Gracie Turned 5!

Getting treat bags ready for her friends.

Playing in the Burger King playland.

I had a bit of a difficult time getting a nice shot of Gracie with her 5 cupcake.

Madison

 We took a trip to Madison for a friend's wedding reception last weekend. Remarkably, I managed to forget my camera in the hotel room for the actual reception. I remembered it when we went to the East Towne Mall though. The kids had fun in the little playland. 

"Look at me! I climbed all the way!"

Bee

Fun fun fun.

G is for Gracie

Water Blob!

 While Josey and Caity were here, we decided to make a water blob. What is a water blob? Glad you asked! I found a tutorial online, and thought "why didn't I think of that?!" Simply buy a plastic dropcloth for painting and some packaging tape. Fold the plastic, tape the edges to make a pocket of sorts. Put the hose in, fill it up, and tape the hole the hose went into. Viola! Water blob! 

Gracie loved having Josey bounce her on the blob.

JR wasn't too sure about it...

Bee checking it out.

She danced on it and called it her "fluffy dance floor."

It was hot, so we also set up our two pools.

Jerry decided he'd rather swim.

He went back and forth, from pool to pool.

Josey & Caity

 Our dear friend, Josey came to visit this summer. This time she brought one of her friends, Caity. We are so happy to have a new friend! In addition to having a ton of fun with Josey and Caity, Caity took a LOT of really great pictures of our week together. Here are some, in no particular order.

Running to home at one of her last two T-ball games.

He's just too cute!

My little blue eyed boy, swimming on our turtle.

Gracie was upset that I only had a plain band-aid, so I was drawing happy faces on it!

Such an angel...

Josey's one year pic. She has one like this of each of my kiddos.

Yea! Josey's here!

huh?

Besties

Gracie loves the giraffe Josey & Caity bought her. She named him Babycakes.

Besties: You can have more than one best friend!

Teddy Bear Park

Jerry's First Birthday.