Saturday, June 20, 2015

Splash Pad

Today was Kate's first time to play on the splash pad with Sarah. She really loved playing with her big sis, but splashing was by far the highlight of her experience!








As if the splash pad wasn't enough fun for one day, we also had ice pops on the deck. Kate loved hers!





Thursday, June 18, 2015

Ice Cream

Tonight I wanted to go to the Hokulia Shave Ice truck something fierce. I don't really like snow cones, but shave ice is a totally different story! I'd been craving it since it had gotten warmer, and I was determined that we would get there or know the reason why. 

Unfortunately, the weather gods had different plans for me tonight! I was POURING after dinner. Not one to give up on dessert plans easily, I loaded the whole family into the car in the hopes that it would stop raining by the time we got there. It, of course, did not.

In an emergency, the Dairy Queen across the street from the shave ice truck did the trick. (Don't think I've forgotten about the shave ice, though!) Kate got to have her first ever ice cream cone, and I think she wasn't missing the shave ice at all!









Monday, June 15, 2015

Rain

Today it rained. And not a little "oh, good - the grass needs this" kind of rain. This was a "holy crap - we need an ark" kind of rain! To give you some perspective, this is what our backyard looked like:



The girls' playhouse became lake-front property!


By the grace of God, the water did not come into the house in any way, shape or form!  To celebrate, I took the girls out front to check out the damage once it stopped pouring.

Sarah tried to help keep Kate out of the rain, but Kate would have none of it!


She would, however, use an umbrella as a teether...


Sarah took her umbrella and started running through the river in our side yard.




Eventually, she ditched the umbrella (and all pretense of doing anything other than getting herself soaking wet) to begin jumping and running in the water.





Kate took a different approach.


She figured out that the scooter wasn't such a good idea pretty quick, though!



All things considered, all that rain turned out to be a good time!




Sunday, June 14, 2015

Father's Day 2015

 For their Father's Day gift this year, girls and I did a little photo shoot to get some new pictures for Daddy's desk at work. Daddy also got some new magnetic frames to put them in!





Father's Day itself was especially fun because it was Uncle Adam's first Father's Day! We celebrated with a low-key dinner at our house, which included lots of Teddy time.




This was the best photo we could get of all the dads and kids.


Since the whole family was together, Sarah and I shared this Coke with my mom. Her mom (my Grammie Grammie) loved Coke more than anything in the world. When I saw a "Share a Coke with Virginia" bottle, I had to grab it!