Gigi, Grandad, and 4/5 of the Griswalds Take Florida!

Gigi and Grandad are sweet enough to invite us on a beach vacation every summer. Unfortunately things were a little different this year...we added sweet baby Kate to the mix and Jason wasn't able to make the trip due to that annoying thing called work. So yes go ahead and do the math...WE WERE A BABY UP AND A DADDY DOWN! And let me tell you, those odds made for quite the cross country adventure! Here are a few of my favorite quotes of the week...

"Unbelievable" - Grandad any time the kids did something insane (which was a lot)
"I mell something" - Bear every time someone pooped or threw up (which was a lot)
"That was freaky" - Jack's response after Gigi jumped in the ocean to rescue his pet Flipper
"Close your eyes, Grandad" - Jack while trying to hit Grandad with a noodle
"If Jack throws up, I'm going to mell it" - Bear during a car ride back to the hotel
"There comes them" - me after spotting Jack and Grandad
"Get me out of this car" - anyone who was sitting in the backseat with the kiddos
"Grandad said it was going to stop raining" - Jack every few minutes after 24 hrs of rain
"It mells like fishies" - Bear's observation while walking to the car
"Do you like this one?" - Gigi after picking out the exact same shirt I had just bought 5 min ago
"Slurp, slurp, slurp" - Grandad drinking his 44 oz margarita while hiding behind the car

Good times, baby, good times! Thanks for braving the storm with me, Gigi and Grandad! I love you guys so very much and treasure all of our crazy memories!

This Ol' House!

It's not often that you get to go back in time, but that is exactly what we get to do for the next couple of months. Since the Friendswood place isn't quite finished and our rent house just happened to be free of renters...it obviously made a ton of sense to just move into our rent house. But the thing is that this house isn't just a rent house...it is the house that Jason lived in when I first met him. It is the place that I nervously drove to for his infamous Super Bowl party. It is the driveway where we shared our second kiss. It is the oven that I used to cook my first dinner (lasagna of course) for Jason. It is the backyard where we drank margaritas and played Survivor Mexico with great friends. It is the porch that I anxiously checked each evening for wedding presents. It is the kitchen where we called to find out that 'no matter how faint the line...you are still pregnant'. It is the couch where we suffered through a bout of food poisoning and wondered aloud if our love could get us through. It is the living room where we announced our very first baby news to yelling, screaming, and crying family. It is the nursery that we painstankingly painted the worst color of green possible. It is the yard where Jason and his dad had the big plan to build a fence and then finally had an even bigger plan to ask the guy down the street to build the fence instead. It is the wood floors that would creak each and every time we crept away from Jack's crib. It is the house where we fell in love and began this amazing journey. How wonderful to get to fill up this space once again...

Happy America from Pointe West!

We decided to celebrate America up BIG this year and what better way to do that than a trip down to Pointe West, Galveston! And of course since we were doing it up big, we just had to spend it with a whole bunch of friends AND a whole heck of a lot of cute kiddos! The 25 of us (12 adults and 13 kiddos) had a blast soaking up the sun and fun over the much needed long weekend. In fact we had such a good time that (dare I say it?) our annual 'friendly stay-cation' may have just been born! : )