Sesame Street Breakfast at Sea World

For Katie's birthday, mom really wanted to take Katie to Sea World to have brunch with the Sesame Street Monsters. We were all set to go for the 29th when they called and said they needed to reschedule. We were able to reschedule for yesterday, and we had so much fun!

Katie and Nathan ready to go!

Katie and Mamaw

Nathan and Papaw

Our Family

Katie and Nathan have the best Grandparents and Great Grandparents!

It was such a beautiful day at the park, and we got there before it opened so it wasn't crowded. I had to nurse Nathan before we ate, and I sat out on the picnic tables near the lake. I forgot how peaceful the park was in the mornings before opening. Mom, Papa, Grandma, Grandpa, Paul, and Katie went on in to eat and meet the characters.

Mom and Rosita

Elmo "visiting" with Katie

Elmo and the Medina Family

Me, Nathan and Cookie Monster

Me, Nathan and Rosita

Big Bird and the Medina Family

Katie wasn't too sure what to think of the characters at first. She is such a fan of Sesame Street at home. She knows all the characters names, even Tele, whom Paul had to identify for me. She squeals with delight when they come on TV, and she points out any article that has their pictures on it while we are out shopping. She even tries to "sing along" with the Elmo's World song. However, she wasn't so sure that she wanted to be close to them in person.

Grover, Nathan and Papaw

Paul, Katie and Rosita

Rosita, Nathan and Papaw

Elmo's Christmas Wish at Bay of Play

Paul and Doodle Bug

Katie and Me

Nathan, one month old!

When the characters came over to our table, she got scared and tensed up. She would hide her face in her hands or cry when we stood next to them. I was hoping since we were there a little longer than when we took pictures with them in the park last month, she would warm up, but it didn't happen. Oh well! We had such a great time, and she really did have a blast! I hope that we will be able to do the brunch again next year. Maybe then we can get some good pictures of her snuggling up with Elmo and Grover. Or as she says "Momo and SUP-P-P--ER!"

SeaWorld Christmas

December has been such a fun and busy month for our family. My dad had surgery on his right arm and right foot at the beginning of the month, and he is home with us for three weeks on Convalescent Leave. He has to return to duty January 4th, and we are so excited that he has been here to hang out with us. My grandparents also came down for the holidays and they will be here the 22nd to the 3rd of January. We have been having a great time watching movies, eating out, and most recently visiting Sea World!

Grandma and Grandpa Murray

Shoulder Ride!

ho, Ho, HO...Merry Christmas Y'all!

Gotta make sure we have good luck!

Our Family

Getting Ready for the Christmas Show

Cookie Monster!!!!

So much fun!

Katie had such a fun time looking at everything around her and watching the Sesame Street Christmas!

Happy Fourth of July

I am late in posting this, so I am just going to show you our weekend in pictures. We celebrated at the Hyatt Hill Country with my family and had such a great time!

Katie is ready to celebrate!

Daddy and Katie ready to hit the pool

Katie and Daddy getting in the water

Floating the river with Mommy

Hi Mom and Dad!!!

Paul and I

Napping by the pool with Grandma!

Mom and Papa

Paul, Katie and Me

Paul and our godson, Andrew

Grandpa and Katie waiting on the Fireworks

All tuckered out!

We hope that everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Fourth of July!

Big Bird's Beach Party

Our Little Angel! (April 3, 2010 @ 3 months)

Today was Katie's first trip to SeaWorld! The first of very, very many, I am sure. :o) We were a little bit unsure how she would do since there isn't a whole lot of shade, lots of people and it was rather warm out (in the 80's), but she did SUPER! She didn't want to stay in her stroller very long, and ended up in the Jeep Carrier with Grandpa after being at the park for maybe 5 minutes. Papa loves to carry her in the carrier and I think it is pretty darn cool that her Grandpa enjoys baby wearing.

We tried to see the new Azul show, but we got there about 10 minutes before it was going to start, and there were so many people standing up in the back that the staff was at the entrances announcing the show was full. We headed over to Shamu instead, where Kaitlyn woke up and gave Shamu a big wave "HELLO!"

The show was pretty similar to last year's show, except the trainers are still not in the water due to the recent tragedy of one of the killer whales attacking and killing its trainer at one of the other parks. I liked the show better when the trainers were able to get in the water and do neat tricks where Shamu throws them across the pool. They seemed to do more jumps then too. And it is neat to see a mammal so large interacting with such a small human (comparatively, speaking).

After Shamu, it was off to see Big Bird. Kaitlyn wasn't too sure if she liked the show at first and fussed a bit. She was tired, hot, and needed a change. Once we got her all settled in, she started to enjoy the music and bright colors.

She sat on the end of the row with Grandma and stared and stared at the cast and crew. She waved "bye bye" to Big Bird, even. (With a little help from Grandma). After the show, we decided to call it a day and picked up our very first picture of Kaitlyn's trip to SeaWorld. (in which she is screaming....). Hopefully we will be able to get some more pictures next time we visit.