Cousin Time!

Callie and I were able to spend a total of two weeks this month at the lake visiting my parents and my sister and her kids. Our hubbies were present for part of the time. Matt drove down for the July 4th weekend and Jon flew up to Va for a week. Becky stayed almost an entire month in Virginia and was able to escape some of the intense Louisiana heat for a while. Callie loved spending time with her cousins and they seemed to love her. Brighton still wanted to put Callie in her mouth most of the time and Callie thought it was really funny. Will proved that he is not only a great big brother but he is also a wonderful big cousin. He looked after Callie, put her pacifier back in when she was upset and shared his precious car collection with her. I know that mom and dad loved having all their grandbabies in one place and they were very happy for the opportunity to show them off at church. We had so much fun and took tons of pictures. Here are a few of the three cousins together. Notice how fair Callie is compared to her cousins! She is a sunscreen manufacturers dream. Becky and I have that same obvious difference in our skin tones. There are more pictures to come but here is the first installation of July at the Lake '09.


We had several matching outfits for the kids. I don't think they had near the fun wearing them as Becky and I had picking them out and dressing them. Here is one of their July 4th outfits.

Much time was spent playing on the floor of the family room.

Will sharing with the girls. (As long as they didn't want his "best buddy" Lightnin' McQueen or his blankey and Baby Jaquar!)

Nana enjoyed having her hands full. Will enjoyed orange soda and cheese doodles.