We started out making celebratory cupcakes. Some have snowflakes and holly berries on them, but so what. Cupcakes are cupcakes. 
Then we took a litle dip in the pool. 
To many cupcakes +Ice Cream+steak+ a bunch of other food equals NAPTIME!!!! After a short break, we headed over to Katy Mills to our first Katy firework celebration with the cousins. There were a ton of kids and their reaction to the fireworks was great! They said "Whoa! Whoa! WHoa! "after every single firework.
At the end Emmy Said "That was really cool." She liked the pink and the purple ones the best. Figures! 
Happy Birthday America!
Emmy decided she was going to jump in for the first time. this super cool floaty thing means she can pretty much swim around by herself. 
For Vacek Father's Day, we packed everyone in the car and headed down to Moody Gardens in Galveston. This is the hottest June EVER in Houston and it is pretty miserable. We figured the kids for make it an hour but they were having TOO Much fun to slow down. Here's all the Dad's and their kiddos.
We left Moody Gardens to grab a bite before the guys headed off to watch the Aggie game and all four kids were dead to the world asleep before we even got to the car. We finished off our Galveston trip with a stop at Rita's Sam approved =)
We started out in the aquarium/water pyramid. Pretty cool! They have a giant sea lion, pengiuns, a pretty awesome octopus, and Emmy's favorite, stamps. Yep, forget the penguins... the best thing about the whole thing was stamping her shark "passport."
Emmy's favorite part is the Dora 4D movie. She's seen it about seven times now. Thank goodness for the all season pass mom bought. At almost 20 bucks a pop for 12 minutes, I DON'T think that we'd be doing it more than once.
Then we went to the rainforest. And, that's enough description.
We headed back to the cabin for ice cream and naps ( yea naps!)
The next day we finished at the spash pad. Emmy LOVED the lazy river and wave pool, she just won't keep her mouth shut!!! She also led everyone to a round of "I'm drinking booty water!!!" at the top of her lungs." (FYI- Booty water is what we call her bath water because we try and discourage her from drinking it. ) Since the lazy river water was apparently the same, she decided it was booty water too. She also treated everyone to a newly learned "pee stance" (See Jackson's birthday post) at the splash pad. It went a little something like this... "I need to pee pee mommy." "Ok! Let's go!" "I do it right here" Assume stance. People start quickly walking away. 
And then did some party cruisin on Lannie and Boppa's boat. Sippy cups for everyone.
This is how she looked when we got her back...
She pulled through for a pool party with Gigi and Pops the next day. This year she is pretty much scared of NOTHING. She did the water slide by herself about 425 times and wanted to "let me do it myself" in her floaty. She tired in jump in and do the gigantic water slide. Mom had to take her to meet the lifeguard so that she would understand WHY she had to get out of the pool when they blow the whistle. She wasn't buying the Gigi explanation.
After a waterfight with Pops,
She climbed in a lawnchair, snapped her fingers for a juicebox and sighed "I need my bit bit."
The Memorial Day Princess was officially pooped! 
It was all a little too much for Sam. She got a full belly and took a little snooze.
The most interesting thing that happened is that Abby taught Emmy how to "properly" pee in a swimsuit (according to Abby.) Lovely. I almost got a picture of it, but figured that might be a little too graphic. Forget the casual, low key approach, we now have a stance that leaves little to the imagination! Should make for an interesting summer at the pool!
Evidence of a REALLY fun party- mouth WIDE open. 
Happy Birthday Jackson!
They couldn't get enough of the water and the sand. Caroline decided to weat this tiara the entire day at the beach. It didn't come off her head.
Kim's husband Scott is a doctor, so we told Emmy that Dr. Watson was coming. Since our dogs names are Watson and Bogey she said" Yes and Dr. Bogey is coming too." 
The only breaks Emmy took were to make Collin push them around on the four wheeler
and to harass Lauren's poor great dane Jandy. She would get up in her face and ask him if he wanted to bounce. You can guess that she, of course, did not want to. She politely tried to just walk away, but Emmy followed her whereever she went. Another person that just didn't want to bounce was Kate. She just wasn't feeling it. 
Here's the big birthday girl with her Mommy and Daddy.
We had a great time relaxing at Laruen's house and getting the chance to chat 
while we made the boys watch the girls. AH... so nice. =) (But see they were still happy!)
and Mother's day. Sadly, these are the only pictures at any of the mother's day celebrations. 
