The Gaylord Texan

Michael and I headed out to Grapevine, Texas August 8-11 for work. We are a vendor partner for the Ideacom Association (meaning we offer health insurance to members of the Ideacom Association). We also used the trip as an anniversary get away. Our 5 year anniversary was on August 7!! Can't believe we have been married 5 years.

Michael brought home this pretty bouquet and a dozen rosesfor me for our anniversary!!

We went for a hike around Lake Grapevine. It was a beautiful lake. The building in the distance is our hotel. We stayed at the Gaylord Texan Hotel. Very interesting hotel!

Michael inside the hotel!

On Sunday, we went to the location where JFK was assainated. We walked through the 6th floor museum which is in the Texas School Book Depository (it is no longer that today). Very informative!!

Behind Michael is the general location where JFK was shot.

Pic of me inside the hotel

Around the House in July

Playing in the rain


Helping Mommy cook

Relaxing with Daddy at the end of the day

Eating her snack before she went swimming. I think she likes the snack part of going to the pool more then the swimming.

Lake Wateree with The Wansley's

We met up with the Wansley's again in July at Lake Wateree. It also happened to be Laura's 30th b-day weekend. The girls played outside pretty much the whole time.

Laura and Baby Tripp
Emma on a mission

Blowing Bubbles

Libby loves the swing

Me and Tripp

Libby was responsible for decorating the cake. She really got into dipping the candles into the cake and licking the icing off.

The finished product. Libby was quite proud.

The birthday girl!

The boys taking a nap after a tiring weekend.

More 4th Pics

Pictures are out of order! Oh well!!

Swim, Swim, Swim

July 4th

Emma and Daddy

Libby at the park

The girls being silly before bedtime Friday night.


For the 4th of July, we headed up to Davidson to hang out with the Wansley's and meet baby Tripp. We hung out and relaxed the whole weekend. The dads took the girls to a park on the lake Saturday morning while moms took Tripp to Super Target to go grocery shopping. That afternoon the girls played in the pool in the backyard. The girls enjoyed a popsicle before they went swimming. Once Emma was done with hers, she handed the stick to her daddy, and dove right on into the water. That evening we had a cookout. We enjoyed hanging out with the Wansley's again. Emma adores Libby. Tripp is a sweet, BIG baby boy!

Summer Days

With summer approching, I had visions of me and Emma going to the pool to swim and hang out. Well I took Emma to a splash pad last week and she was miserable. She cried, clung to me and did not want any part of it. So I packed us up and left. That afternoon I decided I would take her to the pool to see how she did. Once again she did not like it. All I could think was we are going to be stuck inside for the rest of summer because my child is afraid of water. I took her on Monday, and she made a little bit of progress. She sat on the top step, but she would not let me get in the water. Finally today Michael came home a little early from work. We all put our bathing suits on and lathered up with sunscreen and headed to the pool. Wouldn't you know our little stinker did great! She loved "swimming". She put her head in a few times and moved her arms all around like she was swimming. Unfortunately, a storm came up so we were only able to swim for 15 minutes.

Preparing for the big swim!!

Not too sure about everything but thinking about it.

Thinking she might scream at any minute!

And she loves it!!!

I was videotaping her for a little while. I tried to get her to look at the camera, but she did not even want to take a second to look at me. She wanted to keep swimming. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this keeps up for the rest of the summer.