Park and Grandpa B-day

So I wanted to recap what we did while we're down here for Kyle's Dallas rotation.  The day we got in was Kyle's dads birthday so I brought him the best present of all......AUBREY!  It was gorgeous weather and has been every day since we've been here. Crazy to be all ready for fall back in Tennessee and then step off a plane and bam back to summer.  One strange thing I have noticed here is although I'm wearing all my summer clothes- tank tops, shorts, skirts, sandals.  The rest of Texas is wearing fall clothes like sweaters, jeans, jackets, it's just crazy!!!  It's 90 degrees and people have on long sleeved sweaters.  I totally look like I don't fit in down here.  Kyle's mom explained to me that 90 is colder than they're usual 109 so people feel like it's colder when they're used to insane heat. 

Anyway, enough of my clothes rant and more pictures of the kids playing at the park. Aubrey has had so much fun going to play at the park in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard. She is in love with Cecilia and Jasmine and has spent every minute just walking around and playing with the girls. Her new favorite is to play barbies in their ginormious doll house.

This is where they hang out a lot.  They are always around the piano, Aubrey pounds on the piano and then dances, it's pretty darn cute.

Aubrey was so happy to see Bailey.  They both were pretty cute actually when she first got out of the car and realized Bailey was here she started running after her and Bailey was bouncing all over the play out of excitement.  Aubrey loves this room at Grandmas because it's full of a whole bunch of different animals.  It's basically like going to the zoo without all the walking, oh and the real animal part.  Aubrey has decided a giraffe says (she clicks her tongue) so you know what I have no idea what a giraffe says, so it sounds good to me.

Grandpa on his birthday with his girls.

 Playing at the park with Grandma TT.

We're having a great time so far, more pictures to come!

Mom's Visit

So while Kyle was working in Austin, my mom came to visit and take Aubrey and I to the airport to meet up with him.  We had so much fun just doing girl stuff and basically doing whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.  It's nice every once in a while to be just girls (although we did miss Kyle like crazy).

Here are some pictures from our great week...

We played with lots and lots of dolls.  Thanks Mimi for Aubrey's new baby (Aubrey says baby the cutest ever, I'll post a video of it soon.)

We looked for monkeys and lions in our woods.  We really don't have monkeys and lions, Mimi just has a great imaginiation.

 We went to the library.

 We belly blowed.

We Chick-Fil-Aed (if that's a word) Aubrey loves baaugh bauugh (the sound of a chicken) and she couldn't get enough of this video when we got home. She kept pointing to my mom's camera and wanting to watch this video.


We snuggled.

We watched the Tech band and danced.


We tailgated and slid down some awesome bounce house slides.

 We watched cheerleaders and played with some Mimi hair (it's Aubrey's comfort thing, it's so cute.)

We ring a round the rossie'ed.


 We played at the park.

 Then we had to go to the airport to head to Dallas.  It was bittersweet because we were so excited to see Kyle but sad to be leaving my mom. 

 Watching rrrr's (the best way I can type the sound Aubrey makes for plane). 

 Walking to our gate with Aubrey's new suitcase from Mimi.  Thanks for a great trip Mom and I can't wait to see you again.  I love you more than the frozen rolos I'm eating right now.

 I couldn't get a good picture of Aubrey on the plane but it was a great trip.  She was so good on the plane and slept until Birmingham and then we had more people come on and Aubrey entertained the two guys sitting next to us the rest of the way to Dallas.  We're having a great time here in Dallas so far and I will definitely be adding more pictures of our trip so far this week.

 

First Cookie Baking Experience

 So Aubrey and I (ok really just me) decided to make cookies for Kyle to take on his road trip down to Austin. I had some leftover sugar cookie mixes so I gave Aubrey a little spatula and she helped stir up some cookies. Then I put her in the highchair and she helped me roll out dough and use cookie cutters. She was doing great cutting the cookies and leaving the dough alone until she decided hmmm I wonder if this stuff tastes good and then out the door went the helping and in with the eating. As soon as I would get a flat sheet of rolled dough, Aubrey would start peeling away the dough and eating it. It was a losing battle so I just ate some with her and finished cutting the cookies by myself. Then started the icing part, again she did great sticking her little play kitchen knife in and icing the cookie until she got one taste of that heavenly goodness (water+powdered sugar, yummm). Then it got a little messy from there and by a little I mean a lot!! We had fun and Dad and Aubrey loved eating the cookies, I'd say our first baking experience was a success.

Neighbor Cutiepies

All the kiddos were playing outside on Sunday, even baby Jack was hanging with the toddlers.  It was such a beautiful fall day and I'm looooving the weather right now and I hope it sticks around for a little while.  I know we won't be sticking around and be heading to hot 109 degree weather in Texas but I definitely think true fall weather will be waiting for us when we get back from Texas (boots and all, yay boot weather!!!  I could happy squell over wearing some good pair of boots).  So while the kids were outside I decided to take a few pictures, especially since Aidan and Aubrey both backed up against the brick wall (gotta love me some brick background) and they actually both stayed there until I ran inside, got my camera and came back out.  I keep taking these pictures and editing them trying to make them look like I'm taking them with a better camera.  Some day, some day I will own a fancy schmancy camera (probably 15 years from now after loans are all paid off, HA who am I kidding 15 seems more like it will be 50).  So enough rambling here are the cute kids I promised.  Seriously cuteness!!
Baby Jack smiles are too stinkin cute!

 Yay, it was cold enough to wear cardigans to church :)  The simple things in life that make me happy, ha.

 So Aubrey was having a picnic outside and decided she didn't want to eat anything until Alarie brought out Aidan's plate and then she ate about every carrot off his plate.  This is the kid that never wants carrots when they're on her plate but oh somebody else has them, yes please.  So in most of these pictures she's chewing up a massive mouthful of carrots.

 The Aidan tongue that he has out oh so often, love it.

Ok, so Aubrey was in this picture but the way she had her face she looked drunk (no she doesn't drink, don't worry), so I photo shopped my own kid out to catch this cutie, look at those eyes!  Aubrey loves her bf Aidan.

Now, here's my cutie pa-tootie.

Afternoon Park Date

We often go to the park to play and we always bring some old bread to feed to the ducks. On this particular day Aubrey and I were all ready to go and then Kyle pulled up the driveway so he was able to go with us for our afternoon park date. He also treated us to frozen yogurt at our favorite place 32 degrees. We love our park, just wish it was a little closer (it's only 10 min or so but it's the only place to go for a walk).

Ok, my favorite picture to take is of these two.  Something about the way she looks at her daddy, holds her daddy, it just melts my heart. 

Kyle is in Austin right now for a couple of weeks and we'll be joining him down in Texas at the end of the month.  We miss you so much Kyle and we love you, we can't wait to see you!

Cardigan Love

I can't wait for Aubrey to wear these little cardigans this fall. Since our week of chilly weather last week I decided to go shopping in her closet for her fall clothes and boy do I love getting out new clothes.  I told Kyle look I went shopping and it cost nothing!  He said yeah, but how much did you spend putting it all there.  I'm happy to say that her clothes are either Josalyn's hand me downs, garage sale or thrift store finds, or clearance rack, so really not much $s have been spent.  Too bad fall just played a trick on us and lasted for about 4 days and now we're back up in the 80s and 90s.  Don't think she'll be getting much use out of these either in the 109 crazy temp in Texas.  Oh well, maybe in a month or two....

Gotta Love Skype

I don't know what we would do without technology and living far away from family.  We love sending picture texts and video messages of Aubs to our family so they can still see her.  Aubrey also likes to talk on the phone and she especially likes to skype.  What we would do without skype, I don't know.  We often times have skype dates with my mom and baby Zach in the mornings.  We just skyped Grandma TT and the girls the other day too.  Aubrey always thinks she's calling Papa when she's skyping but I think it's because it's her favorite name to say right now.  She was giggling when Kyle and I were asking her what our names were and she would laugh and say Papa.  But of course when we pointed to Bailey and asked what her name was she instantly said Baiwee.  Kimberly even had us skype the other day to practice for her first patient encounter and all I can say is Kyle is the FUNNIEST patient model.  Oh, the med students are so lucky he never took that gig.  So we love our skype and are so thankful it keeps us closer and it has allowed Aubrey to know her Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts, and Uncles. 

Here's a picture from our morning skype date with Mimi the other day.  Aubrey had finished a bowl of cereal (we usually share a bowl of mini-wheats in the morning).  She was trying to feed my mom, no there wasn't any milk or cereal left in there.  She has a great imagination and can pretend play at the drop of the hat.  If you look too, you'll notice her beautiful bed head.

 Say, Ahhhhh Mimi!