8 Months Old-Olivia

Sweet Olivia is 8 months old. Wow! She is doing so well and getting so big. She can sit up and she rolls all over the place. She likes to get up on all fours but she isn't crawling just yet. She gets real mad though when she can't go anywhere. She likes to eat soft food that is cut up into tiny little pieces. And she is going to Mothers Day Out 2 days a week. She doesn't sleep all night. Again, we are hoping that changes soon. Real soon! We love you sweet girl!

She was not cooperative for her 8 month photo shoot... We'll try again at 9 months... If I remember...

This Past Weekend...

We had some visitors from Central Texas.  MawMaw and Aunt Sandy!  We started off the weekend with some baking.  Fun times.

We also started off the weekend with a bad thunderstorm, complete with hail.

But we saw a beautiful rainbow when it was over!

Singing the ABCs with Aunt Sandy (with hand motions, of course!)

Visiting the Lego booth at the Odessa Farmer's Market.

Hanging out at McKinney Park for a while.

We had to leave the spray ground because Olivia cried every time the loud whistle blew.

Crawling lessons with MawMaw

Fish Fry...WooHoo!!

Another addition to our summer park adventures.

We had such a fun weekend and hope to do it again soon.  

Mavery Lynn - 4 Years Old?!?!

This little cutie turned 4 years old this week.  What?  Mavery is not allowed to grow up.  She is our BABY!  We have been discussing how much she has grown and developed just over the last couple of months.  I just love watching her settle into her own little personality with plenty of unique "likes and dislikes".  She is the snuggle bunny of the family and loves to chill out on the couch and watch movies.  She likes to sleep late (thank goodness!) and she loves to eat fruit and cheese.  She has a lot to say for such a little thing and while she still has her shy moments, she has really come out of her shell this year.  

Birthday Morning

Opening presents after school

Playing with the pedicure set she got for her birthday

Enjoying some birthday cake

We love you Mavery Lynn and love watching you grow up!

Vacation 2015

We kicked off Vacation 2015 with some froyo the night before departure at Orange Leaf.

 Why, yes.  That is us all boarded on the plane at 6:30am!  

  Houston, here we come!

First stop, haircuts for Mavery and Evie.

 This is the pile of hair that Evie shed for the summer.

 Ready for the beach!

 Fishing in Pops' pool never gets old.

 Outta my way!  I gotta get to the beach!

 Mavery's "stylish" pose while trying on sun hats for the beach.

 We made it to Galveston on Tuesday afternoon and enjoyed the beach for a little while.  It was still a bit cool from all the storms and flooding the previous day.  This is the gray sky we woke up to on Wednesday morning.  Mavery is sitting on the balcony looking pretty glum at the rain on her vacation.

But the rain left about mid morning and we were able to enjoy an afternoon at the beach.  Mavery LOVED the water and the waves.  

Evie enjoyed building sand castles.  (in her life jacket...safety first!)

Olivia hung out in the baby sling.  She pouted a little because she didn't get to ride the waves.

But she perked up when she got to go swimming!

Fun time in the pool.

Breakfast of Champions!

 

Evie lost a tooth at breakfast one morning and we had to let the Tooth Fairy know that we were on vacation.  She found us anyway!

On Thursday we took Evie and Mavery to ride a water slide in Bolivar while Olivia had some Grandparent time. 

We enjoyed the ferry ride over as well.

Just for fun...

 

 Mommy and the girls spent a few extra days in Houston after our Galveston trip.

Sisters playing little people.

Loving the baby bath in the baby pool.  Because she is spoiled rotten!

Borrowing Grandma's hair rollers before bedtime.

 Getting toenails painted.

 Playtime at the park.

 Beep! Beep! Crazy driver!

 She found the secret stash of ice cream.  

 Sweet Baby!

 Sink Bath! 

Selfie before the flight home.  It was exhausting flying home solo with three kiddos, but they did great and we all made it home with smiles on our faces and ready to see Daddy!