cookies cookies pie cookies

we love living in arkansas. it finally feels like home to us.

we only wish family was closer.

so we sure love it when we get visitors.

grandma came and stayed for 6 days.

we ate well for those 6 days.

cake, cookies, creme brulee, cinnamon rolls and more

we did eat real food in there too. promise.

ainsley was in heaven being spoiled by grandma. all day long she kept saying cookie cookie cookie.

thanks grandma.

she loved having grandma around to play with and be silly with.

grandma is very silly.

we had the best 6 days of eating and playing and eating. i especially loved going on walks together before all the storms came. it was so fun having her here.

hopefully next time grandpa can come too.

what a big little girl

ainsley is officially 18 months old now!

i'm so proud of my little girl.

she's got such a big personality and is such a sweetheart.

she's accomplished so much these past few months.

she has a HUGE vocabulary. its amazing.

she's very independent. she loves going to the park and going down the slides by herself.

she's starting using her potty this week too.

(i haven't been trying to potty train her....she just started saying she wanted to use her potty)

my favorite is she's starting nursery now.

i'm actually looking forward to going to relief society.

yup. i said it.

what a great 18 months it has been.

yes, ainsley is a mover and has lots of energy, but i dont think i'd want it any other way.

love you baby girl.

enjoying our long awaited vacation

after all of duben's work madness we were in desperate need of a vacation.

as soon as we found out he got his new job we started planning a trip.

when we asked people about vacations around here people usually said either disneyworld or gulf shores. we're not quite ready for disneyworld and i miss the ocean terribly, so i was all about checking out the gulf...or the redneck riviera as some people say.

i'd never been to the gulf, and it was actually really nice.

it was just what we needed.

we rented a great condo which had the COOLEST pools ever.

we all LOVED the pool. there was a wave pool, a huge lazy river, and a great kid area with water slides. i lovedwatching ainsley go down the slides. the first day she was hesitant of them. every time she went down she cringed as she waited for the water to hit her. before long she was climbing up the stairs and going down them by herself. i was so proud!

she loved being in the water, so that made me happy.

we easily could have stayed at our condo for the whole time and been fine. we were by the beach though, so we had to check that out too.

i'm always curious of water temperature and wave size at other beaches.

once we arrived and set foot on the sand i was so happy.

i miss the beach so much. i love it.

ainsley....not so much.

dirty. it was all dirty to her.

logan wasn't a fan either.

we didn't stay long since the kids weren't quite cooperating. oh well.

it was an amazing trip. we were so glad katie and tyler could come with their cute kids. we made lots of yummy food and had fun just relaxing and catching up.

one of my favorite activities was having a rootbeer tasting to see who could do a blind tasting of all the different rootbeers and guess the brand. i didn't do so well. i actually preferred the walmart generic. who knew?

thanks katie and tyler for joining us on this last minute vacation. we had tons of fun. i know ainsley just loved being around you guys.

3 more months till the FFFFFFFFFFF!!!