GSP with Friends

The most exciting part of Garner was the fact that we had friends their. We have vacationed with some of our friends for years. The kids have so much MORE fun with their friends than they would with just their boring, old parents.

Eating snowcones with friends.... Now, how fun does this look. Kaelin was on vacation with 4 of her friends.

Bryson, Zach, Kaelin, Hailey, Addison

So, why in the world would we have the kids pose for a picture with the lady that works at the gift shop... it was a requirement for a scavenger hunt the kids were on. They had so much fun with it.

Good Morning GSP

During the summer, we took a little family trip to Garner State Park. We had an absolute blast. The girls and I went down there about 3 days before Todd could come. Going to Garner was always a summer ritual when I was growing up. I am really looking forward to carrying on that tradition with my babies.

Good Morning Garner... This was our first morning. We were staying in a cabin that looks like it was decorated by Carol Brady. It was too funny. Every thing was a little retro.

Macie says Good Morning Garner. (yes she wakes up with bed head EVERY morning)

Finally...

After many... many... many... years of hard work, Mamaw finally decided to retire. She is one of the hardest workers I know.

Papa... don't drive her too crazy

Friends

The time has come...

Kaelin has reached the age where she thinks she needs to have a friend come over all the time. If we go ANYWHERE... she thinks a friend MUST come along.

I think this stage definitely requires me getting a bigger vehicle.

This is her friend Kara.

Crawling...

Macie has been able to crawl since about the first of August. In fact, once she figured it out, there is no stopping her.

She doesn't just crawl, she crawls for a purpose.

Sometimes that purpose is to get to the dog food bowl in order to have a little snack.

Sometimes the purpose involves getting to her sister's homework. I am dreading the day that I have to write a note to Kaelin's teacher that says "sorry, Kaelin's sister ate her homework". This is NOT far fetched.

Sometimes she crawls to the stairs, and yes, she has attempted to crawl up them.

She is now trying to walk, she goes from one piece of furniture to the next- at an extremely high rate of speed.

Dragon Tail

This is a funny story that should definitely be used at Kaelin's wedding or at some other formal event.

Kaelin is my extremely funny child. She has a very dry sense of humor that I can completely relate to.

The other night, Kaelin was taking a bath. Once she finishes her bath, she likes to go into my closet to get dressed, she claims it is much warmer in there.

So, she was in the closet, then came running out (still no clothes on). She says "I have to go to the bathroom before I can get dressed."

So, she goes to the bathroom. I am brushing my teeth and beginning to get ready for bed.

In the meantime, Kaelin finishes going to the bathroom and I look over at her. She has taken about a 3 foot section of toilet paper, stuck it between her butt cheeks and is in the process of dancing around the bathroom (with her tail flying behind her). She is singing "I am a dragon, look at my dragon tail, I am a dragon, watch me wiggle my dragon tail...."

I thought I was going to choke on toothpaste from trying to not bust out laughing. I don't know where she got this from. I can ASSURE you that neither Todd nor I dance around the bathroom with a stream of toilet paper behind us while we are singing about being a dragon.

Bad Hair Day

Macie has "wild chicken" hair. We have nicknamed her Rooster because everytime we take a bow or rubber band out of her hair, she looks like she has a big rooster tail on the top of her head.

Macie has tons of hair. Kaelin was a little baldy at this age, so I struggle with what to do with this massive head of hair she has. Macie definitely has my hair. When she gets older, she will be able to put it in a pony tail and make horses jealous with how thick her tail is compared to theirs.

Along with her thick hair, her eyes have remained a deep blue. They are not really showing any signs of changing.