Happy Birthday AMERICA!

4th of JULY is one of our favorite holidays! The carnivals, fireworks, Family & FUN!! Justin has 3 brothers in the NAVY and we SO APPRECIATE all that our service men do for us. We are grateful that we have the freedoms we do!

SO here are my CUTIES on this 4th of JULY!!!

HIKING....our new favorite activity!

The destination of our 2nd hike of the summer!

It was really pretty...and really fast. Kennedy was NOT a fan.

In front of the waterfall...can't really tell but we made it :)

Mommy and Oakers

following "Payton the explorer"

Kennedy had the best seat of all.

Payton is such a big girl! She loves the hikes and wearing her "water bag"!

Family shot

Our first hike... Bridal Veil falls

my loves!

On our way...right??

Bitter Beer face:)

family shot

We have found a new family fun night thing to do!!! HIKE! Its great exercise and the girls love being outside! YAY for SUMMER!!!

our DADDY is the BEST!

So yes Fathers Day was a week or so ago, BUT we didn't quite have the normal fathers day around here. Instead of a day all about DAD it was a day taking care of 3 sick little girls!! So anyhow I just wanted to write a little something about our daddy. We ( the girls) think that we pretty much hit the jackpot with our daddy! He is one of the only men out there, that I know of, that will let his 2 and 4 year old paint his toenails BRIGHT PINK! He will play barbies, Polly pockets, braid hair, and on occasion feed them cookies for breakfast!

Justin works REALLY hard and doesn't ever complain. We don't get alot of time together, but when we do his girls wont let him out of their sight! I am grateful that he is the Daddy to my sweet little babes!

LOVE YOU BABE!!

Oakers is 9 months!!

Oaklee is 9 months old!! I love this stage. She is learning so many new things and has such a sweet little personality! She loves to sit on the grass, which neither of my other girls did. Its funny to watch her play with it. We have had a long week of sickness spreading through out my girls and finally it is over. She wouldn't eat drink nada. Sooooo glad we are back to normal, for now! LOVE YOU OAKERS!!!

Silly SISTERS!

SWIM DATE

My friend Kati invited us over to swim at her pool and the girls had a great time. Finally the weather is nice and her pool was heated so it was great! My girls love playing with her boys and we love to get together so its always a win win!!

70 years of wedded bliss!!

Last week was my Grandparents 70Th Wedding Anniversary!! They are such amazing people and what an example they have set for their family! I'm sure they have had their struggles...come on its been 70 years! but they have stuck by each other and loved each other through it all!! I LOVE these 2 and they mean the world to me.

The beautiful cake my sister made for them.

Our Family

Kennedy-bug being silly

who needs toys??? give them plastic cups:)

P-diddy cheesing it up!

FUN with COUSINS

WE LOVE SUMMER!!!!! And we also love having our cousins come play! We had Morgan & Makenzie over last week and the girls had a lot of fun swimming, jumping, and we even painted some nails:) Bring on the fun times and the good weather!!!!

Camping!!

CAMPING YAY!!!

WE went camping with 2 of Justin's brothers this past weekend and it was GREAT! WE have missed camping sooo much! The weather (rain) held off mostly until our last night so we got to fall asleep to the sound of the rain I love that...only because we have a motorhome. Not so fun in a tent! The girls LOVE playing all day with their cousins and we LOVE just chilling and hanging out with family!!

Oaklee fell over right before we left and got this lovely cut...not a camping trip without some kind of BOO BOO!