May 30, 2013

Family Fun

With Grandma here, we are packing in the FUN! 
Tuesday Caroline, Patrick and Paw-Paw drove to Yuma to attend James's graduation from 8th grade, and take a dip in their new pool! While they were gone Tuesday and Wednesday Grandma watched the kiddos and I worked. Wednesday night when they returned we headed to the train park, and today we went to the Children's Museum. Tomorrow I think the splash pad is on the docket, and there is of course lots of this going on...
reading books! 
and just for cute comparison here is Coop A Loop after his bath tonight
 and Scarlett in the same ducky towel (she was about 5 months in this picture and Coop only three months, but I bet they weighed the same in these pictures:)
 Caroline in the towel as well! I Love all my little ducklings!! 

May 29, 2013

Sad, Happy, Sad

Memorial Day weekend started off sad, as we hosted a goodbye breakfast on Saturday for our friends the Caponi's as they headed East, back to Ohio, to be near family. Elizabeth and Angelo saw our family grow over the years as we have seen their family double overnight with twins Max and Dominic. Elizabeth and Patrick were teaching buddies, starting the exact same year, and teaching the same classes, and really helped each other get through those first few years of teaching together. They have become dear friends and will really be missed!! So bummed I did not get one picture at our breakfast!!! 

Then our weekend turned really HAPPY with the arrival of Grandma Saturday afternoon!! She arrived just in time to help Patrick with the kiddos while I started back at work this week, BOO! Of course Grandma came bearing gifts, new goggles and pool toys for the girls! We headed to the pool on Sunday to try out the new goggles! *after 8 years of crashing resort pools, they finally smartened up this week and added room key locks to our two favorite pools, SUCH A BUMMER, so we headed to Paw-PAW's to swim in his pool! Caroline loves Paw-Paw's slide, Scarlett did too! 
 hysterical!!! 
 Grandma curled Caroline's hair Monday morning before we headed out
 Caroline's cute curled under bob, and her first bikini that Grandma bought her (STOP growing up Caroline!)
 Then the weekend turned sad again when we said "see ya later" to some of our dearest friends, Wade and Jess and their boys Monday morning. They will be heading to Utah for Wade's job, and while we are super excited for them, we are SO SO sad to see them go. We are excited to visit though and know we will see them often as their family is all still here! We got all the kiddos together for a pic
 Our family's friendship all began with these two becoming buddies in their fraternity in college
 We finished off the weekend and Memorial Day at the resort pool (even with the harder access, we were able to crash! ) and the girls loved the splash pad! 



May 19, 2013

Caroline's Recital

Caroline had her second Dance Recital on Saturday night, and she did AWESOME! Last year she and her classmates were darling and sweet in their yellow tutu's, but there was not much movement on stage!:) But this year they all danced SO well! Their dance was called Recess Rocks and it was a high energy little jazz number. Caroline loved her sparkly pink shirt and belt! 

Caroline with her buddies Megan and Halle
Lily joins in the fun too! 
Here is our little dancer on stage







and everyone's favorite, the balloon drop! 

Aunt Laura came to cheer on Caroline with us! 
We are so proud of you Caroline!!! 

May 17, 2013

Spirit Week

Caroline had a fun Spirit week at school this week where everyday there was a different theme! She loved dressing up each morning(we have had a lot of "theme" practice with our Turtle Rock vacations over the years!)

May 13, 2013

Family Pictures

 I didn't want to post our family pictures till all of Cooper's birth announcements made it out.....we should be all good now! I adore our photographer melissayoungphotography.com and highly recommend her! I love capturing our family during each stage we are at, this one is a super fun busy stage!!!!