New Orleans!

Nathan's gone :( for training....again! He'll be gone til the 26th. So my mom and dad decided to come stay with me and the girls while he is away. Me and the girls picked them up in New Orleans last Tuesday and we stayed and played there for a few days. This post has a bunch of pics...thanks to my mom!
Eating at Bubba Gump's!!! It was SOOOOO delicious!!
Our friendly waitress who sang songs with Kaylin.

This was our hotel lobby. It was an old factory that they converted into a hotel.

Wore them out!
We on a swamp tour the next day and saw LOTS of alligators! Here's the nasty swamp water!!
And a nasty big bug on our boat!
And a NASTY alligator!

And an "alligator house" as Kaylin would say.
Later that day we went to an old plantation house. It was called Oak Alley because of all the old oak trees that were lined up in front of it. It was so pretty! The trees were over 300 years old!


We went to an aquarium the next day.


And then we went to the Children's Museum. The girls had a blast! It was one of the best children's museums we've been too.



They had the cutest miniature grocery store. Both the girls were in heaven!


These pics were from the next day in Baton Rouge...we decided to stay a night there too. We went to the Rural Life Museum were they had houses and antiques from the 1800's...it was really neat.

Another nasty big bug!!!


We missed you Daddy!!!!!

4th of July

actually it was the 3rd...but since the 4th was on a Sunday this year all the celebrations went on on the 3rd. Keepin the Sabbath Day holy! We had the "Freedom Fest" here at Fort Polk where Trace Adkins gave a free concert!! We saw about half of it before Kaylin had an accident and we had to go home... :( She was too excited about dancing around with her friends to take a potty break. We were kinda glad to have an excuse to leave the cigarette smoke and drunks tho....and on the way home we remembered that Nathan and I both had lessons to teach at church today! Whoops! So we had some extra time to work on those.
Taylor girl is ALWAYS eating....for real....I'm not even exaggerating a little!
Kaylin was dancing with her {boy}friend Kyler pretty much the whole time. It was hilarious!
And of course here's a 4th of July family pic! Please excuse our sweaty, sticky faces...and my melted hair.

Sesame Street Live!!

Last night we went to see Sesame Street Live! Well...all the girls cared about was Elmo. The first pic is of Nathan and Kaylin waiting to see Elmo up close....Kaylin was super bummed that she didn't get to hug him.

They gave out these spinny things to all the kids before the show started.
Kaylin and her friend Kyler waiting for the show to start!

Sleepy girls!

Kaylin sleeping 5 min. after we walked in the door from church....

Taylor 5 min. after playing with Daddy...

California Trip

We went to California with my mom and dad a few weeks ago. We had so much fun but definitely wore ourselves out! On the first day there we went to Disneyland.

On the Finding Nemo submarine ride.

Kaylin talked grandma into getting her a princess sucker....I'm sure it didn't take to much convincing.

Me and my brother and sister have a picture in front of this same door when we were little...now my girls have one too!

She's just too cute!!

Kaylin loved every second we spent at Disneyland! She didn't want to ride in the stroller at all...she did not want to miss a thing! She missed the fireworks both nights because she just couldn't stay awake any longer. (Nathan got us reserved seating for the fireworks show BOTH night...it was soooo awesome!! He also got us free parking the first day! He also got us to the front of a 45 min. line for the new Toy Story ride! And he got a free water with his turkey leg purchase! What would I do without him??!!)

Kaylin got to meet the princesses. She was beside herself!

On the 2nd day, we went to Knotts Berry Farms ( where we got military discounted tickets...thanks to Nathan :) It was lots of fun! Kaylin got to ride on lots of rides by herself!

All these theme parks were wearing Taylor out...she couldn't even finsh her cookie on the car ride back to the hotel!

On the 3rd day we went to the beach! Kaylin got sucked down by a wave 5 minuntes after we got there!! It didn't stop her tho! She thought it was so much fun!

Taylor wasn't so sure about the beach at first...but she warmed up to it and didn't want to leave when it was time to go!

I forgot to bring swimsuits for the girls ( I know....how could I forget swimsuits for a trip to Cali?? LOSER!!) So this is what we found at Goodwill for the girls to wear! At least their new suits offered lots of skin coverage from the sun!

On the 4th day we went to California Adventure...and I only took about 4 pictures...I really need to do better about picture taking. We did have lots of fun tho! Thanks for coming with us Mom and Dad! We love and miss you guys!!

Taylor is ONE!!!! WHAT?!?!!

We are so blessed to have Taylor in our family. I can't believe she's already one!! Where did my baby go?!?

She's always busy and always wants to do whatever Kaylin is doing! She also knows what she wants and knows how to get what she wants!! She's learning how to pay Kaylin back for all the things she did to her as a baby...pinching and pulling hair are her weapons of choice.

And she STILL loves her some food!! Any kind...at any time!

WE LOVE YOU TAYLOR!!!!
Thank you Grandma and Papa for the $, ball, and bath toys! Thank you Aunt Raine and Uncle Dusty for the very cute dress and baby doll (Kaylin still thinks its hers!)! Thank you Grandma Sherwood for the rocking giraffe and doggy backpack!