Catching Up....

I need to do some catching up here on my blog... probably most of you that read this know all the new info or have seen the pictures but I have to post it anyway :)

The latest news... well the most exciting news lately is that we are having another baby !!!!! This little one has been long awaited and I am sure that this timing is all in God's perfect plan. This baby is expected December 18th so now I must get my Christmas shopping done before hand! :) We are all so excited and the girls are thrilled! I think a lot of people are hoping we will have a boy and even the girls are kind of hoping for a little brother but Barry and I are sure that whatever the baby 'is' is what God wants for our family. Oh I should mention that we will find out at the end of July so stay tuned.

Now for some recent happenings....

Happy Father's Day!!

We had a wonderful Father's Day celebration cook out last Saturday with my family and we enjoyed Sunday spending the day with Barry! What a great Daddy he is :)

BEACH VACATION!!!

We enjoyed a wonderful, relaxing, fantastic vacation to Topsail Beach, NC at the end of May to the beginning of June. We went with some wonderful friends and the week was just great! We ate, we played, the kids slept great each night! We can't wait to do it again :)

A pic of our two families! We are planning our next beach vacation for the summer of 2013! Never hurts to plan ahead :)

Sydney turned 9!!!!!

Well, my baby turned 9 on June 11th. How can that be? I don't know! She had an American Girl party complete with a houseful of other 9 year olds and their dolls. It was a great party! Sydney is growing up so quickly and turning into a sweet, lovely, smart young lady... I could go on ;)

All the party friends and their American Girl dolls! It was a little crazy but Sydney had a blast!

Well those are our updates as of now! We are enjoying our summer and trying to hit the pool as often as we can. We just finished up a fun week of VBS at church, it was a great week!

HAPPY SUMMER!!

Happy Birthday Molly

My baby turned 4 yesterday! How can that be?? These last four years have flown by and she becoming quite independent now and does not want much help from her big sisters anymore :) We celebrated last Saturday with all of the family and yesterday she got to have a doughnut for breakfast, do some shopping with Mom and then she chose Fritz's for her birthday dinner!

Posing for some birthday pictures!

At her birthday party...

I AM 4!!!!!!

One of her new favorite gifts... Baby Alive!

Happy Birthday Molly!

Camping!!!

Barry took Sydney and Gracie camping with him about a week ago. They were SO excited to go and Gracie was even more excited about getting to change her clothes in the tent! They went with some friends from church and they all had so much fun!

All the kids playing with the glow stick/flashlight things...

Saturday morning at camp!

Trying their hand at fishing!

Sydney is getting the hang of it!

Breakfast??

Molly and I stayed home and went to dinner and had a girl movie night with some girlfriends :) Much more up my alley!

Gracie's Preschool Program

Gracie had her Spring music program a couple of weeks ago. It was so cute! She did a great job! I am posting just a few pictures from the program... there are a lot more but I won't bore you with that:)

Taking a break for a little bit!

Ready to sing!

Singing one of her fun songs!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I know this a little late but still wanted to get some pictures posted! I hope you all had a blessed Easter celebrating our Risen Savior! We love to celebrate with family in Hutchinson every year. God blessed us with a beautiful, sunny day!

The fam before church.

All the cousins before the egg hunt!

Gracie, Molly and Sydney before church!

Ready for church in their Easter finest :)

Birthday Fun

I got to celebrate my birthday with all of my family and had a wonderful dinner and the girls all made sweet homemade birthday cards. Barry took the girls to pick out flowers for me, here are some pictures he took during the process of planting them and giving them to me :)

The girls filling the buckets with dirt to pot the flowers.

Gracie and Molly got a ride in the wheel barrel!

The girls with the flowers they picked out.

All done! Don't they look great! They were so proud and I was so happy!

Sydney and Gracie helping Barry get the candles ready on my super yummy triple chocolate cake, thank you Lori!!

Kindergarten Round Up

Gracie had her Kindergarten Round Up recently! I can't believe she is getting ready to start Kindergarten :)

She got to meet all the Kindergarten teachers and have a snack. They even had a magician for the kids to enjoy, it was a fun time and she is really looking forward to being in Kindergarten next fall and be at the same school as Sydney:)

Enjoying a snack and listening to the teachers.

Can you tell she is excited!