Another trip to CC!

A few weekends ago Drew and I decided to head back down to our hometown and enjoy some good food, good company and soak up the salty air. We've been so busy this summer that it's nice to relax when we go home and just enjoy the city. Before we got to Corpus Christi, we stopped at Drew's family's ranch in Refugio. Charlotte had never been before so we loaded up her and Lucy on the Polaris and drove around the land. She had so much fun!

 

Drew and his girl :)

beautiful Texas land



Lucy loved the Polaris, haha

I was also ESTATIC because my best friend, Gina, was also visiting CC during her fall trip to TX. Unfortunately we were only able to spend one day together but at least we had that. We loved getting the girls together for a play date and lunch date. Oh how I wish we could have these all the time!

Annabel and Charlotte

the best day!

 



I love these three girls!

more photoshoots :)

 

lunch date at hesters

play date at the water gardens :)

love my bff! wish we could have days like this everyday!



Saturday night, Drew and I took Charlotte down to the seawall to see the sailboats (where Drew proposed to me!) and dinner at our favorite restaurant, Waterstreet. I really miss living on the water.

What a great weekend we had! Can't wait to go back in a few weeks.

seawall with my girl

miss seeing this everyday

corpus christi = sparkling city by the sea!



The BEST Day!

Our last day in Corpus, Gina and I had been planning on spending the day together just the two of us with the girls. She came over to my MIL's house and we let the girls play on the floor and then we dressed them up and had a little photoshoot! By the end I think they were thinking... "Okay Mom, enough pictures already!" I will cherish these forever!

I'm sad it came out blurry.. but it was the best one we could get.

She loves her best friend

This just had happened yesterday... sitting up all by herself!

Hi Annabel! I love you!

5 weeks apart!

Happy as can be!

After our little photo session, we headed to the mall to shop around for a little while and then we met Lizzie and Ginny at the Yacht Club to swim! After swimming, we met Natalie and Heather at the Surf Club for dinner. Gina and I had been craving their shrimp wraps! Mmm! What a fun day we had!! I will sure miss seeing Annabel and Gina. August... hurry up!!!

Headed to the mall

Just two girlies shopping :)

Annabel ended up taking a nap poolside...

Indulging :)

AB & C in their matching dresses! I had gotten AB one when my Mom and I went shopping for them in SA.

Surf Club! C was so exhausted from swimming that she took a little snooze :)



Babies, Babies, Babies! The Ultimate Playdate!

The day after the "dream date" with Ginny and Annabel, Charlotte and I had another fun playdate planned at Kylie's house... We named it the "ultimate playdate" because there were so many babies. A large portion of my girl friends were so fortunate to all have babies around the same time and we had all by dying to get them all together... especially since Gina and Annabel were in Texas. Kylie and Lauren live in CC, while Kara and I live in Katy/Houston and then Gina in VA!

Kylie hosted at her house and we had lunch and let the babies again play on the floor and roll around. Kylie has a two year old, Charlie, but besides him... Kara is the only one with a boy right now! Little Aidan sure is the ladies man :) He will have lots of girlfriends to choose from someday! What a fun day girls!! Can't wait to do it again next time we come to CC.

We are just loving all this time with our besties

Kara & Aidan, Gina & Annabel, Me & Charlotte

Charlotte (6 1/2 months), Aidan (4 months), Isla (11 months), Annie (8 1/2 months), and Annabel (5 months)

the best we could get with all of our babies... oh thank you self timer!

Genevieve, Annabel & Charlotte... The DREAM Playdate!

Gina and I have been best friends forever but we've recently included a new bestie into our little duo! Lizzie is also a Corpus gal and had sweet baby, Genevieve (Ginny), 3 days before Annabel was born. What's even more fun is that Lizzie married Gina's cousin so Ginny & Annabel are now cousins.

Since I had Charlotte first I started this whole mom journey by myself and then a month later Lizzie and Gina began. Since they've their girls we've literally been on a "3 way text" all 24 hours in a day. It got me through some pretty rough times being able to text these two girls about ANYTHING! And I mean a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g! Breastfeeding and all the joys and pains that go along with that, sleep, napping, sleep training, milestones, solids, cutting teeth, what to do when they get sick, what type of sleep sacks to use, should we still swaddle?, traveling with a baby... I could literally go on and on. These two mamas have become my lifeline. I don't know where I would be in this whole scheme of motherhood without them and their support. SO... with that being said they are basically my everything. The most sad part about our trio is that none of us life in the same city!! Lizzie still lives in Corpus and I've mentioned before Gina lives in Charlottesville, VA! We've been DYING to get our baby girls together since we all were pregnant at the same time and the time had finally come!

And sadly I'm the only one who actually looks pregnant! Haha

We planned our little dream playdate for Monday, Memorial Day. I had been secretly slaving away on the sewing machine at home making surprise matching dresses for the girls. We had soooo much fun letting the girls play and roll around on the floor. And of course all of us mamas were snapping away on our iphones and cameras. Sorry for all the photos but I couldn't help myself :)

Three sweet mamas... three sweet girls!

Together at last!

Ginny wanted Charlotte's bow

In order of birth...

 baby triangle

there's nothing cuter than naked babies :)

modeling the dresses I made!

 cuties :)

my girl on memorial day

Annabel's Baptism/Trip to Seguin

Well the time HAD finally arrived.... my best friend Gina and her precious baby girl came to TEXAS!!!! I've literally been counting down the days for their arrival since Annabel was born. My Mom had come to Katy for a few days to stay with us so we followed her home to Seguin to stay with her since Gina would be in San Antonio for the weekend for Annabel's baptism.

We woke up early on that Saturday and drove in a record breaking rainstorm to witness the baptism of precious Annabel Fontaine Langford. As her Godmother, I was so proud to be there to witness it! Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of the ceremony because my mom was on "Charlotte" duty at the back of the church while I was at the front for the ceremony with Gina and Brian and Brian's brother, Michael, who is Annabel's Godfather. I was so disappointed that Drew wasn't able to make it because his work schedule has been crazy, but he was there in spirit :)

After the baptism, we headed over to Brian's parent's house who live in San Antonio for a nice lunch. Both Passmore Families came from Houston and were there along with Gina and Brian's families. Can you believe that all of girls had all GIRLS!?!

Taryn with her girls, Felicity and Josephine (she was only a week old!), Gina and Annabel, Jessica with her girl, Mia Beth and her bun in the oven due in October and me and Charlotte.

Finally reunited... with our precious girls!

Future besties :)

Oh Mom! Is this for real? No more facetime with AB??

Hey there Charlotte!

I just LOVE this of Gina and Charlotte

After the lunch, my mom and I headed to downtown San Antonio to go to the Mexican Market. We were in need of some Mexican dresses for our reunion that was coming up the following weekend (more on that soon!) We met my Dad for dinner that night and Charlotte experienced her first time sitting in a high chair at a restaurant and sipping water from a straw. Look how cute this girl is! We also had a photo session with Grammy in the parking lot... you never know when those photo sessions are going to happen :) Haha

Eating a mum-mum of course

Just LOVE these two!

She loves her Grammy :)

The next day we packed it up and Charlotte and I headed to Corpus for the next 4 days for the ultimate playdate of a lifetime! A picture dump and post on that coming up next :)