Swimming in the Pool with Juju

The girls love thier Juju!

Ansley is swimming with her nose in the water!

And, she is so proud she can swim with her face underwater too!

Loving each other (at the moment)

Enjoying the hot tub!

Kylie is not a fan of the hot tub, but got in briefly to give me a smile. . .

Ansley loves the hot tub!

Ans and Juju

Oh no!

Showering Juju with slobbery kisses!

You better watch out, Kylie doesn't like to wait!

Look, no hands!

Kylie is quick!

Our little minnow!

She LOVES jumping in the water, over and over. . .

Yay, Ans! You have come along way in the water :-)!

Here are the pictures of the girls and Juju in the pool late on Monday afternoon while the Daddys were grilling. I was the person behind the camera trying to catch these moments. Thank goodness for a quick camera! My girls amazing made lots of new accomplishments in the pool this week. Kylie jumps in by herself even if you are not there to catch her. Its kind of a scary thought! Ansley has started jumping in by herself. . .going from holding on to you with 2 hands, then with 1 hand, no hands! She has also started going underwater by herself, and putting her face and nose in the water and swimming by herself. She is definitely a little more cautious than Kylie, so these were BIG deals for her! Thanks Juju for being a good sport. Your face is priceless in these pictures-ha!

Panama City Beach Day #2

Our Condo-Aqua

The girls loving the sand. . . its a huge sandbox!

Aunt JuJu and the girls

Ansley getting some water to make sand castles with. . .

Kylie

My mom and dad. . . Gia and PopPop

Burying Daddy in the sand

Keep digging!

Kylie is helping too!

Are we done yet??

We did it! Daddy is buried in the sand!

We enjoyed another beautiful and oil-free day at the beach! My girls were both SO brave this year and ventured a long way out into the ocean. They loved playing in it, even despite some icky seaweed floating around in the water. They would toss it aside and keep swimming. What a difference from last year!! Kylie is fearless but Ansley definitely has come to love splashing in the waves! She even remembers how scared she was last year. One year ago, she wouldn't touch the water w/out panicing. She was so afraid the boats in the water were going to hit her daddy. Now, she doesn't even seem to notice anything else in the water. Kylie didn't seem to mind the splashing salt water. It would catch her breath, she would rub her eyes, sputter the water out, and keep on going! The ocean has been more fun this year than before!

We played in the pool for most of the afternoon. The girls are really enjoying the pool too! We have a small little ledge that borders our pool that the girls love jumping off of and into the water. Kylie is too funny. She is 2 and let me reiterate again, totally fearless. She counts, "1, 2, 3, (3 claps) and then jumps. Ansley has started going underwater and holding her breath. Yay Ansley. This is something new for her and we are so proud and so is she! That is a scary thing to do. I remember how scared I was the first time I went underwater by myself.

And then it was naptime! The girls slept so hard after a fun filled day.

Our friends, Pati and Chas and their girls , and Brannon and Becky and their daughter Elliot are all down here right now so we went and had dinner at Hammerhead Freds. The girls were so cute! They all got thier own booth at the restaurant and loved it! As we all enjoyed the company! Although, I am not real sure the waiter loved our crew and our noise-ha! It was still fun!

We ended the night with Dippin Dots-yum! Both my girls made a "happy bowl" and enjoyed every bite!We are loving this trip!

Loving the Beach Day #1

(This one is out of place)Kylie is checking out the shark from below!

Lunch at Sharkys!

Eating Beachside after we arrived in Panama City Beach!


Kylie, are you about to pour out that salt again?

Yum, Popcorn shrimp, frn fries

Woah, mom. . .this shark is my size!

Trying the shark hat on in the gift shop

Ansley is looking up into the shark's mouth

Daddy and his girls by the big shark at Sharkys

Ansley, watch out!

She's not scared!

Sunset at Panama City Beach, Day #1

Gia and Kylie singing, "If you're happy and you know it. . ."

.....shout hooray!"

Finally, vacation time is here! We have been looking forward to this week for quite some time now. We started our week by driving down to Dothan and spending the night there on Friday. We ate breakfast and drove the rest of the way down on Saturday. It was much easier breaking it into 2 segments than it would have been to drive the whole way in one day. We got here about lunchtime. The first thing we did was go and have lunch at Sharky's. It was so yummy and relaxing to eat outside on the beachside deck.

We arrived at our condo and couldn't check in right away so went walked through and ventured down to the beach. Let me just tell you how BEAUTIFUL the ocean waters in Panama City still are. There has been so much talk about oil, that we truly felt it was an answered prayer to walk out onto a white sandy beach with clear blue/aqua water washing ashore. We are staying at Aqua in Panama City and it is beautiful here. It feels like you are at a spalike resort. Its very family oriented and has a wonderful pool and hot tub. I will try to post pictures of it later this week. We are staying on the 17th floor and it is high! Everytime the girls get close to the railings, it takes my stomach, but the view is awesome! We haven't been to PCB in many years, but feel we made a great choice in lacations. We are so close to lots of good places.

My mom and dad, and sister got here about 5pm. We ordered in take out from Shukums! Can't wait for Day #2!

Yes, In Fact, These Are My Children

Gosh, you literally CANNOT turn your back on little Kylie for even a second. I love this baby, but she definitely does not give me a down moment.

Without giving all the details, we decided on Sunday during our visit to the ER that her nickname is "Trouble"! Hopefully this is a phase and will not follow her into teenagehood!!

Today, I had to vacuum my stairs since they are looking really bad. So I take a few minutes to get that done, just downstairs. Doing both floors would take too long. The kids are awake, that would be trouble.
So I come into the kitchen and this is what I see. . . that is flour. . . a whole bag of flour. . . EVERYWHERE!! Kylie had pulled the bag off the bottom shelf and decided to have a little sensory activity!!


This is the inital moment, after I grabbed my camera. . . notice her smile . . . she is trying to convince me not to get really mad!

Then her sister gets in on the action! They were pretending to be on the beach. . nice girls! I guess they were practicing up for our trip-ha!

Sort of scary there, Ans!

Kyky!!!!! What have you done??