Baton Rouge Trip

We finally made it down to Baton Rouge.  We have only tried TWO other times and three if you count the summer.  Justin was working a ton this summer, even on the weekends. Our first official planned trip, Justin got sent out of town for work.  The second planned trip, Briggs got sick.  So needless to say, we were excited to FINALLY get down there when we did.

Our main purpose was to meet this little guy...

Landon "Ty" Poland, Jr.

He is our newest little nephew.

G-maw has him here

 Aunt Iris got her a little snuggle time

 And uncle J...

I think we both forgot how tiny those new babies are

Here is the whole gang...Ty decided he needed to sleep

And Briggs still isn't sure who his G-maw his holding

photo shoot with G-maw

And here are the proud parents

Landon and Jamie

Briggs had fun with his uncle Landon

 Briggs likes to be thrown really high :)

Briggs even got to go to church with G-maw so she could show him to all her friends

Then we moved our party over to LSU Tiger territory.

We spent time with Abs and her family.

The boys got to see Mike the Tiger

Our LSU visit brought back so many memories.  

It's where Justin and I met...and now look at us 

11 years later and 1.5 kids

**disclaimer...I'm that not fat, just in that awkward, starting to get a baby bump stage...hate that!**

Then on to Aunt Abs and Uncle Josh's house for some play time

Cade

Brooks showing Briggs the ropes with the truck

Want a ride ladies?

Brooks

And they just kept getting wet and dirty 

so we just stripped them down and let them go in their diapers.

Had to get a couple cousin shots

to end the day we all went to feed the ducks 

photo by... yours truly.

little tubby refused to feed the ducks..he thought that was wasteful 

so he decided to eat it himself

a great ending to a great visit

We were able to make our visit a little longer...Friday to a Monday which means we packed some stuff in there.  Got to visit some of our good friends for dinner, spent the day with baby Ty (Landon and Jamie), saw Justin's parents, spent some time with Abs and her famly including visiting LSU, even had time to swing by our old church (where we got married) and say hey to a few people.

We were all tired when we got home, but it was a good visit and we got to do a lot of stuff.  More importantly we got to spend time with family, which is always good.

Baton Rouge Trip

We have been a little busy lately...hints why my posts have been kinda sparce. We went to Baton Rouge this past weekend and had so much fun..here are just a couple pics to narrate our trip...

Because Justin's parents and my sister live in Baton Rouge, it's always challenging to split our time evenly. So before we had Briggs we started this new system....we start off at one of their houses on the first day and spend the night. We leave the next day around lunch to go to the other persons house and spend the night. Then leave to go home the next day. It's worked out well because then we don't spend all our time driving back and forth between houses (which are about an hour apart).

Here are some pics from G-Maw and Pa-Paw's house. This 3-wheeler is one that Justin and Landon rode when they were little...Briggs seems to like it :)


G-Maw and Briggs. They gave him that hat..it says "I hunt for hugs"


And here are Abby and I ready to set off on our sister date to New Orleans. We went to the jewelry show for the morning. It was so fun to just get away with my sister and hang out. We don't get to do that often without the babies.


Abby brought Brooks to play with Briggs while we were gone. We are so thankful our families are close and get along good. It was great knowing that the babies could play together at my in-laws house while we were gone on a sister date.


While we were gone, Brooks (left) and Briggs (right) played with G-Maw and Justin. These babies sure are focused...


And now we had moved to Abby and Josh's house. Cade was added to the bunch. Couldn't get Briggs to smile (which is unusual), but he had an unbelievably large poop right after this picture which then lightened his mood...just thought yall might want to know that...hehe :)


We decided to take a walk to the pond in their neighborhood to take a few pics, feed the ducks and let Cade fish with his new fishing pole.



And then Cade caught his first fish with his first fishing pole! That was exciting and Justin got it all on camera...YAY CADE!


Here are the babies getting ready for the photo shoot. Briggs was checking Brooks out with that gatorade bottle...sometimes I wish I knew what was going through that kids head :)


And here is the cutest little picture of Brooks and Cade


Which Abby was having to work for those smiles...jumping around behind Justin...before we knew it...GUESS WHO JUMPED RIGHT OFF THE EDGE OF THE GRASS INTO THE LAKE!...it was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S!!!! and Justin of course got it all documented on camera.


THEN...we went to eat dinner at Sammy's and had some awesome fried pickles, mozzarella sticks, shrimp poboys and boiled crawfish...YUMMY! Then Brooks dumped a whole cup of water onto Abby's lap! It was awesome..and not her day with water...but at least she just kept on rolling with it and smiling :)


To end the trip...here is our little family pic. We weren't exactly dressed up..but just wanted to get a cute pic while we were all together with someone to take the shot.


As you can see...we had such a great trip. Loved getting to spend time with my sister, getting the kids together and seeing Justin's parents. Even though we swapped a stomach bug for a cold...it was great memories and lots of pics to show it :)