August

August started off with a lot of trips to the store to buy school supplies and to prepare for our third and last trip to Dallas, Texas for JR's seminar for his PhD program. We were spoiled in Washington with school starting after the Labor Day weekend, and we were almost certain school would start in late August like in our childhood when we lived in Missouri, so when we learned school starts the first week of August here in Kentucky we were not prepared..........

Here are my two sweet nieces Madeline and Ava heading off to their first day of school in Missouri like good little kids do.....

And here is our over joyed son heading off to Lego Land in Dallas, TX instead of heading off to his first day of school........So we didn't expect school to start August 3rd!!!!

Grant had a blast and I can say it was a much needed family time trip for us!

Ryan didn't know what to think of this place, there were kids running every where and screaming their heads off. I tried taking him to the toddler area but we found it to be just as dangerous.....

My favorite part of Lego Land was the miniature set up of Dallas. They did an awesome job and I compared them to my actual pics of down town Dallas and they look so much alike!

Our nephew Brody has been busy growing by leaps and bounds. The last time I saw him he had just learned to sit up on his own and now he has taken off crawling and pulling himself up on furniture. It is amazing to me how fast they grow up and how quickly they learn to be on the move after they take that first risky step...

For instance.......

For Ryan's first birthday his cousins Jill, James, and Jeanette bought him these awesome roller skates. He couldn't even stand in them about three months ago but now he can stand up, walk on the carpet, and even cautiously glide around the kitchen floor in them.

A wipe-out or two was to be expected;)