Ma C and Pops Visit!!

We had a great time with my in-laws (Ma C and Pops) last weekend! We were able to do lots of catching up and hear all about their new house, ate some good food, the kids swam a little, and we went to the Aviation Space Museum here in Tulsa. We did a Planetarium show while there and it was good, but I think we all almost fell asleep...well maybe some actually DID fall asleep, but they will remain nameless! ;) I will say that Bella got really good at jerking an arm or hand to wake someone when they were snoring! Ha! Good memories! We had lots of fun and as always with visitors, you hate to see them leave! We hope to have Ma C and Pops back to visit again soon!

Bella Rose on the way to the museum

Almost too short!

Tag the astronaut!

Bella Rose laying on a bed of nails!

She did it twice trying to convince Tag that it didn't hurt. He never would do it tho!

Obviously Rosie thought she was actually flying, she was really pulling back on that stick!

Bella Rose and her Pops =)

Ma C & her new friend that she was hoping we'd rescue her from!

The kids with Ma C and Pops! So much fun!!

King and Caples visit---just a little belated

I've been meaning to do a blog on the rest of our visit with Zak and Macy and just haven't done it yet. I wanted to do it still though, because I am using this blog as a sort of journal of our lives. We really did have a great time while Zak and Macy were here. We went to one of the Broken Arrow pools one day, played at a park another day, went to the Tulsa zoo and once Cherie, Kately and Jonathan arrived Friday we went to Chuck E Cheese's for some more fun! I've picked out a few of my favorite pictures from the week below. Bare with me....it's more than a few! =)

Macy & Bella at the Broken Arrow pool

Zak & Tag at the BA pool

Macy & Tag at our pool

Playing at the park

At the zoo

At the petting zoo in the Tulsa zoo

Love this one!

Smile Macy....it was really hot & she didn't feel like smilin!

We all thought this little monkey was the cutest thing! He was so little!

Climbing the rock at the zoo

This jump of Tag made hurt his foot and he's still limping on it over a week later. But I think it was better today.

Pretty Macy

Neat penguin at the penguin exhibit

Beautiful girls...and boys will be boys!

My sister Cherie with Kate and Bella Rose

Bella & her "boyfriend" at Chuck E Cheese's-this cracked me and Kate up!

She's looking at Kate here...Bella was pretty much Kate's shadow while she was here.

Beautiful Kate!

Jonathan is such a cutie and the kids adore him too!

I've been feeling crafty!

I've been looking online at tutu bowholders like these but didn't want to spend that much money one one, and thought they looked easy enough to make myself. Of course mine's not as nice and neat as these, but Bella Rose and I are plenty pleased! Oh, and I had lots of tulle left over so I sorta went a little "tulle happy" in her room! ha!

I definitely didn't get my satin very smooth! And it would have looked better if it was padded on the bodice, but I didnt' have any batting and I didn't want to wait!

With some of her bows attached (and after Bella has rearranged them hundreds of times!)

I made this little tutu lamp shade with a tutu and some green tulle at top and a feathery rose. It may look dumb, I'm not sure, but I kinda like it!

Added a tulle bow to this frame (told you I was tulle happy!)

I painted this wall hanging for Bella Rose's nursery when she was first born and hope to always have it hanging in her room =)

Poor Tag doesn't have anything I've made for his part of the room just yet. I'm trying to come up with something. I guess girly projects just are a little easier for me!

One rotation down...5 more to go!

Tommy wrapped up his 6 week pediatric rotation this past Friday!! Woohoo! These 6 weeks have flown by faster than any other 6 week period in my life, I do believe! I hope he cruises through all the others like he did this one! He really enjoyed doing pediatrics and feels like the doctor he was working under did well training him. So, moving right along, today was the first day of his 6 week family practice rotation. I can't imagine how he does this, going to a new place and meeting new people to work with this often! He said his first day today was pretty good and this doctor was already sending him in to examine the patients alone and he'd then come out and make his diagnosis to the doctor. But thankfully, he feels confident doing that right now with these rotations. We are all so proud of him making his dream come true!


Now on to the pictures...ha! I figure after all the hard work it's taken him to get here to clinicals, we should celebrate each rotation's end. So, we went out to eat at Red Lobster Friday night (btw...the only way our family knows how to celebrate is with food!) =) and before we went, I attempted to use my self-timer on my camera to get a family picture. I am terrible at getting family pictures. Everytime there is a good occasion for one, I always realize after the fact that I should've had a family pic taken! My battery was about gone in the camera so these pics are a little fuzzy, but now I know how to do it so hopefully more family pics will come! The first pics are when I was trying to figure out where to position the camera and Tom, Tag & Bella were being silly while the camera was flashing away! And check out Bella Rose hamming it up for the camera in all of these!! Precious! (oh, and please ignore the boring white wall in the background...gotta love apt living!)






I think this one below is my favorite (I realize that probably only I can see a real difference in each pic! ha!)

So in love with these 3!

Also...our company is here! We picked up Zak and Macy last night when they arrived around 10:00. I got to see some of my church family when I picked them up and it was so good to see them! I hope they all have a wonderful, life-changing experience at camp this week! I've already begun taking pics so I'll have plenty to post of their time here!

I'll leave you with one last pic of my little loves that is just pure sweetness! They really do love each other (well...most of the time) and I'm so glad they have one another!!

Hope you are having a great week!