics from time in the pool with Cate, Caroline and Cole...

Let me apologize for Cate's baseball cap. I would've covered the letters on it if I could. Let's just pretend she's wearing another, more appropriate hat.

And finally some time lovin on Bapa...

On of my favorite things to hear Alaina say these days is "Bapa." She says it really slowly "ba....pa" And "Gia" sounds like she is yelling "Gya!"

These girls just adore their Bapa, can't you tell?

Sliding...and more sliding