The girls before church

Today we actually made it to church for the first time in a month. I know, we should be doing better than that, and we are trying! Surprisingly it was a very easy morning with no fighting or yelling. Everyone picked out their own clothes and there were no arguments about not wanting to wear what mommy picked out or about not wanting to wear a certain pair of shoes. I was so excited. Things went so well that we even had some extra time this morning, so I decided to take some pictures of the girls. I thought that they looked so cute. Also, for some reason I decided to have my picture taken with them. Everyone knows that I am almost always behind the camera, so me getting in a picture was a big step. So, here we are before church today. Like I said, my girls look so darn cute!!


Laney in her skirt from Ms. Teresa & Rena
Lexi in her "new" outfit. Look how she is stylin'!
Mommy & her girls. They were tired of pictures by this point, so Lexi started doing her silly smile.

Another Lexi Interpretation

A couple of weeks ago when Gustav was making it's way into the Gulf we were watching it pretty close. The reason is that my parents are both retired and are now what we call "snow birds". They leave the cold North and head down South every year to spend January and February on Orange Beach, Alabama. While they are down there we find any reason possible to go down for a weekend. Well, since in the past our vacation has been cancelled due to hurricanes we tend to keep a close eye on them. Things with Gustav were no different. We were very relieved when we found that not only was the storm going to miss Gulf Shores, they were not going to evacuate. I had Lexi tell my mom this news on the phone. What I told her to say was "Nana, they did not evacuate Gulf Shores." Easy enough, right? WRONG! What came out was "Nana, they did not evacuate Golf Shorts." I am sure that there are hundreds of golfers out there that are very relieved to hear that they don't have to leave their shorts behind.

Here is a picture taken on one of our trips to "Golf Shorts"