We started the month off at the beach for Hogan's family vacation and July 4th. We celebrated Briggs' 6th birthday, made it to the mountains (yay!) and finished the month back at the beach house with Grandpa and Grandma. Throughout it all, Charley worked hard at Matilda practice, and Lily enjoyed some rare and much deserved down time!
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| B made a fun map to Pittsburgh. :) |
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| Took a nature walk with the boys and B found a stick that looked like a L, so we decided to find sticks to make Lily's name. |
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| A little Harry Potter time with Lil. |
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| Fireworks! |
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| Grandma knows how much the kids check the mailbox at the beach house, so she sent fun mail for them to open. So fun! |
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| Cousin uno time. |
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| Home and playing school. Love when they all do stuff like this together. |
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| Lil said look, I'm Ms. Hyde (sipping her coffee). |
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| Seriously it's one thing I love about Summer... watching the girls play the way they did when they were little. Lil discovered the lights and sounds worked on the dollhouse and it was so cute how excited she was. :) |
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| Haha. Lily's stepping up her pre-shower make-up. |
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| Heart shadow with Charley! |
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| Braces appt for C. Crazy how quickly the girls' smiles are changing. |
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| First ukulele lesson with Mr. English. |
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| And Charley did a guitar lesson. So cool! |
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| Doll hospital. |
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| Fun at Grayson's party. Love Lil getting to hang out with her Dilworth girls. |
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| Charley and Parker sleepover! |
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| Something made the girls think about their old dance recital so we watched their recital DVD. So sweet to see little Charley and Lily (and Annie)! |
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| Lily and I FINALLY finished Harry Potter book 5!!! |
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| Loving on her bunnies at Bunny Blessings! |
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| Off to vacation bible school. They had a good time this year and the boys were all about the VBS songs! |
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| Watching Harry Potter 5 movie. |
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| Charley's headshot for Matilda! |
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| Carowinds with Daddy. |
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| Family story time on B's birthday eve! |
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| Last night as a five year old! :) |
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| Happy Birthday, Briggs! |
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| Bday duckpin bowling. |
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| B got a special visit from Mario and Princess Peach. Love how these girls celebrate their brothers! |
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| They even signed autographs. :) |
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| Happy 6, B! |
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| Then the boys took a turn to dress up and sign autographs. :) |
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| Fun birthday party at My Gym. |
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| Mountains! |
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| Fun at the alpine coaster. |
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| I love how much Lily's gotten back into reading this Summer. |
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| We went by the ropes course and it's right by Tweetsie- the boys went nuts when the train went by! |
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| Crew, Briggs, Charley, Hogan and Grandpa did the ropes course. I was so impressed with them. Especially B surprised me... he loved it! |
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| Practicing Matilda at the beach. |
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| It was so fun getting to watch a little bit of the filming of The Summer I turned Pretty. THe girls know one of the actors from Mean Girls and got to watch the scene where he drives by in his car... and they MAY even get to be spotted in the background of the scene. |
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| Lots of boat reading on this trip. :) |
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| This was the Summer of Lily's splits. She stretched almost daily and has improved her flexibility so much. Go Lil! |
