Sweet Cheeks - Niece #3

Ok, so today you've met Miss Thang and The Monkey. Now, here's K and Flyboy's third daughter, Sweet Cheeks. She's about to turn five (I think I have that right). She's five going on sixteen, I swear.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's Sweet Cheeks! She looks like an exotic bug in those goggles.

This picture is blury but I love her pose coming down the slide.

When we went to Space Center Houston, she and Remy were the only ones willing to try out this high flying trapeze thingy. Need I remind you that she and Remy were two of the YOUNGEST cousins? They're brave little buggers...or just daredevils in the making.

That's her in the light green up there about to swing...


Go, Sweet Cheeks!! (again, not the best pictures, sorry!)

oops, she looks tuckered out here....or throwing one of those fits-on-command because she wants something. I'm going with the latter here.

While we were swimming, she would burst into tears, and I'd be very concerned...

Me: What's wrong, Sweet Cheeks?

The tears stop magically, as if they never were...

Sweet Cheeks: Nothing, Aunt Rhea, I'm just pretending so I can get the torpedo from Donny.

She swims off and I'm left staring in awe.

After the swimming, she spent a good part of the day throwing panties at all the big kids.

Yes, little girl panties...throwing them like they were grenades.

She's got style, I tell ya.

Happy 20th Anniversary, K & Flyboy!

AND, Happy Birthday, K!

I love you guys!

The Monkey - Niece #2

So, first you met Miss Thang...now here is K and Flyboy's second daughter, The Monkey. She's eight years old and a real spitfire.

Here's Remy hanging out with her while we were visiting them in Houston.

She's a co-conspiritor...what are they up to?
She has good concentration here...and an adorable outfit.

I never get to buy my boys cute outfits like this.

Normally she has a big smile for me, but I think I caught her unhappy about something.
She's got those extreme moods. One minute happy, the next ready to take-you-out!

She's beautiful and funny.

I really like her glasses!

and, look at this talent.

She can do a handstand and turn on the lights with her feet! True Monkey tricks.

Ta da!!

I just love my nieces.

I can't wait to see them again next week at our family reunion.

The post about Sweet Cheeks, the youngest daughter of K and Flyboy,

will be coming later today!

Miss Thang - Niece #1

As you know, if you've been reading regularly, the boys and I just got back from visiting my sisters and their families in the Houston area. Well, it's time to meet my sisters' kids.

Today I'm going to post three times. Yes, THREE TIMES. Each post today will feature one of my sister K's daughters. K and her hubby Flyboy have three lovely girls, and I've introduced them before when they came to visit us, and we got them really, really dirty. hehe

Here's the oldest. We call her Miss Thang. She's ten years old. Look at that great smile.

This expression below is of a ten year old when she finds out a boy called fot her,

for the FIRST time.

As an aunt, I am honored to have been there for this occasion. It's a first I'll never see, because I don't have daughters. Miss Thang was sooo happy and excited. She was jumping all over the room. My boys, Donny and Remy, were in awe.

I think this boy was her first official boyfriend.

About ten minutes after this, she decided to break up with him.

My Donny enjoys hanging out with Miss Thang, because she's the cousin closest in age to him. They are about a year apart.

K and Flyboy have their hands full with this one.

She's got a killer smile, and she knows how to use it.

She and Donny....they're up to no good.

They're plotting something against the younger kids, I just know it.

On our trip to Space Center Houston, they both did the virtual flight pilot simulator thingy.

Miss Thang was a better pilot than Donny. Shh, don't tell him that.

Then again, her dad is Flyboy, so surely she has some flying in her genes.

She's beautiful, funny, and we're going to spend all next week with her and the rest of the gang at our family reunion deep in the heart of Texas at a river resort.

Stay tuned because later today I'll feature Miss Thang's sisters, The Monkey and Sweet Cheeks.

Tomorrow I'll feature my other sister's children, Wonderboy and Bunny.

Splashtown Continued.

After the very first waterslide, the Texas Freefall, where Remy hurt himself and I experienced complete humiliation, I wasn't sure how the rest of the day at Splashtown in Spring, Texas was going to go. Remy was crying, and I figured he wouldn't do anymore rides...but he proved me wrong, and I was so proud of how brave he was! He's only 6 years old and such a little thing...but he's got spunk.

So, our next ride was Thunder Run. Sounds like fun, huh? It was!!

I took all these photos with a disposable, waterproof camera, so the resolution is not great, sorry. I didn't want to worry about taking my nice, big camera with the super zoom. I need to win that cute little red camera from the SITS gals so I can take better pictures at times like these.

If you look closely, you can see my sister, her son and Remy coming down in the three-person tube. Ok, maybe you can't see them...but they're there, I promise. Crappy camera, sorry.

Of course, the kiddos get thiiiiiiiirsty after a few rides, so we give in and buy them these massively huge snow cones.

Remy and his cousins are enjoying a cherry one here.

This is Treehouse Island. The kids loved playing here.

See that really big bucket on top? Guess what it does every ten or fifteen minutes?

You got it.

Here we are about to get into the Lazy River, which was a lot of fun,

but Remy didn't want Donny to hold him anymore.

I think they would both kill me if they saw this photo. hehe

Texas Freefall

While we were in Houston last week visiting my sisters,

we spent a day at Splashtown, a totally awesome water park.

And, for some reason, the first ride we decided to tackle was something called

The Texas Freefall.

That's a five-story free-fall water slide.

I honestly don't know what I was thinking.

Donny went first. He seemed a little stunned.

Remy went next...he TUMBLED at the bottom!

I was stuck up top (5 stories high!), freaking out. I could tell he was crying and hurt.

But, I still had to go down to get to him...and the fastest way down...

I think I flashed the entire waterpark during MY freefall.

And received the worst wedgie of my life.

It wasn't pretty.

It wasn't graceful.

I thought I was dying as I went over the edge.

I'm never gonna do it again.

Remy received a friction burn on his arm that we had to go to the first aid station for treatment. He's fine and was so brave that he went on more water slides after that.

We didn't do this slide again though.

More posts about Splashtown coming soon...

It was a BLAST!