June fun!

June came and went way too fast.  We found plenty of fun things to do and enjoyed every minute of not being in school! 

Audrey loves all the instruments at Marin and Quinn's house. 

Audrey likes to ride in the big girls seats when one of them aren't with us.  

Our sweet girl!

Cousin Lauren gave the girls a stuffed "Bella" and she is still as popular as ever! 

Ready for our morning walk

Our cousins came to visit.  It was a full crew of girls! 

Audrey can officially keep up at parks now! 

We have new neighbors with a 4 year old little girl. 

Silly sisters

Emmerson has mastered the monon this summer! 

We have spent lots of time at the JCC this summer

Bed head! 

And many visits to the museum

And LOTS of backyard fun! 

Audrey is living the dream! 

She loves getting her toes painted. 

Claire got her long hair cut for summer

Movie night with the Eckert boys 

Broadripple fun with the Hurshs....6 kids 6 or under is always an adventure! 

Sassy

Lots of picnics out back

And we found plenty of time to relax

This little one loves to look at books! 

We visited the zoo too! 

Loves the friendship these 5 girls have! 

We have done more crafts than I can count.  This one was painting rocks! 

Father's Day

These girls are so lucky to have a Dad that loves them so much and loves being a Dad. He does it all! Has tea parties, plays dress up, paints nails, reads millions of books, plays kickball, and the list could go on.  

We had a quick celebration after returning home from Michigan.  The girls like any good reason for a party. 

Pure Michigan

We made our annual trip back to Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.  It is one of our favorite places to spend time.  The girls have learned to love it too which couldn't make us happier! 

The Boutons are some of our very favorite people!  We love to spend time with them!  Sadly, the only full group picture from the weekend happened to be in a bar...in Detroit!  

Claire was a little too comfortable at the bar! 

Besty and Emmerson picked all the music. 

We were able to spend lot of time at the parks.  There is nothing better than these views! 

Audrey had her first ice cream cone.  She was pleased as you can see. 

Claire talked her into a taste once hers was gone.   

Emmerson learned to skateboard

We even got to squeeze in watching one of Jack's baseball games.  

Tennis

The girls took tennis lessons again this summer.  They were able to be in the same group this year now that Claire is 4.  They loved it! 

Last Day of Preschool at Fairview

 Claire had her last day of 3's preschool.  Not only is it her last day of 3's it's also our last day at Fairview.  This was the end of our 4th year there.  There are plenty of things we will miss about Fairview...especially the ability to walk to school but we decided it is no longer the right fit for us.  

June 6, 2015

August 2014 / June 2015

Favorite Color:  Pink

Favorite food: Jimmy Johns 

Favorite book: Princess books

What do you want to be when you grow up: A ballerina 

Favorite friends: Emmerson, Audrey, Allison and Ava

Favorite thing to play: "I like to slide down slides on my tummy"

May days

We all welcomed May with a smile.  We love knowing that summer is right around the corner.  The nice weather has us outside all the time which makes us all very happy.  

Our friendly neighborhood cat, Sampson, spends a lot of time in our backyard now that we no longer have Bella to chase him off.  The girls were sad to see him go when his family moved this month.   

Nice weather = a constant stream of bloody knees! 

Audrey loves school pick up time! 

We got to babysit Quinn for a day when her daycare was closed.  The girls had so much fun with her.  

School pick up was interesting... 

It is not uncommon to come out to see that the girls have set up the driveway as a "tailgate".  

We have Butler to ourselves again! 

Someone is happy to get her turn on Daddy's shoulders. 

These two... You never know what they are up to or where you will find them! 

Emmerson had an end of the year Daisy celebration.  They got to ride horses. 

Popsicle time is here... 

and plenty of time playing in puddles. 

Claire has started having some playdates of her own.  She thinks it's pretty great.  

This little girl has it all figured out.  I told her no snacks so she decided to take care of it herself.  

Have we mentioned that she has crazy hair?!?

One school day I had a few things to get done.  Audrey is my little partner.  I laughed a few times when I thought about how see just keeps up!  

I was doing some work out back and she was helping...Then I looked over and she had found a seat and just laughed at me when I caught her resting! 

I had a few things to drop off at Emmerson's school and I looked back as I was racing out of the building and I see her moving at top speed to keep up!  She's the best little co-pilot ever! 

She can keep up with her sister now too!  In EVERY situation! 

Not sure why she looks like she is 10! 

One day at nap time I went to get Audrey's room ready and came back to get her and found this.  She was cozy in Emmerson's bed with no plan of getting out.  

Emmerson's had her first field day.  She loved everything about it.  

This is her 6th grade faith partner that she got to spend the day with.  

The little girls and I got to go too and they loved it just as much!