Daphne

We took Eli on his first road trip right after he was a month old. Yes, with all 3 car seats in the back. Gabe was going on his third trip with the youth group this summer (this time to Phoenix, Arizona) so we headed to Daphne to stay with family for the week. We had a fun week and kept very busy with these three babies!

Eli meeting Papa and Nannie (His great grandparents) for the first time.

Our kids are so blessed to have seven great-grand parents that are still living. What a precious gift! I can only imagine what it must be like to watch your grand-babies have babies!

Addie Kate and Owen love CC and Big Pop's pool.

Owen does not however like wearing clothes. So, I pick my battles and just let him run around naked for a little while. His little bottom is just so cute, I couldn't resist!

I did make him put his bathing suit on to go play in the fountains though! They loved the fountains, but didn't last long considering it was over 100 degrees outside. (We bribed them into leaving by going to get some frozen yogurt).

Addie Kate loves helping her CC and Big Pop answer the phone and book jobs for Peaches. Here she is working very hard.

She takes her job very serious!!

Lauren and I cooked and cooked while we were there! (Going out to eat with three is exhausting and can turn bad really fast). So we compiled a list of recipes we had been wanting to try and we cooked! We made: shrimp penne pasta, fajitas with pico and guacamole, peanut butter pie, crunchy broccoli salad, caramel cake, and these french breakfast puffs. And that's what I can remember!

At the beginning of the week I made a deal with Addie Kate that if she learned to swim by herself I would take her to Build-A-Bear. She did so well and learned to swim and so we got to go! I let her pick out what she wanted and .... she picked an elephant. There were no bulldogs (we were in Alabama) but if there were I am certain she would have gotten a bulldog.

She had so much fun stuffing and bathing her elephant whom she quickly named Emily. All of her babies are named Emily right now.

Emily the elephant was looking so cute in the outfit Addie Kate picked out for her...complete with hot pink sparkly high tops!

Big Pop and little man. Eli is looking more and more like Gabe everyday!!

Addie Kate hanging out with the big girls. Someone asked her the other day how old she would be on her birthday and she said sixteen! I am having a hard enough time believing she will be three!!