Road Trippin'

Summer is here!  Actually this is the first year where summer matters to us in a loooong time.  No one's been in school for a good 7 years until Emery started preschool last year so "summer" has just been several (several) hot months in the middle of a couple of cooler months.  So, it's been really fun to look forward to summer- swimming, traveling, sleeping, sweating- I love it all!

I was a little worried about having such a big break from school, but so far it's been fun!  We took advantage of Emery's first week off of school and headed up to Tyler to see Gigi and OK.

This is Nay Nay and he is everyone's favorite! (Gigi even has a rule that she gets a hug before Nay Nay does!)  After Gigi hugs both my kiddos got to work playing with him.  Emery Madison is so stinkin' creative.  Here she is "milking" Nay Nay.  She had him hooked up to the "sucker" with his seat belt on and occasionally gave him cereal treats.  Really- it was as weird as it sounds.  I love her creative play though.

Day 2 we hit up the Discovery Science Place.  It's a  fabulous museum that with a science room and a small town room.  They could just play for hours and hours.  Fair warning though- the rest of this post is pretty much pictures of my two babies! :)

 Mama was pretty nostalgic about this guy being there.  Last time we went he was 2 months old and this time he RAN in and didn't stop for 2 hours.

 They have a big dinosaur exhibit and Emery was not so sure about it. 

Then we headed to the small town room.  It's got a grocery store, courthouse, hospital, oh- and dinosaurs!!! So many cool things, this place really is great!

After we were all played out (we being Gigi and I- the kids could have stayed all day!) we headed to Emery's second favorite place in the world "a restaurant!" for some hamburgers.  She gets SO excited when we go out to eat it's really pretty sad- apparently the girl needs to get out more.  Anyone else have this problem?  She wants to eat out all the time, but then totally acts like a crazy lady when we are there.  Anyway, I digress.

She really wanted me to take her picture like this- she's getting quite demanding with her poses for pictures these days. 

We ALL took naps and headed to the Karing Kitchen that evening.  It was so fun taking the kiddos to meet everyone down there.  Last time I saw most of these folks I was pregnant with Emery so it was fun to see some familiar faces (but then again- it's Tyler- there are familiar faces everywhere, right Dad?!?!). :)

 Beckett and Lawrence and their plaid shoes.  Emery and Beckett were so excited to see Lawrence.  Emery spotted him across the parking lot and screamed "LAWRENCE!!!!" and ran and gave him a big hug.

Beckett wasn't so sure about everyone wanting to meet him, so we snuggled alot, but I'll take that! 

After we came home we did some more snuggling, TV watching, and resting up for some more Tyler fun. More on that to come soon- it's 2 trash truck Tuesday around here and everyone's up and ready for it (and it's only 7:00, yay!).