girls' tea party.

Cole's Aunt Colleen and Aunt Maureen, took her out for a tea party. What a fun time for the girls!

Yummmm-O!!!!

They spent some time after lunch exploring the beautiful grounds this place was located on.

Trains!

This girl sure loves the camera :)

Jim even got in on the pictures :)

Sweet, sweet girl!

The trains must have been loud ;)

Thank you so much Aunt Colleen and Aunt Maureen for this fun afternoon for Cole. She is still talking about it and it was her favorite part of the trip :)

storytime.

Aunt Colleen always has fun ideas for the kids while we're there, and the first morning, we got things started with our second annual storytime at the library.





Even Case was loving it :)


They loved marching to the music!

And singing their songs.

Mommy with her three amigos.

After storytime, we headed out into the children's section of the library and Aunt Colleen, I mean the kids, had a ball ;)

Fun morning!

first things first.

We headed to Ohio a couple of weeks ago and landed our first evening with Aunt Colleen, Uncle Tony, and the pup, Guinness.
We planned to leave for Chuck-E-Cheese when we got there, but the kids chose to stay at their house, get their jammies on, and roast marshmallows instead :)
Great choice!!!



These two were very happy kiddos!

Yummy and sticky!

And of course, this sweet little pumpkin was just happy to be out of his carseat :)

precious disobedience.

I forgot to post this earlier...this happened while Mimi was here several weeks ago, but definitely worth the wait for our memory's sake!


So, here's how the story goes...
I go up every night to check on the kids before getting into bed myself.


This night, I go into Cole and Camden's room and this is what I see... um...where's Camden???


And no joke, when I swung my head the other direction, after my heart returned to a normal rhythm, this is what I saw!


Awwww, sweet you say. However, this young man KNOWS he's not allowed to get out of his bed! He snuck into bed with a snoozing, unsuspecting, compliant little girl who until she was 4 1/2 NEVER got out of her bed with out being told to!

I must admit, although this little guy was disobedient, it was awfully cute :) and even funnier, Cole was shocked when she saw these pictures...she couldn't believe he did that ;)


He even had his arm on her arm...and check out those feet! Do you think this guy was cozy?!

gamecocks.

This is for you Grampa (and Uncle Danny :)
It doesn't look quite as good as royal blue, but it will do ;)

I know Cam...it's tough wearing this under these conditions...ha! :)

wild animals.

A few weeks ago, the kids and I had another play date at the zoo playground! We've been enjoying the weather while we can!

Ya gotta love this girl's posing! :)


Monkey man!

Camden and Bo were watching the fun on the merry-go-round...good buddies :)

They were beating the heat ;)

And even getting some love in :)

Brother and Sister checking out the emu.

tapping dancer.

We have a very happy girl! She is LOVING tap!

intense.

This is what kept this kiddo busy at the museum! He works so hard to get that toy into his mouth :)

museum playdate.

About 3 weeks ago...
We had a fun play date at the museum!



Emma was helping Camden check-out his groceries.

His turn! :)

Cole was taking her shopping seriously!

All the while, Case was just hangin out!

Case and Olivia...too much cuteness in one picture :)

Emma, Cole and Isabel were loving the new paint wall!

Camden loved it too!

Good job buddy!

The kiddos on the "news station".

A room full of doctors.

Papaw and Grampa would be proud of this work!

It is really difficult to get all 4 to look at the camera at the same time :)

But Camden LOVES to say cheese!