Nashville

We went to Nashville this weekend to stay at Mimi and Papas house. Ella was SO excited to go and Luke was happy about seeing his buddy Papa and repeated his name all day. :) They did really well in the car and Ella was especially excited about getting lollipops!
We got to play and help Mimi cook dinner and see Uncle Aaron on Friday.
Saturday daddy and papa played golf early and got back right after the rest of us woke up. The kids played outside with Papa for a while and got to ride the tractor with him.
We all went to lunch at CFA with Brodrick and then went to the park to play.
After naps Brandon and I started to get ready for the wedding. His long time friend, Polly, was getting married which was the reason we went to visit this weekend. Ella pretended to be sad but quickly got over it as soon as we left. She has so much fun playing with Mimi that she doesn't even notice who else is around (unless aunt Steph is there) and Luke loves his Papa do he was just fine without Mommy. They had fun making and eating pizza and going for a walk.
The wedding was absolutely beautiful. The songs and scriptures and church and pastor and prayers were all so perfect and beautiful. Polly was gorgeous and had the most amazing dress! We had a great time sharing her special day with her and had fun at the reception! It was at the art museum so we got to see some of the art (which neither of us 'get') and enjoy dinner and yummy cake and great music and dancing. Although we didn't dance. Ha. Brandon said he would but I'm not much of a dancer and my dress was so long that he kept stepping on it and I just knew that trying to dance would be a disaster. I'll have to do another post about my dress!
Today we spent the morning with Mimi and Papa and got to see Aaron and Brodrick again. We also HAD to get Pei Wei for lunch since that one (3 hrs away) is the closest one to our house. And we went to visit Aunt Ginny before heading back home. Which is always fun :) she loved seeing the kids and Ella had fun playing with all of her treasures. Luke just tried to destroy everything in typical Luke fashion. I love my little monster.
Overall the kids did great! They are usually polite and super cute :) and Luke showed off his latest heart melting 'skill' by telling everyone 'luhyou' repeatedly. He is such a sweet boy. Usually.
They also did awesome on the ride home and slept over halfway back. Hopefully they are still worn out enough to sleep well tonight!

Weekend

We had a fun weekend around the house. Saturday we cleaned the house up and spent the afternoon playing with Mallory and Mr. Brian and Michelle. We went to the pool and we played in the backyard and had dinner. Daddy got his guitar out and played a little while the girls put on a show for us. They are silly and crazy together.

Sunday we went to church and then lunch with Mal, of course.
While everyone napped I snuck over to the pool to read in the sunshine. Then Ella got to go to the 'wash car' with daddy and she thought it was the best thing ever. She came home and told me that he let her up front while they sat there in the car wash and she held his hand because she was sweet to him.
Luke continues to amaze me everyday with the words that he knows and can say very clearly. He is such a sweet boy and will hug and kiss me and say 'love you' and the way he says 'mama' just melts me.
This week we are getting ready for a weekend at Mimi and Papa's! We are all very excited because we hardly ever see them at their house.

This week

This week has been like most for us, just playing at home most days and nothing out of the ordinary.
There has been a lot of singing and dancing and guitar playing and PBS watching. We are soaking up summer and looking forward to cooler days ahead. Its almost too hot to even go to the pool right now because the water gets SO hot and a little dirty with all of the rain we have been having lately. The mosquitoes are out in full force right now too, so we have to be careful when we play in the back yard. Luckily there are lots of entertaining things inside :)
We went to the Galleria to walk around and play yesterday and had fun playing with all of the fun toys in the toy store. 
Now we are watching out the windows as Daddy cuts the grass and looking forward to a fun relaxing weekend.



Funny things:

Ella started telling Luke to 'Shut it down' when he cries. She told me Daddy says that.

One of her favorite things to do right now is to get a microphone and dance and sing in the living room. I have tried to capture this on video but of course so does not cooperate.

Luke repeats everything you tell him now and it is so hard not to laugh when I tell him to stop and he points at me and yells STOP!

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