You Capture - Summertime

I am joining Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry for this week's you capture. The theme is Summertime!!

We're definitely in the middle of summer....excessive heat warnings and all. What better summertime activity than hopping in the pool!? On our trip last week we got to visit family so Kennedy and Eva swam in the backyard!

Another summertime must is time at the playground! The one below was in Red Wing, MN and was one of the best I've seen! Of course Quinn couldn't be left out!


You can't forget fun with friends!! this was the 4th of July with Kennedy's soccer team (minus one little girl). The coach awarded them their trophies!!!!

T-ball!!!!!!!!!! A summer staple, right?! Kennedy turned out to be a pretty darn good player!!!!!
Picnics! They are even better when you have them with cousins!!!!
New Adventures!!!!!! While in Minnesota we visited the aquarium. Kennedy hadn't remember seeing one in the past so it was like new to her! And Quinn enjoyed the new animals, too!

More May Photo a Day!

May 22nd
Are these 2 not the cutest?!?! We attended a baby shower for our friend Stephanie and Jeremy. It was a very fun time! Quinn and Alijah are finally getting old enough to show some interest in each other. Quinn kept trying to grab his hand...it was pretty cute!!! BTW, Alijah was born the day before Quinn!




May 21st
Soccer!!!!!!!!!!! I love this action shot of Kennedy's kick! This week's match up was fairly even - other than the fact that the pink was super aggressive and physical! After getting shoved and pushed numerous times I told Kennedy to go ahead and shove the girl back! But luckily she didn't need to! Only one game left!


May 20th
Jeff's office had a "Carnival" to raise money this Friday! They really went all out and had a great set up! There were MANY carnival games like spin the wheel, balloon darts, rubber duckies, ring toss, face painting, tattoos, fortune telling, a cake walk and more!!! Kennedy even played a game and won 3 goldfish (which is an entirely different story!). In the photo below, Kennedy had just won the cake walk!!!!! She chose a chocolate Kahlua cake! She actually tried the cake walk again later and won a 2nd time! But I think the best part came later in the weekend. We didn't tell her at the time, but she had won 2nd place overall for number of points from the games. She ended up with $100 in winnings! We had been watching about the devastation in Joplin from the F5 tornado. When Jeff told Kennedy she had won all that money, he asked if she would like to give some of it to the people in Joplin that had lost everything. She enthusiastically said "Yes!!! All of it!!" What a girl!

May 19th
Today was Field Day for the Kindergarteners. It basically entailed lots of silly relay races. It was super fun for me to watch all the kiddos try their best to skip, balance things on their hands and heads, scooter on their tummies and scooter backwards! It was a hoot!!! And the kids had a blast!

May 18th
Birthday Party!!!! Sweet Catie had her 6th birthday party at Zonkers!!!! Most of my photos didn't turn out so well, but you get the idea. That is Kennedy in the last car with Adam's little brother, Aaron.


May 17th
Do you remember the nest outside our front door? Well, there are babies! Can you see it's fuzzy head peeking out?!?!


May 16th
Kennedy's class has a bear that travels home with the kids and then they write about it. Today was Kennedy's 2nd turn to have Mr. T-Bear. She wanted me to photograph their fun together! We have many photos of T-Bear now...going down the slide, playing in the playhouse, hiding in the bushes.....at least it kept her occupied for awhile!


May 15th
Birthday Party! This time it was Lily's 6th birthday party! It was in the gym of her mom's school and they had an inflatable! Kennedy is the one jumping while some of the kids curled up on the floor!


May 14th
Babies!!!! This is mama bird and you can just barely see the baby's beak in front of her!!!

More Photo a Day in May

May 13th
Soccer practice was rough!!! It was a super cold, super windy day! The girls had to bundle up and keep moving. Quinn and I sat in the car and watched. She played in the passenger seat for a bit while I organized coupons. Eventually she sat on my lap and pretended to drive!


May 12th
I guess I forgot to take a photo today! Oops!!

May 11th
We had a very fun afternoon with the Elliotts and Franklins at Deanna Rose Farmstead! The weather got a bit humid for May but it was still great! All the kiddos enjoyed feeding the animals, running around, playing on the playground and posing for photos. We stopped for popcicles at the barn and headed to the cars. As we hit the parking lot, the rain came! We timed it perfectly!

May 10th
Our last day of gymnastics for this school year. We have really loved our classes at
KGDC. And it is amazing that Kennedy was able to have 2 of her kindergarten friends in 3 of her 4 sessions! It was great fun for me to get to know their moms and grandmother better!


May 9th
Kennedy has always been a very affectionate girl. Luckily Quinn seems to enjoy it! I love that it appears Quinn is smiling....though I can't confirm that she really is! Sometimes it is hard to tell!


May 8th
Mother's Day! Jeff's family came over to our place to celebrate. We had some yummy food and spent some time taking photos of Baby Zia. When Kennedy and Elijah were little we took a photo of them sleeping next to each other on the living room floor and it has been a family favorite. So we posed Quinn and Zia for a similar photo....and Elijah and Kennedy had to jump into the photo!


May 7th
This was taken after a fun hula hoop exposition! I cannot believe how old she looks. She is missing FOUR teeth!!!!

April.....

So I majorly stink at getting my Photo a Day pictures up! Oh well. I guess the whole point is just to document our lives, right? I don't have to BLOG it all, right? As long as I scrapbook some of it I am ok, right?! I will just go with that!


So here is about a week and a half worth of my photo a day pictures. They range from
mid-April to the 25th I believe! ;)

SOCCER!!!!!!

Memaw's birthday party!!!! Getting ready to blow out the candles!!!!! (don't mind the open garbage can in the background. yuck.)

Awesome baby shower cake that Shelly got for Angie! I can't wait to meet Baby Zoe!!!!

A super fun playdate! Well, really it was a birthday coffee for the moms and the kids benefited as well! Gotta love dress up!!!

Papa Lou came to watch soccer!

Kennedy showing off her ouchie. At the dog park Copper was chasing a ball and ran right into her! She had to show everyone how BIG the scab was!!!!

Kennedy made Memaw her very own birthday cake! She picked out the cake, frosting and toppings!!! Hmmm....lots of sprinkles and Swedish Fish. Interesting.

Another playdate - this time with friend Micah!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Happy 5th Birthday Kennedy!

It is so hard for me to believe that my little baby girl is now 5. FIVE! It sounds soooo big to me!

The first thing she said to me this morning was, "I can't believe it - I don't even feel 5!"

We started the day with ballet class! She had been waiting all weekend for the girls to sing to her in the birthday circle! :)

Next we headed to Target to grab a donut and get a Starbucks drink! She loves the Strawberries and Cream drinks!

For lunch she chose to eat at Chic-Fil-A! So Daddy met us for lunch!

Then she headed to preschool! Daddy got to be the school Watch Dog today - Kennedy is sooo proud when he comes to school with her! I brought birthday cupcakes later in the afternoon!

After dinner was soccer!!!! This was only her second week - but we are pretty impressed with her! This photo is of her giving us a "Thumbs Up!" Last week she kept yelling from the field "Mom, aren't you going to cheer for me?! Mom - you can cheer for me now!"

And a very serious, concentration shot! Check out her tongue!!!

We finished the day with a McDonald's sundae and a few presents!

Happy Birthday my sweet, sweet girl! I love you more than words!!!!