Summer Days

This post is kind of long and covers a variety of stuff from mid June to now.

When Dillon was in town, we took the kids to see a movie. They were very excited! I think they were looking forward to the popcorn and drink.

Gianna did pretty good, except for all the bathroom trips. We had to go three times between her and Hudson!

Huddy ate his popcorn and then wanted more, so we took another trip out to the concession stand. Good thing it was the cheap movie and Gianna was free, because we missed a lot of it!

After the movie, we headed to the mall for lunch and some play time.

We said bye to Uncle Dillon until he comes back down this month.

At home, the kids have been building tents and forts.

Playing dress up

Emerie spent the weekend with us and she slept in Gianna's bed. Gianna is not real good at sleepovers yet. She kept talking and keeping Emerie up. She finally quit talking and fell asleep.

I had the idea for the kids to make pizzas, but Gianna didn't want to do it. I helped Hudson make a soccer ball pizza.

One Sunday afternoon, we went to Nana B's and played in the kiddie pool. The kids are getting too big for it, but they still had fun.

Showing off their spaghetti mustaches

They like watching movies with popcorn

Having some interesting discussions at breakfast like flying squirrels. Hudson is into animals and Gianna acts like she knows all about it.

We all sat down and colored together, even me. I forgot how fun it is to color.

Leilynn and Emerie spent the night while Jamie went to Alabama to help Jen move back the rest of their stuff.

We haven't put up our pool yet and they were begging me to do something. I got a little 6 foot pool at the dollar store.

They had lunch outside on the patio

They got creative and put the slip n slide at the bottom of the slide and went in the pool

Emerie and Leilynn caught two frogs on the patio and wanted to keep them in a cage. Hudson and Gianna were so scared. Gianna was crying because she didn't want the frogs in her pet carrier.

They usually put on some kind of show. Hudson and Leilynn were performing a song.

The next night, Luke and the girls came back to spend the night. The kids did more performances for us.

On Jen's moving day, we had Nash and Jetta at our house so they wouldn't be in the way.

All the grandkids with Nana B on her birthday. We cooked for her and Jamie made a cake.

We had a friend dig the ditches on our road and Josh was helping him. Hudson had to be right there "helping" with his rubber boots just like Josh.

Hudson is a good little worker. He came in with his face all red and sweat rolling down his face. He didn't want to come inside, but Josh told him to take a break.

4th of July

We rode in the Jeep to Nana & Papa's house for the night.

The kids swam and then we went to pick out fireworks. Hudson was picky about what he wanted and Gianna was just throwing stuff in the basket.

Gianna was so scared that I had to go inside with her, so I didn't get to see Huddy pop his fireworks.

Everyone rode on the levee to see the big fireworks show from Port Allen. We convinced Gianna to go with us and she liked it because they were so far away that she couldn't hear them.

They were trying to use floats in the little pool

We watched Nash and Jetta on a Saturday and they were pulling each other on the floats.

It has been good to have Nash and Jetta here and see them regularly. Hudson keeps saying he wants to live by Nash so he can play with him all the time :)