Seeing the girls ...

After our weekend at CoCo and Britton's (complete with tower building, lots of time with their cousin, and Lydia willingly going into church away from me being carried by her Uncle Britton -- this was the highlight of the weekend for me!!), the girls and drove after church to Allison and Jeff's where we had a chance to see the girls. EB was so excited to spend time with Fable and Ever. I was pretty excited that Graham was flying in to Memphis that night!

Before Graham arrived, we had time for some theater make-up courtesy of Fable ...

... and time for painting ...

... and playing ...

... and of course for watching movies.

The girls of course wanted to stay another night and we were completely tempted to do so. But we decided that we were just tired enough to need to make it back to BR. Since CC and Granddaddy had already left Jackson headed to the College World Series and CoCo and Britton were headed to Memphis to catch a flight to Omaha, we decided to make the drive from Olive Branch to BR all in one day.

Miracle of miracles, EB slept all the way from outside Olive Branch to Madison where we stopped for lunch. This girl NEVER naps. We guessed the week of traveling finally caught up with her. We couldn't believe our good luck to have a 5-year-old fall asleep and a 2-year-old who also took an early nap in the car.

It was a whirlwind week, the trip that made me just as tired last summer, but thankfully Graham was with us for the drive home this time. It was tiring but completely worth it ... I got to see my girls with their cousins, Lydia willingly went with her Uncle Britton, we were there for Winters's first birthday party ... really, it doesn't get much better.