Summer Highlights

I have pretty much sucked at blogging this summer, we are expecting baby #4 in January and of course was struck down with a nasty case of morning sickness in the evening. But with that over, here are just a few highlights of summer vacation.

I hate Back t School, I know some parents just love it because there kids fight and are bored at home, and yes mine are like that too, but I like them home with me. When at school somedays I just watch the clock waiting for them to come home and hear about their day and all they did. I like staying up late, and sleeping in, ruining dinner with a bunch of cookies at 5:00 and just hanging out. We have done so much fun stuff this summer, swimming, hitting the movies and fun little outings.

But we are looking forward to dance, girl scouts, and Regan starting preschool. Lynlee had here meet the teacher tonight and I can tell its going to be a great year, but also lonely for mom for a little while. Good thing I'll have a brand new baby to love and cuddle and McKenna to keep me on my toes. I love being a busy mom!!

Bye-Bye Jeep

A few months ago we bought a new used car, Billy found some old man Lincoln and that's a whole other blog post on what I think of that car! He needed something that gets better gas mileage for commuting to work. So that meant he had to sell his beloved Jeep. We have had this car forever!! He bought it when he was first home from his mission 12 years ago, and we brought our first baby home in it, I was sad to see it go but no where near Billy.

We will miss you old friend!!

First Broken Bone

McKenna broke her elbow at the beginning of the month, the very first in our family. This is the only picture I seem to have on the camera, I have a bunch on my phone but can't figure out how to put those pictures in the computer (I'm getting old!) But she had to had surgery and few pins to make sure the bones healed properly, this pic is after surgery but you can't even see her pink cast. The cast has put a damper on all our summer swimming but I'm grateful to all my friends that have taken the older girls for a dip in this ridiculous August heat. The cast should come off in another few weeks, it's really starting to smell.

South Padre Island

At the end of July we went to South Padre Island with some great friends the Gleason's we rented a condo and had an amazing time. Great family photo, baby not looking, hair in the face, and weird look on dad's face, but at least Lynlee and I look good.
(All these photos went way out of order but we should just be happy there's a new blog post!)


We visited the turtle refuge, never got to see a live release but the girls still loved seeing all the turtles they are rehabilitating. South Padre is at the very south tip of Texas before you hit Mexico, it was a super cute little beach town with lots of fun surf shops.

The condo had its own pool, we swam and swam and swam!

When we weren't at the pool we were at the beach!! Lost McKenna a few times chasing the seagulls, such a wanderer.

We went on a sunset dolphin watch cruise, it was fun but McKenna was over the dolphin watching after about 10 minutes then I spent the rest of the time making sure she didn't fall overboard.

All the Girlies, I loved that everywhere we went people would stare or say things like, "that's a lot of girls!!"

The condo had three bedrooms and all the girls shared a room and got to stay up way late and watch movies with popcorn in bed. But not to miss a moment of the vacation they went to bed at midnight and were up with the sun at six!! SO RELAXING

The VIEW, love the ocean.