Remembering Last Summer

I was SO excited to go out to the mailbox today and see an envelope from my sister, Brooke, who is living down in Texas! The last time I had seen her was this past summer when we were all (other than Jordan) in Pocatello together. We had gone on a couple water-skiing trips and spent lots of time together as a family at my parents' house. It was lots of fun and I already took tons of pictures and posted them back then. But even as the crazy "paparazzi" that I am, taking a billion and a half pictures, as Jordan says, I couldn't get pictures of ALL the cute and fun things going on! Plus, we had taken lots of "sister-pictures" and my camera hadn't had batteries, so I had to rely on Brooke. And she came through! :o) The pictures are just SO fun and I wanted to post them!


This is Alexis with her two cousins. Isaac is the one next to her and he was five months old, I think, at the time. Kyle is the next one over and he was only a few weeks old at the time! It was cute to see them all at those different ages lying next to each other! :o)


Alexis absolutely loved these little bike/tricycle thingys! It was lots of fun for her to ride around with her cousins! I think she felt like a big girl! :o)


Alexis was absolutely obsessed with water this past summer! She always wanted to go swimming or at least play in the water! You'd think she would've liked bathing more, but no! :o)


Alexis and her Uncle Bradley! All the kids LOVE Uncle Bradley! He's so cute with them and they have so much fun with him! He is the only person Alexis would let cradle her since she was a month old or so! :o)


Alexis running for the water in the kiddie pool! Like I said, she LOVED the water! There are, like, ten more pictures just like this one of her running to the water! :o)


Bath-time! She's so cute and cuddly in the towel after bath-time! I LOVE cuddling with her when she's all fresh and clean! :o)



Playing in the water, again! :o) My Mom got this cool water-table toy ... thingy for the grandkids and Alexis loves it enough for all of them! Totally worth it, right Mom!? :o)


Her mommy IS from Idaho, so maybe that's why she likes the tractor so much! :o) (Right Dad Cook?)


Riding around with her cousin, Brenden! What a cutie pie! And, for the cooks, this cousin of Lexi's always reminds me of Jared! Everything he says and how he acts and everything! It's so funny! And I was at their house when the younger boy, Caden, turned two and it totally reminded me of the home video I saw of Jared's birthday - the one where Jared was being all sweet and polite (and ignored), asking for the paper to be taken off the cupcakes ... while Jordan is digging in without hesitation! The same thing happened with Caden and Brenden! Brenden is asking politely and waiting his turn for the cake while Caden is grabbing it and stuffing it in his face! :o) SO funny and cute!


Doesn't my brother, Bradley, look SO excited to be in the picture with me!? :o)


I think Lexi was really nervous about what was going on with Uncle Brian and cousin Raelyn! :o) She went to investigate!




And can I just say how ridiculous it is: Brooke had her baby just a few months before this trip ... LOOK how SKINNY she is! Good grief! :o)


And now for the sister pictures! Yea!!! :o) Brooke is my older sister, the oldest girl in the family. Next, it's me! Then, the youngest girl and even sibling in the family is baby-sister Kaitlyn! Oh! How sweet! :o)




















I think Lexi was getting jealous that she wasn't in the pictures, too. So we decided to bring in Alexis and Brooke's daughter Ashlyn. They're the beautiful ones, anyway! :o)


The first girl in our family, Mom! :o) Then the next three girls in the family, Brooke, me and Kaitlyn! Then our beautiful girls, Ashlyn and Alexis! What cuties, huh!? :o)

Love you all,

~Kristen~