Washington Coast

We went to Washington for a week while we were homeless in August and had a great time!  We went straight from the airport to the coast and when we woke up the next day, the fun commenced!  It was colder than I remembered but that is PERFECT for me.  Eli loved all the cousins.  He spent a lot of time with Ethan and Emerson. 

 Dora and Megan got along great!

 Look at those blondies with blue eyes!

 I loved this shot of Ivin.  Cracks me up.  Teresa looks stunning as always.

 More blue eyed blondies.

 Here's Tessa being cute.  That girl has the most adorable smile!

Dora and Rebekah really hit it off, too!

 Tessa liked the beach but couldn't handle the cold for very long!

 Aren't Ivin's babies cute!?

 It was so beautiful!

 The kids had so much fun!

 Beautiful Megan!!

 Look at that HANDSOME baby boy!

 This gorgeous little angel is such a blessing to me.  She had so much fun.

 She has her schlitterbahn bracelet on still from our recent trip to New Braunsfels when we went to see Angela and Jesse and Jocelyn.

 I should have been hugging her, and I did, but I had to get some photos first.  What a funny crying baby!

 Dora and Rebekah spent a lot of time searching for sand dollars and jellyfish!

 Oh, the baby!

 I LOVE this handsome man!

 Eli stayed out every second he could with the big cousins, digging around in the sand.

 Fun to spend time with gorgeous Christina!

 Games! The house we rented was awesome!  Kids played games, too.

 Oh this baby.  I don't want her to grow up.  I want to keep her this age forever!

 She is so sweet and so funny and so particular.  She has started saying "Self" and insisting she climbs into her carseat herself.  Gah.  So cute.

 We made smore's and had a great time around the fire!

 We had a great time seeing Grandpa Thurn, too.

Louisiana Trip

So during the summer, we made a quick decision that Whit wanted to go full time with UTMB.  Then I worked overtime and around the clock (while Whit did the same at his job) to get the house ready and list it.  When we listed it, we had a person come through and they didn't like the house.  So I spent more time (and money) and staged it.  It was a good thing I did because the very next family that came through (later in the day that I finished) offered on it.  They paid cash and wanted to close in just over 2 weeks.  Gah!  We should have been packing, but we didn't want to cancel our trip to Louisiana to see cousins.  I was pretty worried about finding somewhere to live, but we went to Louisiana to see cousins and wish Megan luck on her mission anyway.  

Here's my Emmy baby.  Those blue eyes are AMAZING! 

This little baby girl is growing up too fast.

We went and got beignets and then went to the zoo.  

 Oh how Tessa loved Jack and Merrick.  She is so cute.

 Oh little Tessa! Dora's such a good sister.  Dora and Rush got along so well.  They each kept calling one another best friends.

 Here's our dear little cousin Megan.  We are so sad to see her go, but proud of her for working so hard.

 I just LOVE that Megan.

 We went to the french quarter after the zoo and I got these two masks for $2 each!  Cool huh?

 The crew!

 Eli was just on cloud NINE!

 Here we are on the last morning.  We cut our trip short by a day or two and only got to stay there for about 3 days.  It was too bad to cut it short, but we have next year!

 I love this little Emmy darling.  We all went to the park and then chick fil a before we drove home. It was fun to see Shane and Tawnya's kids that morning, too!

 A few days later we found our new house! It's so weird to think that it was just a possibility when we walked through, but now we live here!