swimming with the McCrimmons

After our weekend trip to Charleston to meet up with the Arthurs (I miss you Jenn!!) was canceled because Michael's plane broke during a fuel stop, I stayed in Fayetteville and we had lots of fun! On Saturday, we went to my sister's house for a fun birthday pool party for her daughter Dionna. Leah, as you can see from the photo, loved it!

I think this is how Sarah spends her summer. Lucky girl!

Here is Dionna, Marcus and Jordan, with her very important goggles.

Trying to show just how big her little diaper got during the swim. This picture doesn't do it justice; she looked pregnant! I guess they make those swim diapers for a reason.

This is the goggles picture: Damarcus, Jordan, Dionna, and Marcus. What a fun day!

Leah's latest moves

Just wanted to post a video of Leah's latest moves for the grandmas to see. Enjoy!

ps - Not quite sure why Leah doesn't have any clothes on. Perhaps she's trying to be like her daddy, who only wants to be pictured on the blog without a shirt on.

I finally finished this one

I posted about this dress a few weeks back. I finally finished it and Leah wore it to church yesterday. I love how cute she looks in blue and white.

She's getting quite tall. At the doctor's office last week, she measured 27 inches (and just under 16 pounds!).

As a general rule, I hate photos taken of anyone while they are laying down (babies included) from above them. It's usually pretty unflattering, but I had to get one to show off the dress.

Leah got a new hairbow to match her dress. I hope as she gets older, she won't fight the hairbows. I really do love making them (with the help of my bow-dabra!)

Memorial Day 2009

We spent our Memorial Day this year celebrating with friends at a cookout/ swim party. It was lots of fun and I think Leah really enjoyed soaking in the pool.

Leah's hot tub

These photos are of our hotel room in Washington DC (we followed Michael there who had a 2 week course in DC at the end of April). Leah got her baths in the kitchen sink. It seems like she really enjoyed the soak!

Beach to Bay 2009

Michael and I both ran in the Beach to Bay Marathon Relay this year in Corpus. It's held here every year and is actually quite popular. I had never run in a relay before, and to be perfectly honest, I didn't like that part of it too much. I like to run and races are always exciting, but the idea that I have this whole team depending on me made it a bit more stressful. Of course, that might be because I didn't really train (too busy sightseeing in Washington DC and going on a cruise to do that!) . I ran on a team of spouses from Michael's work and Michael ran on a team of his co-workers. Michael's team did really well, finishing in the top of their division, the military catagory. I think they came in third place, with a time of 3 hours and like 2 minutes or so (I can't really remember exactly, but it was just barely over 3 hours). My team didn' t do too bad, with a time of four hours and 6 minutes or something close to that. Quite a difference in our times, huh?

the latest craze

I bought Leah one of those little mesh chew toys that you fill with fruit (?? that sounds like a dog toy, but it's really for babies) and she loves it. She loves it so much that she ruined this shirt with a banana.
She doesn't seem to mind that her shirt is headed straight for the trash.
Showing us how it's done.

Life is so good...