HURFFF #2--Natural Bridge Caverns

One of our activities was to visit Natural Bridge Caverns in New Braunfels. It was pretty cool. It was surprisingly very hot and humid inside instead of cold like you'd think a cave would be. Sorry about the fuzzy pic. The lighting wasn't so great down there.

Papa was Landan's buddy down in the caves.

Kylie doesn't really like pictures.

All the little chicklets sitting in a row. (What's funny is all the little kids on top are between the ages of 18 mo to 2 yrs. Crazy huh?)

HURFFF #1--Eppie's Birthday

We celebrated Eppie's birthday the first night we were there even though her birthday was the last night we were there. I can't remember why but it worked out better for some reason.

Eppie with Nathan

Hailey saying Happy Birthday
Eppie with Norah

Eppie getting a hug from Gavin (in my opinion he give the best hugs)

Some of the grandkids waiting to give Eppie a small personally colored card: Avery, Kenny, James, Landan, Norah, Emma, Gavin

Making birthday cupcakes

These were Chiara's idea but she was behind the camera. Aren't they cute

Happy Birthday Eppie!

July

My goodness...Where did July go. After 4th of July I started work again and suddenly it was August. July just kind of disappeared on me. Probably because we've been pretty busy. So much has gone on and I have so many pictures I'm going to try to post it separately. First there was HURFFF (Hurst Family Fun Fest for those that weren't there) with my whole side of my family. Then there was Kevin's birthday, Landan's birthday, Kylie's blessing, and my nephew Kenny's baptism. I'll post Kylie's blessing pictures first.

She was blessed on July 24th by her Daddy. My mom made her dress and it is beautiful. Thanks so much mom. She's lucky to have such a talented grandmother. Maybe I'll get there someday.

It was hot and she wasn't too excited about taking pictures.

All the family that could be there. (For journaling purposes and not necessarily in order of appearance: Papa, Eppie, Uncle Ken, Aunt Chiara, Kenny, Nathan, James, Mommy, Daddy, Landan, Gavin, Uncle Mike, Aunt Ashlyn, Avery, Emmaline, Uncle David, Aunt Katherine, Norah)

The preisthood holders who stood in the circle. Uncle Ken, Uncle Mike,Daddy, Papa, and Uncle David

4th of July Weekend

For 4th of July weekend we went to Houston to spend some time with me family. On Sat we saw some movies, and had a cookout at my sister's house (luckily the rain stopped just long enough). On Sun. we just hung out and on Mon. we all went to Galveston beach. The kids got along fairly well. It was a great weekend.

My little firecrackers!

My neice Hailey after her daddy put a basketball down her shirt which she refused to take out. She thought it was funny.

Hailey, Gavin, and James playing together.

The best 4th of July dessert ever. My sister's chocolate chip cookie, baked and topped with cream cheese mixed with vanilla and some sugar, topped with strawberries and blueberries, topped with a strawberry jam glaze thing. Oh so good!

My Bathing Beauty.

Headed down to the water with Daddy.

Playing in the water with Mommy.

From Left: Landan (red shirt) Nathan, Mommy holding Gavin, Uncle Kenny, and Uncle Jonny

All the kids having SANDwiches. (James, Gavin, Kenny, Landan, Hailey)

Gavin, Landan and Kenny playing in the sand.

Playin in the shallows while the daddys play by themselves in the deeper water.

Landan, Gavin, Nathan, Aunt Chiara, James Hailey, Aunt Cassie.

Kylie is 8 weeks old

And we had a fun little photo shoot.