Labor Day

We went up to the Murphy's cabin/barn for Labor day weekend, to celebrate Jason's birthday. We had a great time hanging out and relaxing. Joel (Ryan's dad) has built a pool in the river for the kids to play in. It was so cool. We sat in the river and held on to their inner tubes while they had great fun. Jason and Ryan took the kids up to play by the rocks on Sunday and Ryan saw a water snake. Luckily I wasn't with them, or I would have freaked out. They got the kids away quickly and never looked back.

I think that the kids rode the tires off of the ranger and the 4-wheelers. The went all over the mountain on those things. They were constantly wanting to ride.

They have recently built a new cabin on their land, it's beautiful and relaxing. We stayed in the cabin with the Barber's while the others stayed at the barn or camped out. Tristen wants to sleep in a tent next time. So let's hope daddy wants to camp out :) We woke up to the sounds of 3 wild turkeys on Monday. I thought maybe someone was hunting and using a turkey call, but it was the real deal.
As soon as we left Tristen asked to go back to the mountains. Needless to say she had a blast.

Bella and our roadtrips

I thought that it's probably time to update a few pictures of Bella. She's growing like a weed. I can't believe that she's already 3 months old. Time really flys by. We've been on quite a few road trips in 3 months. We've been to the beach twice, Ohio once, and we went to Asheville Monday. We had a great time at the beach. My Aunt Pam and 2 cousins, along with their hubbies got to join us the 2nd time. The girls had so much fun, they were very entertained. My cousins are wonderful with them, the girls adore them. It was really fun, we don't get to see them too often. We did however get to see Jenna, Pam and Uncle Bill on Monday. We went to Asheville for a haircut and we spent the day with them. Tristen didn't want to leave, she wanted to spend the night with Jenna. :) Ofcourse she didn't understand why I couldn't drive 2 hours to pick her up in the a.m. Thank God we made it home safely, and Tristen fell asleep for most of the ride home. Parts of the ride were a little stressful, but a few deep breaths kept me sane.

We went to Ohio for a week over July 4th. We spent time with the family and Chris's buddies. Everyone got to see Bella for the first time. and the car ride actually wasn't too bad. They did get sick on the way home though. But we expect that now. Somehow they always get sick when we travel.

Bella and Tristen got to take a boat ride to see the fireworks. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of that :( But we did get some pics with family and friends. Tristen went on a few jetski rides, she thought that was cool. She called them boat rides :)





Bella had a fever yesterday. The girls tend to pass things back and forth. Tristen passed a form of hand-foot-mouth to Piper at the beach and now we got it back. She has little blisters in her mouth, but seems to be doing pretty well. She's a sweet baby. I really can't complain. She's healthy (until now), happy and she's a great sleeper. She loves her swing, bouncy seat, and her green passy. She keeps trying to sit up, it's really cute. Next time I blink she's going to be walking.




Oh, and Bella got her ears pierced at the beach too. She did really well, and I did too this time :) I cried when Tristen got hers done, but I guess I was more prepared this time. They look really cute, they accentuate her little pixie ears.



That's probably enough random stuff for one post.