4th of July Parade

How un-American are we?   We have never been to a 4th of July parade!!!!  So this year, I was bound and determined to go to a parade!!! 

 

We got on our red, white and blue and headed out for adventure!!!

 

We brought flags and chairs and were ready to go!!!

 

 

Here we go!!!  Here come the motorcycles!!!

 

It got hot quickly!!!

 

Total success!!!  We will definitely be back next year!!!

Camps

This summer has been the year of the camps...my kids need to be busy and need a routine.  So first we started with VBS at our church.  It was amazing!!!

 

Next Jillian and Hadleigh rocked their dance recital!!!!

 

Next the older two enjoyed choir camp at our church!!  (I cannot find the pictures for this????)  They went all week and then had a show on Friday night and both kids had a solo and did a wonderful job!!!

 

 Next up, cooking camp!!!  Cooking camp with chocolate!!!  I came to pick them up early every day so I could sample some of their baking!!!  Mmmm, mmm, mmmm, all their treats were delicious!!!

 

Next they went to another VBS at a church by their school and saw a lot of friends from school and they enjoyed that a lot.  Again, I can't find any pictures!

 

Then we took all the cousins to Kiddie Park.  This is a San Antonio institution.  We were lucky that on this particular day they had pony rides.  My kids have never been on a horse so we gave it a try.  They all liked it except Hadleigh.  But Bill coaxed her on and she seemed to like it by the end.

 

 

The favorite ride is the carousel.  Everybody thoroughly studies which horse they are going to ride.

 

Boat rides....

 

UFO rides....

 

Plane rides....

 

Car rides....

 

Channing got in on the action and rode the horse buggies...

 

Back to the carousel......

 

 Fun stuff!!

 

Port Aransas

Back on the last day of school, Bryan picked up the older kids from school in Grandpa's BIG truck!!!  They thought they were so cool!!!  So we headed down for some fun in Port A!!!

 

Picnic time with our cousins!!!

 

Swim time!!!

Back to the beach.....

 

Channing's first ice cream!!!

 

Our regular pic inside Jaw's mouth!!!

 

A day at the aquarium in Corpus Christi

9 months and failure

Again, I just skipped a couple of months and say hi to you at 9 months old.  Channing is a doll!  Everybody just loves her but she is a momma's girl.  She is in the middle of stranger anxiety and she ain't messin' around!!!  Even poor Grammie can't get her away from me most days!!  At church she is refusing to go in the nursery and if I leave her anyways, she screams bloody murder the entire time.  That is frustrating and makes me super worried for when she returns to daycare in August!  Things could get ugly!!!

 

But she is so cute!!  She weighs 18 pounds but is on the short side.  Her thighs have lots of rolls which is so fun.  She has 6 teeth - 4 on top and 2 on bottom.    One more bottom tooth has cut thru just this week.  She loves the water.  She loves getting in the pool and loves the splash pad. 

 

Right now, I think she looks a lot like her brother.  She is crawling all over the place and even climbs quickly up the stairs.  Very scary!!!  She screams loud when she gets to the top because she cannot get down.  She is eating a lot of regular foods - blueberries is her favorite.  She also LOVES green beans and she and Roc can finish a whole can quickly! 

 

I don't want to jinx it but she has started sleeping through the night!  YAY!!!!!!  I put her down at 7:30 and she sleeps to about 7:00.  Pretty darn awesome!!!

 

 

J, R and H at 9 months.