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May iphone photos

I have quite a few pictures for the month of May so I’ll just get straight to it…

**also, I’m vowing to figure out how to better align everything so you won’t have to do so much scrolling to look through pictures. I’ve just been a little busy lately 🙂

always ice cream, all the time

even with cupcake smeared on her face, this little birthday girl was super gorgeous

sunglasses for kids–a super cute invention

Rachel was the loveliest bride and had a gorgeous wedding!

but seriously–gorgeous reception!!

pretty table settings at wedding reception

and this is why we don’t have family pictures :/

we celebrated my 11 year cancer-free anniversary with some of my favorite things–burgers and ice cream!

On rare occasions, I take my kids to the park by myself spontaneously, they are all perfectly behaved, and I feel like I am finally getting the hang of this whole mom thing. Unfortunately, that only makes up a small percentage of our reality.

another ice cream outing–because, why not??

10 second timer victory!!

Evangeline and I were invited to a girly tea party to celebrate Penelope’s 5th birthday–including makeovers for the little girls.

Isn’t this the sweetest??

and I’m pretty sure she loved it more than this picture portrays haha

Memorial Day called for all the red, white, and blue details

and National Burger Day was this past week–so of course I was the dork that made my husband grill burgers so we could celebrate!

in just over a month, Maggi is getting married!!

After years of declaring he would be an artist when he grows up, he told me that he’s going to be a computer programmer. His hobbies will include painting and creating video games.

June is filling up with lots of graduations, showers, parties, and birthdays to celebrate! Very tiring– but exactly what I need to help pass the time because we’re hopefully going to be meeting the newest Roberts baby in just over a month!!

Happy June!!

June 1, 2015

Blog, Family, park

playing at the creek

As I’ve mentioned before, we have been trying to take advantage of Don’s weekends to hit up places in our area to do something fun with the kids. We have been fortunate to have some pretty perfect weather on the days we go out. This past Monday was no exception.

We checked out the creek at Mastodon State Park. The boys had been there before and absolutely loved it. So we stopped by the dollar store to pick up some creek essentials. Because apparently the creek isn’t nearly as fun if you don’t have nets to catch fish or buckets to house the fish.

It also isn’t nearly as easy to catch fish with a butterfly net as one would think.

But!! I did catch one for the boys and Don got a tadpole. So everyone was happy–until Liam realized that we were not taking them home as pets.

Getting packed up and getting to our spot was a bit stressful. But I knew it would be worth it once we set up our chairs and the kids started playing. And I was so right!

Evangeline ended up tripping and, consequently, went slightly under water at one point. She was a little bit traumatized. She spent probably 30 minutes cuddled up next to me afterwards. Not a happy event for her but I’ll take all the cuddles I can get 🙂

We found this fun donut inflatable at the dollar store! I’m not the only one in my family who was excited about it.

There may have been an incident with a certain 6 year old accidentally letting it float away. Followed by a big break down. Followed by his dad going downstream to see if it had gotten caught anywhere. Thankfully he was able to retrieve it and our family is still in possession of our very special $1 inflatable donut.

teaching the fine art of skipping rocks

Days like this make it worth the hassle of loading up tons of stuff and lugging all of it (plus 4 children) to a creek. In the end, you forget about how much stress was involved in getting there and you can just enjoy the memories made.

I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!! (Hopefully with more good weather!!)

May 21, 2015