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Just a silly little frivolous post to make you giggle! . . . . . . . Are you ready for it???? . . . . . . . Addison eats a cucumber! This is better than her lemon face by far!!!! It's bitter beer face for babies! lol

This was an AWESOME experience! Heightened by the fact that I am absolutely in awe of aquatic life! We were all "oohhing and aweing" through the entire aquarium . They have an amazing tunnel that you ride a conveyor belt through and all around you are fish and sharks swimming - above and to both sides. The coolest was probably when the Saw Fish *shark* swam right over our heads! Talk about AMAZING! I would go to this place all the time if it were in my local town. Probably better for the checkbook that it is so far away! :) Here are a few pics from our day at the Ripley's Aquarium. More of the peops than of the fish...you can find pics of fish anywhere. :) Tons of fun!

As I used my digi camera today (okay, technically yesterday at this point) taking pic after pic at the aquarium I thought, and therefore voiced aloud that I have camera envy. We bought our camera 4 years ago - and it is and has been an amazing camera. However, as technology tends to do, we paid twice as much for it as we paid for Shayna's digi camera....AND I LIKE HER CAMERA BETTER. There was a brief discussion with Steve where we both said the same thing...her's is just newer, cooler, etc. But hey...what are you going to do, we aren't going to just ditch a perfectly good camera "just because." Fast forward to this evening. We were sitting in our cabin after an evening of shopping (I bought yet another diaper bag...diaper bags are the new shoes yo!) I was about to flip through the pics taken on the trip just for kicks - over 300 so far - when Steve asked for me to hand him the camera and he would go ahead and upload them. AWESOME! I didn't know he even ...

Sunday was a family day. We are blessed to have Steve's parents here as well camping in their RV and his sister Becky who drove down from Virginia for the weekend as well. His rents came to the cabin to visit us here so that Addison could get her naps in a little easier. That was awesome. She took her morning AND her afternoon naps (and a huge afternoon nap at that) without any problems. Gigi and Pops brought all the food for lunch (and there was so much that we have had it several times since then as well). We watched 8 below with them and dined together ... watched a lot of Addison and her antics since she was in such good spirits...and hung out till almost dinner time when they left and went back to the campground with Becky. The girls did the waterpark again (they went with Dan and Lib's fam this time) and did some flirting with a few boys...one of which it turns out Shayna did not really like afterall and it backfired on her cause he was a total clingon for the rest...

So this is the first time we have really taken a BIG vacation together as a family since Addison was born. There was some worry about how she would do...will she nap, will she scream in the car the whole way there and home (16hr drive)...will she be crabby baby the whole time. The fears had us a little anxious about our planned vacation. We packed relatively light...especially for us...and set out on our way last Thursday the 19th. We loaded up the Outlook and set out at 6pm ready to drive all night long so we would arrive in time for our 1pm check in and hopefully have all the girls sleep most of the way here so we would have less crying, bathroom breaks, food breaks, etc. For the most part our plan worked. The two older girls (we brought my niece Haven with us so Shayna would have a friend her age) slept a good portion of the way after we watched Enchanted with our nifty built in DVD player and wireless headsets. (So loving having that!) Steve drove most of the way but I did dri...

Having just returned from one trip...and about to head out on another (I know...your heart is bleeding for me) I am awash in things to do. Like the incredibly anal retentive person that I am I had to sit in bed till 1am making my "to do" list. Which, ideally would have only 6 things on it...EVER. That is not the case today though. Over the next two days I have more than 40 things on my "to do list" and very little time to do those things and get them on my "to done" list. With that in mind...I am posting this and then shutting off the computer. :) Peace out!

The inquisition… 1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. 2. Each player answers the questions about themselves. 3. At the end of the post, the player tags 5-6 people, posts their names, then leaves a comment in their respective blogs to let them know they’ve been tagged. 4. Let the person who tagged you know that you posted your answers. Questions… 1. What were you doing 10 years ago? Oh my gosh...like I can even remember back that far. Let's see...I would have been barely 24 - which means I was a single parent with a 4-1/2 year old baby girl...Shayna. If she was 4 that means we had just moved from Houston to Dallas and we were living in a loft in Downtown Dallas just across from the Majestic Theatre. I was working as a Nanny for two precious little girls Ellen and Anne and also spent a lot of time doing both paid and volunteer work with the kiddos at First Baptist Downtown Dallas. That would have been the summer before I started back to school working on my degr...