Picture Update

Here are some pictures to go along with my post from a few days ago (scroll down if you haven't read my "update")....

One night we kept baby Klaire for Katie. The girls got some good practice! It was cute in so many ways and overwhelming in others. Cute becuase....look at these pictures. They were so excited to help.

Lindsey went and got all the blankets she could find to let Klaire play on

And as cute as all of this is...it is overwhelming because I'm not sure the "newness" will wear off wtih these girls and this baby. I'm afraid that they will literally maul me and the baby anytime they have the chance! Ha! I'm glad they are excited, glad they want to help, but at the same time, afraid of how much "help" I'm going to have! I know it will work out, but it was an eye opener for sure. Even to Ryan. When he was holding Klaire (which is a whole other story--he gets her out of her seat ALL THE TIME to hold and play with her, it is almost funny) Lindsey had a SUPER hard time sharing! Maybe because Klaire isn't "ours" but we'll see. We actually talked last night as a family about how it is getting so close and how we are going to have to all share Mommy and Daddy with the new baby and not get mad about it. We'll see....

This is where my cousin Jordan got married. It is an old plantation and is beautiful! It was warm, but not nearly as bad as it could have been. (August 29th in central/south AR)

The girls did not want to sit down, but run around in the grass on the side, which was fine. It was cute to watch them with Ryan.

Here is Jordan! Courtney and Jordan have bonded at our Watts Reunions the past couple of years. She calls him her "friend" which is so funny! Jana was not close so we couldn't get a picture with the bride and groom...but she was beautiful. Not sure what Courtney's face is, but she was SUPER excited to see Jordan!

And here is how they left the reception (that was there on the grounds of the plantation)...YES, A HELICOPTER! It was so cool. The neat part about it is that Jordan nor Jana are real "showy" people. It was a surprise to most of the people there. Very very cool! The girls of course thought it was awesome!

Then we got a waterslide. The girls LOVED it to say the least. We weren't sure if we'd be able to get it out this year, but "lucky for us" it got hot again for a week and they lived on it! They played on it for HOURS at a time....I didn't get a picture of the entire thing (not sure why!) but here are a few with friends.

This is just a classic picutre of Lindsey. This is the big box the waterslide was in. She had been playing on the slide, then found the box to play in. Normal, right....then found the big piece of styrofoam that is made up of millions and billions of little white balls. She sat in this box and "picked" at that styrofoam taking apart TONS of little balls. Not even bothering to take her goggles off that she was wearing on the waterslide.

Now that I'm sort of caught up, I hope to stay on top of things. We sort of worked on the nursery last night, I hope to get it "finished" as it is going to be sometime in the next week or so. Pictures coming of that. Today I remembered the camera and have some cute pics of Courtney at gymnastics, so....I hope to stay on top of things again!