TEXAS

My cousin recently had her first baby girl and she lives in Texas and on Easter Sunday they blessed their baby girl in church.  I very much wanted to be there and be apart of this special day so I took Bonnie to Texas for a few days.  My oldest sister, Jen, also lives in Texas and I couldn't wait to see her and the girls (and Ken too!) so I stayed with my sister at her house and everyone got to meet Bonnie for the first time. My sister has 3 girls and it was adorable to see the girls interact with her and how much love they instantly had for each other!  All of the girls loved on her and wanted to hold her and play with her - even Aunt Jen couldn't get enough! 

Our parents also stayed at their house for the visit and here's a great shot of them with the girls! 

(below) My niece, Macy who will be 12 at the end of this year!  She is growing up way too fast!

We went to a local park that had a fishing pond and we went fishing!  It's been a while since I fished, and even though we didn't catch any FISH, Macy managed to catch a snapping turtle and Ken had to pry the hook out of its mouth without being snapped at.  It was a hot and gorgeous day outside!  On a bathroom break, Jen was taking PJ potty and put me in charge of their beautiful and loving family dog and no sooner than the leash exchanged hands did Fiona escape out of her harness from me.  AHHHH!  The dog was FREE!  All we could do was run after her (as fast as we could with little people in tow) and watch her run wildly across the entire park. Fiona ended up running all the way across the park to Ken (her doggy daddy) and sat there like a good girl.  Escape artist!! 

It was a great day! 

After the park we went to Uncle Jerry's house to see family and we visited until after dark and had milkshakes and good food.  I was able to see lots of family from the west coast that I hadn't seen in a while and everyone got to meet little Bonnie!!

Easter morning, we had time before church started to get some Easter eggs dyed, had a wonderful breakfast with my sister's homemade cinnamon rolls and she did Easter baskets for all of us! 

(above) Presley, 5 in June, cute as a button!

(above) Macy (below) Ellie

All of the girls diving into their Easter baskets!!

After our wonderful Easter morning with the family, we headed up to Jerry's for a wonderful day of church and the baby blessing for Melanie and Jeffrey's little girl, Kinley Anne. Jerry and Bev were wonderful hosts and opened their beautiful home to so many people and we had a very yummy lunch/dinner with family and friends of the family.

Me and Bonnie, my grandparents, my dad and my mom

I love this picture of me and my grandparents!

Aren't they they cutest little old couple you have ever seen!!!?  They are wonderful and they started my big wonderful family that I love so much!

Grandpa and his youngest grandbaby!!! He's not proud or anything!!!

Bonnie with her sweet cousins!  We miss you already!!!

I had to steal this picture from my cousin Melanie because for some reason, I do not have ANY on my camera of the two of us!  ????  I love my cousin so much and I am so happy for her to have a beautiful and healthy baby girl, Kinley!

The little lady of the hour - Kinley Anne - in her beautiful blessing gown and cute little heart shape locket!  LOVE HER!

While mom was away...

The first weekend in April, I was in Texas visiting family and celebrating the birth of my cousin's baby Kinley and Easter Sunday was the day of her blessing at church.  I traveled with Bonnie and Gordon stayed at home with the other two girls and boy did they have a blast together!  While I was away they played hard and did so many things together!  They had a great time and we are so fortunate to have such a great daddy in our lives!!!

He took them to the park!

He took them to the traditional Easter Brunch at our friends house - Thank you Sherwoods!!  I heard it was a wonderful time again!!!!! There is brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids!  

I was so worried about Easter Sunday and that my children would look like rag dolls without their mama home to do their hair pretty.  Daddy did such a great job getting the girls dressed and ready for Easter Sunday and I think they looked adorable and beautiful!!  Great job dad!

Sitting on the front porch blowing bubbles!

Daddy even ventured out and took the girls to the zoo!  WOW!  He packed lunches for everyone and they had a great time seeing the animals in the gorgeous spring weather!

There's NO WAY I could have gone on my trip without knowing that the girls were being taken care of at home and who better to do that than their dad!  He is a SUPER DAD times a million!  Hands down the best!  The girls were non-stop talk about endless tickle fights and late night snacks and movie watching, bubble baths and Easter and the zoo and the park and everything that they did with dad!  They had five days to have daddy all to themselves and they had a great time!  Thanks babe for letting me go on this trip and thank you for loving us SO much!