June Randoms

It's time for June random photos off my phone! :)

    We had two visitors in our bed last night and we were kicked out!   After the evening flight coming home from Avery's birthday party we went to Five Guys.  Ro thought it was great!   Big sister can't be left out!   Another tooth is gone!  She has FOUR open spaces at the moment   I took the day off work and spent it with my girls.  We went to Willy's!  My fave place to eat!     Oh Rowan....what are we going to do with you????  Ro wants to help and I really appreciate that.  She took the scoop and got all the poop out.  Great job Ro, but using a bag would have been helpful.  Her hands were NASTY!  Blech!

Avery's 2nd Birthday

We (including David!) made the trip to St Louis for Avery's 2nd birthday party.  Christie and Colleen did the Dr Seuss theme again and everything looked great!       These were marshmallows with a fruit roll up...they were yummy!   Colleen made these all on her own!  I gave her a lesson when they were in town and she did the rest on her own.     They had this big jumpy house and had a slide down into water.  The kids loved it!   He stayed sugared up all day   This is Ro's very first "cheese" ever.  I pointed the camera to her and she said "CHEESE!"   Reese and Avery   The birthday boy!  He's stuck that tongue out since birth!     Avery got this trampoline and the kids loved it.   This is a picture of Avery's cousins.  This was the best I could get.  That's Reese on the left in case you can't tell through the hair! ;-)   Ro wanted no part of the picture   Reese and Kiera (Colleen's sister's daughter).  These girls had lots of fun playing together.   This is what Rowan wanted to be doing, not taking pictures!   They got a babysitter one night and she put them in the bed together.

Swim Team

We decided to put Reese on the neighborhood swim team this year.  They have meets with surrounding neighborhoods and it was really fun to be a part of.  Reese was part of the 5-6 year old group and honestly isn't a great swimmer.  We've put her in lessons every year and she's gotten more comfortable in the water but is still very weak.  The thought of her in a "race" doing the free style was intimidating.  Hell she had never even heard of it!  The very first meet was interesting to say the least.  It took her close to two minutes to just finish the lap and she was the very last one.  She stopped so many times and hung onto the rope, I didn't think she was going to make it.  But, by the very last race she had gotten her time down to under one minute and wasn't touching the rope at all!  She got the most improved swimmer and I can't even begin to say how proud I was of her! :-)

  One of the coaches telling the girls what was going to happen.  This was their very first race.       Getting ready!       Don't let this form fool you.  It always turned into arms wide witha belly flop.       This is her first race and it took forever!   She was so proud of herself though.  I thought it took so much courage to even do the race.  The place is packed and people are watching.  She thought nothing of it.   Reese got candy after the race and what sister does so does Ro.   One of Reese's last races!  Towards the end of the season she started racing in the back stroke.   Group photo!  Reese is first row, bottom right