Geema and Pa Joe now have a membership to the zoo, and we went with for her first visit. We made sure Geema got the full effect of how we do the zoo. Chasing Joshua through the playground, not seeing any animals, and riding the carousel. Maybe we’ll see the animals next time. 
Here’s a brief, sweet moment of the kids playing trains together. I think I should post these pics as proof that it did happen once.
Our little girl is nine months old! She’s into absolutely everything, too! For some reason, the bathroom is a big draw. We have to keep the door closed, or she would hang out there all the time. Weird. She has been going for the dog bowls a lot less. I guess that’s progress. Julia has started following Joshua everywhere, and she likes to in on anything he’s doing. Joshua doesn’t mind…yet. Julia gets into his toys a lot, so we talk about sharing a lot. She’s cruising on all the furniture. Yesterday she actually let go of the coffee table and tried to walk the 2 steps to the couch. As soon as she let go she fell back, but she was just fearless! It didn’t matter that she’d never tried that before. She just dove in! Much more interesting to me, she’s has started to say “mama!” Mostly it’s when she’s upset and she wants me to pick her up. I just love her saying it no matter what!
Since Julia is so on the move, there was no chance of getting her to sit still for a picture. At least not a nicely posed one. Fortunatly she’s completely cute no matter what! Check out the new hairdo! Her locks are getting so long, that we’ve had to resort to the Pebbles look. I had almost forgotten what her eyes looked like!
Joshua was feeling left out of the pictures, and he asked to be included.
Today was our cousin Emily’s wedding in Dickson. Everything was absolutely perfect! The best part was, of course, the bride. Her dress was simple and covered in lace. Beautiful! The wedding was at our home church of Walnut Street Church of Christ. They had torn down the original auditorium about 3 years ago and built a new one. It looks great. I was happy to see that they kept some of the stained glass, and some other elements from the original design. This was the first time since the remodel that we had seen it.
The kids were being awful squirmy, so good ol’ Jason and Joe kept them in the gym while the women folk stayed for the ceremony. I have to say it was nice to not have to wrangle babies and toddlers. After the wedding (which was perfect C of C short and sweet), we all headed across the street for the reception. There was a big tent set up outside with tables. Fortunately there was a nice breeze blowing, but it was still pretty hot. We went through a lot of lemonade! The food was really yummy – heavy hors d’oeurves. Emily had it catered by a couple at church who own a local cafe, House Blend. I loved that she had them make our Grandmom’s cheese ball. Perfect! Ok, on to the pictures.
It was hard to take pictures. Julia was hot and tired, and she insisted on clinging to me most of the time. I have no pictures of my boys, which is a real shame since they looked so good all dressed up! Here’s one of Julia and cousin Hannah.
Julia playing on a chair. Julia eating grass.
The single ladies waiting for the bouquet to be thrown.
We didn’t have all the cousins together today, but we got all the girl cousins that were here together for a picture. We were only missing Samantha to make it perfect. Stinky school got in the way. 
Last, but not least, a picture of the sisters.
Good friends Erin and Cameron invited us to go swimming with them at the pool in their subdivision. What fun! Joshua and Cameron had a big splashing time! Erin had little baby float for Julia too. A big time was had by all. Julia seemed to like getting to float around on her own. The water wasn’t as cold as the water in our little pool last week. She kicked her little feet and splashed her hands in the water. The boys sat on the side of the pool for a picture, but it’s just impossible to get 2 3-year-olds to look at the camera at the same time. Sigh.
Thanks, Erin, for such a fun day!
PS – Mom, I want you to know that I fully coated each kid in sunscreen. I know you were wondering.
