school's out for summer!

and we finished another school year!

grace had a great morning at her awards assembly!

and, i said good-bye to my crazy bunch of jitterbugs!

hello, sweet summertime!!!

we are ready for some lazy hazy crazy days of summer!

#lazyhazycrazydaysofsummer

we wasted no time starting our summer off right!

we are so blessed to have friends with a pool!  they are basically the only kind of friends to have!  ha!

it's also really nice to have family with a pool!

and s'mores!!!

for real, we are blessed to have friends that don't mind us invading their home with all our craziness!!!

since, we don't want to overstay our welcome, we needed to find a few other things to do with our summer.

i'm thinking this might help encourage a little summer reading!

we ran by the library to pick up a few new reads.

carter chose biographies of nba stars.

grace chose the american girl, samantha, series.

we also made cookies and then we ate them. all!

we made it!!!

the school year is over!

i said good-bye to this group of crazy kiddos!!!

grace loaded up at her awards assembly!!!

then, we got right down to summer business!

hello summer!  it's so nice to see you again!!!

zoo fun

 While Mimi had some little visitors from Texas, she invited us to tag along on their trip to the zoo.

They were so sweet together!

We had fun hanging out with some cousins and some animals!

water games

We visited the farm on this hot summer day to celebrate with Lily!  This party was too much fun!!!

....swimming...........

...............sunshine...

.....jumping.........

............popsicles.....

..........water slides..............

.........splashing...........

.................water balloons....

......giggles.....

....water guns..............

.............silly pictures........

take me out to the ballgame

We celebrated Grandpa's birthday at AutoZone Park by cheering on the Memphis Redbirds!

Carter was cracking me up and reminding me of too many lines from The Sandlot..."You're killin' me Smalls!"

I don't think it's possible to go to the ballpark without eating ice cream from a baseball cap bowl.

Carter REALLY wanted to catch a ball!  He sat like this for a LONG time!!!

His persistence paid off!  And, he was super excited!!!

We had lots of fun watching the game, eating snacks, catching balls, and hanging out with Grandpa!