That summer we swam. ALL. THE. TIME.

Our first week out of school and we slowly got into a new routine. Girls are going to bed a bit later, sleeping in (like an extra 5 minutes - ha!) and having fun not having a "schedule." Between nana and grandpa's house, the Y summer camp, and our neighbors, we are swimming almost every day!

In big news, Maddie had three teeth pulled.

Before. 

She did fantastic. 

After. (Terrible picture - haha! The sun was in her eyes.)

Maddie's mouth is really really small so her permanent teeth were coming in and had nowhere to go. We needed to get the babies out so her permanent teeth didn't come in far back and crooked. 

We wrapped up swim lessons and both girls are doing great in the pool. 

 Sydney and Elizabeth. Elizabeth's mom, Mary Jane, was my first friend when I moved to Kentucky. We are still friends, 25 years later, and now our daughters are friends! 

 We celebrated Audrey's birthday at a pool party.

Neighbor Claire.

Gap - tooth grins!

Maddie and Claire go to summer camp together and have gotten very close. We trade kiddos all the time. I had Claire and her brother over for dinner this week.

We went back to Blairwood pool with neighbors to celebrate Brooke's birthday!

Side note: Maddie NEVER naps and after a long afternoon at the pool, she fell asleep on me. I had a house to clean, dinner to prep, but I just sat here for a bit and enjoyed it.

Dane and Quinn came to town and we enjoyed time with cousins!

Between all of the swimming, we're still squeezing in a few other things too!

Both girls asked to take summer off from dance and switch to gymnastics. They LOVED it. Sydney held on on to her teacher's hand half way across the beam.

Then was all, "I'm good by myself."

Daddy did the Tri-Louisville triathlon!

 This was a big race for Chris - an Olympic distance triathlon. It's great practice for his BIG race next month. Can't wait to see him cross that finish line, it's been a lot of training and hard work!

Our summer treats are mainly popsicles on the patio. I was cleaning up dinner one night and caught the girls having a rare sweet moment sharing popsicles.

And then, playing bicycle.

Finally, I've been packing and prepping to take these two little girls on a surprise trip. My mom and I are taking them on a Disney cruise and they have no idea! I'm so excited to surprise them this week!

 

First Full Week of Summer Break!!

Well, we have a first grader! Maddie wrapped up her first year of elementary school on Thursday June 1st, 2017. 

We had Writer's Picnic the week before to celebrate her accomplishments.

It has truly been an AWESOME year. 

She made some great friends and learned a lot.

We celebrated with ice cream sundaes after school with all of the neighbor girls.

And did some sparklers in the evening!

The next day we hit up Blairwood with Lizzy and Brooke. Maddie immediately jumped off the diving board into the 12 foot deep end. I was so proud of her! She is doing so well at swimming!

Popsicles after four hours of swimming in the sun!

Friday night we did dinner with K and D and the kids ran around looking for roly polies.

Saturday night, we hit up our friend's crawfish boil. They do this event RIGHT.

 

1,000 pounds of crawfish, combined with spicy sausage, corn, potatoes....it is SO good. (The kiddos had hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and fruit!)

There are two live bluegrass bands, a bounce house, a zip line, pool, etc.

We started swim lessons this week. 

 The girls had a good lesson and got to take a ride on Rainbow. 

We had our first visit (but not the last!) to the Shiver Shack for snow-cones!!

The fire truck came through collecting money for the Crusade and let the girls hop in.

The girls have been sleeping in their fort every night and made daddy squeeze in one night.

Whew! Our first full week of summer was jam-packed!! We have even more summer-fun planned!! 

Birthday Bonanza!

Last weekend, we celebrated our friend Audrey's 6th birthday at her Circus party. 

The next day we had Maddies (almost half!) birthday. Every year, Maddie asks for a summer party outside at her house. This year, we waited to do it....and then it was overcast and chilly. BUT, we rented this huge water slide and the kids really didn't care. The party went on for six hours.

Side note: Isn't it huge? It showed up and I was like, "Oh, that's a little bigger than what it looked like online." It was tall and it was FAST. It took some kids by surprise, but they loved it!

We did the slide, water balloons, piñata and more.

We ended the day with dinner at Gustavo's with K and D.

What else have we been up to? I had to drop some client documents off in Goshen last week so I figured since we were so close, we might as well zip across the bridge to Pizza King.

We wrapped up our last dance lessons for the school year. Both girls asked to move to gymnastics for the summer.

Maddie swam almost every day with her friend Claire.

Maddie is doing really well. Both girls have swim lessons every day this week so hoping to get Syd swimming!

We picked some yummy strawberries!

Sydney told daddy, "Daddy, you didn't get to see me this morning so sit with me." It was so cute. Then he fell asleep and she thought that was hilarious.

Maddie takes her baby with everywhere.

We've been playing with all of our neighbors. There's girls behind us, next to us, and across from us. Never a playmate shortage!

Looking forward to a fun fun summer!