Haircuts and peek-a-boo

The girls got haircuts last week. Well, Abby and Tessa did. Abby's was getting pretty long and with how thick her hair is, when it gets too long, it's so hard to keep brushed and nice so a cut becomes necessary. When I cut Abby's hair last week, Tessa decided she needed one too. I was planning on just trimming Tessa's hair, but after the first snip, I realized it was pretty short. Plus, as she got tired and squirmy, it made the cutting process more difficult, so unintentionally I think I gave her a pretty good layered cut. So here's a good before picture with their long hair.

Abby likes to tell everyone she got her hair cut and then tell them, "I have a whole new look!"Tessa looks all grown up to me.Aubrey hasn't gotten a haircut yet, but she has started saying "cheese" whenever the camera is present, which makes for a few more smiley photos at least.
Here are all the girls together with new hairdos.

And for Peek-A-Boo, as we drove back from the zoo a couple weeks ago with Grandma and Grandpa Gibbons, Aubrey was in a very happy mood. She kept laughing at Grandma and then started playing Peek-A-Boo so I got it on my camera. Thought it was super cute.

Visitors, Parks, and Zoos

We had visitors the week before Easter. Tyler's brother and family and his parents came from Utah for their spring break. My brother-in-law's family includes 4 kids - a 10-year-old boy, 2 4-year-old twin girls, and a 2-year-old girl. So that filled our house with 6 girls with Abby as the oldest. We had lots of screams, lots of laughter, and lots of fun!

While the boys went golfing, the girls took a trip to the park. Aubrey loved the swings.

And Abby loved drawing with the chalk. We traced all the girls' bodies. Abby decided on her own pose and then colored it in herself. I thought it turned out so cute.

We spent a day at the Forth Worth Zoo.

We saw lots of animals. Aubrey, and everyone else, really liked the white tigers because they came up so close to the glass window. (Can you see he winked at me for the picture? :)

But everyone's favorite spot was where we ate lunch which was right next to a huge glass wall where we saw alligators, fish, and turtles. We spent our evenings playing Rock Band on Wii and watching movies.

Fortunately, the rest of our furniture was delivered about 15 minutes before they left to go home, so they got to see what our living room is supposed to look like. And we got one last picture of all the cousins together.

We had so much fun and we miss them all already.