Bye Bye Baby

These girlies love them some straight hair.  Ellison's is getting so long and full and she loves to wear it down.  Of course she gets lots of compliments when it is down, so that is a large reason why.  They both look so grown up here...where are my babies?

My Reality

I posted this picture to Instagram.  With social media these days you see exactly what people want you to see with everything all filtered and posed perfectly.  Well guess what sometimes it ain't that way.  See I totally could have just posted the second picture, where we are all smiles and happy, but that isn't reality.  Reality is when I asked them for a picture, Hads moved the fastest and got right next to me and that ticked a certain little red head off, who is more than a titch jealous.  So the first picture is actually the reality of the situation.  They are all moments we should remember, not just the perfectly posed smiling ones.

Camp Winshape for the WIN!

I was in charge of this one's drop off and pick up and we got Gracie Mae on the ride home as a bonus.  The first morning, these girls check in before we even knew they were gone, they were ready for some fun!

Parent day, we got to watch this little lady in Gym.  She did fast food too, but I didn't get any pictures of that as I was dropping Els of on the last day.

and Wacky Science....girls loves her some Wacky Science.

Wayne and I went and watched Els at her mini performance, picked her up and took her back to Winshape, where we got to enjoy a family lunch of Chick fil A.  Yum!!!

We have a PRINCESS

Wayne was in charge of this ones, drop off and pick up...so when I got this text from Wayne I knew she was over the moon excited about Camp.  This is her favorite peep Ava from her old school that left about a month before she did that she absolutely adores.  These two are the sweetest little things together, no girl drama always loving on each other, two kindred spirits right here.

My next text, her Camp was a half day Camp, so Wayne picked her up and that meant one on one time with Daddy and apparently vanilla bean frappies from Starbucks...rotten much?

Her last day of Camp, um poser much.

The last 30 minutes of Camp, Parents were invited to watch a mini performance and see what the kids had been up to all week.

My Princess.

Ellison and her Taylor Kate, she is obsessed!

Another one of her classes helpers...this girl makes friends with everyone.

And a new Princess is crowned.

It's Camp Time

Summertime isn't all pools and play dates anymore.  It means summer camps!!!  I don't remember going to summer camps, but now they are aplenty.  Hadley participated in Camp Winshape last year and absolutely positively loved it, so it was a must again this year.  I knew we would have a problem if a certain little Red Headed Diva thought she was being left out of the Camp situation, so I found her a Princess Dance Camp to attended and thankfully, it was during the same week.

My two little campers all ready for a week of Camp Fun.

It's the last day...who is ready for Camp...well one is, the other doesn't want her picture taken.

Random art makes you smile....

Hadley June 2014

Precious Memories

This was our view one night when we were invited over to a friends to eat.  The kiddos strapped on the golf cart to eat ice cream and ride around the neighborhood after dinner.  

Obsessed

For a two year old that wasn't that interested in television, this little lady has made a quick transition to obsession.  She is obsessed with Netflix, specifically My Little Pony and Horse land.  This is a familiar site around our house, especially since she is such an earlier riser.  She will get her an iPad, snuggle up on the couch and wait for someone to get up to make her breakfast.

Americana

So as you can see I'm posting away, but I'm just now getting to the 4th of July.  I was really behind.  We did our usual for when we are in town.  We went over to a friends house and swam, then went out to his field to watch the local fireworks.  They put them off at the fairgrounds, but we don't have to fight the crowd.  It is awesome!!!!

Before we left to swim we had to get in a few swings.....

Think this one might be a favorite picture....four little ladies all dressed in red, white and blue....in the back of an old Jeep.  A little piece of Americana right there.

Baby you are a FIREWORK....

go AUBURN

This girl has some crazy Auburn enthusiasm.  If we ever see anything Georgia related she will growl, roll her eyes and cop some serious attitude.  So seeing a Georgia bulldog on the way in to Kroger was no exception, she had to stomp the DAWGS!!!!  Her dislike of other teams doesn't just extend to Georgia, she feels equally passionate about her dislike of Alabama.  The other day we were in Walmart and she started randomly chanting, beat ALABAMA, beat ALABAMA, beat ALABAMA....a couple walked by and the woman apparently was an Alabama fan because she said, "roll tide roll"....without missing a beat, Ellison screams, "WAR EAGLE BABY"!!!  The couple was quite tickled with her quick reply, Hadley and I on the other hand were slightly mortified at her level of aggression towards Alabama.

First Peter you are LONG!!!

The verse for vacation bible school was really long and kind of hard for a 4 year old, so we posted it all over the house.  This is just one of the many places we posted it to help Ellison remember it

 

 

Vacation Bible School

We got back from Camp and the following week we had Vacation Bible School.....all week.  It's true what they say there is no rest for the weary!!!  Whew.....those were an exhausting two weeks, but so amazing too!!!

 

 

Two peas in a pod right here!



Flower Child

CentriKid was great, but I sure did miss this little diva.  My Mom brought her to the house, so she was there when we got there Friday night.  This is us the following Sunday at Church.  Love her and love that smile.

CentriKid

CentriKid was a blast, exhausting but a blast....so glad I got this experience with my girl.

Me and LL Key J (Lori Lynn) on the bus, before we got tired, this is on the way there.

Gracie Mae and Hads.

I'm not sure what he was doing.  He was meditating!

Lori Lynn and I again!!!!

Strike a pose.

My girl was tired...who am I kidding, so was I.

Friends!

This was absolutely one of my favorite times from Camp and it was so random.  We had to go over early Thursday night because Grace was performing as part of her Sign Language Track.  So I took my girls over and we were hanging out in the Lobby.  One of the chaperones from another Church started conversing with the girls and then they started playing this ninja freeze game, then some of the staffers joined in.  The staffers had to go to work, but they kept playing with this other chaperone.  As we were leaving, he commented on what a great group of fun girls I had.  Yes, I do, thank you!!!

Phoebe and Hads.

Bathroom selfie with Rachel...she is a hoot and a fellow Auburn Fan...WAR EAGLE BABY!

Hads, Grace and Paris.

My crew...I love them.