Cousin time!

Look who came to visit us!  Just WEEKS before we found out we were moving away from Fort Worth, Mark's sister Megan and her family moved just a few minutes away from us.  We were so sad to leave our "neighbors!"  My brother-in-law had to come to Houston for work, so Megan and the kids came along and we got to play!

The Houston Children's Museum is AMAZING.  I think it's my favorite thing in Houston for kids!  That's where we spent the day!  Here's the whole crew after 5 HOURS playing there!

Landrie and McKinnan ready for the superhero show!

Tucker was helping them find the villain!

Tatem was too, but at this point she was waaaay too tired to take her thumb out!  haha!

Tucker, Cade, Colson

Tatem, Harper and Megan

Landrie and McKinnan went up on stage afterwards to dance with the cast!

Excited!

Tucker got to love on his tiniest cousin!

These 3 had a ball together!  This was right after McKinnan painted everyone's faces. :)

All the kids made their own SLIME!

This cutie was a trooper! 

Cade showed Tatem how to do her own computer animation. :)

We love y'all!!

Florida!!!

We waited for ages to go to FLORIDA to see Mark's parents!  It seemed like everyday that the girls asked, "When are we going to Florida??" 

We were a BIT overwhelmed with traveling with three little ones and all their STUFF!  Mark dropped me at the curb with the 3 girls, their 3 car seats, and our bags.  I was finished curbside check in when he got back from dropping the car at the remote parking lot!  It was suprisingly easy!

Mark had 3 bags full of snacks, electronics, games, and toys.  The girls did great!!

Harper slept most of the flight in the Moby Wrap!  Of course, she made lots of friends with the folks around us when she woke up. :)

 

Mark's parents live outside of Orlando, and the guys had a big fishing trip planned a few hours away in Tampa.  We all headed out there and played at the beach for a few days!

 

Mark with one of his many catches of the day!

 

Mark and his dad had an amazing time!!  

 

A little family picture after dinner one night

Harper enjoyed hanging out with Ama in the shade at the beach. :)

This beach was on the gulf side of Florida, and it was beautiful! 

 

We spent a few days back at their house, then took one more beach trip to the Atlantic side!  This time, I actually remembered to bring my "real" camera.

This sweet girl LOVED the beach!

 

Happy girl!!

 

Tatem immediately say down and poured wet sand all in her hair.  She never stopped giggling!!

 

Landrie adores the beach too!!  She cracks me up.  In a pool, she is often hesitant about getting her face in and takes awhile to start swimming around.  At the beach, he only problem was that her eyes kept stinging from keeping them open underwater!!  Silly girl!  She has no fear about the waves!

 

Harper loves her PonPon!

 

Wahoo!!!

 

Top: Harper 2014

Middle: Tatem 2014

Bottom: Landrie 2009

 

When packing for the beach, I packed the same bathing suit and sun hat for Harper that Landrie wore on her first trip to Florida.  I knew I had to get a picture!  This was Tatem's first trip to Florida too, so I stuck the hat on her, thinking I might get her to take maybe one picture for me.  She thought it was hilarious and wanted to take tons!!  haha!

 

Mark and I even got a date night out!! 

(Of course, Harper came along with us!  She's still reallllly attached to her mommy!)

 

The girls LOVE their Ama and PonPon!!

 

So sweet!!

 

With our hearts full, we headed home on another great flight!!

 

We love you, Ama and PonPon!!

 

 

 

First day of BALLET!!

The girls were SO excited to start ballet classes today!  Landrie hadn't been since we moved, and this was Tatem's first time to go.  Tatem is in a two and three year old class, and I love that her teacher said, "Now when does Tatem turn four?" Haha!!  My tall two year old won't be four anytime soon😊

As we were getting dressed, Tatem told Harper, "When you get big, Harper, you can wear ballet clothes and do ballet too!    And wear big girl panties too!!  Yes, Harper, you can!!" 

Love these sweet girls!!