Happy Birthday!

Four years ago today (May 21st) the most wonderful thing happened to our family! At 5:00 a.m. Taylor Elisabeth made her entrance into this world and at 5:02 a.m. Jackson Austin followed! To see how they have grown is unbelievable....in fact it's hard for me to realize they are now 4 and will be going to kindegarten next year!

Shannon had their birthday party in her backyard Saturday afternoon, so much fun, and so much water!

Aunt JJ, McKinley and Taylor

Jackson takes a swing with his new bat

No, Daddy, I don't want to get out!

Is all this for me???? (This is the grass skirt she got at the beach)

Pop steals a kiss from the birthday girl

Here is Taylor with her "boyfriend" Heath (better known as Beanie!)

McKinley does the hula

Taylor and Beanie (again) decide to cut the grass

This is fun!

Where did everyone go?

So many toys, so little time!

Taylor with a water gun squirting her uncle

Here comes daddy and Jackson

Happy Birthday Taylor and Jackson!

McKinley had a BIG piece of cookie cake

Even Ruby (son's dog) came to the party

Is it time to sing happy birthday yet?

Cut the cake Mommy....we're starved!

Blow out those candles Jackson!

Ta-Ta's favorite present - Waaar Eagle!!!

1st Annual Girls Beach Trip

As you can see, we were 2 miles from our destination at 5:12 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Call me dumb, but I didn't know that all the blue stuff on the screen was the ocean!!! Shannon pointed that out to me!

After we checked into our motel, we got out and walked on the beach about 6:00 p.m. so the girls could pick up shells. This is how the sky looked....isn't it amazing?

Someone had spent a lot of time building this sandcastle

McKinley is proud of her little seashell

Taylor (blue swimsuit) McKinley and DIL Jennifer


Taylor found a big beautiful shell but she wanted ya'll to see this one!

Now I've got to explain the next few pictures. We could not get into our condo until Friday so DIL went on line and found a "nice" motel for us to stay at Thursday night. She said it had great reviews and pictures and had recently been remodeled. Well, I don't know what they call "recently" but this place made the Bates Motel look like the Taj Mahal! The first thing that greeted us when we opened the door was a dead roach! Uck! I wanted to go to the office and get our money back but they had a "no refund" policy. So, when you see the cracked cement patio the girls are standing on, please know that this is not the kind of place we are used to!!

Taylor put on her sunglasses when she got up cause she was so excited to be at the beach!

Both girls WIDE AWAKE at the crack of dawn!

Ms. Ta-Ta all ready for her day at the beach in her swimsuit, hat and glasses!
McKinley looks like she's found something interesting.

McKinley is ready to go swimming Taylor "instructing" my sister's grandson, Mason (remember, she is the 'big sister' and just a little bossy)!

Mason (love those eyes)

Taylor and her floaties (she took off swimming like a little fish)

McKinley in her "big girl" float

I told ya'll most of my pictures were of the girls! We didn't get to spend much time with my sister (Besty), her daughter Elizabeth and Betsy's grandson Mason because they stayed in a different condo but we got together to eat on Friday night and they went swimming with us Saturday.

We ended the day swimming - so peaceful and relaxing.

I don't know where we'll spend the 2nd annual girl's trip but we have a year to decide. This coming weekend the my daughter and her husband are going to son and DIL for the weekend so MiMi and Pop will be keeping the twins!