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!

End of the school year!

These two little butterflies flew into the last day of school with lots of excitement.!

On Tuesday the kiddos performed a little music program.

It's a real shame these two are so shy on stage....Ha!

Amazingly, they were placed on the same side of the stage and we were sitting on that side of the auditorium.  Evie got to sing a solo line in one of the songs.  She was super proud and she did a really good job.

Thursday was bounce house fun day.  The kids had jump houses and a concession stand.  Evie thought the concession stand was the coolest thing ever! (because they got to "buy" all the candy that mom never lets them get at the store...)

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Olivia participated in the festivities also in the baby room where I was helping sub.

And now, we're ready to zoom into vacation!

Beep Beep! Out of my way!

Where is May going??

Hey Guys!  Guess what!  I'm 7 months old today!!! Wahoo!!

Olivia is sitting up on her own.  She is doing much better in the carseat.  She can find her thumb and hold her white blankie and be content for a while.  Thank goodness!

She does not sleep through the night.  Mommy is hoping that this changes in the very near future. And, she cut her very first tooth today! Let the sweet toothy grins begin!

Mother's Day 2015

I am one blessed (and sleepy) Mama!

What a pretty bouquet of little daisies! 

Blue Bubblegum ball = Blue mouth and teeth

Donuts with Dad

Sitting on the porch...waiting for the storm to roll in...

At least the older two sleep...

...even if it means a hand in the face.  

It's May!

Around here lately...

We had sports fan day at school.  Clearly, only Olivia made a good choice that day.  

 Mike explaining the complicated strategy behind Hungy, Hungry Hippo to Evie.

 Ice Cream and playground time at McDonalds

 Everyone enjoying the exer-saucer we borrowed for Olivia.

 Basking under a beautiful blue sky on our very spontaneous trip to Balmorhea State Park

 Practicing her sitting skills

 Daddy and his girls taking a stroll around the pool.

We had quite a fun time at the park.  The girls were real dramatic about swimming in the spring-fed pool with all the fish.  

Then Mavery announced that she wanted to jump off the diving board.  So we walked over to the low spring board and she states, "No, I want to jump off THAT diving board", pointing to the 12 foot high diving board that goes into 25 ft. water.  Oh. Yea. Sure.

So, I made her jump off the little one first.

Counting it off with Daddy.

 

Then she climbed her little self up the high-dive

(telling me the whole time, "Mommy, I can do it ALL. BY. MYSELF!!")

 and after some encouragement from everyone at the pool and a few countdowns, there she went...

(and mommy almost lost her lunch....)

She's our little dare-devil for sure!

Very fun times with these two drama-queens

 Sporting the sun hat for Sunday School