Have you ever seen anything so precious!?!

This is my sister, Angie's, baby girl. Carson is 10 weeks in these pictures. She is just as cute as she can be!

Z-Ball

Zachary's T ball is going to be over soon so I wanted one more post with him playing guitar with the bat. Unfortunately the pictures are dark and kind of blurry but still very sweet and funny. Here he is on deck.....He and Gavin have so much fun together.
After the game was over we stayed a little bit so the kids could run around the field. Here is what Addie chose to do with her time.

I should have taken a picture of her right as we were leaving. She was much dirtier than this.

Welcome with Love

Our good friends Justin & Julie just had their first baby. Jacob is a beautiful healthy little boy. We are so excited for them and I can tell how incredibly happy they are that he is finally here. Congratulations Julie and Justin!! We look forward to seeing Jacob grow and maybe play a little Rock Band(?). Justin, you need to buy him some little baby drum sticks!

Introducing...Mr. Jacob Myers Garrigues.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Okay so I know I am biased but isn't she!!??!!

Baby Carson

Last Friday I took a trip to Kansas City by myself to see my sister Angie, brother-in-law Barry, nephew Cooper, and new niece Carson. I wanted to go by myself so I could spend as much quality time with my niece and nephew as I could. I don't get to see them that often and hate that they don't know me better. I also wanted to see as many friends as possible. My first flight out of Gulfport was delayed 30 minutes and I only had a 40 minute layover in Atlanta. Thankfully my second flight was in the same concourse so I RAN as fast as I could while dragging a suitcase and made it with a few minutes to spare. I got in around 9:30 that night and got to see Carson before she went to bed. She is just precious and is such a good baby. Isn't the best sleeper at night but I'm sure that will change soon. I know Angie really hopes it does. On Saturday we just got up and hung around the house. That afternoon the Cats were playing Texas Tech so Angie and I met my friend, Tina, at a locale bar and (kind of) watched the game. It had been three years since I'd seen Tina so we really talked more than watched. Tina and I lived together my last year at K-State and had so much fun. After a little while my friend Kim came up from Lawrence. She of course had to finish watching the KU game before she could come. Yeah yeah, KU came from behind to win and K-State got their butt kicked. Tell me something I don't know.

Kim came back to Angie's with me to visit for a while and to see Carson. Kim and I grew up across the street from each other. We met in 7th grade but we didn't become friends until high school. We became the best of friends and have so many fun memories.My parents drove into town after they witnessed the beating that took place in Manhattan. I'm so glad I was able to see them as well. Sunday morning my friend Mauri came over with her two kids, Katie & Jonathan. I could kick myself for not taking a picture of the three of them. It was so good seeing you Moe! Mauri and I were the best of friends in high school as well. It was normally me, Kim & Mauri. It was beautiful weather in Kansas City. Cooper took advantage of it and got some mowing done.
Mom brought Carson out on the front porch to enjoy the weather as well.The rest of Sunday was spent just hanging out together. Mom and I did manage to get a little bit of shopping in while Angie napped and Barry & Dad watched a little football. She and I both like to shop and I really miss being able to do with her. Thanks for coming up to see me Mom & Dad!! On Monday my friend Tina came over to see me again and this time brought her two month old, Elise. She is so darling, I wish I would have gotten a picture of her too. Then Angie, Carson & I met my friends Kelly and Jenni (and her daughter Sydney) at Stix, which is a yummy Japanese restaurant. We had such a good time chatting and filling our tummies way too full. After that Angie and I went and picked out some new curtains and then headed home. While Angie was out getting Cooper I decided that Carson needed to experience her first modeling session. Here is my precious beautiful niece....
When Cooper got home he got in on the action. So sweet.
Angie and her beautiful new daughter.
Thanks Angie & Barry for being great hosts! I had such a good time visiting with everyone. I missed my hubby and my two babies so I was ready to get home. Thank you Jason, Linda & Martin for watching the kids while I was gone!

Doctor for a day

Yesterday when I picked Zach up from school he had a note saying the kids should dress up as any kind of occupation that next day. So glad they gave me some notice! We didn't really have anything at home so I went to Walmart that night to the costume section. I could only find two occupations, an ER Doctor and an Army Commander. Zach likes playing with a stethoscope so I chose the doc outfit. Jason didn't think he'd want to wear it but when I showed it to Z the next morning he said, "Oh that is beautiful. I can't wait to wear it!" It just so happens that he had made a doctor bag the day before in school. So he carried that as well. Here is Dr. Zachary........

Zach & Hut

Last week Hutson came over after school to play with Zachary. I am so happy that these two have each other to play with. They get along so great. Here they are enjoying some shaved ice & Dr. Pepper.I bought this tent a while back thinking it would be fun to play in when the weather was nice. That day was the perfect day for it.
Handsome boy!
Cousins make the best of friends!
Hut was having a lot of fun jumping and diving down the "slide." I got a few action photos that I thought were pretty funny.
These two are going to have so many wonderful memories growing up.

Sweet "little" Zachary

I was looking through a bunch of old pictures on my computer tonight and came across a bunch of Zachary when he was a baby. It's hard for me to remember him so little (and I use that term lightly - I realize he was a huge baby). Here are a few that made me laugh.....

Do we look alike?

I found this picture of me at 16 months. Although I have more hair than Addison I think we look alike. She is 18 months in the picture below. What do you think?

Disney World - Days Four & Five

Our fourth day at Disney World was a little less exciting. We took a break from the parks. I really wanted some shopping time and Jason wanted to take Zach to Disney Quest which is a large arcade. Disney Quest is located in Downtown Disney which has some shops, bars, restaurants, etc. Here Z is in front of something I'm not sure what.

Here he is enjoying an ice cream cone.

On our fifth and final day we went to Epcot.

The first thing we did was called Test Track. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it. But you go in a car and it's like a test track and at the end you go really fast. Zachary really enjoyed it so we did it twice. After that Jason went and did the Mission Space. Zachary was too small to go on it so he and I went and got icees. I'm actually glad Z couldn't go on it because Jason said it basically spun you around really fast. Here are Jason and Z in "Mexico" at the restaurant we ate at for lunch.
Here is the picture that Zachary took.
Obviously we had to get a picture with the sphere in the background.
We went to the Finding Nemo aquarium and then to Soarin'. It was actually pretty neat. It was a huge movie screen and you sat in these seats that strapped you in and moved like you were in an airplane (basically just back and forth altho it leaned forward a little). The movie was different things like flying over the mountains, the desert, etc. After that we finally made it to the meet and greet with the main Disney characters. All day Zach was asking to see Mickey. We didn't see Daisy anywhere all week which was a little weird.
It started sprinkling when we were leaving Epcot. We took the monorail back to our hotel and chilled out in the room for a while while it rained. After it stopped raining we decided to go back to the Magic Kingdom for our last night. Here is Zach checking out his rain gear in the mirror of our bathroom.

Of course we had to go on Splash Mountain one last time. Here we are walking up to go get on it.
And here are Jason and Z after it was over. We actually got pretty wet that time.
We had such a fantastic time. We cannot wait to go back with both kids some day. We'll probably wait till Addison is at least four years old.