(Extended) Family Time

This last week we had quite a bit of family time with some extended family. Kevin's oldest brother graduated from Flight school for the Air Force in Enid, OK this weekend so Lillian and I traveled up to Nashville to see my parents and sister. We were there for a few days so Saturday we headed up to Kentucky to visit my Pawpaw (my mom's Dad) and a couple cousins.

Lillian LOVES (love is an understatement) blueberries. My Pawpaw has one blueberry bush and we go to pick some of our own. Of course any that Lillian picked was placed directly into her mouth and never made it in the basket.

After we got back from Nashville Kevin's Aunt and Uncle came for a quick visit while they were headed to Atlanta. I think Lillian enjoyed all the attention and she definitely got spoiled. 

Aunt Robin played blocks with Lillian although Lillian didn't let her build much before she came crashing through

Aunt Robin also made us Gammy's cookies. Deliciousness!

Lillian was spoiled with a few bites of cookies from everyone.

To win Lillian over all you have to do is let her see your iPhone. 

We are so thankful for such awesome extended family from both of our families

Pool time

Kevin's sister-in-law got Lillian this really cool pool that had a couple water features to it for her birthday. We finally blew it up today and it is legit! Thankfully daddy got it out of the box and noticed it's not a blow up by mouth sort of thing and ran to Walmart and got an air compressor. It still took about 30 minutes to blow up but well worth it. We had some friends over to test it out and it was a hit.

This pool had balls to throw through those hoops, ring toss, a slide, and a sprinkler on top!

no tears were even shed after this wipe out!

Sisterly love!

Lillian and Hagen had more fun walking up and down the ramp than in the pool

Cookie Baking

Lillian and I decided to surprise Daddy with his favorite Chocolate Chip cookies today. I called his grandparents and asked for the recipe and to my luck we had all the ingredients. (I'd give you the recipe but then I'd have to kill you!) I got to mixing and stirring and beating and something just didn't look right. I scooped them onto the baking sheet and let them cook. 10 minutes later they were still in dough balls. Something was definitely not right. I had to ruin the surprise and sent Daddy an email with pictures of the failed batch.

they were very crumbley

I knew I had all the ingredients right and asked Kevin what I did wrong. He immediately thought the shortening could be bad and he was correct. Expiration date of Oct. 2013. YUCK! I preceded to throw out that batch and headed to Target for more ingredients. When we got back home I let Lillian help me. It was her first time baking cookies! 

This little sneaky sneak kept stealing the chocolate chips

right out of mixer too! (Don't worry we wash our hands very well while baking.) 

first taste...

and of course she was a big fan. I asked her how they tasted and she said "MMmmm" and preceded to sign more. I loved making these cookies because they were a special treat for Daddy and a fun memory with Lillian.