Fireworks for Our Anniversary?

What an amazing anniversary gift...FIREWORKS...courtesy of Bellevue Baptist Church! 

Sunday night, we loaded the car up with blankets, chairs, a stroller, bug spray, snacks, and a soccer ball and headed to the Starlight Spectacular!  We found our perfect little spot and got settled in!

John and Grace immediately got to kickin' around the soccer ball.

A few minutes later, Brad, Steph, the boys, Beth, Kenny, Lily, Mimi, and Poppa all showed up. Yes, I said Poppa! (This is the first time he has come to the fireworks in years!) The boys must have been starving because they started eating as soon as possible!

Lily and Grace had to discuss their outfits!

Charlie and Carter did a little hand grabbing holding...so sweet!

Lily (aka: the picture ruiner) lived up to her name once again!  Ha!

Mimi and Poppa got all close together for me to take their picture and this is what I got!  Why Dad?  Why?

After a lot of playing, picture taking, snacks, and loving, it was almost time for the fireworks to begin!

Happy Anniversary, John!  Because of you, there will always be fireworks in my life! Mmm!  Cheesy goodness!

Andrew LOVED the fireworks!  I think my favorite thing about the night was watching him watch the fireworks!

oooohhhh!

aaaahhhh!

Carter watched!

Grace was so excited!

It was a perfect night!

(I just have to try!)

7 years ago today...

...I married my best friend.

Together Forever.

We swam some more.

Thanks, Aunt Terri!  We had fun!!!

craft Tuesday

I saw this craft a few months ago and saved it for the perfect day which turned out to be today!

Grace used watercolors and

painted her paper.

Let it dry.

Next, we used a butterfly paper punch and punched out as many butterflies as we could! (John jumped in for a picture...he was NOT punching out butterflies!) 

We painted a canvas to match her bedroom.

Then, we took all of the butterflies and hot glued them on the canvas.  Grace handed me each and EVERY butterfly and told me where she wanted them glued down.

Ta-Da!

Beautiful art and a proud girl!

This was so fun!

Making REAL art for the wall!

Father's Day

Father's Day 2011

Grace and Carter are so blessed to have such a wonderful daddy!  On Father's Day Eve, John was putting Grace to bed and she picked out "Me and My Dad" for him to read act out.

Grace and I made John muffins for breakfast...complete with tie toppers!

He got some new soccer cleats that he was able to wear to his soccer game that afternoon.

We made some tie cards to go with our theme.  Grace told me exactly what to write on it...so did Carter.  Ha!

Daddy and these two kids who love him sooooo bery much!!!

We had so much time before church that we were even able to do a little Father's Day photo shoot!

After church, we went to my parents' house to celebrate Father's Day with my dad and Pawpaw!

Later, we celebrated with John's dad!

"Hey, John, Grace, Carter-camera's over here!"

I am so thankful for all of the amazing dads in my life!  John, I am so glad that God chose you to be our children's daddy!  You are an awesome dad and I am excited that we get to raise our kids together!  I love you and hope you had a wonderful

Father's Day!

**update:  I got the tie printables from here.**

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

I am so thankful to have you as my dad!  I appreciate ALL that you do for me and my family!  Thank you!!!

I love you!

This Is How He Rolls!

We went to the zoo.

We went to the zoo to see the giraffes and a few other animals too!

We went with Steph, the boys, Mimi, Lily, and some of Steph's friends.  The kids loved Once Upon a Farm!  Grace loved the chickens, Lily loved the goats, Tripp loved the horses, and Andrew loved the farm train!

Drew was sooo excited to ride the train and I was sooo excited for him!

Other than a carousel, I think this was the only other "ride" that Grace has ever been on. I think she had fun!!!

Grace really enjoyed looking at the snakes...not sure why...she loved them and hated them all at the same time.  Look at that green python!  Ewww!

When everyone stopped to look at the Komodo Dragon, Grace took of with Charlie.

We visited the pandas and then stopped for lunch.

Carter Man got out of the stroller for a minute to check out the elephants.

We had fun playing in The Northwest Passage, but the polar bears and sea lions did not!  Maybe, because it was getting very hot!!!

The kids cooled off in the geysers at Teton Trek.  I thought about running through...but I didn't!

We saw the "mingos" on the way out!

We had such a fun day!  Our zoo is a pretty cool place!