Time with family...

I can not tell you how nice it is to live close to family again...  We drove a little over 2.5 hours and got to spend weekend with cousins in Louisiana! The Purdy's were so nice to invite us over for the weekend. The girls got to play with Dominic and Sofia (well, mostly with Sofia) and we got to catch up with family. They live just outside of Baton Rouge. So, we got to eat some good cajun food @ Acme Oyster House and the girls got to go and "meet" Mike the Tiger at LSU. Cousin Jimmy tried really hard to convert Ava & Mia from Alabama fans to LSU fans, but thankfully it didn't work! Here are some of our favorite pictures from the weekend.  Enjoy~

Sofia & Ava @ Acme.

Sofia, Ava, Mia & Dominic after lunch.

Climbing the hills on the LSU campus.

Fun run down the hill.

Mia on top of the world!

Ava taking a break.

Mia getting help down from Daddy

Ava & Sofia ready for their slumber party.

Dora & Diego!!

Peter and I took the girls to see Dora  & Diego's Dino Island  live performance at the Lynn Meadows Center. It was so much fun watching the girls' eyes light up when the characters came on stage. Mia's reaction was especially cute. Her eyes were as big as saucers!

The event was a free show for Lynn Meadows members.  So, there were some special perks that weren't offered at the public shows. The girls got to have their picture made with Diego, they made their very own backpack and got to make a "Dino Island" dessert to take home.

Here are our pictures from the show.  Enjoy~

Ready for the show to start!

Looking for Dora & Diego.

Yay, it's Dora & Boots!

Diego too!

Ava, Diego & Mia (who's a little unsure about holding Diego's hand)

Gump shrimp trip...fail

Since we now live on the coast, Peter and I are trying to take full advantage of all of the fun and educational things that our new city has to offer.  On this particular Saturday, we decided that we wanted to take the girls on the Biloxi Shrimp Tour.

(I didn't take this picture...see the rest of the story below)

We figured that the 75 min. trip would be just the right amount of time for the girls to enjoy the boat ride and they would get to see live shrimp and other sea creatures that were caught in the net.  We called the office and the recording told us that there was an outing at 1 p.m.  So, we packed up the car and headed over to the marina.  When we got there the sign said that the tour didn't start until 2 p.m.  However, we didn't give up. We took the girls to get some ice cream and walked around looking at the REAL shrimp boats.  We went back at 1:45 p.m. and found that the boat had left with out us!!!! Horrible business practice and we're not likely to go back again, but I did snap a couple of cute pictures. Enjoy~

Notice that we're in our summer attire and it's pushing mid-October!

The girls looking for our tour boat : (

Other boats in the Small Craft Harbor

Mia's enjoing the fall weather!

We finally got a cool snap that got all of us in the mood for fall! Mia was having an especially good time running around in the wonderful fall weather. Here are some pictures I snapped of Mia being herself ;). Enjoy~

Relaxing...

But not for long!

What a silly goose!

and she's off....

now she's heading back!

Having so much fun running laps in our backyard!