Week in Review

On Sunday we loaded the kids up and headed down to South Padre. Our first stop was to Uncle Doug and Aunt Melissa's house to see them and do a little swimming.


Harper and Uncle Doug relaxing on the couch.





Hadlee taking pictures of me with Aunt Melissa's camera. Hadlee named their babies- "Bucket" and "Stroller". She's pretty disappointed that they aren't using her names.




Harper holding Ace while Hadlee looked on. The girls loved getting to hold and feed Ace. They're getting ready for Cooper and Cannon in a couple of months.

Hays taking the 30th picture of Alyssa. He loved getting to take pictures with his mommy's camera.

Harper and Alyssa on the cool swing.

Messing around at the park.

Hadlee loves climbing and hanging, the girl is a natural.

Hays loved the water this year. He was the bravest and loved getting knocked over by the waves. I took each kid separately to the beach, then everyone went together when we had dinner at a restaurant on the beach.

AJ, Harper and Hays having fun in the sand.

Marissa, the babysitter for Will's girls, playing with all three in the water. We sure enjoyed her while we were at the restaurant.

Hadlee and Mommy together on the beach.
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Quick pic by the shark, they posed so well!

At home after eight hours in the car together. The kids did much better than their mother, she was sooo ready to be home.

Happy 4th of July

Today we went to the 33rd Annual Fourth of July parade in Chappell Hill. This was the third time we've been to the parade and we've enjoyed it everytime, especially Hadlee, who's our number one candy competitor. Hadlee started packing the car last night with chairs and bags for the candy. This morning she had her dress on that she picked out from Old Navy and her "matching" baseball cap and shoes. When we got to the parade she put down her chair, opened up her bag and got out her cell phone, baby doll and baby blanket. I forgot to get a picture of her set-up she had before the parade and then Wade and I got busy during the parade. Hays got hit in the eye with a piece of candy and we had to watch Harper carefully so she didn't get any candy with dye in it. Hadlee got twice as much candy as the other two and was even pushing like the older kids. Before naptime she said that she was tired because the parade was hard work. That's our girl.

We're going to watch fire works tonight. This is our only weekend in June and July that we're at home. We've got church tomorrow then we're headed to Victoria then to South Padre for the week. If it rains next week, it's because we're trying to go to the beach.....