Fun at Grammy and Poppa's!

While Michael is gone to conference, we have been playing at Grammy and Poppa's house. Today we decided to go to City Lake Park in the morning and then have water fun in the afternoon! They have been running around and playing all day! All three kids took a big nap after the park, and hopefully, will sleep all night tonight. Here's just a little bit of our day. . .

 Driving the fire engine at the park

Scooting through the tunnel

Once we got done playing in the park, we had about 15 minutes to kill before we could ride the Carousel and the train. As you can see, they weren't too fond of waiting!

Getting ready to go ride!

Lucy loves the carousel

On the train! Charlie was sitting on my lap and threw his feet up as I was taking the picture . . .I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone knew that he was there too!

After nap, we played with toys for a little while - Lucy has been singing with her new karaoke machine every chance she gets!

Alex :)

Charlie - he wanted to play with everything but he would never let go of his shoes . . .who knows why . . . 

Finally, it was time to go outside and play with water!! As we were getting ready to go out, Charlie kept shouting, "Yeah! Yeah!"

Alex accidentally sat down in the pool . . .clearly, he didn't mean to do that :)

Lucy and Charlie 

Lucy wanted to stretch out in the sun and warm up . . .Alex decided to join her!

Trouble with a capital T . . .good thing he's so cute! 

After Alex had a sip of water, he took the bottle and started walking off, saying, "Chuh! Chuh!" (That's what he calls Charlie) He wanted to make sure that his brother got something to drink too . . .so sweet!

Flashback Friday

Here are a few photos are from the end of May and early June that I forgot to post . . . .

We went to Aunt Tanya's wedding at the end of May. Mike always does such a good job of taking pictures of everything, so I swiped these off of his computer. . . .

And then these photos are from Father's Day. I try to get a picture of Michael with the kids every Father's Day. We did the best we could, but these kids are at the age where it's almost impossible to get all three looking at the camera at the same time!

We went to the Flacks on Father's Day and cooked dinner for everyone. Here's Pappy with all his grandbabies!

Happy 5th birthday, Lucy!

Five years old . . . FIVE!!! How did this happen?? Lucy has been counting down all week for her birthday. She would tell us each day, "It's my last Thursday/Saturday/whatever day or being four!" And of course, today, she was FINALLY five!!

Our morning started out with some birthday tackles from her brothers . . .

Then Lucy went to a special breakfast with her Daddy. Michael had to leave this morning to go to Annual conference at Lake Junaluska so he was going to miss the rest of the day's fun.

Grammy had found Frozen cake decorations, so Lucy decorated her birthday cake when Grammy got home from work.

This one is random, but Alex's face just cracks me up here. . .

After her birthday dinner of chicken, green beans, and potatoes (her request), it was time for cake!

We cut the cake, but Lucy was too excited about presents to even eat her cake. She declared that cake would have to wait - it was present time!

She was so excited to get her Elsa dress . . .she has been asking for this for months!

Charlie sat and watched . . .he had Oreos for his dessert ;)

After all the present fun, Lucy had to try out her things! She was dressed to the max with her dress and her crown and shoes from the boys.

Her Frozen kingdom . . . so many Frozen toys!!

As she was going to bed, I asked if she had a good birthday. She said that it was great and that tomorrow would be her first Thursday of being five. :)

What a great year four was and I am looking forward to everything that five holds for Lucy. She amazes me constantly and even though she has her difficult moments (as all children do!), I couldn't ask for a more wonderful little girl. I am grateful for every moment God gives us with her. Happy birthday, my sweet Lucy. Mommy and Daddy are so proud of the young lady you are. We love you so much!!!

Lucy's favorites at five years old

We started this tradition last year. It's funny how so many of her favorites have stayed the same!! :) (And all her new favorites come from the movie Frozen!)

What is your favorite color? pink and purple
What is your favorite toy? Elsa Ice Castle, Elsa, Anna and Olaf dolls
What is your favorite fruit? watermelon
What is your favorite TV show? Sofia the first and Doc McStuffins
What is your favorite movie? Frozen
What is your favorite outfit? popsicle dress
What is your favorite snack? strawberries
What is your favorite book? Frozen books
Who are your best friends? Kendall, Miah, Leah, Abby, Lucy Lew
What is your favorite animal? cute puppies
What is your favorite song? Let it Go
What is your favorite holiday? Easter, because Jesus died for us (I have to admit . . .I teared up a little when she gave that answer)
What do you sleep with at night? Pig, Gabby the seahorse, bear, "huggy blanket"
What is your favorite drink? water
What is your favorite breakfast food? Bebo's (this is what we call Pecan twirls at our house)
What do you like to eat for lunch? Ham sandwich
What do you want to eat for your birthday dinner? chicken, potatoes, green beans
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A Princess :)

Hats!

At Easter time, we bought the boys and Lucy little hats out of the dollar spot at the front of Target. Alex enjoyed playing with them, but Charlie wanted nothing to do with them. Fast forward to a couple months later (now!), and both boys want to wear them all the time! :)

During morning nap time, Charlie wanted to play and wouldn't be quiet. Alex had fallen asleep so we let Charlie get up so that he wouldn't wake up his brother. Even though it meant my to do list would have to wait, it was nice to have a little play time with Charlie. Lucy informed us she was too busy playing with her Leap Pad to join us, so it was just Mommy/Charlie time. Well, what did Charlie want to play with? He wanted to wear his hat and play with his Daddy's new PS 4 remote!

Oops! I've been caught!

Daddy can't get mad because I am so cute! :)

This picture makes me do a double take . . . at first, when I looked at it, all I could see was Alex! But I promise, it's Charlie!

Charlie and I played until Alex woke up and then everyone had lunch. We played outside for a while, watched some TV and then it was afternoon nap time. So now, Alex had no interest in sleeping, but Charlie was exhausted! Now it was Alex/Mommy time! And what did Alex want to do? Play with his ball and wear the hat!! :)

And this picture - here it looks so much like Charlie, but this is really Alex!!

Alex wanted to wear Daddy's flip flops tonight. He was walking around in both, but by the time I could get the camera, he only had one left.