Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hilton Head Island 2011








We had another fantastic time at Hilton Head in July. As usual, our routine was breakfast, bike, beach, pool, lunch, rest, beach, pool, bike to dinner, crash.... rinse and repeat 3 or 4 times with only a little variation. This was the first summer that we've had 4 full fledged swimmers on our hands, so that made everything "way more fun". For the first time ever, we spent one morning playing putt-putt. Whew, that was exhausting! Another first was the girls actively trying to make friends with other kids we met on the beach and at the pool ... also great fun! They found lots of little girls and even several little boys that didn't mind being friends with a whole gaggle of sisters. Scott helped each of the girls take turns learning to ride on the boogie board. Ella became quite good at it, and after making a new friend one day tried to ride off into the sunset with her new friend on the board. That was a completely new nerve wracking experience for this mama who is used to having her girls hover very nearby at all times!

On this trip the girls became very eager to ride their own bikes... guess those carriers are getting a little bit cramped! So we told them that when they learned to ride without training wheels they could bring their bikes and not ride in the carriers anymore. Guess what? The minute we got home we removed them and within a week all four of our kiddos were riding their bikes sans training wheels!! Perhaps those should be the next pictures I post?!?


Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Balloons

Quite a while ago we took the girls to see a balloon race that was set to take off near our house. It didn't actually happen that day due to the weather, but we were there by 7:30am waiting to see some beautiful balloons. The girls didn't even mind that the balloons never took off.




Wow, that feels like an eternity ago. By the time I finish posting all about our summer adventures perhaps I'll remember to take the girls for a trim because of all the scraggly hair pictures from June!


Wednesday, July 21, 2010

My parents celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary earlier this month. Since Kari and James were back in town (they've finally moved home, woohoo), we all took Mimi and Pop Dickie out to dinner to celebrate.

It was the first time that we took Maggie, Kate, Sarah, and Ella to a really nice restaurant for an evening meal, and they all did great!

After dinner we strolled around the quaint little town square and the girls got all their sillies out before we headed back to Mimi and Pop's for a late night dip in the pool.

Of course I didn't take any pictures of the 38 years later still happy couple.... so I'm hoping these cute pictures of the grand kids will make up for it. However, if I'd had my blogging cap on that day I would certainly have snapped at least a few of the rest of our crew.

Mimi and Pop,
You guys make a great team. Thanks for the loving example you are setting for all of us!
Love,
MB and the girls

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Hiking with Daddy

Scott took the girls hiking a while back so that I could get the house cleaned and have an hour to myself. Ella enjoyed being the photographer for the day. Note: old pictures = scraggly haired children. Please remind me when it is time to take them again... before it is too late!!













Monday, July 19, 2010

Before and After... Finally!

A while back I took the girls to Ms. Kim for summertime haircuts. We snapped a few before and after pictures. I can't believe how incredibly scraggly they looked before they got their new do's! Emma wanted to be in the before shot, but she wasn't in need of a haircut..... since her mom is a great hairdresser she always has a cute 'do.


By the time we finally left Emma was done with the girls and having to share her toys so she didn't want to participate in the after shot. Here the girls are lined up: Ella, Kate, Sarah, and Maggie.
So, expect some serious confusion as I finally get around to posting the pictures that have been piling up in my blog files. Many are before the summer hair cuts took place and now there are plenty since... and I will be posting them in no certain order. The crazy long hair will give away just how old some of these posts are! Ah well, at least I'm finally posting some.


Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Waterpillar













I am enjoying cutting our ~3 acres of grass myself so far this year. It helps that the girls will play for hours on the driveway in the waterpillar.... and they don't mind a bit!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Sapphire

A Cowboy's Wife is hosting another Blue Ribbon Photo Contest. This month's theme is Sapphire, and anything blue goes. You've got until Sept. 20th if you want to submit one. Here is my entry..... "Day at the Beach". Even though we've been enjoying the almost fall weather lately, this photo makes me miss our vacation days of summer!


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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Rah, Rah, Rah!

Just a few things to cheer about tonight...


A few weeks ago the girls were treated to a middle school football game with Kay, Doug, and Brian while Scott and I had a date night. One of Kate, Sarah, Maggie, and Ella's favorite people is a sweet girl named Emily who happens to be on the middle school cheering squad, so they were thrilled to go to the first game of the season and see Emily.

We have a hard time getting the girls out of their cheer leading uniforms these days as a result. At any given time I have between one and four little girls running around here referring to themselves as Emily (insert her last name here).

I heard Ella the other day saying, "Come on Emily, follow this Emily... we've got to go help our friends. Campbell is stuck out in the water and Luke has gotten covered up by ants. Emily to the rescue!" To which Sarah replied, "Yeah, Emily to the rescue!" Then they hopped off their swing set and raced to the other side of the yard. So not only is Emily a middle school cheerleader, she's also a super hero... at least at our house!

We are constantly being treated to cheer leading shows and tumbling displays.... constantly, and I've even heard several of them say that they intend to change their names to Emily when they are older. I am so thankful that the girls have a role model like Miss Emily!

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Last weekend we took the girls to help my aunt Janice celebrate a big birthday at a surprise party in her honor. Mimi brought along Janice's old high school cheer leading uniform because the girls found it in a closet at Nanny C's and have since talked about it a ton.

You can just imagine their excitement and our delight that even at her big 5-0 b-day party she slipped that uniform on and cheesed cheered right along with them! It fit perfectly!?!

Happy belated birthday Aunt Janice!!