Adventures in Aggieland

*Warning-lots of pictures!

This past weekend, Ainslee, Mommy, and Grammy headed to College Station for a fun girls weekend! Grammy stayed with the Maddens and Mommy & Ainslee stayed with "Aunt" Katy! This was the first time Ainslee and baby Kyleigh have been able to meet! As usual, we had so much fun in Aggieland and can't wait to go back during football season!

Here is the girls first meeting on Friday evening!

We stayed up super late and went to a baseball game on Friday night! Ainslee's first, and she loved it! We got to see a lot of people Mommy knew from church back in the 'ol college days. She loved "Kaboom"-from afar :)


Saturday morning we headed over to some friends of Katy's- who we have also known for a long time. They have 5 kiddos, so their house is always fun! Jennings (the youngest, and only boy) and Ainslee had a blast taking turns pushing each other in the dump truck.


Then Katy and I took them to Chick-fil-A for their first date :)

Lots of playtime!

After lunch, we met Grammy and baby Kyleigh and all her family at the Children's Museum in Bryan. Of course, Ainslee's favorite part was the HEB grocery store they have set up! I think she could have played in there ALL DAY!

This is what she put in her cart- that's my girl w/ ice cream on top! :)

Ainslee and Jennings checking out. Ainslee put the groceries on the counter and Jennings scanned them-it was quite the team effort!

Adorable baby Kyleigh had lots of fun in the toddler area!

They had a music room with lots of fun instruments- our little pianist!

Or maybe future surgeon? She worked on this for a long time!

Playing with the giant chess set, how fun!

After a really short nap, we took Jennings home and stayed to play with his sisters in the pool! Katy was able to teach Ainslee how to jump of the side and go under water! Mommy was impressed!

Aunt Katy and her babies :)

Sunday morning we went to the Madden's house and tried to take more pictures. The babies weren't really having it though. Here is the Mom/daughter shot. These two mommies have been friends since birth! It was so neat to see our own daughters play together!

Here are the Grammies (friends for almost 30 years!) with their grand-babies!


After the photo shoot, we headed to campus for our annual "Ring Picture."

Ainslee had fun running around the quad, but it was super hot!

Before we left town, we had to stop at Sonic for a nice cool drink! Ainslee had her favorite, just a cup of ice :) She was happy as a clam!

Thanks for your hospitality Aunt Katy!

Boat trip!

Last Sunday, we went out to Canyon Lake with Grandma and Grandpa. They have a fabulous boat that Ainslee had never been on before! Her life jacket was a little big last summer, but worked perfectly this summer! We all had a really fun time, especially Ainslee. I wondered how she would do on the boat, but she LOVED it! We think she "has a need for speed." The faster we would go and the bumpier it was, she would laugh and laugh and sign more :) Grandma was in the back yelling, "slow down," but Ainslee was signing more! Haha!

All packed and ready to head to the lake!

Not too sure about what was about to happen when we first got on

The crew

She wanted to help Grandpa steer!

Grinning and signing more, while going fast :)

Jumping in w/ Grandpa

The water felt WONDERFUL!

Enjoying the view

Trying to drive by herself now!

July Ketchup

We have been out of town or just plain busy lately! So here it is, I'm "ketching" up:

Look for LOTS of new posts below!

Workin' at the Car Wash!

Ainslee has been our little "helper" lately. She loves to help put stuff away, make dinner, bring us our shoes, etc. Last week, she helped Daddy wash his truck!

She really just liked playing with the hose!

She has also been doing some work on the computer :)



And on a random note, I think I've mentioned her dislike for hairbows? Well, let's just say that the streak is over! She insisted that I put them all in her hair, and she did the same thing with Auntie Lo in Corpus!

Corpus Christi

The morning after we got back from Vegas, we re-packed and headed to Corpus Christi. Aunt Lauren and Uncle Trevor were moving into their first house and had a lot of work to get done before their new furniture was delivered. We unpacked boxes, organized the kitchen, painted all three of their bedrooms, and took out all of the carpeting that was covering the beautiful wood floors. Of course, all of this was done in increments while Ainslee napped :) We worked hard but had a fun time too! We can't wait to go back soon to take Ainslee to the beach!

Ainslee was good at unpacking



She tried to help put the kitchen table together

Got horsey rides from Auntie Lo

Of course this was all too exhausting, so she insisted on eating in bed :)

Viva Las Vegas!

On July 10th, Mommy and Daddy celebrated 5 wonderful years of marriage! We decided to mark the big occasion by a rather spontaneous trip to Las Vegas! We had a great, relaxing time while Ainslee spent the week with Grammy and Pop in Kerrville, having her own fabulous vacation :)
We stayed here:

Jason at the entrance

The view from our AMAZING room

We did a lot of this by the pools

We did very little of this, about $10 worth :)

We went to Broadway's The Lion King one night, which was wonderful! We ate a few fabulous restaurants. And did some sight seeing at night, when it wasn't 106 degrees!
We saw the Eiffel tower :)

Caesar's Palace-massive!

We saw the fountains at the Bellagio-beautiful!

Yummy!

In front of the Venetian. We walked there. And back. From Mandalay Bay. Bad mistake! About 2-3 miles one way, but we got to see the entire strip!