Early Summer Highlights

Catching up on some late-spring/early-summer highlights, now that we are already past the 4th of July!

Macy had her second dance recital in early May.  Here she is with her awesome teacher, Miss Carly!

Mother's Day 2016

We spend lots of time playing at the park!

Hungry Hungry Hippo

We tried our hands at planting a garden!

Macy and I participated in a super fun color run in Harbor Beach

Macy and Julia were on the same t-ball team this year (coached by TJ and I!)

The Flanagans are back next door and all of the kids enjoyed our muddy front yard!

Grady's 1st Birthday

Kids Day at the Farmer's Market

Strawberry Picking!

We had a blast at the splash pad with Georgia, Harmony and Avery!

Georgia stayed with us for a few days in June-here is our afternoon at the beach!

Last t-ball game

Hudson's favorite summer past times- throwing stuff in the water...

...And slides

Silly Girls

Enjoying the cottonwood fuzz!

Nap in the bike trailer

Our Fantastic 5 Year Old

I am going to attempt to catch back up with the blog posts, because I love making books with them at the end of each year!  The first major event to happen since my last post was Macy's 5th birthday! It ended up being a tough weekend, because everyone in the house except the birthday girl came down with the flu!  But we managed to have some family over for a cookout and enjoy the day anyway.  It was near 80 degrees on her birthday-not something you can count on in Mid-April!

Birthday Princess!

Picnics and goofy faces

Birthday Beach Babe

The weekend after Macy's birtnday we went to the Soaring Eagle Waterpark to celebrate.  It was a super fun time!!

Fun in the Florida Sun!

We spent spring break in Florida this year and had an awesome time!  We headed down to Cocoa Beach and spent a week there at Boppy and Dzia Dzia's condo.  The Epplers synced their vacation with us and rented a place practically next door to the condo, so we got to enjoy lots of time with them too!  Some highlights of the trip:  going to the pool (Macy's favorite) and beach (Hudson's favorite) every day, going to the Brevard Zoo, walking the Cocoa Beach Pier (Macy got to fish off of it), and some delicious seafood dinners, including one adults-only night when Boppy and Dzia Dzia babysat all 3 kids!

Macy LOVED feeding and chasing the sea gulls.  Yes, she was THAT person!!

At the zoo

Double Date Night in the Mini-Van!

Sweet Beach Baby

Macy found this ball abandoned on the beach!  It was a hit!

Surf's Up

It was Hudson's first plane trip (he did well!) and Macy was very excited about flying!

Megan and I (along with 3 other girls) spent Senior Year Spring Break 2000 in Cocoa Beach- we were having flash backs in the Ron Jon's parking lot!

 After a week in Cocoa Beach we squeezed in a couple of days at the Flanagan's house.  They were gracious enough to allow us to stay in their Florida home too!  It was a fun visit and left us even more excited for summer and having them as our neighbors again.

TJ's Day Care

Two Peas in a Pod

Hudson and Marley- It's a Beautiful Friendship

Happy Easter!

Easter came early this year, but we had the nicest weather we have had for Easter Sunday in years!  We were in the low 60's and comfortably playing outside with no jackets!  It was a beautiful, fun weekend.

On Saturday we went to the annual Easter egg hunt at Gallup Park.  Hudson's first that he actually participated in, as he was a tiny baby in the baby Bjorn last Easter egg hunt!

We colored Easter eggs on Saturday evening.

Georgia and Uncle Mikey came up Saturday and stayed the night

Easter morning was so much fun for everyone!  The Easter bunny came and hid baskets for everyone, and also hid around 60 eggs filled with little goodies around the house for the girls to find.  They were running around and shrieking with excitement for over an hour searching for eggs and baskets!  Fun for them and fun for me too seeing them have such a great time.

Scoping out the loot that the bunny left!

"We love you, Easter Bunny!"

The girls with their eggs before cracking them open to see what's inside!

Mostly into playing with the empty eggs

Colored eggs for breakfast

We took a few pictures after church.  Not bad for automatic timer set up on the back of TJ's truck!

What happens when I try to get them to pose together

Testing out some bubbles from her Easter basket

Showing Hudson on the move.  He was a super early crawler but has been slow to get really into walking.  Crawling is just so much more efficient.  He has been walking more and more lately though, as you can see here!

Cute Cousins