Last of the beach fun

We had a great time on our beach trip this fall with Mimi and Cap (Tripp's parents). The weather was great and the girls loved the beach and the swimming pool.

These are the last pictures from the beach!

Glamour girl in the sand!
Busy making drip sand castles!
Playing in the waves with Daddy!

The end!

Thanks to Mimi and Cap for letting us join them at the beach!

Swimming pool fun

I found these Speedo vests at the end of the summer and decided to give them a try. Best investment I have ever made. They held the girls up in the water and they swam all around the swimming pool in them! Jane is fearless in the water and will jump in without a second thought. While I was still in the pool with them, I felt much better with them in the vests! They will be used until I feel like each girl can swim VERY WELL!!

Beach fun - October 2007

Christmas card photo shots. I took over 300 and these are the best 4!

Halloween fun - a little late on the post!

We had tons of fun on Halloween and both The Little Asian Mermaid

and Minnie Mouse (missing her ears) figured out the deal! And pretty quickly at that!

Mae would shout at the top of her lungs

"Trick and Treatin' y'all"

Yep, she used y'all all night!

Maybe that should be The Southern Little Asian Mermaid!

And while Jane Harris would have nothing to do with the "minnie ears", Mae LOVED the mermaid wig. She begged me for it one day in early October while we were shopping at Target. I was hesitant because I figured it would be "itchy" and she would not want to wear it. Well, I was soooooooooooo wrong. She is still wearing the long day-glo red wig. If I would let her she would wear it all the time. But it is sort of disturbing to turn around and see it on her so we just wear it for dress up!

Mae and our neighbor, Super-girl
The princesses.

Notice the orange frosting on Jane's mouth.

We had the neighborhood pre-trick or treat party at our house.

The girls went "trick and treatin' y'all" at our former nanny's house.

We really miss Miss Casey. She was the BEST!!!

A Halloween warm-up party held the weekend before Halloween
Grumpy Minnie Mouse
Mae and her school friends!
Mae's class
Mae and her 2 best school friends, Lucas and Sarah.

Lucas is her "boyfriend" and she loves him but she is still going to marry her daddy.

At least that is what she is telling us these days!

Tripp couldn't be any happier!

Congrats to "La-La Fabulous"

I am REALLY BEHIND on posting. One of the many reasons why is that we have been out of town every weekend for nearly 6 weeks! One of those out of town trips was to our very own "La-La Fabulous's" wedding.

"La-La Fabulous" is one of my best friends and sorority sisters from college. She is a precious and wonderful friend and I love her dearly. One thing that makes her so great is that my girls LOVE her! Mae started calling her "La-La Fabulous" and it has stuck.

Congrats and we LOVE YOU!!

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep

because reality is finally better than your dreams"

-- Dr Seuss

Ride'em Cowgirl!!

One of Mary Austin's classmates recently had a fabulous birthday party at a petting farm where she not only got to pet donkeys, goats and pigs but she got to ride a horse for the very first time! At first, she was not very sure about getting on "Spencer" but in the end she was very glad she did!

Friends old and new

Above is a picture of the princesses and friends at a birthday party. All of the children are either children of my very dearest friends or related to them (niece/nephew). A group of us went out to dinner last week and the next day my stomach was sore from laughing so much! We have all been friends since college and although we may be in different places in our lives we still get together as much as we can. I find this so important to do and encourage everyone to take a "girl's night out" when you can!

We have also decided to go on a "girl's only" trip to celebrate 40th birthdays. I am super excited and now we just have to decide wear to go! So far we have talked about the south of France, Italy, somewhere very lavish in the Caribbean or perhaps even Brazil. Any suggestions?