Friday, January 4, 2013

Summer vacation

This summer we took our summer vacation to Jessica and TJ since they had just welcomed a new baby boy so they wouldn't have to travel. We stayed in a house in the mountains near Chapel Hill. It was beautiful and lots of fun! 
Evie and Stella on the airplane
The house we stayed at 
 Playing with Grandma in the secret "lookout room"
 Bedtime stories with Papa
 Time to swim! There was a grotto pool that we spent most of our time during the week in. I woud say we were quite "wrinkled" by the end of the week!
Dad perfecting his cannon bombs!

 Evie and Penelope practicing their "jumping"

 The whole gang
 Penelope and Evie visiting the Chicken coop on the property

 Grandma and baby Henry--less than 2 weeks old!
 Eating some yummy ice cream

 Evie and baby Henry
 Evie showing grandma how to wash dishes
 We went to a nearby farmers market and since it was the "tomato festival", got a tomato painted on their cheek


 Baby Henry sleeping
 Time for tea!


 And more swimming!



 We went to an ice cream store where they make their ice cream and it was SO good!

 Enjoying our treats!

 We spent a day at the Durham kids museum and it was so much fun!
 At the butterfly atrium

 Riding the choo choo train-All Aboard!

 Playing on the dinosoars
 Digging for bones


 Cooling off in the mist gardens!
Penelope and Evie taking a snooze after the busy weeks activities. Thanks Grandma and Papa for a wonderful week!

Friday, August 17, 2012

4th of July

The weekend before the 4th of July we went out to the lake with Nathan and Amber. We watched fireworks the first night on the lake and relaxed the rest of the weekend.



Watching the fireworks

Floating on the lake
Shooting off some fireworks
Evie loved the sparklers, she is definitely not afraid of fire!

Smores break
Later that week on the actual 4th of July we went out to the Frisco Freedom fest with Ali and Trevor and watched the FC Dallas soccer game and of course more fireworks!


Evie entranced in the game
Well really my iphone mostly kept her attention 

Evie teaching Ali how to play some games.
Watching the fireworks

I think Evie had had her share of fireworks for the year as she repeated a couple times on our way home "no more fireworks, no more fireworks"!