Pictures!

The girls had pictures taken today. It was their first time back since Christmas. They were about 1,000 times better for the photographer. It was so much better to go when we were the only customers in the store. Aren't they adorable? I love this picture.

Children's Day at Arts Fest!

The kids (and Aunt Kirstin) all enjoyed walking back and forth through this pretty misting garden. It was nice to have a day that wasn't too crowded for the kids to check this out.

Here are the girls - sitting in the center of the world - in front of Old Main.

Don't they look ready to march in the children's parade? Too bad they didn't want to do after they walked about 50 feet. Kirstin and I ended up giving away their animals and streamer sticks so that we could quit walking in the parade and just watch the fun.

Kaitlyn Cupcake

Kelsey went over to a friend's house to play on Saturday, so Kaitlyn and I had some alone time. We made funfetti cupcakes. It was nice to hear all that Kaitlyn had to say. She was a little talker. She wanted to sit her babies at the table in the booster seats to help us out. She seemed to enjoy our alone time too! Of course we shared the cupcakes with Kelsey as soon as she got home!

So Happy Together

Kelsey let Kaitlyn ride on her lap for the train ride tonight.

wagon ride to the park

This week, I took the girls on a wagon ride to the park. We went through some woods and down past my old senior high and jr. high school. We went down a big hill, so I knew there was no way that I could to the return trip, so Bob came to pick us up at the park!
little monkey!

big monkey!

Garden

Nate is our garden guard dog. He likes to run over and sniff around to see if any bunnies have been to visit the plants.
Kelsey likes to help water the plants. Here she is misting them. It's a little hard for her to understand to spray them gently - she sprayed the "jet" setting on them one day and almost wiped out a pepper plant - so I keep the hose on "mist" when she does her watering.

4th of July

Kelsey like the sparklers. She liked hanging out with the boys.

This is the only way Kaitlyn will watch fireworks.

Little fire starter.

Maureen and Lilly!

Fun with friends on the fourth of July! Kelsey and Kaitlyn had a great time at Maureen's. Excellent food and fun. Kaitlyn tackled a 6 month old to the ground, but otherwise it was good times for all!

Happy 4th of July!

They had a great fireworks show! Kelsey, Kaitlyn and David loved running around with their glow stick necklaces.
cute. Kelsey learned all about the Transformers from Parker.

Gator rides!

Maybe next year for Ryan!

Kelsey, Kaitlyn and I had a great time ata friend's 4th of July party! Air hockey, golf, swingset, gator rides, cupckes, cookies and cheesecake - all of their favorite things at the party!

Delgrosso's Night

Kelsey and David rode the tilt-a-whirl a lot at Delgrosso's park. They kept getting off chanting "I Want To Go again!!" Kaitlyn had a big night! The attendant let her ride the wacky worm for the first time ever. The attendant was a little relaxed and didn't notice that Kaitlyn wasn't really 36 inches tall. She was elated and smiled and said "I not scared" to me the whole ride. She loved being able to ride on the big girl ride! - no picture (I was on it with her!).

Movie Day

Kirstin invited us up to go to dollar movie day! Kaitlyn saw her first movie. We were going to see Hannah Montana while David and Ryan went to see Monsters vs. Aliens, but, as soon as Kelsey heard that David wasn't going with us to Hannah, we all ended up see Monsters vs. Aliens. It was pretty funny. They loved "Bob" monster - he's pretty funny. Popcorn and sodas were only a dollar too! Kaitlyn kept saying "I scared mommy" until about 20 minutes into the movie and then she settled down into the seat beside me with her popcorn and soda! We all saw a movie, had popcorn and sodas for 11.00! Fun!

you scream, I scream, we all scream for...

Look how happy Kelsey is to share a taste of her rainbow sprinkles with Kaitlyn .. this is immediately after she took a taste of Kaitlyn's chocolate sprinkles. As it turns out, they all taste the same.

Turtles!

Kelsey demanded that we walk to the turtles on our next to last night to get pictures.

growing up!

This was the first time in many years that we didn't have a pack-n-play! The girls slept together in the queen sized bed at the hotel! I layed in between them until they fell asleep and then they were out. They slept all the way through the night twice. The other 3 nights, they woke up because somebody bumped into somebody else! We just switched them and put one with me and one with Bob and it all worked out until morning! It was nice to skip the pack-n-play set up. We also got to skip the diaper bag!

can't stop adding pictures to the blog...Beach Fun!

Kelsey really got into the ocean this year and had fun chasing waves and even jumping the little ones!

Beach Fun!

Kaitlyn with her sandcrab. She loved using her shovel to dig these little guys up and give them to me!

Ocean Fun!

posing on the beach

Here's Kelsey inside of the giant seashell. Kaitlyn fell and skinned her elbow right before her turn to get into the seashell.

beach beauties!

Out to the beach!

Finally, out of the car after the 7 hour trip to the beach! We went right down to say hi to the ocean. We had great weather and lots of good times at the beach.