Camping and Thomas the Train

We had so much fun camping with GiGi, Grampy Kevin and Uncle Dylan. The girls LOVE their Uncle Dylan (especially Julia). We camped at Twin Mountain KOA in NH - GiGi was very proud that Gabrielle was a little fashion diva while camping!! :)

Saturday was Thomas the Train day in North Conway. Gabrielle was excited that Thomas "answered" me as to why he was so mad all the time and she said that he did, in fact, say that it was because he didn't like the other trains and the "mens".

Poor GiGi ended up in the Lancaster, NH emergency room that night with kidney stones. What a trooper she was! She came back all morphined up and still stayed out and hung out by the fire that night. She's still in a lot of pain because of it, and hopefully she'll be pain free after the procedure next Wednesday.

There were too many pictures to really post on this, so I'll put a couple of the good ones here and put the rest in a slideshow.

Off to Nevada today to see KK, TuTu and Uncle Jesse! The girls' first plane ride!!!

It's been a long time!

I see I haven't updated our family blog in quite some time. Too much has gone on (or not) to catch you way up, so we'll start with the immediate past. We've finally made it out of the rain! It only took all of June! The girls were fighting, I was ready to kill them and find a summer job. But, now that the weather is nicer, we can get out and be out of each other's way for a little each day. The girls have come to love the beach (good thing for them, because they'd be there anyways!). Even Julia went in the water on her own today. She goes in to "wash her hands" and goes back to the towel to eat one goldfish and comes back down to do this over and over again. At least she's burning energy! As always, Gabrielle is our little fearless fish and tried to chase after a sea gull that was wading in the water. She was up to her waist before I noticed (because I was watching Julia walk across half the beach to get one more goldfish!).

The immediate future is busy for us. Heading up to Twin Mountain this weekend with my mom and Kevin to camp and to go to North Conway to see Thomas the Train! Should be fun!!! Gabrielle is anxiously awaiting me to ask Thomas why he's always so angry. I think she really believes he'll answer me. Funny!

Then, we're off to Nevada to visit my dad and his wife (the first time we'll all be meeting her...can't wait!) on Thursday. Gabrielle will finally be able to get her pink fishing rod that my dad has promised her. Such a girly girl lately. Jules will turn 2 while we're there!!! I can't believe my baby's 2! Where does the time go. So, the day after we get back, we'll have her 2nd birthday party at Lynch. Nothing like packing for a camping trip to leave on another vacation 4 days later and host a party the day after we get back. Not good planning on my part. I've been very busy getting things organized before we leave for Nevada!