Vacation Day 1

The car was packed, snacks and lunches were
made and we were off on our adventure to
Georgia. Our first stop on the way was to the
Birmingham Zoo-- we have a zoo membership
with the Baton Rouge Zoo and there are several
other zoos in the US that we can get into free and
this was one of them. Well worth FREE!
If you are in the area they have a terrific monkey
exhibit.

Swimming Lessons

Aaron completed his second
year of swimming lessons at
Crawfish Aquatics. It was a long
2 weeks driving back and forth
to Baton Rouge everyday but we
made it and I couldn't be more
pleased with the progress he made.








This was the first year he floated on his back


With his teacher Ms. Kettie

There was a big slide that you

could ride for $1 after the lessons

were over-- on the last day Pop Pop

purchased 2 slide tokens-- he

was thrilled!

Mommy's helper

Aaron took it upon himself
to fold and put up all of his
clean clothes for mommy the other
night-- lets see if I can get him to do
it in a few years!

Aaron helping Avery learn to walk

Summer in cell phone photos

Aaron recently woke up with his
face huge and swollen after
something bit him during the night-
this picture his hard to tell but his
ears and eye lids are HUGE!



Avery was just worn out!



On the playground at the mall-
and yes she made it all the way to the
top with no problem!



Daddy can we get one?

VBS at Zachary United Methodist

Aaron attended his second VBS this summer
with his best bud Jackson. This VBS had a
cooking theme called Shake It Up Cafe. He was
really excited to see Jackson this summer since
he stopped going to school with him. Jackson
should hopefully be in Aaron's class at the Pre-K
next year.





This photo just melts my heart!

Avery's First Birthday Gift

Our baby girl doesn't turn 1 for another couple
of weeks but Aunt Brittney was visiting and
gave her a gift early. She really liked the pretty
ribbon it was wrapped in too!


Opening her gift


"What is it mommy?"



Cute hairbows! Yay!

Summer in Cell Phone Photos

Riding at the outlet mall



Avery loves her cookies



Aaron started swimming lessons this
week and they give you 2 tokens to
ride this huge water slide-- He
was very excited about it



After swimming lessons-- i wished I was napping
with them!

A blast from the past

We hooked up my very first
Nintendo set (circa 1985) and
to our suprise it still worked!!!
Andrew and I couldn't be more
excited about sharing this with our
boy... if we let him play... and we
did for a few minutes! He was
excited about it too

Little Gym Birthday Party

We recently celebrated our friend Robert's
second birthday at the Little Gym. The kids
had a great time and Avery was worn out when
it was over!


Crawling through the tunnel


I was trying to get Avery to do a flip but
it wasn't working


my little monkey






on the beam



Aaron is waiting his turn to play "flip the cheese"-
they run and try to make this big mat fall over...


As you can see he had no trouble with it

Dinner with family

To celebrate the return of Gram and Paw Paw
from the Holy Land - we were treated with a
dinner at Sammy's. Everyone feasted and
Gram and Paw Paw were very happy to have a
good Louisiana meal!

Catching some crabs

Fishing

The beach house also had a great
dock for fishing however the fish
were just little bait stealers-- but
Aaron didnt seem to mind.

Avery watching big brother fish
with daddy and Pop Pop


waiting for a bite


He caught one!



A really little one