washington adventures with eric, rachel, addelyn and payne: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

our sweeties

pictures of our "sweeties"

his blankies had just been washed...this was one of the reunions :)

he is a master at saying 'cheese' with his thumb in his mouth!

sweet kiddos

the blankie monster-even though you can't hear it-he is saying "cheese"

this was Addelyn's first time getting the mail all by herself-it was quite the ordeal at our house! :)

ever since our trip to Memphis and Payne being around cousin Reese...he LOVES babies...he went through Addelyn's things and found a doll...so sweet!

look at those new SWEET boots we are borrowing from a friend...LOVE THEM!

and here we are cheering on Rob and Kimberly(our precious Washington friends) in Kimberly's first half marathon-since we couldn't be in Portland to cheer her on.the next best thing is screaming from Oklahoma! :)

look who found daddy's big ladder

Payne was putting Elmo, Telly and Cookie Monster to sleep

DANCE PARTY TIME!!!!!

this consists of lots of running around and laughing and dancing to the music

Addelyn wanted to hug Payne-he wasn't too excited about it! :)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

last bit of our Tennessee trip

hanging out with Uncle Justin

Payne loved baby Reese

the day before we left, the kiddos woke up from nap and we headed to Sonic and to the park-such a super for afternoon...the kiddos had a blast!

on the go to the next fun thing

wheeeeee

love that smile

so fun

the sweetest baby girl

I love my sis-in-law TO PIECES!!!! she's the best!!!

playing music together

sweetness!!!

sweet James LOVED the slide

big boy

Reese LOVED riding on the horse

this is what her once smiley face looked like when it was someone else's turn...SO SAD!!!!

loving the horse AND her Sonic slushy

Payne was talking to Eric on the phone :)

We headed back to Oklahoma the next day-

what a super fun time we had seeing family and friends in Tennessee

Thursday, May 24, 2012

quick trip to Nashville

One day we loaded up into Justin and Mandy's mini-van and made a day trip to Nashville. My sweet Papa broke his leg a couple weeks ago and is in a rehab center for a few weeks. We wanted to go see him and hopefully lift his spirits a bit! It worked out that we got to see lots of family too-Nonie, Pop, Katie, Cassie and her 6 kiddos all came to see Papa too! What a super fun day with family!

on our way to Nashville!!!!

made it-giving hugs to Papa

sweetness!!!

I love this picture!

the room where we spent time with Papa had birds to watch---the kiddos loved it!

just hanging out

Katie and Papa

I love this sweet man

and here is the gang

Justin, James, Papa, Mandy and Reese

Adde loves her Papa

wish Eric could have been there too!!!

LOVE this!

Payne giving Papa hugs

sweet thing!

After visiting papa-we headed over to a park nearby...Nonie brought lunch and we ate, played on the playground and enjoyed each other!

fun cousin time at the park

these boys were up to no good :) just throwing grass in the drain

about 10 minutes into our trip back to Memphis-this is what we saw...

James fell asleep WHILE getting a snack - hee hee!

but don't be fooled-this only lasted about 30 minutes..for both boys :)

Reese was sleeping...and Addelyn was talking Mandy's ear off in the back-well kinda, this was the day she got pretty sick with fever...but she's such a trooper

and here is our driver...never thought my little brother would be the proud owner of a minivan...but he does it well!!! :) and it was fabulous for our trip!

quick trip...lots of great family time...loved seeing our precious Papa...long drive with 4 kiddos but totally worth every second of screaming on the way home :)