1st lost tooth!

Jerra lost her first tooth back in May. She was extremely excited! One of her friends at school lost 2 teeth and she was so jealous...so we are pretty sure she mentally willed this tooth of her loose! So she was the 2nd one in her class to loose a tooth and got her name up on the board for it. And thanks to Aunt Bebe for the tooth fairy pillow she got to put her tooth under her pillow and wake up to a little surprise!

Rock Star

Happy 4th of July!

We spent the 4th poolside of course! What better way to spend the 4th then swimming and grilling with friends! We had our neighbors the Abbotts and Russells over to my parents house for a little food and pool time!

Geoff grilled the food

the kids enjoyed festive bomb-pops!

Brady shared his ice cream with his daddy

Jorja and her friend KK had so much fun playing

                Grandpa and Geoff relaxed on the deck Geoff built himself!

My girls are little fish.  Jerra would spend all day in the pool if we let her and as of yesterday, Jorja is swimming on her own.  She can swim underwater by herself!  We are so proud of how quickly she has picked it up in just a few short weeks.

Brady had a blast swimming!

Brady jumps in on his own and really wants to swim on his own.

                And we ended the night with fireworks at the George Bush library

Hope everyone had a good 4th and Happy Birthday America! 

My softball player

Jerra played softball this past spring for the city league.  Dad was the coach of course!  She really got the hang of it and enjoyed the games.  and the girl can really hit!

Bradyn watching his sister play

We are so proud of her.

Jerra is 5!

Jerra turned 5 back in January.  We did here 5 year old pictures in March.  Where has the time gone?

We went with a Princess-themed shoot.  It seemed to fit - she has been dressing up as princesses since she was 1 and still loves to play dress up.  I figure that will be coming to an end soon, so I wanted to capture the love she has for dress up while I could.

Beautiful Jerra.  You are such a bright light in our world.  You make us laugh every day. We are so proud of you.

Galveston, TX

We took a mini-vacation down to Galveston at the end of May. The girls love going there. We have a friend who lets us stay at her beach house, it is walking (or a golf cart ride!) away from the beach, on the canal and surrounded by good neighbors.

The week before, all the sea-weed washed up! 

B was a little unsure of things at first!

Jerra, of course, could not have been happier!

Sunset over the bay

We went hunting for sea-shells one morning, still in pj's

Geoff doing his best "forest gump"

We tried to go to the new pleasure pier one day, but just as it was opening a huge storm rolled in.

Nala and Simba became salty dogs!

Geoff caught a sting-ray one morning.  They were everywhere in the surf.

Jorja and Geoff just sitting on a dock in the bay...