I have to mention, first, that one of my best friends, Laurie, had her first baby today. I'm so happy for her and can't stop thinking about how happy she must be to be holding her little baby right now! I wish I could put a picture of her, but my scanner is broken. Just imagine a beautiful blonde and you've got it. I'm so thankful that God helped her through a healthy delivery. Gosh, I love the whole delivery and being in the hospital part. Makes me want another one!

Secondly, I'm whipped. We have been going nonstop since I started my vacation, and now it's more than halfway over. :( Here's what we've been up to. Kevin took Nora to Houston (by himself!!!) while I morphed into Nanny Angie to keep my sister's kids while they were in Hawaii. The following are pictures from their trip. My sweet nieces and nephews really took care of her. I'd like to say I wasn't nervous about him making that long trip by himself but I'd be lying...seriously very badly lying. But..I will say this: not all dad's could drive to Little Rock, fly to Dallas, then drive to Houston by themselves with a 16 month old. Much less take care of them for four days without mom. Kevin did it like a champ and it only confirmed to me how proud I am to say he's my baby daddy. :) Anyway, here's some pictures of Houston. I can't remember if I've blogged this or not, but Nora is a major performer. She gets on the fire place (wherever she is) and sings happy and you know it. On the "face will surely show it" she puts her fingers on her cheek. See below. It's the cutest thing ever.










Here's what we were up to. I only had the boys one day before Nora joined us, so they got some good cousin time in as well.









I'll try to put some video up as well. They had a great time. We had our own Luau (I've never spelled that word before) so it took a while to prepare for that. We were all beat by the time we were at the Luau that we barely took any pictures of it. Just imagine three little kids running around in homemade grass skirts, dancing to Hawaiin music. It was funny. Tammie's pictures are on her blog if you're interested. We also just returned from Nashville. We tagged along while Kevin had a seminar and got to see my friend, Candice, and her kids. Candice is a childhood friend and one of my closest friends. We are very fortunate to have daughters six days apart, so they are destined to be best friends. I asked Candice this weekend if she ever wondered if they would really be friends when they grew up, Candice's reply was "we'll make them be". I couldn't agree more. Below are pictures of the two peas in a pod, plus Candice's other two very cute, very sweet, most well behaved girls I've ever seen.





Alright, last but not least, we finally got around to taking pictures of Nora professionally. Here's the link.
Tindall got one of her doing the happy and you know it face. It was so funny, she just started singing that song to get Nora's attention and Nora put her hands up on her face. So cute.