Rockport

Warning: this post is better late than never! Two weekends ago my whole family went to Rockport for the weekend. Griffin was so excited all week for his first trip to the beach. He kept saying, "First we get doughnuts (ha!), then we swim in the waves, then we fly the kite, and THEN we build sand castles." That pretty much sums up our weekend, except we also had lots of fun just being together as a family: eating tons of yummy food, playing farkle, drinking wine, loving on babies, and relaxing. Conner and I were so blessed growing up to have Luke and Hallie as our only cousins. We are really more like brothers and sisters. We all sat out in the yard and watched the newest crop of cousins play together and it was the best feeling!

This little boy LOVES his daddy! They had so much fun swimming in the waves.

Lyndon and Griffin love digging in the ice chests

Leslie and the buddies! I love my sister in law!

Lyndon loved throwing and catching the duckie

Griffin couldn't wait for Pops to get there so he could take him WAY out in the big waves.

Beach bum

Mimi and sweet Ella

First time in the ocean

Lots of sprinkler fun

Ella loved all the special attention from Hallie

And Mimi

Love my sweet Aunt Annie! I have so many wonderful memories of creative and imaginative activities she would do with us every summer when we stayed at her house. I love seeing Griff get to experience it too!

All the girls! So blessed to be surrounded by such loving, caring, selfless, women who know how to have a GOOD time! :)

So easy...

to love this precious baby girl! I just can't get enough of her!

Special Visit

Last week we had a special visit from Leslie and Addie! I was so excited to meet Addie for the first time, and she is just as precious in person as she is in pictures! They came over to the house to play, and we had a great time seeing these two sweet girls together. I think Ella liked finally having a little girl friend around since she's usually surrounded by crazy boys. Griffin loved Addison too and is still, even today, asking me "where'd baby Addie go?" :) Like Leslie, I couldn't help imagining these two going to A&M together and of course joining Kappa PC 2029!!!

Ella needs to work on her push up ;)

SLLLUUURRRPPP

4 Months

Happy 4 months to our sweet Ella Kay! She continues to be the happiest, sweetest, most precious baby (spoken like a momma I know). She is so easy and just goes with the flow, which makes life so much easier! Ella has really grown and changed this past month. Here are some things she's up to:

- Smiles ALL the time at everyone :)

- loves her swing and play mat

- loves to play with her hands and put them in her mouth

- very social, loves to smile and coo at anyone who will look her way

- will let anyone hold her and is very content to just take it all in

- went swimming for the first time at Luke and Lindsy's and loved it

- tries to put everything in her mouth and has started the drooling phase

- has grown so much and wears mostly 3-6 month clothes now and size 3 diapers

- such a good sleeper: takes 3-4 naps a day and sleeps from 7:30 pm-6:30 am at night

- loves to watch Griffin play and gives him the biggest smiles

- she doesn't cry much but if she gets startled by a loud noise or brother is too rough with her, she can be a little dramatic :)

We feel so blessed to have you in our lives Ella Kay. You are an absolute angel and everything we hoped for in a daughter. We love you baby girl!

Just for fun here's a picture of Ella at 4 months followed by one of Griffin at 4 months. They definitely favor each other but have their own look too!

And here's a cute one of the two of them together. So hard to get but I love how he's like "Mom, are we done yet" and she's like "This is the BEST thing in the whole world!"

Waiting on Miss Gail

We have a new sitter for the summer. Her name is Gail and the kids love her (so do I)! When I tell Griff that Miss Gail is coming he sits on the front step and watches for her to come to the front door! Too cute!





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Girly girl

How sweet? How girly? How happy? How big is our precious Ella Kay?


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