July 2016

We spent our July doing all the fun things that we love to do in the summer! I know I always say this every year, but this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE time of the year. I get to spend soooo much time with my babies and I cherish every single minute of it.

Here is our July in pictures:

Does this pictures of GJ not remind you of the little cave boy, Spot, from "The Good Dinosaur"… that girl has some major bedhead and I caught her putting on Caycen's clean shorts from our folded laundry!!!

4th of July festivities were a blast! We started them out with the fireworks at the park in Richmond Hill with our best friends!

GJ just kept saying the whole time "AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING!!!"

The next night we went to the fireworks at the Yacht club with Nona, Papa Ray, Aunt Sissy, and Uncle Chris.

Then the next night we had dinner at Aunt Sissy and Uncle Chris's house.

We love to make silly faces… especially the smushy face!

We packed up the house… GJ even helped!

Hailey came to spend a few days with us all by herself! We had so much fun!!!

We found the mermaids that we lost the day we bought them!!! yay!!!

We celebrated Caycen turning 5 and Gracie June turning 3 with all of our friends. All of the birthday pictures will be in our next blog post.

We ate LOTS AND LOTS of popsicles this summer.

 The kids got to spend some time with Nona. They got to go to build-a-bear and make a pony and a Ninja Turtle. Then they had ice cream!

These kids are a mess!

GJ asks almost every Sunday after to church to go take a picture by the lake. Usually we take her up on it :) That girl LOVES to pose!

well… with Daddy I guess...

We made it to my new school to START moving stuff in.

We took our annual Amelia Island vacation (more pictures to come in a separate post). It was much needed!!!!

We found some cool ring pops at Michaels and had to take a picture of them!

Grandma sent Caycen a Hulk costume in the mail… He definitely knows how to act like this character!!!!

We didn't take a last picture (maybe we should have), but we moved out of our house at the end of July. This was the first house that Chance and I purchased as a married couple, the house that we brought our kids home to, and the house that we have 7 years of memories in. We have closed one chapter and are now moving on to a new chapter in our lives. We are very excited about all of the changes coming up.

God is so great!!! I know with all of our changes, we need to focus on keeping our eyes on the Lord and what is most important in our lives. I am so grateful to our family and friends for all of their support while we make all of these new transitions. I can't wait to see what God has in store for our family!

July 2015 Part 1

We had so much fun in July that I decided to split the month into two posts!

July started off with a bang on the 4th of July for an Independence Day celebration at our country club. It was the first time that Gracie June has seen fireworks (other than the beginning of every Disney movie haha). They had a blast running around on the golf course and playing with glow in the dark necklaces. 

We also celebrated 4th of July with a little pool party at the clubhouse. We didn't stay too long because it was packed… but the pool is definitely our favorite place to be this summer!

That Sunday, after church, we got snow cones and then went to brunch at the clubhouse.

I completed another painting project using Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue and Old White. This china cabinet was given to me by my mom, when Chance and I moved into our house. It was definitely a hard project, but SO worth it!

More popsicle days out on the back porch.

 CHEERS!

And we've been doing the redneck water slide a LOT lately as well.

Caycen found his cars set in one of the baskets in the playroom and didn't even remember having this! It has been so much fun making new tracks. He now plays with it all the time!

 We had lunch in the playroom and GJ was so excited about it!

I had document GJ in this cute little outfit! But she is a hard one to get a picture of!

My little man loves to take pictures of himself!

 Running this summer with these two has been BRUTAL!!!

We got to celebrate Cow Appreciation Day this summer at Chick-fil-a! My FAVORITE place to eat…

We've started swim lessons at the beginning of July. GJ cried the whole first session, but did so much better after that. Caycen is a fish in the water. He's been swam all the way from the deep end of the pool to the shallow end. He went from a level 2 to almost completing level 3 in just 4 weeks!!!!

That was the first half of July. The rest of our summer fun will be in the next post. I have enjoyed every minute with these two kiddos this summer!!!