Visit to Marshall

Charlie and I made a quick trip over the last weekend in July to see my parents. Carson staying in FW to work on his MBA class... we all missed him being there!

Charlie playing with Papa Jess (as you can see our little man is putting on some weight finally!)

Yes, this is a picture of our child playing with the toilet cap. If you're reading this, please do not de-friend us. When I'm getting ready in the morning, I bring Charlie in the bathroom with me to play. I bring a few toys to keep him busy but he quickly crawls away from his toys and goes straight towards this little cap on the toilet. I seriously hope this is not a sign of his future profession as a plumber.... better yet, maybe it's a sign he'll be an engineer!

His other favorite appliance is the dishwasher. Are we seeing a trend here?

Eating Cheerios at Gigi and Papa Jess' house!

Playing with my brother's old Oscar the Grouch toy. Charlie thought it was hilarious!

Attacking the camera! Let me just tell you that this child had a grand ol' time army crawling all over my parents house with those wood floors. Ava (6 years old) even attempted to race him and she barely won! He's getting pretty fast!

Papa came to visit Bear and even played some patty-cake!

Snuggling with Mom A (Thanks for the veggies Mom A, Charlie loves them!)

Izzie the cute little fairy

Now she's not interested in the photos. Aren't these two growing up so fast?

All 4 cousins (Jordan, Charlie, Izzie, & Ava Grace) This was the best of all the pictures!

Izzie and I were talking about the latest fashions :)

It's always a treat to go home. My mom and I went into town on Saturday to have lunch and visit one of my favorite children's clothing shops. We bought Charlie some of the cutest little swim trunks for next summer too... you'll just have to wait until summer 2011 to see them!

Vintage photo?

Our Bear loves strawberries so much and I think he's going to turn into one!!

I love these next few pictures. This outfit is one of Carson's from when he was little and the Happy Apple that Charlie is playing with was mine as a little girl. So it's kind of like a vintage photo with the old John John outfit and the Happy Apple!!

I had to comb his hair to look all handsome :)

Always happy

The photo shoot just wore him out :)

He likes to give sugars now! It's so sweet!

I love this sweet boy!

Visit from the Branaghs...

Our friends, Megan & John Branagh, moved to California last year but came back to visit this summer with their new addition... sweet baby Grady!!

We all had a fun dinner together at Joe T's in the hot Texas heat!

(Whitney, Megan, Meredith, Emily holding Grady, Kelly Kay,

sitting Esther & Kat)

Doesn't Megan wear the cutest clothes?? I wish she would be my clothing fairy and come pick me out something cute to wear everyday! :) We miss y'all!

My 29th birthday

I posted earlier that we went to dinner with some friends on my actual birthday, but then I also had the pleasure of celebrating my birthday with two of my favorite girls... no husbands and no babies. It was so fun! ...well, except that Ashley told us that night that they are moving to Austin :( Sad for us, but happy for their family. Sorry these pictures are a little blurry (taken with my small camera that is soon to croak)

Dinner at Patrizzio's with Debbie and Ashley

Gelato afterwards... yumm-o!!!

(Perfect celebration with my girls, italian food, wine and ice cream! Thanks girls, love you both!!)

New babies

Two precious babies were born in July and August....

First was Preston Matthew Gibson born July 3rd. His mom, Alissa, and I became friends at TCU while in nursing school together. We have both worked at Cook Children's Hospital for since we graduated and have remained good friends. I was hoping that he would arrive on my birthday, but he came on his own time! He is a precious little boy and we're so happy for Matt and Alissa!!! Boys are such a blessing. (Sorry t

hat Charlie made a mess at your house, Alissa!)

Then on August 5th Madeline Andress Morris arrived!! Her parents, Jeffrey and Allison, are so special to us. Jeffrey is Carson's best friend from high school and Allison is my best friend from UT. Actually, I don't know if our family would exist without those two.... because Carson and I met through Jeffrey and Allison. We have not met Mattie Ann yet but I'm literally DYING to hold and kiss on that baby girl!!!!!!! Jeffrey and Alli, hope to see y'all in the next few weeks and I'll post pictures when we finally get to love on her. For more pictures of that beautiful angel, check out their blog here.

Julianne crawling compared to Charlie

My mom sent me this video of when I was a little girl. Can you see the similarities to Charlie bear's iguana crawl?? (sorry the video is so small, click on the right hand bottom corner to enlarge the video... and sorry there is no sound) Do you think we look alike too?

No way...

My name is never advertised on anything. Look what I saw tonight on this website! AWESOME!!!!!!!!