the great outdoors.

The weekend before school began, Cole and her Daddy went on one of Cole's favorite adventures! Camping!!! This is by far, some of THE most precious time these two spend together :)

All packed up and ready to go!

And when they get to their sight, this girl got right to work!

What a sunset!

These pictures melted my heart :)

Let dinner begin!

And then game time...this is one of her favorite parts of the camping experience :)

And a breakfast of champions...

Back to the water's edge they go!

Too precious for words!

And there's no better game for camping in Cole's book than go fish!

Cole's handy camera work.

birthday promise.

Our sweet friend, Sydney Ann Spohn, turned 4 years old back in August. The weather was interesting to say the least. Switched from rain to sun back and forth several times and you know what shows up when sun and rain are present...Rainbow!!!
We had a beautiful time talking about God's reminder that He always keeps his promises with these sweet kiddos! Thank you God for this beautiful reminder!

My how these girls have grown! (Emma, Cole, Mabry, Anna)

The poor daddys kept drying the bouncy house :)

Look at that beauty!!!

What's more fun than playing in the puddles :)

And more drying!

The drying paid off...lots of jumping!

Sweet little Caser was busy on the playground!

And then the fun really began...nothin runs like a deere! ;)

The 3 beautiful Spohn girls! Happy Birthday Syd!

Sydney was not sure about everyone singing!

Then the help came to the rescue :)

more zoo.

Later in the week, we headed back to the zoo with the Pistorius girls!

Case always loves a swing...as long as you don't push him too high! He's very cautious!


These girls always love the merry-go-round!

Daddy even met us for a little bit :)

Look at these precious babies holding hands :) Case and Olivia are going to be good buddies!

Quite the quad!

Flamingo girls!

cause for celebration.

We were SO proud of Camden for his potty training success that we probably would have given him ANYTHING he asked for...this is what we wanted :)

Great job buddy!!! We are so proud of you!

singin in the rain.

That afternoon, after rest time, we headed outside for some sprinkler time. The umbrellas were just for added fun :)

A quick pose for me :)

I'll give you one guess what this little guy was concentrating so intently on...

That's right...a ball of course!

Camden LOVED playing with the umbrella!