First Summer Weekend!

Our first weekend of the summer was great fun!!  We have a tradition every Memorial Day weekend.  We attend Celebration at the Station and I look forward to it all Spring!  The Kansas City Symphony puts on a free concert outside of Union Station.  The audience sits on the hill overlooking Union Station.  We bring lots of food, blankets, chairs and games.  This year we brought some friends to experience it for their first time!  The children searched out their parents' electronic devices...no surprise. ;) 

Once the sun set, this children played with glow sticks and flashlights!  It was great watching the lights projected on Union Station and enjoying the KC skyline.   Eventually we turned out chairs around and watched the wonderful fireworks display over the WWI Memorial.  Quinn did NOT enjoy the fireworks at all, poor girl.  Too noisy!!  But she had done an amazing job all night considering how late she was up!  It was an awesome evening!

We also took our first dip in one of the neighborhood pools!  There had been quite a thunderstorm just a day before and the water was still chilly!  But Kennedy was still her normal fishy self - loving every minute in the water!  As I suspected, Quinn is going to be quite the handful at the pool this summer!  She thinks she can just run anywhere and go in the big pool at any time!  She will absolutely be wearing a flotation device all summer!  

Hooray for summer!!!

We can now cross off a few things from of Summer Bucket List!!!

#58: Go to a Free Concert

#38: Visit Multiple Pools (this was pool #1)

Happy Fourth of July!!!!

Hope you are all enjoying your 4th!!!!
I finally decided to share the patriotic outfits I made the girls! I am "cheating" and posting photos of the girls wearing them on Memorial Day! (But they are wearing them today too!!)

I had seen people adding ric rac to these skirts all over the internet but always in one color. It just popped into my head that red and blue would make a great little skirt! (the skirts were from Walmart and solid colors).
For the tank top, I kind of followed a tutorial here at Ashley's blog Make It Love It. I decided to make these the night before our Memorial Day event, so I was rushed. But I did you an old red t-shirt for the red stripes and then just sewed the stars with blue thread.

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Our 4th of July festivities started on June 30th! But below are two photos of the girls at the Falcon Valley fireworks from the 1st! Kennedy got her hair sprayed red and orange! You can see her fully enjoying her slushie too!


Quinn was so tired she was asleep before we arrived and slept while Kennedy jumped on the inflatables and played. Once the fireworks began she woke up and we were curious how she would react! But she was fabulous! No crying or stressing! She just stayed in her stroller and watched!!!!
We have another shindig tonight! Can't wait to share all the photos later!!! Happy 4th!

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