Memorial Day

What a busy Memorial Day weekend we have had. I can't believe it's already this time of year! School ends this week...three more days! Didn't school just start?! Regardless of how fast this year has gone, we have really enjoyed ourselves. This weekend just capped it all off. We started the weekend with a wedding of some close friends of ours. It was such a beautiful wedding!Mimi graciously watched the girls so Andy and I could attend the wedding without our attachments...wow, I had forgotten how nice it was to be alone together;)

Here we are all dressed up and ready to go

Then on Sunday after church, all four of us (plus the Rasey's) headed off to Williamsburg for the night to enjoy shopping at the outlets and roaming around colonial Williamsburg. This has become a wonderful Memorial Day tradition.

The girls all ready to head out for the weekend

Alley insisting on kissing Kendall - she wants to give kisses every other second...it's kinda cute;)

Alley wanting to help Tom push Garrett upon our arrival to Colonial W'burg (check out that cute froggy "bat-pat" (Alley's word for backpack)

acting like a frog infront of the Wren building

the yearly photo of Alley hanging out on the canon

close-up of her enjoying the view

"I love canons"

a family shot

my two little girls

all three kiddos - it'll probably be years before we can get them to smile and look at the camera together. Of course, in the next couple of years, they will probably be pushing each other and plenty of other things as well;)

the babies - Kendall and Garrett are 3 months apart

our smiley baby - she is such a happy and laidback baby!

what a ham;)

dancing and swinging her arms to music no one hears (occasionally she'll let you in her world when out of the blue she starts sing - I mean yelling - a random song). I love this child!

the Rasey family

another yearly picture...soon Alley's going to get to big for this - plus the other kids will want to do this as well;)

she's so willing to do this...
We had a wonderful trip despite Kendall's decision to act like a newborn. This was the first time all four of us have slept in the same room together. Kendall normally goes to sleep immediately with an occasional cry, but last night was a different story! She was over-stimulated and it was WAY past her bedtime...so we had a rough night - all of us! Despite our lack of sleep, the girls did amazingly well on our trip. Next year they will be older so it should be a much quieter night...right?! ;)
So, to end our glorious weekend, we started Kendall on rice cereal. Since she's a week over 4 months, we figured it was about time to venture into this territory. If we could get this girl to stop smiling, we might have actually gotten some into her mouth! She smiled the.whole.time. It actually was hilarious:) Here are some pictures of this milestone.

I'm about to smile since the spoon is coming to my mouth!

Here we actually succeeded in getting the food in her mouth...she was so cute when she actually got some food. Check out those cheeks - that's a serious holding cell for food!