Monday, June 25, 2012

Just another summer day :)

I haven't posted any random photos of the girls lately.  They are all just getting so big.  Hannah and Hailee are not babies anymore and are really now little toddlers.  For some reason, I am already sad about Ella's 3rd birthday coming up this year.  It isn't until September, but I can't help myself but think about the fact that we will have a THREE year old!  That seems so old! ((tear))
 
Anyways, we had a nice little summer day today.  Spent time at home (which we probably need to do more of), went to the park, came home and played outside.  Days like today make me love being a stay at home mom.  I love that I get to spend so much time with my girls.  Talk to me on another day and I will probably have a whole different frame of mind.  Ha.  Either way, today was a good day.  Oh, and it ended with a somewhat impromptu girl's night out with a couple of my very best friends.  Can't get much better than that!  Enjoy some photos from our afternoon at the park!

Hailee

Sisters <3

Guess which one is Hailee?  (Hint: look at the bellies:)

Hannah (love those lips!)

Ella, still loving the baby swing!

Hannah trying to figure out how to rock climb..

Hailee, plotting a scheme (see below)

Everyone running away from mommy! (the photos taken after this one of me chasing them would've been quite funny, I'm sure.)

Then Ella decided to climb this big pile of mulch..

and Hailee thought she too, could climb the big pile!



What do you know, somebody got stuck,

and tried to slide down on her belly.

Then Hannah lost a shoe,

and once she found it,

her sister lost hers too.  I think at this point it was time to head home!

Chalk time!

Even the babes love a little drawing! (Look at their orange hair!  Some days it seems so red, we can't believe it!)

Hailee

Hannah and Ella gathering all of their chalk in the shopping cart.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Father's Day

We had a great day today.  We went to church, a good brunch, and all came home and took a nap (the best part)!  We relaxed and had a good day spending time together. 

Daddy and his girls


A friend of mine got an idea from Pinterest for a Father's Day gift.  She came over with her girls the other day and I took everyone's photos.  We each have three kids, so this gift was so perfect and turned out adorable.  Paul absolutely loved it!  Thanks Amie for the idea!!!



The finished product in a frame for his office.  I LOVE it!!!!!

Saturday Fun!

 I normally don't blog about each weekend and what we do, but this weekend was extra fun and action packed so I figured it was blog worthy!

On Saturday morning I went garage sale-ing with a friend.  I must admit, I do not hit yard sales up regularly.  I took Ella and she took her girls with us.  It was SO MUCH FUN shopping for bargains and walking around the community garage sales that we found!  The girls had fun picking out new toys and buying lemonade from the little stands that we passed.  Below are some of the great deals we got:

I got this Littlest Pet Shop toy and animals for only $2.  So far, this is all of the girl's favorite toy!

Little People airplane with 4 people:  $1!  What a deal!

My Little Pony castle and 4 ponies:  $2

Ball pit, never opened:  $2  (Paul was not pleased about this purchase :)

Old antique wagon:  $5.  I will use this as a photo prop.  I have wanted one for a while and probably would've paid $20 for it.  This will be SO cute for outdoor photos of siblings, toddlers, even newborns!  I can't wait to use it!
I also got a princess ride on toy to use outside for only $2 and a outside kid lawn mower for .25 (yes, 25 cents).  All of the stuff I got was in great shape, but I just soaked it all in soapy water when I got home and now it's all clean and has already been played with enough to get my money worth!

Saturday afternoon we went to the Hilliard City Pool.  We spent last weekend here as well.  It is seriously so nice and super fun!  It has a HUGE kid area, a lazy river, a big resort style pool, slides, diving boards, etc.  I cannot believe we had not been here until last weekend.  We will be spending every weekend here that we are in town and available. 

The kid area

Part of the lazy river

Waiting for break time to be over to jump in!

Hannah, just chillin :)

Hailee would rather eat her sunglasses

Playing with friends!

Ella

Sweet Sophia

I love that it is so shallow and has the zero entry for the little ones.

Hannah

Ella

She was pulling this rope and water would come out on her.  She is getting more brave and trying new things each time we go!

Even Paul likes the pool, which really says something!

Fun in the sun!

The babies were all wiped out after our afternoon swimming!  We had to wake them up at 5:30pm!

Hannah (notice she still sleeps with her favorite little monkey from the hospital:)

Hailee

Ella passed out in our bed :)
Saturday evening Paul and I went to Zoofari at the Columbus Zoo.  The zoo is a new client of Paul's at work, so we got free tickets and pretty much had to go.  Little did I know, it would be an AMAZING and super fun time!!  The zoo was filled with over 100 good restaurants in the Columbus area all giving away the best of their food to try, lots of bands playing all night, people dancing, etc.  Who knew the zoo would be so much fun without kids?!  We ran in to some friends that were also there for work and some that had won tickets.  We hung out with Paul's work friends some too.  His work had a private area in the back that we had access to.  It was such a fun time.  I am hoping we get these VIP tickets every year! 

Fun evening out at the Zoo!

Friends we met up with! 



Friends!
Another friend we ran in to that I didn't know would be there!

End of the evening (well, early Sunday morning:)