Summer Splash!!!

July 2015: Splash Pad Fun with GG!!

During the school year, the Big kids are busy on Wednesday and Thursday mornings with school, so on GG's days there is not much adventure time. However, during the summers we have two days a week for big adventures!! One of our favorite adventures is a picnic and plan at Corley Mill Park. It is a really tiny playground in downtown Lexington, but it has a water feature which makes it a fun, refreshing place to play in the summer heat!

When we go to the park, we always pack a lunch and come prepared to get wet!

GG and Walker love the park too! Though holding a hot, sticky Walker at the park is not fun... I think there was an emergency purchase after this trip! ;-)

This girl HATES to swing. I think it scares her... unsure..? But for some reason, this day she was feeling brave, and she was really into swinging!!

This boy is QUICKLY transitioning from toddler to preschooler. When you ask him to smile for the camera, THIS is the face that you get. Bahahaha. Funny little squanker!

These two are quick becoming fast friends! Love seeing their relationship develop.

The water feature are the park is a big palm tree, and Blakely loves it!

Love her creativity and imagination!



Love this girls spunk and smile!

Obsessed with their new Ruffle Butts swim suits. So cute.

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This boy is gonna be so, so, so much happier when he can walk and play with the kids! He LOVES kids!!

He was so sad when he was away from the kids, that we just put his high chair straight in the fountain! HeeHee.



A perfect picnic day at the park! This is one adventure, we will definitely be repeating!!

Little Slugger Turns 1!!

July 18th: Brantley's First Birthday Party

Tonight, we traveled down to Charleston for my nephew Brantley's first birthday. Everything was perfect and the girls had an absolute blast!! Brian and Sarah had been living in Hawaii for the last two years, and as a result we had all been missing out on some major life events. We were so excited when they moved back to start to make some special family memories. I especially could not wait to get these Monk cousins together for some bonding and memory making! Brantley and the girls had a great time together, and Blakely was positively smitten with Baby Brantley. I hope these 3 will be life long friends, as well as family.

Locked and loaded- Charleston Bound!! PTL my girls are great car riders.

The party was set up in Brian and Sarah's adorable back yard. The theme of the party was Baseball, and Sarah had thought of every detail.

There was slip and slide set up for the kids, and my girls are part mermaid... so you KNOW they had to get wet.

First Monk cousin play date!!

Blakely loves Brantley!!

"Bull Pen"

Took this picture at the end of the party... they can barely contain their excitement. (Bahahahaaha)

Kissing cousins

Pitching practice with water balloon.

Got to see some of our favorite people, the Sawyers!

One of Sarah's relatives made this amazing baseball cake!! So beautiful!!

The SMASH cake!!

Brantley was a beast with his cake... he picked up the WHOLE thing!!! Get it!

The proud parents! Sarah's mother had made him a Mango flavored cake...I think he likes it! ;-)

GrandAnnie and GrandPop celebrating with their first grandson!

SMASH!

Every southern boy needs his own pickup truck! ;-)

Due to some bad weather, we did not get home until almost 11pm. Surprisingly, Blakely fell asleep in the car and KE made it all the way home awake. Both had such a great night and slept hard that night.

We had such a great family night together, and we felt honored to get to be a part of Brantley's big celebration. It was a perfect party, and we are excited for future Monk family get-togethers in the future!! Happiest of Birthday's to our B-man!! Praying that he will grow to love and serve Jesus with his whole heart!! Uncle ReeRee and Aunt DeeDee love you very, very much!! xoxox

Mountain Trip Part VI

June 28th- July 5th: 4th of July Fireworks Fun

On July 3rd, we headed up to the golf course around sunset, because we had been told it was the best spot to see the fireworks show. We were a little uncertain as to how the girls would do staying up that late, but I am so thankful we decided to risk it!! Such a special, magical night! The perfect way to cap off our vacation!!

Rich and his girls scoping out a good place to watch the show.

This weather! Paradise!!

She thinks she is big.

I showed Blakely how if you throw a flower off a bridge up stream, and then run to the other side of the bridge you can see it float downstream. This apparently was the best discovery ever, because she then proceeded to do this 100x. She would run off and pick a flower or two, run back the bridge and toss it over the side and then run to other side of the bridge to watch the flower float by. She loved it!

 

Watching her flower float by!

 

Picking wildflowers.

At dusk, the fireworks started!!

She got a little bit excited!

It was so magical! It was chilly, but Blakely was still barefoot and running around! She loved the pink ones and the "pom-pom" ones! There were 3 different sites - north (in front of us), east (right of us) and to the south (behind us). You never knew which site was going to go off next so we were always spinning around and pointing. Blakely loved it.

Blakely loved it so much, that on July 4th Daddy put on our own Redneck Fireworks show in the parking lot.

(This is not real... Richard thought it would be hilarious to send out this "Bad Dad" pic. Heehee.)

Love the joy on her little face!!

Happy 4th of July, Y'all!!

On July 5th, we packed it up and headed home. Such a perfect vacation with memories I will cherish forever!! Can't wait to go back next year!!