June Visits and Swim Time

We had a great time in June with a fun visit from G&G Tanner and Annie & Jamie. The girls loved all the attention. We also continued to spend lots of time at the pool. Adriana did swim team this year with practice 5x a week for 6 weeks. She has made leaps and bounds since last year and loves it. (This makes mommy really happy) She can now jump in the deep end and swim the length of the pool only stopping a few times on the rope!

Grandpa filling up our little pool.

Grandpa and Christine

Christine and cousin Jamie

"More stories, please."

Cousins

Christine and grandma

I found this in the playroom and it made me laugh.

A fun backyard picnic

FAMILY!

I think I've been looking at too many food blogs. When we got things ready to make Mark some muffins for Father's Day, Adriana set everything up and insisted that we take a picture of it. No picture of the final product, but they were good.

Another loose tooth! She pulled it out herself the next day.

Christine 5 months!

These are some from her last day of swim team. They did a mini meet for the little kids. She did great!

Mid-air

Awards and all

May Flowers

We have had lots of fun and excitement the past few months. So much in fact that we haven't been able to record it yet. Here are some glimpses of May.

Some informal shots of our cute girls.

Adriana had a loose tooth that came out after eating corn on the cob.

Abigail sporting my running shoes

Happy Birthday Mark! (Incidentally his birthday fell on Mother's Day this year) 

The girls helped me decorate the cake

Two great sisters

Abigail helping make pizza. Who says you can't make your pizza and eat it too?

Adriana graduated from preschool! It's hard to believe that she will be in kindergarten next year.

The last of the birthday celebrations

We made a small garden mixed with vegetables and flowers. The girls did a great job preparing the soil and planting the seeds. This is our first attempt so we'll see what actually grows, but even if we don't get produce it has been a fun experience.

A dancing duo

We have a family tradition of putting flowers on the gravestones on Memorial Day. We've never been able to put them on our family's graves so we find old ones, or ones that don't have anything. The girls love it!

Sweet Christine 4 months old.
She is such a sweet baby and so smiley! 

I don't know who took this picture, but I would never allow all this jumping.... or I just think these girls are so cute and too funny!

We had a camping adventure (in our backyard).

Happy Birthday Elena & Abigail

I can't believe these sweet girls are 3! Most of that time has been a blur, but I will say that it's getting much easier. They have so much fun together and hate to be separated. It was fun to celebrate such wonderful girls!

Carrying on a family tradition of breakfast in bed. 

Opening presents

Enjoying ice cream cone cupcakes!

They both insisted on having a Princess Pary! (Luckily they wanted the same thing). Several weeks before the party they talked about how excited they were about their birthday. If we saw anything princess anywhere, they enthusiastically said it was for their party.

Our princesses

Making wands and jewelry boxes

Happy Birthday to our special girls!