Froggie

Talkin on the phone (and a lil update)

This is hilarious. I figured out later that it's much easier if I just unplug the phone. She is talking up a storm now. Matter of fact, just today, she said "cheese" and "pappy". Wooohoooo!

Also, she was released from the dietician! Not sure if I've already posted that or not. She weighed 24lbs 10oz and 34 3/4 in long. We are sad to see Trina go, but I know we will keep in touch with her! So now we still have Cindy, our speech pathologist. Brinson starts ISR class next week as well as dance class! I enrolled her in Broadway Babies and in December she'll actually have a recital!

A few days in Galveston

Mom, Brinson and I spent a few days in Galveston last week. Ned came and spent one night with us. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Sunspree, which, while the staff was absolutely awesome, the hotel and food were not. The hotel was a bit dirty (which you can't really tell in the pictures!) and the restaurant was closed for lunch and dinner the week we were there....ugh. We won't even talk about the breakfast lol.
We had a good time even though it was mostly cloudy the entire time. We did manage to get to the beach and the pool several times. The night Ned came down, we all ate at Fish Tales. Meme and Brinson were fine. Ned and I got food poisoning.....oh fun stuff!!!
I'm hoping our next trip to Galveston will be a little more fun for Meme. We just picked the wrong time to go! I'm putting my order in for sunshine for the next trip.

View from our room

Another view from the room

Yet another view...lol Note the clouds


Meme and Brinson at the pool

Capt Jack's bar (which was our pool bar)

From under the waterfall


Cutie pie!

Is that a pina colada???


Look at my big girl

She had my cover up and Meme's headband

The clouds cleared up for about an hour


We promised a certain someone we'd leave a msg in the sand!


Brinson eating goldfish with Meme

Look at my lil fashionista

Singing

Closeup


A self portrait


The day we left...still clouds

Welcome Home Isa

Approx. 15 months ago our good friends Eric and Audra went to Mexico to adopt a beautiful little girl named Isabella. They had been traveling back and forth all that time. We all know things in Mexico aren't the timeliest...lol The best part? One year ago to the exact day (August 19th) that we brought Brinson home from the NICU, they brought Isa home to Texas. They had a coming home party on the 28th and there were alot of family and friends who came to celebrate!!!

Welcome Home!

Good lookin family

Future BFFs

Dora backpack

This was taken just before we were getting ready to leave for the airport to come back home. I can't believe how grown up she looks with that backpack on. She actually did manage to wear it around some at the airport....was so cute!!!

Brinson with Uncle Jamie

My brother Jamie, sister-in-law Jodi and nieces Jenna and Jacie took a turn watching Brinson while I went to the casino (it was the last time!) with Mom. Brinson loooooves the girls, and I was told that she enjoyed playing the guitar with Uncle Jamie.

We were driving down one of the County Roads and we passed by this old farmhouse. It had No Tresspassing signs everywhere, and was abandoned. It's such a shame that they let this place go. I'd love to buy it if it were for sale! I made Mom stop so I could grab some pictures of it.

Covered Bridge

There are quite a few of these neat old bridges around where Mom lives.

Sunrises, Blue Skies, and Sunsets

Sunrise seen at the back of Meme's house

Sunsets seen from the front porch

The Amish

We went up to a town called Shippshewana which is where there are alot of Amish. It's one of the coolest things I've seen. It's like literally stepping back in time. I had to sneak to take pictures because they REALLY don't like to be photographed. We stayed at the Essenhaus Inn and ate at their restaurant. It's family style and there aren't many choices, but there don't need to be. The food was the best I had eaten the entire trip. Unfortunately I got so wrapped up in everything, I forgot to take pics of the hotel. I did manage to get one of the view from the room.
We stopped in at 2 Amish bakeries (they are little unairconditioned rooms attached to their farms) and bought some goodies. Grrrrrrrreat stuff. I shipped some of the stuff home so Ned could enjoy it too!


View from the room

Buggies

Neat Amish guy


Okay so we drove by this buggy...who had stopped to pick up some people..


And I kinda missed...lol

So I tried again later...same luck!!!

This was parked at a hardware store.

Look at all that stuff!!!!!!!