Cousins in Charlotte

We headed to Charlotte this past weekend and had a great visit with the cousins! When we arrived Friday night Payton and Taylor were at a Rock Star birthday party. We were to arrive for the show and watch them perform. Annslee had other plans..mainly to be on stage with all the "big girls" for the entire night. She had so much fun dancing and singing and the girls were so sweet to let her join in! (As always, click on any photo to enlarge)

After the party we headed home and got the girls in their PJs thinking it was getting close to their bedtime. Again, our plans didn't seem to be theirs and they finally were dragged up to bed around 11 PM. We hated to spoil their fun but knew they would be grumps the next day without at least a little shut eye

On Saturday we went to Taylor's soccer game and then to a little carnival of sorts at their school. Annslee played a few games, jumped in the bouncy thing a lot and even agreed to get her face painted. She picked a purple butterfly and held very still while it was being done. She was very proud of it and pointed it out to anyone who would listen.

A lot of fun was had on the trampoline! Who needs to wait until you put your clothes on before playing...just go on out in your PJs. Payton even taught her how to do flips.


It was Payton's 8th birthday so we got to do some celebrating.

Since her big cousin got Heelys, Annslee naturally wanted to try out Taylor's rollerskates. She actually had pretty good balance on them and really enjoyed Daddy holding her hand and helping her.

We had a great time with all the girls and just wish we could see them more often!