Calder's Birthday

 A sweet and cute little boy from Julia's first grade class invited us to celebrate his birthday at their pool one evening.  Earlier in the year Calder asked Julia to ask her mom if he could have a crush on her.  It was so sweet!  I just love how he asked her to ask me if it was okay.  Such a gentleman!  Here he is tipping her off her floatie and having fun.

 Calder is definitely not a shy kid and has the greatest personality!  He even agreed to getting the ice bucket dumped over his head.

 He's brave too and just laughed about it!

 Julia, Calder and Braya.  Great friends from first grade.  It was like pulling teeth to get them to act like they were friends.

Julia and Calder hanging over the side of the pool.  Happy Birthday to Calder, such a great kid!

Aquatic Center

We always try and go to the Aquatic Center at least once during the summer.  It's quite inexpensive and the kids always have a blast!  Ava, Julia, and Grace are ready to get wet.  

We love this place!  The girls spent most of their time in the lazy river.  

Andrew enjoyed going down the small slide a bunch.

They tried out the slide a few times too.  Andrew isn't tall enough to do the slide but maybe next year.

Instead he played on the railing like a monkey.

Julia is swimming really well and we're so proud of her.

Getting a huge bucket of water dumped on his head.

Thumbs up from Andrew!

Julia and Grace had fun giving each other a piggy back ride in the water.

Such sweet girls and a friendship since preschool.

Gary Pirkle Park

Enjoying our summer with a fun playdate at Gary Pirkle Park.  It's great because the whole playground is covered under a pavilion so it provides shade from our hot Georgia weather.  Crossing the cute bridge to get to the playground.

Super smiley boy!

Beautiful Julia!

We met a boy from Julia's class named Calder there who is sitting right behind her.  These two have had a crush on each other this year...it's so cute!  He's not just a cute kid but also very sweet!

Calder has 4 brothers and one of them was about the same age as Andrew.

Julia and Andrew with Caden, Calder and Bates along with a few random kids on the spider web.

Bates, Julia, Andrew, Calder, and Caden.  All such sweet kids!  Such a fun day at the park and now we have lots of sweaty kids!

Vacation Bible School

 Vacation Bible is always such a fun week for Julia even though she misses Jessica and Brie from her first year of VBS.  Even though they are not her leaders anymore we always manage to find them and say hello.

Julia and Andrew enjoyed a week at Vacation Bible School where they were 'Submerged' in God's word.  This was the first time Andrew was old enough to attend and they both had fun.  Cumming First Baptist seriously has the best Vacation Bible School around.

This year Julia connected with one of her leaders named Anna.  I got her number so hopefully we'll have her babysit at some point.

Good-bye Pensacola Beach

During our visit to Pensacola Beach we saw lots of dolphins swimming right out our condo on a few different mornings.  We've been to Pensacola Beach a few different times and never noticed any dolphins but not this time.  Maybe if you zoom in on the photo you'll be able to see them a little too.  Thankful to spend another great week with my sister and her kids at the beach.  

Pensacola Beach Day 6

The kids were ready before us to get to the beach so we gave them the job to start bringing down all the stuff.  We always had tons of stuff so it was great our condo was right on the beach.  The kids always did great carrying things.

Today we all spent most of our time in the water so I had to take a photo before I got in.  You can barely see Victoria but she insisted she didn't need any help.  Andrew spent most of his time on his boogie board and kicking away.  I mostly held Alexander since that's how he felt most comfortable and Victoria and Julia switched things up a bit between boogie board and floatie.  Definitely a fun day!

Andrew and his boogie board.  His friend for the day!

Collecting some water in the new buckets they got from dinner the night before.

Victoria (almost 3) and Alexander (5 1/2 years old).

My sister and her kiddos.

Andrew kicking around in the water.

Sweet Julia reading the kids a story.

Playing with bubbles while waiting to go on a trolley ride just for fun since the kids loved it.

Fun activity for the last night was water balloons.

The kids loved helping fill them up.

All ready for some fun with water balloons on the beach.

Watch out you might just get wet.

Big smiles from Julia when one popped all over her shirt.

Playing catch with his momma.

Looks like a balloon popped on Andrew's shorts but he's still smiling.

Such a fun last night on the beach!

Being crazy!

These three had fun on our last night too!  Sad our week came to an end but thankful we got to spend it together at the beach.

Pensacola Beach Day 5

Is this water gorgeous or what?  The gulf is absolutely beautiful!

Once the waves calmed down it took some convincing but I finally got Julia in the water.  She usually loves the water but for some reason it was harder to get her in this time.  However, once I got her to go in that's all she wanted to do.  Julia got in the water yesterday for a bit too.

Fun with the boogie board.

Andrew just chillin and smiling again!  

Julia, Victoria and my sister enjoying the water.  Everyone got in the water today but no photos of that since we were all in for a while.

Victoria filling up a tiny bucket with water but barely getting much...kinda funny!

Our special activity for tonight was going out to dinner.  We walked across the street from our condo and went to Peg Leg Pete's and had an awesome dinner!  The kids got to play on the playground while we waited for our food.

A little walk after dinner to check out the boats. Here's the crew for the week!  Another successful and fun filled day together!