date night

we took grace on a date night and it ended up being the greatest date ever.  her future boyfriend is going to have some pretty big shoes to fill...poor guy.

first, we went to the peabody and watched the ducks march.

on our walk to dinner, we found elvis' duck feet...we were really just trying to impress mimi with our pic.

we ate a yummy dinner at kooky canuk and then john let grace order dessert!

she chose the avalanche!!!  18 scoops of ice cream and all the toppings.  i don't even understand how they ate that thing.  i was stuffed from dinner, but even if i wasn't, there was no way i could have even put a dent in that thing.  they had no problem at all!

after dinner, grace and i went to the orpheum and watched the wizard of oz.

this was her first show at the orpheum and she loved it.  she didn't love the wicked witch though.

we ended the night with a carriage ride through the downtown.

she kind of felt like a princess.

the driver stopped at this fountain and gave her some coins so that she could make a wish.

and, we all lived happily ever after!!!

July the 4th

we celebrated the 4th at the starlight spectacular with mimi and poppa by playing soccer, hanging out, and watching fireworks, of course!

we continued the celebration with friends and sparklers and bottle rockets!!!

and, yes, that's basically just as scary as it looks!

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........

beach trip {6}

On our last morning, Grace and I woke up early to watch the sunrise.

It was fun spending time alone with her.  Who knew she had so much to say so early in the morning!?!

My favorite part of everyday was walking down to the beach with this guy.  John and Grace were always way ahead of us and he was struggling to keep up.  We just took our time walking and talking.  He made sure I was ok after I stepped on seashells.  He's a sweet little guy.

We played really hard on this final day!  We laughed a lot and got taken out by too many waves!!!  Because of all the fun, sand was found in all the places later in the day.

We ate dinner on the beach and it was yummy!

He always picks me flowers!!!

Seriously, love these two so much!!!

We stopped at a couple of beach shops and got some ice cream before packing up to go home.

We had a really fun week and we could have stayed for another week, but we are so thankful for our time together enjoying God's beautiful creation!!!