On the Road Again!

Week 3: A week of road trips has come and gone! We started off the week exploring Baton Rouge. We met the Skippers and some of their friends at a new splash pad and park in Baton Rouge. There is an amazing park system here! Baton Rouge has neighborhood parks all around the city with areas like dog parks, tennis courts, fishing ponds, walking trails, playgrounds, and even splash pads! Mary Virginia had a blast playing in the splash pad while John Bay spent his day running around the playground and playing on the spider web. They loved it so much on Monday that we are going back as soon as we get back in town! It is a great place to go to play all morning and then have a picnic lunch! We are so lucky to have found a treasure like this park, less than 15 minutes from our house!

Forest Park Playground & Splash Pad

The road trips began with a quick trip to Pensacola!

John Bay only made it 5 minutes into the trip...

Ed had a couple of meetings to help wrap up some of his last job, we went along for the ride. When we got to the hotel, the kids were amazed. MV looked at me and said "hotels are awesome, can we stay here forever." I guess the idea of having two televisions in one room, a pool downstairs, and anything you could imagine to pick from for breakfast was just too much! After a night of swimming at the hotel, the kids wanted to see some of their favorite places...I bet you can guess where we ended up...that's right, the airplane museum and the splash pad! Of course, I forgot that Wednesdays are the day that the Blue Angels practice, so we were able to see the practice session while driving to the museum. Once we got on post and could park, we watched them do lots of tricks in the air. John Bay LOVED it! We toured the museum along with the hundreds of other tourists and played on the playground!

Then it was on to the splash pad! We always love a good splash pad! After an hour of playing and a huge scoop of ice cream, we packed up and headed back to Baton Rouge! It was a quick trip, but we loved visiting our "Florida House"! We hope to make another trip over in July!


Our week ended with a road trip to home sweet home! We made it to Alabama on Friday afternoon....just in time to grab a quick dinner at Niffer's with Gigi and Jaja! (One of our favorite places to eat!) It was a quick trip to the lake, but we were able to celebrate cousin Maggie's 1st birthday!

Door decoration!

We spent Saturday morning playing in the water and having lunch with family and friends! Then it was time for cake and ice cream! Of course, that was MV and JB's favorite part of the meal!

Maggie had a little help blowing out her candles!

And lots of help celebrating and eating cake!

It was a wonderful weekend. We had so much fun visiting with family and celebrating with Maggie. It was a day full of cake, ice cream, sun, swimming, and most of all tubing! We owe Barney and Wade BIG time for pulling Mary Virginia around on the tube all day! She tubed all over the lake and with anyone that would ride with her!

We have made our way to Birmingham and we are ready for a week of fun and excitement! We can't wait for Baby Caroline! (Look for an extra post this week as we welcome Caroline into the world - we can't wait to meet her!)