Brooke visits us in Oklahoma

So my dear, sweet cousin (who is much like a sister to me) from Dallas came to visit us while we were staying with Nana and Pop in Muskogee.  Because she is now living in Dallas and working full-time (go Brooke!), it made it much easier for her to make th 3 1/2 hour drive to Oklahoma instead of trying to figure out a time to make the 9+ hour drive to Laredo (which in all reality probably would not have happened)!  So we were very thankful that Nana & Pop were sweet enough to share their time with us, with her!  She was only in for the day, New Year's Day, and then headed out again the next morning.  She was actually headed back to Dallas to pick up her boyfriend and then they headed onto San Antonio to catch Texas Tech in their bowl game, which she didn't even have tickets for (but luckily managed to get some when they got there!).  All this after going out for New Year's eve the night before....oh what it is to be young...I can hardly remember when I had that much energy to do ALL that in just one weekend!

Anyhow, we had a great visit and loved seeing her.  When she arrived, the boys were napping and she could hardly wait for them to wake up so she could play with them.  Well, an hour after we had her outside playing (it was one of the 1st days in about 5 where the sun actually came out and warmed it up enough to get some outside time), I think she could hardly wait for them to go back to bed.  I think they gave her a pretty good workout!  Amazily, they both warmed up to her really quickly so they BOTH had her running around with them.  Later in the evening, Evan had her running around the house playing one of his latest favorites - duck, duck, goose!  And for bathtime, he even asked if she would bath him.  I think it went something like "Brooke, will YOU give me a bath tonight?  Nana has a really nice bathtub....c'mon let me show you!"

"I'll be riding my own tricycle in no time, Mom"

This was after our race back into the house.  We asked who was the winner and Evan said he was! We then asked who was the loser and this was Cooper's response!

Silly faces!

Crazy faces!!

Some smiles...

And an almost perfect family picture...if E wouldn't have had such a silly expression (probably in the middle of talking!)

Goodbye hugs and kisses!!

Thanks little Brooke for making the trip out to see us, it meant so very much to us!  We love you and can't wait to see you again!  Keep up the good work - we are very proud of you!! But stay away from the tatoo parlors......please!!! :-)