Car Seat Friends

Rachel has a few toys that are hooked to the top of her car seat and she gets excited when she sees them when we are putting her in her seat. It was so cute the other day we got her out of the car to take her into the store and she had fallen asleep holding on to one of her "friends." How sweet is this!

I love my sweet little baby! There is just something about a sleeping baby that just melts your heart every time!

San Angelo Mall

We found a fun mall in San Angelo. From the outside I saw the usual stores like JC Penny and Dillards and since San Angelo is a smaller town that St. George, I assumed that the mall would be smaller or similar that the one here. Boy was I wrong. The mall in San Angelo was way cooler! My sister Julie had been telling me about a fun place that her family likes to eat at sometimes that I had never heard of. The place was Chick-fil-a. I hadn't ever heard of it before she had told me about it but we were excited to find out that there were a few of them in San Angelo, more specifically there was one in the mall. With all of her raving about the place, we decided we had to try it. She said we had to get their fresh squeezed lemonade because it was the best. She was right! Everything we had there was absolutely delicious. Jacob and I both got the spicy chicken sandwich and waffle fries with some lemonade. This was our first night together and just the sugar from the lemonade put me over the top sugar wise. On our way out though, we saw a Dippin Dots. I hadn't seen one of those for a lot of years and Jacob hadn't ever seen one. We went over just to get a sample (because they are so expensive) and both ended up buying some. It was so fun and yummy! Rachel loved it too!

Even though they had lots of fun food and other fun stores there at the mall, my favorite part was the big children's play area. They had all sorts of things for kids to climb and play on. Here are a few pictures of Rachel "playing" in the play area.

Growing up in St. George with the small little mall that it has, I never knew that a mall could be so much fun! I hope we have a fun mall we can go play at when we get to Tucson!

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

So one of the days we were together, we bought mint chocolate chip klondike bars and they were oh so yummy! Rachel was eyeing mine so I decided to give her a taste and of course she loved it! I was surprised at how much she loved it though. She didn't want to share it with me anymore. Everytime I would try to take a bite she would grab my arm and try to get it back to her mouth. Needless to say it got really messy really quick!

"What are you looking at? I'm just trying to enjoy my ice cream."

"Where did it go?"

"Is it really gone?"

Even Daddy got a little messy.

What would you do for a klondike bar?

Texas

Rachel and I had such a fun week with Jacob! It was just so fun to be together and be a little family again. It has been fun getting to see my sisters and my parents, but all of the time I

feel like part of me is missing, and it is. Being with Jacob for a week was so fun, and it was just so natural to be together again. I kept wishing we could stay longer! Rachel had so much fun playing with Daddy (almost as much fun as Daddy had playing with her!) We partied all week long! It was really fun to be there for two weekends, and get to spend that extra time with Jacob then, but it was so much fun to be there during the week too and spend some time just living together like normal.

Something we did to make being together extra fun (and to help us be good when we aren't together) was we decided we would only eat sweets when we are together. It was really fun because we haven't had sugar for a while, but we discovered our sugar tolerance was really low, at least it was at the beginning of the week, we quickly remedied that problem with

cookies!

Here are a few pictures from the trip. (There will be more in other posts.)

I actually quite liked having the closet doors be mirrors. I never knew I would like that, but it was so nice to be able to set Rachel down with some toys and be able to do other things because she was preoccupied with flirting with the baby in the mirror. Also I could stand next to her and get ready in the bedroom instead of having to get ready in the bathroom.

Jacob and Rachel and I went out and bought new swimsuits for all three of us! It was so fun! I haven't had a new swimsuit since high school! It was fun staying on base because they had a lot of fun things to do all with in walking distance of our apartment! They had a swimming pool, a bowling alley, a movie theater, a gym, and other cool places. we went swimming twice while we were there and will for sure go again next time we come. Rachel loved

playing in the water, and we did too! I wondered if she would have a problem with it because the water was cool, but I shouldn't have worried. As long as we are outside, Rachel doesn't care what else we do. She loved splashing in the water. It was so fun to hold her and feel how excited she was to be in that much water. She would get her legs kicking and her arms splashing and she was just so cute. I think her favorite part though was watching the

other kids in the pool. She would watch them and get really excited about it.

I really love my little family! It was so fun to get to spend so much time together this last week and a half! It was really hard to leave Jacob when it came time, but I'm so excited for when we get to go see him again. 2 months down and 4-ish to go until we can live together full-time!

Fun in the Sun

My sister Caralee bought a little swimming pool for her kiddos to play in this summer, and invited us over for the first swim of the summer. As you can see from the pictures, Rachel liked eating the toys more than playing in the water, but we had lots of fun!

This swimming suit that Rachel is wearing was one Caralee found that was an old one of Sydney's. It is size 3T. We thought that maybe the top would fit okay, but that the bottoms would be way too big, but it turns out we were exactly wrong. The top was a little big, but the bottoms fit perfect. That is right, my cute little baby has a big bottom! It is a very very cute bottom though!

I had to paint her toenails so she would be ready to go see Daddy! I just love seeing her cute painted toes!

Sydney was fun playing in the water with us. I think her favorite part was pouring water on Rachel's head.

I went over to Caralee's totally not planning on getting wet at all. I should have known better! Caralee and I both ended up getting soaked along with the kids. It was so much fun though! I'm glad it is starting to warm up and we can start having fun in the sun!