Watercolor or Bust!

Our annual trip to Watercolor with the Grinnals, Pickert & Spolar families was so...much...fun!!! We caravanned out of Celebration and the 7 hour drive went by in a flash!!! The house was spectacular and weather was perfect! The kids boogie boarded with a few sharks, jellyfish and some seaweed, but all had fun and we only had one jellyfish sting--Gracie is so brave!!!

4th of July Parade!

Decked out in our red, white and blue and waving our American flags, we proudly gathered on Market Street to cheer on all of the participants of the highly anticipated Celebration 4th of July Parade!! Watercolor float next year!!

Summer Fun!

The girls and I headed up to Ann Arbor, Michigan to visit Aunt Joan and Ken for an action-packed weekend! Highlights included a trip to the Farmer's Market, the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, an interesting acrobatic performance (just this side of Cirque du Soleil) on the lawn of the beautiful University of Michigan campus, swimming & trampolining at Ken's club (Katie encouraged and convinced Caroline to jump off the high dive several times), exploring their amazing backyard (with little butterflies dancing around them ) and helping Aunt Joan pick the perfect location for her new tree, a matinee of "The Muppets Take Manhattan" in the historic and gorgeous Michigan Theatre, a VIP tour of the Ford campus (WOW!--can't wait for our "next new car..The Flex), and then wrapped it all up with a day at the Henry Ford Museum...whew!!! I'm exhausted just thinking about it!!! Sadly, my memory card went wacko, but thankfully Ken got these cute pics! Thanks for a great weekend, Joan & Ken!!!

VBS

Cue Johnny Mathis: "it's the most wonderful time of the year..."

Oh no, I'm not talking about Christmas trees and silver bells, I'm talking about Vacation Bible School!!! Every year we jam to the CD for weeks leading up and this morning we broke out the yellow t-shirts for a week full of fun, friendships and giving thanks!! VBS kicked off today at the Community Presbyterian Church in downtown Celebration and needless to say Day 1 of Power Lab was "totally awesome!!"

Here's a photo from 2005...

Even More Big News!!

Wow!! In the ten days since turning six Caroline has pierced her ears, lost a tooth, mastered hula-hooping on the Wii Fit and learned how to ride a bicycle!! Woo-hoooooo...

Big news!!!

Caroline has officially lost her first tooth!! With lots of supportive cheers and chants from Katie, Sydney, Josie & Griffin, Caroline placed her trust in the nurse we all love and trust dearly, Amy Lowell, to twist and turn that wiggly tooth right on out of her mouth!! She FINALLY got to put a tooth in the fairy godmother pillow and woke up to FIVE DOLLARS!!!! Whew!!! And it just gets better...after her very successful dental cleaning on Friday, the hygienist told her to look forward to THREE more wigglies on their way out as well!!!

Note to Amy::please keep your cell phone handy...

Father's Day

The girls spent the day in EPCOT with Daddy visiting all the countries in World Showcase!! It was a special day...

party, party, party...

Celebrating at School!

More birthday pics!!!

I think Caroline had a really great birthday...

Happy Birthday, BabyGirl!!

We had a fun-filled day (week)celebrating sweet Caroline's 6th birthday!! Kicked it off with a trip to the mall to get her ears pierced!! So far, one is still in!! She was a real trooper considering they couldn't do both at the same time...lollipops always come in handy!! Katie & Caroline baked brownies for her friends to enjoy at camp and her birthday cake for her party--which was supposed to be a pool party, but Mother Nature had other plans. Fortunately the skies cleared and the kids did get to swim. Here are a few pics from the ongoing celebration...