August Hip Happenings....

These couple of pics are actually from July. I forgot to post them in the July update. These pics are super special because we are at Bonefish Grill with our fabulous friend, Georgie. Bonefish is our celebration spot. The picture above was almost exactly 3 years ago on the day that I found out I was having twins! Georgie had went with us to the doctor that day when we found out and she was leaving the very next day to go back to New Zealand. We went to Bonefish to celebrate this amazing miracle of not one, but two little babies :) I wasn't, however, able to enjoy the yummy Bang-Bang Shrimp that night. My preggo sickness had just begun...oh, if I had known it was going to last my ENTIRE pregnancy.... yuck!

This pic is from just a couple of months ago when Georgie was here visiting us. We were celebrating yet again...our dearest Georgie got engaged right before she came over! We are SUPER excited for her and Mark (who is also a fabulous Kiwi friend of ours). It's so fun that we were able to be together during two life-changing events and celebrate together at our special spot. The Bang-Bang was ALOT more enjoyable for me this time! We love you Georgie! We CAN'T wait to see you (and Mark) in December!! yay!!

"Same-siders" Haha

The girls got their first ever haircut in August!! Yes, they were almost 2 1/2 before their first haircut....it was so hard for me to let their little mullets go!! :)

We took them to Smilz and Stylz (is that the right spelling??). Anywhoo....it's for kids and they do such a fabulous job! Jocelyn went first. She didn't know what to think in the beginning....she wanted Daddy to hold her hand....

Still deciding what she thinks about this whole deal...

Trimming the mullet....

Still skeptical....

This face is pitiful!!

"Am I supposed to like this??"

"OK, let me take a look...."

"Alright....cheeeeeese.....I look pretty darn cute!"

Gabbie was PUMPED...which surprised me...I thought she would be a lot more timid...

Bye-Bye long stringy mullet....

She sat perfectly still the entire time....

She loved the blow-dryer....

Hello cute-as-a button bob!

She looks SO much older to me now!

The end products....I think they turned out SO cute!

Can their hair be any more different!?!?!

We headed over to Jay for cousin Landon and cousin Ashton's birthday party. It was a big Luau with two enormous water slides. To say the girls had a blast would be a major understatement :)

Uncle D grilling up the burgers and dogs...

Crash...

Cousin Sawyer....so cute!

Cousin Landon...one of the birthday boys!!

Cake time!

Gabbie LOVED playing in the ice chest/palm tree..

She also loved playing with all of Landon's tractors he got for his birthday :)

Aunt Kim, Jordan, Shannon, and cousin Sawyer enjoying the HEAT....

We got to meet cousin Luke for the first time....adorable!!

Gigi and HayHay came to visit for a few days....

Chillin on the couch with GiGi...

HayHay getting geared up and ready to play with crazy two-year-olds :)

How cute are these pics??...HayHay playing "Play-doe" with the girls. He looks ginormous (not in a bad way...haha...it's just hilarious that he is sitting at their tiny picnic table:) What a trooper!

The girls love when Gigi takes then to Target...they always come home with a surprise...this time it was babies with their very own highchair and baby food....the girls have had LOTS of fun with these :)

We now have 4 children to feed at every meal :)

This was a fun weekend....there is nothin like getting together with great friends that you haven't seen in a good while and eating great food and laughing like you haven't laughed in a long time. It's just so refreshing. Several of our closest friends got together for a weekend in Montgomery to celebrate Justin's (sitting by Shane) birthday. It was fabulous fun. We met for dinner Friday night at this great Thai restaurant. Some of the riskier peeps ordered "extra hot" dishes and basically caught themselves on fire. Shane was one of them. He was stuffing himself with rice trying to put out the fire. It was hilarious. Fun, fun times. After dinner we just hung out and laughed uncontrollably. Great times. The next day we met up for lunch and then went and watched a matinee together. We had to head back to Mobile after that, but several of them stayed and had dinner and went to a Biscuit's game. We had SUCH an awesome time. It made us miss those friends that don't live here in Mobile so much more and long for more frequent time with them. Thanks to Leah (Justin's wife) for putting this trip together!!

Shane and the birthday boy...

All the fellas....

All the chicas....

An ENORMOUS thanks to Brynn, our amazing friend who made the trip to Montgomery with us and watched our girlies so that we could hang with our friends. Thanks to Kristina as well for helping watch them. They love you both! Bless you, Brynn, for enduring the "scream-all-the-way" ride in the car. Now you can concur that I do not exaggerate about this :)

Yes, they both have an entire box of Raisin Bran....whatever it takes for 5 minutes of quiet, my friends....