Yummy Watermelon on a hot summer day

Grandpa Herman came over Sunday afternoon and brought a cold watermelon to eat. It was a perfect day for it, it was hot and humid.

Everyone loved the watermelon and wanted more than one piece.

Lilly

Rosemary

Jonah

Luke

You would have thought Rosemary & Lilly were experienced pros at eating watermelon.

Herman and Shane

As you see Luke had it all over his face. Jonah was much cleaner when he finished.

Look at Lilly's curls.

Rosemary and everyone was happy to have had cold watermelon on a hot July day!

Thanks Grandpa!

Look what's new....

My Dad, the King of Yard Sales found this Triceratops. The kids love it! It's head moves it makes Dino noises, opens & closes it's eyes and mouth.

The girl's mostly like to pet it, feed it it's pretend leaf, and stick their finger in it's eye and say eye.

Luke loves to kiss and hug the girls way more than they like for him to.
Luke and Lilly.

Our next new item in the house is a toddler bed. A friend e-mailed me last week and asked me if I wanted it and I was so excited! The girl's love it. It is Lilly's bed. She doesn't move around the crib as much as Rosemary so that is why I let her have it. They have played and played on it. Putting each other to bed and their babies.

Lilly is in the polka dots putting her Dolly to bed as Rosemary fixes the covers.

Lilly asleep her first night in her big bed. Don't you just love the way they sleep with their little bottoms in the air?

Let's go to the country...

Growing up when we were going to the farm my Grandmother grew up on we called it going to the country. I spent a lot of my childhood there playing with cousins, walking to the spring in the woods, or walking through the fields to the river. I am so lucky to have all of those great memories and that my kids can grow up going to the country or our home place and play with their cousins and have all the wonderful memories like I did.

This past Saturday I met two of my cousins Shelly and her three kids, Ella, Brinley, Callen and Adair and her two children, Georgia and Sylvia for a play date.

We all brought food and had lunch together.

Played outside most of the day.

My Mom came along too. She's giving Rosemary a drink and Lilly is sitting so nicely.

Lilly & Rosemary played with some toys their cousins brought.

Lilly, Ella, and Sylvia.

Callen, Shelly's youngest (5 months old) took a nap outside. It was such a nice day with a breeze blowing on a sunny summer day.

Georgia, Ella, Brinley, and Luke took a break from playing outside to color.

Lilly and Rosemary sitting on a rock. I believe that my ancestors used the rock to help them get on a horse.

When I was younger there was a swing on this grand old oak tree and I was so excited to see they put up a new swing.

Rosemary and Jonah watch as Georgia and Luke swing.

Brinley and Georgia watch as Jonah and Luke swing.

Luke

Brinley and Georgia.

What a great day at the country! I can hardly wait to go back for our next get together. Hopefully we can do it again soon.

Fun on the 4th

I wanted to have friends and family over for a cook out on the 4th but I've been so tired lately that I decided not to. We all stayed around the house and finished a few projects, cooked out with my parents, and played with some sparklers while our neighbors set off some great fireworks.

Shane lit the sparklers for Jonah and Luke. Yes, the boys are in their p.j.'s. The girl's go to bed by 8pm so they missed the night time fun.

Luke checking out the sparkler.

Bat Luke

Jonah and Luke goofing around.

A good game of chase to end a fun night.

Everybody loves a parade

Today at the girl's daycare they had their annual 4th of July Parade. Everybody dressed in red, white, and blue. First they all gathered at the front of the church.

The girl's sat in the front of the by by buggie. It is so cute and seats six.

They had flags and had decorated the by by buggies.

Lilly and Rosemary's class.

The parade went around the church which takes up a block downtown.

Shane and I got off work early and when we got to school they were having snack time.

Shane leaving with Rosemary.

Lilly likes to walk not be carried.

Lilly with her baby going to the car.

Grasshopper Baseball Game

Saturday night we had tickets to the Greensboro Grasshopper's Baseball Game. Our department at work (Water Resources) gave out tickets. We had planned on going to that game anyway so it was great when we got to go for free. Jonah is a member of the team's Babes Buddies and one of the perks was before the game he got to come early and eat pizza and then get some of the players autograph.

Babe and Yogi are two black labs that are part of the team and help the team out during the game by getting balls and taking bats back to the dug out. They came to the pizza party and decided to see if Jonah would share his pizza.

Shane didn't have any pizza but Babe seemed to like him.

After pizza Jonah got some of the players to autograph their baseball card.

Emmett making a funny face and Jonah.

My sister-in-law Amy and Shane's brother, Mark also came.

After the game they had fireworks.

The fireworks were terrific!

Melinda, one of my best friends and co-worker, her sister & my sis-in-law Amy, Emmett, Mark, and Shane and a few other co-workers watching the fireworks.

We had the BEST night!!!