Splish Splash

This weekend, we took the whole family to Shipwreck Island Water Park.  It's always so much fun to be able to go!!!!!  Since I bruised my tailbone, and it's still not healed, I spent most of the day in the kiddie area with Kali while the boys went and rode all the rides.  Unfortunately, that means I did not get any pictures of them on the rides like I wanted to.  But that doesn't mean I'm lacking for pictures :)

Devin spent most of his time doing anything he wanted and would just swing by the kiddie pool to check in with me.  Michael and TJ ventured off and rode "all the rides" at one time and came back to hang out and eat lunch.  All the parents went round the lazy river about 4 times before coming back to hang out.  But my mom and I hung out with Kali.  She had a blast, as did everyone else, because they were all able to do the things they wanted to do! Win-Win!!!

This is the boy's last full week here.  I'm very sad, but I'm hoping to be busy with them! This Wednesday, Michael and I are going back to Paint Your Art Out (PYAO) to do the next picture in the series ~ The Crab! Very excited.
Friday, we'll be going to Devin's play.  He's been working so hard in the theater camp this summer, I can't WAIT to see how the play turns out!!!! There will be LOTS of pictures of that!
And then Saturday, I think I'm going to take the boys (and Kali) to the beach.  I don't think they've been to the beach the entire time they've been here.  And...well...that's what Panama City is KNOWN for. So I"m kinda disappointed that they haven't been yet.  But, Michael keeps saying that he lives by the beach so it's not that big of a deal to him.  We'll see what he says come Saturday.

So, here are some pictures from our Shipwreck Island trip!

Kali hanging out by the submarine - her favorite spot!

My little swimmer!

Devin hanging out with Kali (for a hot minute)

Going down the slide! :)

Kali through the tunnel.

I have a picture of her when she was about 6 months old going through this tunnel.

She's much bigger!!!!

Kali's favorite slide: The Elephant

Chilling out waiting on lunch.

MICHAEL

The boys: TJ, Michael, and Devin

Me and Devin (with the photo bomber: Michael)

Me and Michael

We had a great time! We'll have to make it a yearly tradition when they come to visit!

Memorial Day Weekend

TJ's nephew, Alec, graduated high school Thursday, May 26th.  So we travelled up to Birmingham to be at his graduation.  We decided to stay the weekend and visit the Birmingham Zoo.  I was so excited!!!  I love zoos, and this would be Kali's first trip to the Zoo.  Friday morning, we got up and got ready to head out on our little adventure.  TJ's parents came with us too.

We had a lot of fun.  Kali didn't get the "hang" of the critters until we were getting ready to leave, but we all had fun anyway.  Her favorite were the "wild cats" in a walk-through exhibit.  She kept touching the glass when the cats would walk by.  And if it was sleeping (as most of the critters in the zoo were since it was so blasted hot), she would just stare at them.  It was pretty funny.

And of course, I got some pictures! :-)

My Safari baby. Ready to tackle the wild critters of the zoo!

Staring at the elephants.

On the Train

Where she dropped her snack container.  When it was over, we told the driver and he told us to hop back on and let him know when we got close to where she dropped it and we could just grab it. 

So, thanks to Kali, we got to ride the train twice! :-)

See....sleeping critters.

This thing scared the mess outta me!

It looked like a dinosaur.

And when I rounded the corner with Kali, I didn't see it at first. And then it popped it's head up. I freaked and wouldn't go any closer to the critter!

Kali was great the whole trip! She sat through the entire graduation and didn't make a single fuss!  However, when we got back to Debbie's house, she was over tired, and couldn't go to sleep. She cried for like 45 minutes.  I felt so bad for her.  But she finally fell asleep and all was well again.

We also went to visit TJ's Aunt and Uncle that live in Silacauga.  They just ate Kali up! She's such a ham!  I left my camera in the car while we were visiting for a few hours, but TJ's mom got some good pictures.  I'll have to update when I get those from her.

Finally, we went to Shipwreck on Monday.  Kali's first trip to Shipwreck Island.  She had so much fun! She's definitely a water baby!  Because she's a water baby, she splashes non stop.  So I didn't get many pictures while we were there. But I did get some cute ones.

Kali, ready to start swimming!

Me and the baby! Her first time in the water.

(Please don't mind how horrible I look.....I'm working on it)

Playing in the water.

And of course, tasting some of it too.

Kali, Hayley, and Ava.

Playing with Dad

And finally, nap time!

We had a really great time!  I'm glad we were able to go! She did get a little sunburned on her back, even though I lathered her 2 times with sunscreen.  But it's not too bad, so hopefully it won't bother her.  Didn't seem to last night, but I think that was mainly exhaustion! LOL.

I can't wait to be able to go back after Kali's swim lessons with my dad this summer! She's going to be a little fishy! =)

Hope everyone else had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.