Memorial Day Weekend

So, as some of you already know, the refinery I work at (presently owned by Sunoco) was recently purchased by Holly. The takeover date is June 1. That means for the rest of the year, we'll get our vacation pro-rated by 7/12's. Well, John and I have some trips planned for later this year, so that means all my vacation with Holly is spent. So, I decided to extend my Memorial Day weekend by taking off the Friday before and the Tuesday after, since this will be my last chance for "vacation" until the end of August.

By the way, in case you didn't know already, 5 day weekends ROCK! We didn't really do anything exciting, but it was just nice to have some time off. We did go see two movies in the theater: Star Trek (which was AWESOME!) and Terminator: Salvation (which was pretty good).
On Memorial Day itself, we partook in the typical activities...John played some golf, we barbecued with his family, ate some watermelon, all the good stuff. Although we missed my family, my dad was recovering from a cold and we wanted to play it safe so Violet didn't get sick.

Here are some pics of Miss Violet riding on the Barbie motorized car.

Note John in the background steadying her so she doesn't fall off!

This dress was handed down from her cousin Kate, who wore it on Easter in 2008. It is just adorable, and I couldn't help but put a bow in her hair to match!

She had so much fun riding the car like a big girl!

One of Violet's favorite thing to play with during bath time is her rubber ducky. Well, after her last bath, she snuck it into her bedroom! Actually, she was still holding it when I picked her up and wrapped her into her towel and I just didn't notice until we were in the bedroom, but the other way of telling it is more fun.

So now, she gets to play with her ducky outside of the bath. Here she is in the living room talking to it.


And here's just two more excuses to show of her big blue eyes and two-bottom-toothed smile!

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Such a happy baby!

Oh, Violet's fourth tooth broke through around Friday, May 22nd. She now has her two bottom center teeth and her two top center teeth!

More soon! It's finally warming up so we should get some good pictures outside...swimming and blowing bubbles and all that fun stuff! Yay!