Our friends Patricia and Laney came for a visit from Clinton, MS. We were so glad to see them. Tori and Laney had a lot of fun together. (The rest of the girls had fun with Laney, too, they just didn't make this pic.) 

Kezzi learned this attractive face from Emmi! 

This is my new desktop background. I took this picture at the Austin Science and Nature Center. I really liked the lilies in the pond.... and the girls aren't bad, either. :) 

Sweet sisters.... 

I like this picture of Kezzi, digging in the "dinosaur pit" at the Austin Science and Nature Center. It makes her look like such a big kid! 

Here are the girls at the Children's Museum in Austin, TX.  

The big highlight of our trip was Sea World in San Antonio. Uncle Jesse went with us, and we got a nice big hotel room in San Antonio. Emmi and Tori posed with this poor sweaty guy in a Shamu suit, but Abbi and Kezzi wouldn't have anything to do with him! 

We spent two days in Sea World, and it was so much fun. The shows were all great, all the girls behaved themselves for the most part, and the park wasn't busy at all. Many of the rides, we rode over and over without waiting in a line! 

Tori and Josh ride the Shamu Express! Emmi is in there, too... that bit of hair next to Josh. :) 

Despite our near run-in with Hurricane Rita, we didn't see a cloud in the sky at Sea World. In fact, it was super hot! Sea World has nice play areas with water for the kids to run around in. 

Kezzi spent much of our trip being traumatized. I knew we were in trouble when she started saying "No, NO!" at the first animal we saw inside Sea World... the Clydesdale horses. Here, she is busy keeping her distance from the water playground you saw Tori playing in in the last picture. 

If you couldn't tell, this is a look and shriek of sheer terror, the first time we went to see the Shamu show. To be fair, she had just gone down to the side of the tank with her Daddy, and one of the whales splashed cold salt water on them.  

Oh, the trauma! 

Too loud! 

The girls got to feed the dolphins stinky fish.