Family Fun

Everyone with Poppa

The kids with Granny

Ryan and Reagan

Ryan, Noah and Tatum

Uncle Scott, Noah and Ryan came to visit us this week. All we did was relax and hang out at home. We didn't go anywhere....it was just very relaxing. Scott and Wayne took the kids to the pool every morning. We bar-b-qued and ate seafood. At night everyone was glued to the LSU game. Reagan and Tatum had so much fun with their cousins. The kids were shy for about the first 5 minutes...after that they couldn't get enough of each other!!! The four of them together was easier then my two on any given day. They never stopped playing and laughing! On Wednesday, Granny and Mups made meatballs and red gravy all day. Then we had all of the family over for dinner. It was nice having everyone together, it has been a while. It felt like a holiday. It was a wonderful week. I really do hope we can get together more often. The week really came and went too fast!

Memorial Day Weekend

Sharing in Jackson Square

Tatum after she had her chocolate!!!

Playing in Jackson Square

My Crew

Reagan with Felecia our tour guide at Houmas House
Reagan Roo

Nottoway Plantation

What an awesome 4 day weekend we have had!

On Friday we got our new kitchen counters installed! They are so much better than the beautiful avocado green we had! We got white quartz and I love how clean it looks! (So our kitchen only has a few minor things left to do and then it will finally be finished...then it will be time to start on the foyer and dining room..AHHHHH! Our house renovations seem to never end!)
Saturday we started our adventures of being a Louisiana Tourist. (For those of you that don't know, that is what we have decided to do all summer. We aren't taking a big vacation, we are just going to take long weekend road trips and be tourist in Louisiana.) We drove down River Road which is one of our favorite things to do! We went to White Castle and toured Nottoway Plantation. The house itself is just amazing but the tour sucked! I have gone on it number of times in the past and they used to show so much more of the house. Now they charge a lot more and you only get to see a few rooms...very disappointing! It was really nice just being there, it is so beautiful. Then we went to Houmas House. Our tour guide was the best. She was so animated and into the telling the stories...you know that I just love that! She made it so much fun. Tatum had such a great time that she has even begged me to please get her an antebellum dress!!! She cried when we were leaving because she wanted to stay! Reagan wants us to go on a haunted tour of the Myrtles, so I think we will go do that on our next road trip! Then we had dinner at The Cabin Restaurant. They had a wedding going on in the back with a band playing so it was fun. The food was just as awesome as I remembered it!

Sunday we wanted to go check out other plantations on River Road, but is was raining so we turned around and went to the French Quarter instead. It was a little cloudy, but it never did rain on us. We stumbled upon a little hole in the wall antique store, where we bought chairs for the kitchen. We found our new favorite place to eat in the Quarter, The Chartres House Cafe. The girls loved watching the guys do their show by the steps in front of Jackson Square. I can't believe those guys still do that, they are good but they have been doing those head spins and jumps for a long time now! We didn't want our day to end, so we went to see Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian. We were all so excited to see it and it was really good. Tatum passed out as soon as it started and then cried the entire way home because she missed it!

Today we've been taking it easy. It has been raining on and off all day. I had PT and Wayne had a few things to do. Tomorrow is Reagan's last day of school. They have to go on Wednesday, but it is just a two hour mass.

Tomorrow is Reagan's first swim meet....we are all very excited!

The 1st Grade Play

Hannah and Reagan

Tatum the poser!

Mups and Granny came to see the play!Reagan had her BIG Night Tonight...The 1st Grade Play! It was the Disney Play and Reagan was a MERMAID! It was so cute! I actually went, and it was so good to get out and see some of my friends again. Tatum and I are going to watch it again in the morning when they perform for the younger grades at school. It won't be so crowded!

Notice Tatum posing on the stage! She had her chance tonight to talk to Mr. Dave (from the Imagination Movers. He is Vivien's Dad and all the kids harass the poor man!) Tatum couldn't wait to go talk to him and then she got her chance and chickened out and acted SHY!

I am so sad...I can' believe Reagan only has 12 days left of school! She absolutely adores her teacher...we all love her! She has been such a good friend and a WONDERFUL teacher! I can't believe my Reagan Roo will be going into 2nd grade! Tatum will be in PreK next year....It makes me want to cry!

The Gibbs Crawfish Boil

The Gibbs had a party for Michelle graduating. Jenny and Tom and Bonnie and Paul came in town so we all got to hang out! It was nice to get out. It is so much fun to see all the kids playing together! I could watch the kids for hours, they are very entertaining! Drew is the Ladies Man. Anna is very into him and they get along very well! Tatum and Charley crack me up and Lord only knows what the heck they are always laughing about!!! Reagan and Lauren are the best of friends and Katherine watches over all of them like a little Momma! Melissa and Glenn came with Glenn's daughter Taylor and her and Reagan hung out like they've know each other forever! I miss Jenny's laugh and it was great to be with her even for just a few hours! The shrimp and crawfish were awesome. (The Gibbs gave us all a bunch to take home!) It was nice to sit back and be with everyone. (We were missing Jamie and Elaine, so it was not complete. Hopefully we will ALL get together at Christmas time this year!)

HAPPY EASTER

HAPPY EASTER! We had a great long weekend. Reagan was off of school Thursday, Friday and Monday, so it was really nice.

My Little Angels

Here are My Girls Before Church a few weeks ago!

CARNIVAL TIME!

Reagan ready with the light to get WuWu's attention on the float! Tatum and DaddyDominique and ReaganThese are the only pictures that I have from Mardi Gras this year. I did not go to any parades and therefore pictures were not taken! These are from the Selene Parade. It was freezing that night and they waited to see my sister Lori on her float. They all had a good time even though it was so cold and windy. My cousins Amanda, Ryan and Loretta had been in town the week before Mardi Gras and the girls and Wayne went with them to Metairie parades. But they had to get back to New York before all the good parades on Mardi Gras weekend. I don't have any pictures of them while they were in town and I hardly got to see them because I was stuck in bed! I love Mardi Gras music so I am really sad it is already over this year! I am glad to announce that neither of my girls were hit or injured with throws this year....so they like parades now!

Tatum having fun!

Here is a picture of Tatum at a party that my friend Melissa had taken her to on Valentines Day. She had such a good time and she looks so happy. She never smiles like that for me when I want to take her picture!