okay, i'm finally getting around to blogging...i forgot how much work it is traveling (or maybe it's just that we have 3 kids now OR maybe it was the fact that we drove...anyways). yes, we drove to texas and back last week (about a total of 45+ hours in the car with all the stops for food, gas, potty breaks...mostly for me & nursing). oh, and thank you bennett's for the portable dvd player...i DON'T know what we woulda' done without that. i think the girls watched at least 15 movies on the trip...isn't that awful! oh well, the next time you're on a 45 hour trip...i bet you'd let your kids do that too! :) anyways, it was worth the LONG drive...it was SO good seeing so much family that we haven't seen in years and having alana meet everyone. enjoy the pics...
as you can see, alana's really smiling a lot now....
2 months old!
here's my dad (texas papa) & his bride debbie :)
here's alana with her uncle matthew (my brother who i haven't seen since i was pregnant with kaia).
kaia helping papa pick his tomatoes. so cute.
here's alana with uncle mikey (my younger bro) and auntie elaine...
at the "luau" rehearsal dinner...you can tell that alana was SO excited! haha.
here are girls after they got caught with their hand in the chocolate fountain (at least leia's was)
here they are getting their hair & nails done before papa's wedding...
here's daddy throwing leia up in the sky again...
cousins...
the flower girls...
kaia & leia were 2 of the 5 flower girls in the wedding & it was so funny...leia kinda forgot to walk as she threw the petals down. she stood in one place at the front of the "aisle" and carefully took 1 petal out at a time & concentrated SO hard as she perfectly threw 1 to the right and then 1 to the left standing in one place. she got a lot of laughs.
here are papa & debbie newly married.
there's always room for cake!
i don;t know how, but alana slept mpst of the night even though it was very loud.
this was the next morning...i guess they were wiped out! :)
here's alana and texas grammy...
cousin nicole...10 months old and walking!
here we are at Chewy's for michelle's b-day dinner...Happy Birthday Michelle!
it was great seeing all of our "texas family"...i wish we coulda' stayed longer. love you all!
and...i embroidered alana's name on her stocking, i remember thinking last year if i'd get to be sewing another baby's name on a new stocking this year. ;)
here are all 5...
my little decorators...
as you can see... once again, alana's not thrilled with the idea of a pic! one of these days we'll get one of all 3 girls smiling (or not crying or AT LEAST looking). haha.
ta da...
hey, 2 out of 3 smiling isn't bad...especially when one of the one's smiling is a 2 month old! 
let the Christmas season begin...
