Summer Time Fun!

We are so lucky to have awesome friend (and neighbors) with a pool.  We have spent many a day at this pool with Miss Natalie.  And the girls have become such good swimmers on their own!

Elise, Lauren, Olivia and Natalie

Jes telling a story of some sort to Katrina.

Jayden and Lauren... good buddies!

The kids playing "SHARK"

Annual Shopping Day

We went on our annual school shopping day with Grandma Hubbard.  We get all of our school supplies, shop for clothes/shoes and have lunch at Biaggis every year.  They are wonderful about food allergies...which is so fun for Elise.

Thumbs up for Elise... they had a Raspberry Sorbet that she can have... topped with powder sugar to make it pretty!  She loved it!

Spumoni was FABULOUS!!!

Grimes Cheer Camp 2012

Time to stetch!

Learning the wrestling cheers.

The High School cheer leaders come over to do the camp.

Getting ready to go the the Divine reunion

Grandpa and Grandma Hubbard
Elise 7 years~ Lauren 6 years

Lauren meets her second cousin Mabel Krebs (Matt's daughter).

Tara Krebs with her kids Grayson, Wesley and Mabel... adorable kids.  Wesley said that Mabel sounded like a baby Pterodactyl! (and yes, I had to look up how to spell Pterodactyl)

Grandpa and Elise playing Battleship... Grandpa took no mercy on her!!

A Day at the Park~

Elise invited her good friend from school, Paige, over for the day.  She plays soccer with our neighbor Nathan.  So we decided to invite them to the park for a picnic lunch and time to run around.  It was a perfect day.  Hot but not humid, and a great breeze.  I got caught up on all of my magazines while the kids ran around!

Paige Peterson, Elise, Nathan and Jayden Davis

They all tried really hard to climb this tree... it entertained them forever!

We ended our day with some yummy ice-cream at TCBY!

Annual Greenwood Hills Block Party

It was another miserably hot day and of course it's the day of the block party again.... but, we made the most of it and had a good time, especially the kids.  We had a smaller group this year but still had good food and great company. It was one of those days where you can't wait to take a cold shower and hang out in the basement of your house because it's so dang hot out.  I think the high was 102 degrees today and to boot, the dew point was crazy high.

Getting the balloons ready for the fight!

Elise, Faith and Lauren had a Kool-Aid stand.  Lauren would yell at cars as they drove by "KOOL-AID FOR SALE".  She was able to stop a few cars too.

Barricades are up... no cars in the street for the next 4 hours... at least.

Bikes are decorated for the parade..

Lined up and ready to go....we even had patriotic music!

Caroline Murphy making her way back up the street.

Elise's good buddy Ella Murphy

Lauren Wood and Percy march in the parade.

Trevor and Joe Feuerhelm make their way down the street.

The Fire Department stopped by the party too.

Elise and Ella missed out in the group photo so they got a their own photo taken.

Chow time!!

The slip-n-slide was about the only thing that kept the kids cool today!

Along with the water balloon fight that lasted maybe... 3 minutes.  All of that hard work filling them and it was over in no time.

Lauren gets Daddy! (Gloria Wood is running for cover in the back ground too!!)

Mairin Murphy... just chillin'

All of the kids... and of course Boston Grimes is right in the middle!