Our Happily Ever After: June 2015

Woohoo!! School is almost out and we made it to school for one last lunch with the girls!

Ready for summer!

Last day of Second Grade! They have changed so much this year, they aren't so little any more! I'm so proud of you girls and all your hard work!

Race to the car!

Rachel earned the Principals Club for perfect conduct all year! Great job girl! So proud of you and all your hard work!

One of their favorite projects from this year. Luckily for me they don't have many projects, they on the other hand would love a project every week. They do everything on their own now so it's fun to watch their ideas come to life! These were projects about their favorite book at the time. Livy picked Unicorn School and Rachel picked Sisters.

Officially 3rd graders!

Celebrating last day of school!

Eric bought a golf cart for work but we had it at the house for a few weeks and the kids begged for a ride in it everyday. We went garage saling a few times in it. Perfect bucket to fit everyone.

Colt's baseball team!

Missing two teeth now! Growing up to fast!

Josh is an official full time firefighter now!! He's perfect for this job!

Dad's birthday steak! I'm so grateful for my dad and thankful for all he has done for me my whole life. He's such a great grandpa and the kids can't get enough playing and hanging out with Poppy! Happy Birthday Dad!

Johnson getting some good steak too!

Mom and Dads 35th Anniversary. I love seeing these pictures. Thanks for so many years of a great example. Love you guys!

Swim lessons for everyone! Ellie loved them and Sister Stolle her teacher!

Rachel "helping" with the cake!

Ellie's 4th birthday! It was a "Frozen" kind of birthday and the birthday presents were tried on as soon as she opened them.

Rachel helping Ellie decorate her room with Princess love!

Ellie's birthday day time swim party! The Ellsworth's came over for swimming and cake, a rainbow and unicorn cake!

Happy birthday sweet girl! We all love you so much and love watching you grow up into such a funny, loving, independent, spirited and theatrical little girl!

Night time swim party at Grandma and Grandpa's house! Eric had to break out the torch to get this party started! Half eaten cake from day time party....oops!

My baby is 4, how in the world did that happen!

Four short years ago! How has it gone so fast!

Vacation Bible School! I love living in Texas where they have all these great VBS camps for the kids.

Baseball in the Texas heat....his smile makes it worth it though!

Packing her backpack, dressed up and playing with her babies like always!

I don't know what we are going to do with this princess when she's a teen, she's already got the face and attitude down pat!

Luckily at this ages she's kind of easy to get smiling again, I hope it stays that way.

Beautiful Ballerina

She was a mom instead of a kid at the play place today, taking care of her baby and on the phone!

We love seeing our favorite Dallas people! Baby Mikey is too cute and the kids all play so good together!

Rachel and Liv love this little guy! Mikey was a little tired from all the love and fell right asleep!

Cute buddies!

Elliie got this makeup from Colbie for her birthday and I haven't met two little girls who loved playing make up more!

Happy Father's Day! We are so blessed to have so many amazing Fathers in our lives! Look at this guy being goofy with these kids, he looks pretty happy! I'm so lucky to have such a great dad for our kids and to do this parenting thing with! We love you Daddy!

We both grew up with amazing Fathers and are so blessed to have them around to be super amazing Grandfathers! It is such a blessing to have these men in our lives to love and support us and our kids so much.

Richie and Josh are such wonderful dads! I love seeing them with their kids and how much they love being dads!

Hannah and Dad!

Alan's birthday celebration! A kid free dinner was a great way to celebrate!

Colt was into this Ironman/Batman outfit for a week or so. Everywhere he went he wore it. I loved the cape, I could have done without the suit! So cute watching him wear it everywhere, I love little boys in super hero capes! He is getting too old too quickly.

This was just a day over the summer when everyone was happy and getting along and it hit me when we were sitting there having lunch that this is one of the best times of our lives. These kids love being home and with us and together and are happy and sweet and innocent still. I will be really sad when these days are just good memories but I'm sure we will be onto another good stage!

Livy went to robotics camp and totally loved it! She had such a great time learning to make this robot dog (her choice)! I love how she loves to figure out things like this!

We took a fun family weekend to Moody Gardens. It has an aquarium, rain forest, a few movies, a water park and a dinosaur exhibit. It was a great little vacation for us.

What to do when you are stuck in a shark tank?? I love this picture and Eric's fun playful side that the kids just can't get enough of.

I love when they are all happy and smiling and loving being together!

Dinosaur exhibit. The dinosaurs moved and made noises and one had eggs with babies coming out so they totally loved it.

HAHA!! This one gave Colt a quick scare!

Butterfly area, Livy found one with a broken wing that they could hold but they were really sad for it. Ellie's face is so so sad.

Found some bats, sloths and monkeys in the rain forest! The bats and sloths are enclosed and two monkeys that run free. It was crazy to see them cross over the walk way right where we were!