Happy Birthday, Great Grandpa!!!

We were so lucky to all get to help Great Grandpa celebrate his BIG Birthday on Friday (the real birthday isn't until tomorrow...)! We got to go out to lunch together, then we all headed back to Aunt Conni and Uncle Ron's beautiful new house for presents and cupcakes and ice cream. Reagan and Riley loved helping Grandpa open his presents! The girls worked hard on making Gramp's card this year...they drew him a giraffe, a monkey, a jump rope and a boot. Pretty special, huh?!? There is a picture of Riley explaining the pictures to Grandpa on here!  Here are some fun pictures from the day! Happy, Happy Birthday, Grandpa...we love you so much!

Rainy Day FUN!

Nana and BopBop got the kiddos all new raincoats and rainboots! It was perfect timing too because Sunday morning was really rainy! BopBop took us out to breakfast at The Sanctuary and then the kids played in the puddles and ran around in their boots after breakfast! They always have so much fun playing together and they LOVED their new boots!

Mini Jack Hanna's....

Matt got home from work the other day and this is what he saw when he pulled up. They hardly even noticed he was there...they were so busy using their "NOCLARS" to see the lizard that was camped out of our front window. They spent a long, long time staring at it and I was watching on the inside of the house and thought it was hilarious....until I saw Matt's pictures from what they looked like on the outside. These two just crack me up all day long. Yes, they are looking in the binoculars backwards. Who knows if they can even see anything! Ha!!!! They are just loving animals, bugs, lizards etc...these days. Thank God they don't pick them up and bring them to me, but they like to look at them. Yesterday I spent about 20 minutes trying to "save" a dragonfly who was flying around our screened porch. They desperately wanted me to get him outside where he came from and I wasn't able to do it. We had to go and check on him this morning and yes, he's still there. I'm hoping they forget about him pretty soon because I'm pretty sure the next time we go check he might not be! Anyway...here are the cute pictures from the other day!

Daddy's Birthday!

Matt's birthday was on Sunday and the girls had so much fun planning his big day! They got him little presents every day starting September 1st so that they could make it a really special day for him! Matt's favorite part was that the Browns home opener was his birthday too (yes, they lost and no, we weren't surprised)! The girls love their daddy so, so, so much and so do I! We love showing him how much we appreciate him! Here is a picture of the girls helping Daddy blow out his candles, and a picture of the girls watching kickoff with Daddy too (YES, Matt's shirt says "This Guy Loves the Browns" with the fingers pointing back at him! One of the stellar gifts from R and R!).

First Dance Class EVER!!!!

Reagan and Riley had their very first dance class today!!! They'll be going every Tuesday for one whole hour with Miss Holly! They do ballet, movement (tumbling) and tap! There were only 5 little girls in the class (thank God for the teacher...I have no idea how she could handle any more than that!). It was HILARIOUS to watch...here are a few of the videos I could get while peeking through the window. The girls could see me so I didn't want to get too many! They had a ball and definitely looked the part at least! Riley says that tap was her favorite and Reagan said her favorite part was playing freeze dance with the flashing light and getting a sticker at the end. Ha! For their very first dance class ever, I'd say they did pretty well!

Amelia Island!!!

Matt and I decided to take the girls on an overnight trip to Amelia Island for the Labor Day weekend! We left on Sunday morning and were back home by Monday late afternoon. It's only 45 minutes from our house and we had an AMAZING time!!!!! Not only is Amelia Island absolutely gorgeous, but the girls had so much fun!!!! They swam in the big pool nonstop! I have no pictures or videos from that, obviously, because Matt and I were on lifeguard duty! These two have become total fishes and swim on their own under water and would have stayed in the pool all day long if we didn't make them take a couple of breaks! (we needed the break more than they did!). The hotel had a little  "splash park" for the kids with fountains of water and the girls loved running around in it. It was great too because Matt and I could actually sort of sit back and relax (yes...we had pina coladas since we were on "vacation"!). Since it was Labor Day weekend there were tons of activities and music all over the plantation. The girls got to ride in a fire truck, we went to a nature center where they got to see tons of turtles and pet a bunny and we had some really yummy meals! It may have only been a little over 24 hours away from home, but it was just awesome. I hope we can go back again sometime soon!!! My favorite memory from our time there was after dinner Sunday night. We'd come back to the hotel and in the lobby bar a guy was playing music. The girls said they wanted to dance so we took them in there. I had tears running down my face from laughing so hard. They got SO into it. What you can't see in these videos is the huge group of people standing behind us watching them and laughing and smiling. Quite the entertainers!!!!!!! It was the best weekend and we're so blessed to live so close to such fun places!