No that isn't our dog - i wish.

Tonight we've had two girls not want to sleep. I thought #2 was asleep as I sat there reading, and she made no sound and didn't move. Then a dog barked a few houses down. She whispered "woof woof" quietly. The dog barked again with the same result. I almost cracked up.

 #1 has resorted to crying loudly until someone goes in her room. She will claim she's scared so that she doesn't have to go to sleep. Good times.

Jenna Growing Up

Jenna has started playing by herself a little more. She loves playing with big sister, but she also enjoys her own play time. Another way she is growing up is that she loves singing songs. Jenna absolutely loves to dance, and do motions to songs. She's been able to do the motions to itsy bitsy spider for a few months, but never allowed me to get it on camera until now.

Daddy-Daughter Date Night

We started a tradition while back where I will take one of the girls out on Friday Night, and Rachel takes the other. Now that we are a part of a church which offers baby-sitting on the Friday of the month, we get a date night mixed in. So then we rotate, each parent with each girl, and then one "girls night" where Mommy and the girls do their own thing. That also will give me a little extra study time once a month - so I'm not complaining.

Here is a pic from last night's outing:

Kids Start School

I wanted to get a picture of Jenna too, but she wouldn't stay still long enough for me to get her to look at me. Jenna didn't cry when I dropped her off Tuesday (she did Thursday), which was HUGE. Megan seemed just a tad nervous, and A LOT excited!! Thursday, she was excited without nerves.

It was harder on me than them, I had to hurry out because I thought I might get emotional leaving them there. But, I stayed busy enough to keep from thinking about them too much during the day. So far so good!!

Back To Amarillo

Last weekend, we were back in Amarillo for the funeral of Joyce Hutchison, aka "Grandma Hutch". It was a wonderful celebration of her life, and witness in her family and church.

Thus concludes the summer travels of the Allison family. For those of you keeping count we racked up 2 trips to Amarillo (324 mi one way), a trip to Boston (1822mi one way), and a trip to the beach via Birmingham (700+277+706mi), for a grand total of 6,623 miles. Or, we traveled a little over a quarter of the way around the earth (at the equator).

here is one of my favorite pics for the summer

Orange Beach

After the wedding in Boston, we went to the Beach with Granny and Grandaddy. The girls were all able to get off the airplane in Alabama, since it stopped there on the way to DFW. I got to make the long drive back to Alabama later that night. We had a blast with the grandparents, and the whole family!!

Boston wedding

We had a blast being a part of Brandon and Marianna's wedding. Megan was an incredible flower girl and Jenna was a great helper. It was a beautiful ceremony for a beautiful couple.