First Day of Primrose Kindergarten

We decided at the advice of the school to bump Reese into the Private Kindergarten class at Primrose so while she thinks she is going to “real” kindergarten this is in fact going to be her Pre-K year as she will more then likely go to public school kindergarten next year. Nonetheless she was pretty nervous and excited this morning. The kindergarten class has to wear uniforms..they are red, white or blue. Reese will insist on wearing pink shoes She asked me to use the flat iron to straighten her hair this morning…she didn’t want the little curls:( Can’t believe my baby is growing up so fast!

Meet Molly!

Back in January when Reese and I moved into our house we started talking about getting a dog. I was really missing sweet Nike and wanted to make sure I wasn't rushing into getting another dog after he died. Since I wasn't sure we were ready and I didn't want to potty train a dog in the cold we waited. I finally decided this summer that I was ready to get a dog. Reese was gone more then usual in August for her summer vacation time with Bob and I was having a hard time with the empty house. We had initially talked about getting a little white Westie so I started looking for one of those. After already having sweet Nike, I kept coming back to wanting another lab. I really wanted a dog that would be able to run with me and also give a sense of security when home alone and I started thinking a 10lb yapper wasn't going to fit the bill:) So I looked at some chocolate labs and then fell in love with this sweet little blonde girl:)

Seriously...how sweet it she?!?!

I brought her home over the weekend when Reese was gone so she came home to a surprise.

She acts like a total nut running around crazy and then she passes out and sleeps forever. Reese calls her "Molly Molly Monster" when she is acting crazy. We love our funny little doggie:)

Florida Waller's visit Oklahoma

The last week of July my brother and his family came from Florida to Oklahoma to spend some time with Nanny and Poppy, attend my brothers class reunion and catch up with friends and family. Since we don't get to see them very often Reese and I made a trip to Oklahoma to hang out. My niece, Danni is 6 years old and Reese's only girl cousin. They hit it off from the start and spent a lot of time playing dress up, giggling and just just hanging out together.

The kids all LOVE to hang with Nanny..she is a no fear Grandma. She went down nearly all the water slides despite having a horrible fear of heights.

On the second day, the Oklahoma Wallers came to meet us at White Water Bay.

There was a local radio station at White Water that day giving away prizes and playing games. Mom entered into us into a drawing for a trip. If your number got drawn you got one of these Floating Coolers and entered it into a race around the Lazy River. We both made it to the final round but neither one of us won the trip...all we won was a silly floating cooler. ha!

Nanny and Poppy have a new dog "Sissy" and Reese was thrilled to get to meet her. After sweet Nike passed away a few months ago Nanny and Poppy decided they really really enjoyed having a dog. She is so cute and funny.

On the 3rd day we took the kids to a really cool Children's Museum. They have TONS of fun things for kids to play around with like driving a boat...

Grocery Shopping...

and flying an airplane!

Since we don't all get together very often we had some pictures made. I think these are the only picture we got of all the adults.

As always Reese has a great time with her cousins Andrew and Zach. I can't believe how big these boys are getting...makes me kind of sad:(

She also really really liked having a girl cousin around and Barrett kind of tolerated the two little girls pestering him:)

Sweet Reese is looking so grown up to me too. What happened to my little baby...sad?!

Love this pic of all the grands with my folks...we had a great time getting together and hope we get to do it again sooner then later.

Dress Like Your Mom or Dad Day

Several of the fun activities at Primrose this summer were dress up days. Today was "Dress Like Mom or Dad Day". Last night we laid out a few options but this morning Reese was pretty sold on wanting to be a "runner". I'm pretty sure she picked that so she could wear the metal..can't say that I blame her. I love wearing some bling after a race too:) So happy to be this little "runners" momma!

The Riverwalk San Antonio

We spent the last evening of vacation checking out the Riverwalk in San Antonio. As we were walking around looking for a place along the river my shoe broke and Reese started crying. Poor baby was really worried about Momma walking around barefoot:( Luckily there is a mall along the river and Momma ended up with not one but TWO new pairs of sandals. Ha! After the shoe crisis we were starving and found the closest place with outside seating available for dinner.

After dinner we strolled around the river walk a little more and then got in line for a boat ride.

Reese said the boat ride was her favorite part and a great way to spend our last day of vacation.

Sea World Aquatica

We spent the 2nd day of vacation at the new "Aquatica" water park at Sea World. It is brand new and super super nice. Reese had never really been to a "real" water park and I had no idea how it would work out, if she would like it and/or be tall enough to ride the rides, etc. We walked in the gates as soon as they opened and were greeted by Harriet.

This was the nicest water park I have ever been too, and very kid friendly. There was only one ride that Reese was not tall enough to ride. She LOVED it. I didn't get many pictures because we were wet but we snapped a few during our downtime. They had a sand beach area and Reese was happy to get out of the sun and play in the sand from time to time.

I touched the Sting Rays but Reese wanted no part in touching them..ha:)

We stayed ALL day long, rode almost every ride more then once, played in the sand and the wave pool and Reese still wasn't ready to leave when we did. We will for sure go back to visit Aquatica again.

Sea World Trip Day 1

We made our summer vacation a trip to Sea World San Antonio. We drove on a Thursday afternoon and got to the hotel in time to swim a little while before dinner.

On Friday morning we hit Sea World bright and early. It was HOT so we made sure to catch some shows to cool off. Reese was fascinated with the trainers and has been saying she wants to be a dolphin trainer when she grows up:)

These guys were huge and so beautiful.

Reese really liked the carousel but her FAVORITE was the Shamu roller coaster...we rode it about 4 or 5 times:)

After roaming around the park most of the day Reese was ready to get wet. The had a huge Sesame Street Splash area for kids. Since we were planning on going to the Sea World water park the next day we were not wearing bathing suits. But it was SOOO hot and I had brought an emergency change of clothes so Reese splashed in the water in her clothes:)

Posed for a quick pick with "The Count" before getting wet.

Sure do love this little water rat:)