The Big Easy

As some of you know Tatiana, and I are in New Orleans. We tagged along with my mom who came for the SHRM conference. It is becoming quite a trip. It started off with missing our flight (midnight Friday means Friday am and NOT Friday night...duh) then after a red-eye our room was not ready ( though we paid for it to be ready at 3pm the day before). But now that we are here it is quite fun. The local history really is awesome, and everyone has a story and are totally willing to share it. Visiting Jackson Square

Tatiana on Bourbon St. It's pretty cool and fun, but boy is it stinky!!! We haven't really spent a lot of time here even though our hotel (Royal Sonesta which is BEAUTIFUL) sits right on it.

Walking back from dinner near Jackson Square we were hit by a crazy thunderstorm,(and pretty much we get one random a day) there was not much to do except keep walking. It was actually quite fun and it definitely cooled us down. It's not the heat that's so bad it's the darn humidity that's a killer, it's like breathing soup.

We took a swamp tour that was also pretty exciting as another boat broke down and we had to "rescue" it. But we did see lots of gators who knew they liked marshmallows!!

Father's Day

I know it's a bit late but (house hunting is proving harder and more time consuming than we had hoped) for Father's Day everyone (and I do mean everyone) came over to our house for a BBQ.

Here Grandpa is with ALL the grand kids and as you can see the poor guys is surrounded by all GIRLS!!! Starting from youngest it's Brooklynn, Sydney K, Mykala, Mikayla, and Tatiana. (nope that's not a typo there are 2 "kayla's" )

Sydney's 1st Haircut

We decided it was time to give Sydney her first haircut. Don't worry though it was only a little trim to even things out. I really thought about cutting it into a cute little bob she still has such wild hair for as thin as it is but I can't help it I just love long hair, and I love doing cute ponies and braids, and OMG the bows they have!!! Now if she would just be still long enough to let me do it.

Freshman No More

It is official Tatiana is no longer a freshman. I can't believe my "big" baby girl is already in her second year of high school. Well here are some shots we took while hanging out in the Arts Colony. (Doesn't she look so grown-up), watch out America's Next Top Model...Your looking at your 2012 winner

A Birthday Picnic

In all honesty we really did not have any specific plans for Syd's birthday this year, we had the huge 1st birthday day her being the 2nd child I know that it only gets bigger as they get older ( just ask the soon to be 16 year old) so when they are younger you can get away with not doing a whole lot.  So instead we just planned the build-a-bear thing (see previous post) and then as an after thought decided to go a picnic at the park.  As you can see we weren't alone some of SK's biggest fans were not going to be left out and came along, and it turned out to be just perfect...

Grammy &  Bob brought Syd's best buddy Ella

The guys, Uncle Juan that's gross...

My auntie Kyss

Yummy cupcakes that actually started to melt....

Sharing her B-Day cupcake with Ella what a good friend

Sydney's B-Day Morning

Well our little princess is officially 2. So to start off the birthday celebrations we took a trip to build-a-bear (it is quickly becoming one of SK's favorite places) and she picked out a cute super soft lamb, but it was quite a challenge to pick just one.
here she is putting her special heart into her lamby after a big kiss

Then she even picked out a special Princess outfit for her lamby complete with pink "glass" slippers and a happy birthday cupcake. Oh then as a final thought she had to grab a little purse with some make-up in it, and of course some pink hair pretties.

El Paso Swim Time

Sydney really enjoyed swimming with grandpa she is just a little fish, and has no fear of the water at all. So it was not a big surprise when she wanted to get in the water wearing only arm floaties, then she told us, "no hold ... go away" so of course we let go and wow that little fish could swim. What a big girl, and boy is she fast.

El Paso Zoo

While we were in El Paso Papa took us to all sorts of fun places like the Zoo. Where we saw all kinds of fum animals.

The sea lions swam right up to the glass.

and SK got up close and personal with the tigers

Then went on an elephant "ride" with cousin Hailey.