Louisiana Saturday Night

If you ever need a suggestion for a hot place to visit in the middle of the Summer...I can suggest one.

Baton rouge, Louisiana.

Also, let me just apologize now for the number of pics in this post. there were too many great memories not to share...

we recently got back from our first "big" trip....we stayed in hotels, we flew, we ate out every meal. big time for the William's family.

there were so many forced smiles in this picture it's not even funny.  I even had a talk with McLean...telling her things like "they will look at these the rest of their lives," and "please smile pretty." Oh well. A mother can only try.

We had a blast.

note McLean's face in this pic...we are waaaaay over taking pictures at this point.

The wedding was amazing...GREAT food and amazing company.  

We were able to go a few days early and took our little fam to the WELL known beach town of Biloxi, MS....(what, you've never heard of it?!). It was actually perfect for what we needed, and the girls loved the beach.  I even wore my two piece...and I am obviously preggo at this point, people.

McLean rode on her first airplane and loved every second.  She got to meet the pilot  and she had no problem yelling commands to him from her seat (about the middle of the plane...).  She wanted to make sure he didn't go too fast because her whooooole family was on the plane.

Also, "don't open the window because she might fly out."

I'm sure that most everyone else on the plane was not as amused as her parents, but hey...oh well....i'll never see those people again, and we got video of it all to revisit for the rest of our years.  

she was so excited that she was "on vacation" and got to pick any drink and snack that she wanted.

I was proud of her as she chose "chocolate milk" as her drink of choice....and I thought maybe the stewardess would hand us some pretzels or something.

but it all went downhill when she didn't have chocolate milk OR pretzels....so, at 9am McLean was enjoying root beer and a $3 package of animal crackers. 

Sheesh.  the rest of the weekend went pretty much the same way as we ate our way through Louisiana and had a great time doing so. 

Mclean's favorite thing is now vacation...mostly because she knows life goes her way...and things are crazy like "night swims" and "cookies for breakfast."  She quickly adopted the phrase, "Mommy, since we're on vacation....do you thinnnnnk I coulllllld.....(fill in the blank)." 

And i usually said yes.

Overall, twas a great trip...very fun to get away and just be with my three favorite people.