more summer fun!

We are really staying busy this summer & I am loving it! The girls like to be on the go just as much as their Mama and so we have been moving nonstop, trying to fit in as many activities as we can before the school year starts. 

It sounds crazy, but this is really my first at-home summer (in the past 3.5 years), where I have actually felt mobile.  I have two walking, potty-trained girls who nap/rest only once a day and I'm not preggo!  Here are some more pics, mostly random iphone pictures to show what we have been up to...

here we are in the baby pools

the girls helped me plant some veggies in pots and they LOVE helping me to water them.
Here are our green peppers, I thought it might encourage them to actually eat some at dinnertime; turns out, it doesn't really work that way... but we have fun with them anyway!

some of the tomatoes

can't remember what this one is suppose to be but these pretty yellow flowers show up every few days! 

lettuce & basil

lavender

Dean got us this hummingbird feeder.  We've seen ONE hummingbird come to visit so far, not sure if they just come when we aren't around or if they don't like the food..

gotta love arts 'n crafts-- Kathryn loves any excuse to get messy!

she is SO into dancing, I can't wait until she gets to be in her very own class.  

here we are ready to walk the neighborhood.  their favorite route takes us right to Melissa's house.  They collect her a beautiful leaf bouquet & bring it to her.  If she doesn't happen to be home, they leave it right under her mailbox

here Quinn is reading to Aunt Laur on TV.  Lauren & Aaron sent this new gadget to me for my birthday-- how cool is it to see family on the "big screen"?!  We love it.  This is one of the more calm days...usually, when we call them the girls go crazy and start running back and forth through the house, I think they just like to see Aunt Laur's reactions ;)

nature walk at the Alpharetta Greenway.  We weren't planning this trip, hence the bad shoe choice, but the girls did great!  They walked a mile and we only stopped because I made us turn around when Kathryn started rubbing a blister from her shoe with no socks

And, thanks to our wonderful Melissa, Dean and I were able to leave the girls for just short of 24 hrs for a nice relaxing 5 year Anniversary! It sure doesn't feel like 5 years ago that we were in Destin getting married-- but we have had so much fun and been through so much these past 5 years, I wouldn't have it any other way!!

we headed over to the St Regis in Atlanta & sat by the pool for hours, reading, talking, sipping yummy cocktails and eating yummy food.... ahhh so nice!!

we went to Chops for a nice dinner and headed home the next morning.  So thankful for my sweet husband!!

And the good man that he is, wanted a family pool day for Father's Day.  I don't think he remembered that pool days with the kids are far from relaxing these days! But the girls had a blast playing with him and we had a very nice day, giving him all kinds of little goodies & Quinn even helped cook a special breakfast & dinner

here we are at Kathryn's first movie-- Muppets Take Manhattan

she did pretty good for the most part.  I think at the end, she had had enough and really just wanted to play with her sister, but she hung in there & Quinn was so thankful-- big sis loves a good movie!

sometimes I let Quinn dress herself just for my own amusement.  here is what she came up with to play in the back yard 

here we are visiting Grandma Snazzy.  Grandma Snazzy is the storyteller at our local Kroger .  She is in a glass room above the grocery store without fail two mornings a week.  And if we don't have anything planned, you can bet we are there just about once a week!  It sounds cheesy but the girls ADORE her.  She is so sweet- she is teaching the children the Pledge of Allegiance, several songs, dances, she reads a story & leads them in a craft. 

Fun, Fun Fun & more to come, I'm sure!!