More weekend pics

Okay, I have stolen a few more pictures from my cousins, Courtney and Leslye. Thanks girls!!


Here is GranGran and Kenna at lunch on Friday. They were having a great time!

Kenna got to take her first trip to Sam Moon...you gotta start early!!
Cousin time at the pool...all of the girl cousins were present and accounted for.

When Kenna is playing on her playmat, Daniel just has to jump right on in.
We put both of the baby girls on the mat and then, all of a sudden, they would be surrounded.

I have a video of Kenna's fun new trick that I will try to post tomorrow...having video posting difficulties!!

New House Rule

I came home today to find that a new house rule has been put into effect. Apparently, if you have two 'blowouts' in one day, you officially lose your clothing privileges. I guess whatever Daddy says, goes!

Miss K has gotten to where she really likes to play with her pacifier. She holds on to the little ring all of the time and has decided she likes to pull it out and then try to put it back in. She tries really hard and gets it right about 25% of the time. The rest of the time, it is either upside down, sideways, or she is biting on the plastic.

My sister posted some fun pictures of some of the activities this weekend. Abbye and Kenna are really starting to enjoy each other. Up until now, they have mostly just stared at each other - if they even noticed someone next to them at all. Yesterday at church, they just sat and stared and tried to grab each other's hands. It was too cute. I stole these pictures off of my sister's blog. Hopefully I can steal some more from the rest of my family once they update their blogs!!

Too much fun

Apparently we just had too much fun this weekend. This picture is from the third time today that Kenna has fallen asleep while she was playing. She didn't even let go of the duck that she was playing with!

We had a blast this weekend with all of the family. Unfortunately, I was too busy being the 'hostess' to take any pictures. What you see above is what you get...sorry! All of the family that were here took tons of pictures so as soon as they get home and e-mail/post their pics I will upload them for you guys to see.

We are calling this our annual shopping and tanning extravaganza. The weather definitely cooperated this weekend as far as sunshine goes. Everyone got here about noon on Friday and we spent the afternoon at the Allen outlet mall and then had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (are you seeing a pattern here?). Saturday morning we hit Sam Moon and Kenna got to have her first experience with the craziness that goes along with that trip. We spent the afternoon at the pool and then had a cookout here at our house (once again, recall last weekend :). We all got to worship together this morning before everyone headed home.

At A&M, once you have done something twice, it is officially a tradition. I think I am definitely going to enjoy this tradition!!

Round Two

Last summer, for my grandmother's 80th birthday, we had a family celebration in Big D. Apparently everyone had so much fun that we are going for round two this weekend. Should be lots of shopping and pool fun. Can't wait until everyone gets here!!

Stay tuned for pics!

Hurricane Harbor

Yes, we went to Hurricane Harbor with a three month old...more about that later...

Thursday night, two of my sister's friends (and one baby) from Lubbock got to my house just in time for bed. I got up and went to work on Friday while they took care of Kenna. We met up at lunch and then hit the outlet mall...we had some shopping to do. I actually didn't buy that much, but Miss K did get a new dress. It is amazing to me how much more fun it is to shop for Kenna than for myself!! :) We left the outlet mall and headed to the Cheesecake Factory - yummy! And nobody even ordered cheesecake! We then went back home to feed the girls and get stuff ready for our Saturday adventure.

All of the spouses plus another couple arrived on Friday night. Counting my family, that was a total of ten adults and three girls under nine months under my roof. What fun!!

Saturday morning we loaded up the cars and headed to Hurricane Harbor. We wanted to get there early (when it opened) so maybe it would not be too crowded. We actually met another couple from Lubbock there as well.

This is why we went early - this is right before we left so it had gotten incredibly more crowded then it was when we got there at 10:30.
We all chipped in and rented a cabana. It worked out great for all the kiddos. We had a covered tent area with a large fan inside and they kept us stocked on ice and water. It was really nice to have a shaded, somewhat cool (I mean it was over one hundred yesterday) place to keep all of our stuff. We also got to spend some time people watching at the wave pool.
Kenna was still sleeping when we got to Hurricane Harbor so she got to finish her morning nap in her stroller with a fan just for her.

Once she woke up and ate, she was ready to hit the water! We found some floating swimsuits to use in the lazy river. She loved the lazy river. She would just kick and kick while we floated along. Of course, her daddy never let go so we never really tested how well the suit worked. We just wanted to have something extra to hold on to!!
Lathered in sunscreen and ready to go....

When lunchtime rolled around, we all headed out to the cars where we had coolers full of sandwich stuff stashed. It was nice to just sit in the shade and some AC while we ate.
We took advantage of the air conditioning in the cars so the girls could sleep. Kenna was sacked out. We stripped them down to their diapers so they could cool off a little bit.
It also appears that Miss K has officially found her thumb. Apparently (unbeknownst to me) she has done this a few times before...we'll have to see what happens with that!
After lunch, we put the girls back in their real swimsuits and hats and headed over to the kiddie area. They have a ride (for adults) where you can try to surf and all of the girls could sit in the shallow water (it is about 1-2 feet deep) and watch the guys attempt to surf.
Miss K and Abbye really enjoyed their little floats. Kenna's feet don't touch the bottom, obviously, and she would just kick and kick. I pretty much just sat on the bottom and kept her and her turtle floatie from floating away!

I L-O-V-E this picture...
Abbye and Kenna playing bumper floats
By the time we were ready to go home (about 5) the girls were completely worn out. They slept all the way home without making a sound and then slept for a little longer once we got there. We were really proud of them all...they did GREAT!! I don't think anybody ever threw a fit...
We let them sleep while we got hamburgers ready for supper and then we bathed them, fed them, let them play for just a little while, and then put them down for the night. I don't know who slept better last night...the babies or the adults!!

The group from Lubbock got up this morning and headed back west. They went to church with some college friends in Grapevine and then stopped at Cabela's before heading out. We had a blast with everyone and can't wait for them to come back. They even started laundry (sheets and towels) before they left!!

Kenna napped all through church this morning, but she woke up long enough to play with her Aunt Mercy at lunch!

And now, Miss K is back asleep. I guess we completely wore her out! I wonder how well she will sleep tonight..... :)

House full of fun

Dan, Kenna, and I have got to spend the week with some of my family here. My mom, grandmother, sister, and niece got here Monday night to spend some time with Miss K while I went to work and Daniel got to do some stuff around the house. Abbye and Kenna have had a lot of fun together and have spent a lot of time on the play mat together.

Kenna seemed to have a little more energy than Abbye the other night. (Of course, Miss K had an afternoon nap and A did not.) Kenna still wanted to play but Abbye just wanted to snooze.

We eventuallywanted to wake Abbye so we could feed her, but she was having none of that!
Gran had so much fun and tried to keep both babies in her arms as much as possible!

More play time...
Abbye made herself comfortable on the Boppy... she loves to arch her back and throw her arms back.

Here are a couple of videos Daniel made yesterday of the girls playing...I think they mostly just stared at him.



Mom and Gran left yesterday but Amy and Abbye are still here for a few more days. Amy's friends are headed this way to spend the weekend doing some shopping and such in Big D. They are all staying at my house so we should have some more stories and pictures soon!

Car Seat Blowout

This is what happens when your normally very regular (2-3 times a day) daughter goes almost three days without a dirty diaper....you have a massive blowout and everything gets stripped down to be cleaned...daughter included.

Daniel and Kenna went to visit his parents today and Miss K decided to empty everything out when they were almost home. By the time I got home from work, Daniel already had it all cleaned up and drying outside. We (maybe I should say he) had to take the car seat completely apart and then I had to go get the base out of the car and clean it up as well. Hopefully that won't ever happen again. Poor baby, no wonder she has been acting like her tummy hurt - she is pretty happy now!