New Dresses and Granparent Luncheon

(June 15)

The Girly Girls in their new dresses!

Grandma snapped a picture of the girls and I walking out of the library after checking in for the summer reading program! Cute!

GRANDPARENT LUNCHEON (library)

(June 16)
Grandma Diamond and the Girls head to the park for the Grandparent Luncheon, where they always have fun b/c Grandma gets McDonald's for lunch and they play lots of games and hear stories! What a special day of memories made. They all brought home special stones and kazoos! They also had popsicles for a treat after lunch! And played in the park!

Prairie Fest - June 14

Exotic Animals, Popsicles, Ponies, Petting Zoo, Lollipops, Wagon Rides.....

And the evening is spent w/Papa Dan visiting, cooking, eating and having fun! Watch out Emeril!

June 10 - 13

(June 10)

Natalie's first tee-ball practice with her team, the Mudcats! And Amanda finds a way to keep herself entertained while Natalie practices!

(June 11)

Surfer Dude!

(June 12)

The first time Ryan rides in his car seat facing forward! Big Boy!

(June 13)

The kids go on some ride-ons at the outlet mall and have a blast on the trolley and space shuttle!

(June13)

On a trip to Target the girls discover the Disney Princess Learning Laptops and L-O-V-E them!

(June 13)

Natalie poses with her newly planted grass that she created at Little Sprouts summer camp. Also, she made this pretty leaf place mat one day. She came home with the cutest crafts every day! She had so much fun hiking, exploring, learning, being outside and meeting new friends!

(June 13)

Our little Groovy Girl is using her Groovy Girl bed as a pillow, how groovin' cute!

Thank You Notes, LIttle Sprouts, Rain Gear & Cupcakes! June 9

Natalie hand-wrote her thank you cards for her preschool graduation and here she is giving Grandma Diamond her thank you. Grandma loved it and was so proud of Natalie for writing her own thank you's!

Amanda, Grandma Diamond and Sydney

Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away!

Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting for the Chocolate Queen!

Ralph's World @ Ravinia - June 8

Well, we were literally on our way to Ravinia for the Ralph's World kids concert and it was down pouring. I mean, we literally knew the concert would be canceled. But, we finished the trip up there and entered the parking lot. Many others will still arriving for the concert which would be in an hour or so. It was still raining and the parking lot was filled with standing water. I was ready to give up the tickets and call it a loss. we saw many ppl. still walking in to the park and so we thought we'd wait until just before the concert and see if the rain would hold-off for the concert. Well, I am so glad we did b/c it stopped raining about a 1/2 hour before the start of the show. We went in and as you can see there was a lot of water, but the show would go an and it did, with no rain! We had a blast. The kids danced their little bottoms off!

So much for the picnic lunch - we ate that in the car while it was still down pouring! Haha!