Visitors!

Our friends, who used to be our neighbors in Colorado, drove all the way from Canada to see us! We had a great time! We went to the pool, a waterpark, into the museums, and had fun just being together. The girls were in heaven! I only took pictures the day we went into the city.
Paige and Ashle on the metro: Dorian and Ashley:

All the kiddos (except Douglas, who was attached to me!)

Dorian and Paige were the brave ones:

Here's Ashley NOT holding a bug:

Apparently, this is a tomato bug:

Budding geologists. This was the exhibit they were dying to see:

Friends Summer 2011

These two are great friends...as long as no one is looking!

Douglas and Natalie...

...sitting in a tree.

Douglas July 2011

This is his classic "sniffle sniffle" look.

You can see his top teeth in this one. He's got 7 teeth already and the 8th one (bottom right) is just about ready to poke through.

More Florida!

After the Gillespie reunion, the kids and I spent a week at my parent's house. We had a blast going to the beach, playing at the splash park, swimming in the pool, going to the puppet theater, going on adventures in the golf cart, and riding bikes!
We celebrated GranCarey's birthday by going over to New Smyrna Beach. We showed the kids her old house and all the places we used to go when we visited. When we got to the beach, the lifeguards were all blowing their horns and we were convinced we saw a shark right off shore, but it turned out it was a pelican and the lifeguards were actually just yelling at the surfers. It was pretty exciting anyways and it helped the kids stay really close to shore. If you look really closely in some of the pictures, you can see something that looks like a fin.
Douglas really, really wanted to eat all of that yummy sand.

GrandMama builds the best sandcastles!

This was really sweet. Michael was standing all alone and Paige walked up, checked that he was ok, took his hand and jumped in the waves with him for a long time.

Ashley noticed and wanted to get in on the action. I think the girls must be on their knees.

The kids love going to get the newspaper with GrandDaddy in the morning. It's an event.

Watching tv is fun, too :)

Chasing the sand hill cranes.

There is a great splash park and playground right by my parent's house!

Douglas grew 3 teeth while we were on vacation. He's working on 2 more now. He's been a total champ about it and hasn't been too fussy. He's just been biting--a lot.

I love Paige's scrunched-up face in this one. She's trying her best to hold those boys in there!