I love my little family!

Remember the other night when we were the family who 'looked like sherbert"?   Per Todd!
Well, these are pictures from that night!  
My girls have the sweetest little dresses on and they are cottony, and breezy, and summery, and have tiny white flowers on the side of them.  
I think my girls in these dresses may be a memory I cherish from this trip!  I just loved holding their sweet little selves!  And check out those curls on Ellie Sue's head!
It is a challenge to get all 8 eyes pointing toward the camera at the same time.  So, we just make the best of the situation.  
And it is time to celebrate.  Know why?  
Because Todd got up this morning and decided to cut that funky little hairy thing off his chin!  We have been together for about 17 years, including dating years, and I have only seen him ONE time without facial hair!  He shaved it, and it was back in a couple of weeks, and he has had a goatee ever since!  But he is going a little crazy now.  Wanting to let it "grow long".  I convinced him he was a) not a UFC cagefighter, and b) is not ZZ Top; therefore, it needs to GO! He obliged.
Oh my. Did you see the sweet little white flowers on the side of that dress?

And here is one of our sweet babysitters.  Julie, Billy, we LOVE Katelyn.  She and Mary Allison are making our week so absolutely wonderful!  We are having such a nice, relaxing time with the Fords, Raborns, and Bourlands.  We certainly couldn't do it without them.
Some of these are blurry.  But I love my GG's expressions.
I could eat her up.  She is starting to mock Ellie when she is squealing, crying, talking.  Gabbi adores her big sister, and I am LOVING seeing her "play" with her.  
She is also so ticklish!  I am trying to get a grin out of her.  All I have to do is pretend I am coming at her with my "claw", and she anticipates it and starts laughing! 
Dang.  She is FUN!
Only a couple more.  Mary Allison was snapping away as we walked ahead of her on the boardwalk.  
I love that my babysitter knows how much I love pictures and assumes the role so I can be in pics with my girls from time to time.  I am not vain.  I just love to have memories that include me!  Is that so bad?!  LOOoooook at THIS expression!  
And of course, I love Ellie too!  However, she doesnt' get my adoration in Ellie and Mom pics, because she will NOT stay still enough for pics and especially not for me to hold.  Butttttt.... strap her in her carseat, and ta da... CUTE!  Can you see her little tan!?
I did take a bunch of pics of Maddi today.  Let me load em up and I will share. 

Nighty night!