Zoo days :)

Clara and I went to the Zoo Monday and played for an hour by ourselves before Tara and Jack met us there. Here we are in front of the "duckos" pond in our "cool shades". Clara says the funniest things! Clara's goats love to come and see her when she visits them in the petting part of the zoo!

I love taking these pictures! Jack is almost 6 months younger than Clara... she is so little!

These are our favorite monkeys

Clara wouldn't play in the water this time.. she was too interested in this new statue.

BIG GIRL BED!!!

Clara took her first nap in her Big girl bed Friday! M, Clara's honorary grandmother, gave it to us! She LOVES it and actually asks to sleep in it! The only bad thing about it is that now she can wander around.... While she still hasn't figured out how to get out of the crib! I am going to try to keep her in the crib at night as long as I can!

My little Artist!

Clara loves to "create things". We spend a lot of time painting and drawing. I think she is going to be artistic like her mommy and daddy. I just hope she gets her daddy's talent at it! Yesterday, our painting turned into a tattoo session... thanks daddy for teaching Clara to paint on herself!

More beach Pictures

Three brothers: Robby, Ryan, and Rhett! Next time, I have to remember not to stand next to the tall people... Oh wait, that's right, in my world, there is only tall people! Valerie, Rhett's wife, sent me these pictures in an email. I thought that they were all great! The one of my little family would be a great Christmas card... if Clara wasn't picking her nose! :)

Beach

Clara put "scun screen" on daddy and mommy's backs so we wouldn't get burned! Clara running from the waves.... they were not actually very close!

Writing her name!

Sooo proud of what she and daddy wrote!

My baby girl!

We went to the beach with the Austin's last weekend. Unfortunately I still do not have an SD card for the camera that holds more than 15 pics and I still had Ryan's graduation on the camera! I need to get a new card! I will try to get some pictures from the Austin's, but I still haven't gotten the ones from Disney.... :) I keep forgetting to take a disc over there!

Ryan's Graduation

Clara and Daddy at College! This is when Clara said, "look, they have sand at college"!!!!! (It was a volleyball court)

Ryan and his girl, Bree :) I thought this was actually a pretty good picture of everyone! (L to R : Robby, Clara, me, Ryan, Audra Claire, Mrs. Austin, Mr. Austin)

I LOVE this picture! Clara said she was going to college with Uncle Rynan!

Ryan, Robby's littlest brother, graduated from Lee University the other weekend. We drove to TN to see the great occasion!

Of course it was during Clara's nap, and she was trying so very hard to stay awake for it. She did, and let me tell you, the 3 hour ride home filled with a sleepy child's screams was not fun!