Beach Day!

The weather was finally nice enough for a beach day!

So we packed up the kids and headed to my favorite place!

The kids had a blast playing with Camden!

Claire couldn't get enough of Liam!  She loved chatting away with him in his tent.

Claire loved smooching Liam up!  I can still remember when Claire and Oliver were the babies on the beach and the other "big kids" would take care of them.  I can't believe Claire is now that "big kid"!

OP Ice Cream Social

We had a great time at the OP Ice Cream Social! We missed the ice cream because Claire had her last soccer game but we still had a blast watching the fireworks with friends!

The kids enjoyed their "cold smores"!

The boys had fun being silly!!

And us grown ups had fun chatting! It was a great night!

Beach Day

The weather has been a little iffy this summer so beach days have been few and far between!  But every year my girlfriend and her kids come down to the my in laws cottage and we did not plan on skipping it this year! So we were gonna hit the beach no matter what the weather was like!

We packed up a bunch of stuff and headed down!

Well, the weather ended up being amazing and the kids had a BLAST!

These two may have had the most fun!  I swear they are the same child!!!!

Jellystone

Well, we had another amazing year at Jellystone!

The kids were so excited to see each other when we all arrived!  The first night we all unpacked and just relaxed around the campsite and the playground.

Day two we hit the water first thing in the morning!

 Then there was a tornado alert and we rushed back to our cabins!  I really didn't mind it though!  We played some Uno and got to relax a bit!

It gave me a chance to just relax and read my book.

And the kids attempted to make slime.  It didn't work but they had a blast trying!

It finally cleared up just in time for dinner.

Harper was so cute hanging out with the girls!

Then it was time to get all cozy and head to bed!

The kids love sleeping in the bunk beds.

The next morning the weather was beautiful so we headed to the water!  

This year the girls were big shots and could go out on their own in the boats.  I still can't believe that they are old enough to go out there alone!!!!!!

After a great dinner and some fun visitors we headed out for some fishing!

 Claire caught a big one!

Oliver didn't get one but he wasn't giving up just yet!

They fished for a while but the fish weren't really biting!

The next day the weather was a little yucky so we skipped the water and decided to do some other fun stuff.

This year the got rid of the pedal carts and now they have a huge jumping pillow which the kids LOVED!

Then the kids did laser tag and Mark tried his hand at GaGa Ball!

After that we decided to tie dye some shirts.  Things got a little silly and Oliver got sprayed with some dye!

We had a whole team working on it and we got all of the dye off of Oliver's face!

 After the shirts the kids decided that they didn't care about the weather and they wanted to play at the beach.  So we headed down to the water.

Nana and Papa came up for a visit and the kids were thrilled to see them!

After dinner Oliver couldn't wait to do a little fishing with Papa.

So we all headed down for some fun!

Harper fished for a bit but really loved hanging out with everyone!

She did fish a little bit with her new pole!

Mark caught a big one too!!

Then it was time to head down to the "Hey, Hey, Hey Ride"!

I love how much fun the kids have at Jellystone but I have to say that I love hanging out with two of my greatest friends!  I love just sitting around chatting and relaxing together!!!

But these little monsters really make the trip fun!

Seriously, could they be any cuter?!

 The boys loved the hey ride!

The annual picture with Yogi!

All my favorite Jellystone buddies!!!

After the hey ride it was back to the fire to enjoy our last night!

 The next morning we sadly packed everything up and headed home.  But not before we got one last trip in to the water park!

The kids loved every last second at Jellystone!

I absolutely love this trip and I am so sad when it is over every year.  I can't believe that this was our 6th year coming here!  Every year the kids get a little older and I get a little sad thinking that they will be a whole year older next time we come!!!

'TIL NEXT YEAR JELLYSTONE!!!!

Marigold 2017

After Claire's sleep over I had to get it together and head out to my annual golf tournament!

Even though they changed our format, we still had an amazing time!  Year six and going strong!

Slumber Party

So it finally happened, Claire wore me down and she was finally able to have her first sleep over!!!

Claire has a really nice group of friends and they had a BLAST!

We tie dyed hats!

Claire chose cupcakes and the girls had fun singing.

Then we opened some gifts.

Claire got a fun new game and the girls had a blast playing Eggedon!

Then it was time for the ESCAPE ROOM!  They had to complete 4 puzzles to get a four digit code to unlock the lockbox to get the key to get out of the escape room!

I am not sure who had more fun with the Escape Room, the girls or me and Mark!!!  We spent a few hours putting it together and had a blast!

So we set the timer for 35 minutes and then locked the girls in.  Mark even put a new doorknob on Claire's door to lock them in and used one of his real estate lock boxes!

The girls did a great job and only needed one time extension!!!

After the Escape Room the girls celebrated with root beer floats.

Then it was time for a movie and bed!!  Which basically meant that they started a movie and talked and giggled for the next 4 hours.

It was late but sleep finally took over.

In the morning they enjoyed some delicious pancakes.

And the girls headed home.  

Claire had such a great time and she was so sad when it was over (and EXHAUSTED)!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SWEET CLAIRE!  ENJOY DOUBLE DIGITS!!!!