First Official Week of Summer

Connor started Golf Camp this week at William Land Golf Course through The First Tee. He was beyond excited as you can see in the first pic taken on the first day of class. This camp was a present from Poppy and Mimi to Connor and he has absolutely loved it! He seems to learn so much each day. He is in the Wee Swingers 1 and goes from 9:30-12pm each day. Tomorrow is his last day, and he's bummed that it's ending already. 

We've had a few picnics in the park after picking Connor up from golf camp. It's so fun just relaxing and talking with the kids during a picnic. I remember loving when my mom took us on picnics as a kid and I think my kids feel the same way!

While Connor was at golf camp one day, Maddie and I walked over to Fairytale Town and had a quality time girl's date. It was neat to see her take the lead since Connor wasn't there. She led the way and I followed! We had a great time!

Maddie's favorite part of each day this week has been picking up Connor from camp. She misses him when he's there and she gets excited and silly when we pick him up, saying "I missed you Connor! I love you my bubba. How was your day Connor?"

 We made it to rec swim after golf camp yesterday and I just had to take a photo of this sweet moment. I hope my kids always love each other as much as they do now. They have the sweetest relationship. 

Busy, Blessed Weekend

This weekend, we celebrated Father's Day, my dad's belated birthday, Dave's birthday, Jill's birthday, and Cousin Lindsey's college graduation. It was such a fun weekend filled with lots of love and celebration! Here are some of the photos:

Madeline making Poppy's favorite dessert… cream puffs which were filled with ice cream and covered in Saunder's hot fudge! Yummy!

Father's Day lunch at Mimi and Poppy's house with catered El Rosal and good company!

Poppy enjoying his birthday dessert

Back at our house celebrating Grandma Jill's birthday

 Celebrating Pop's Birthday and Father's Day

Celebrating the best dad I could've ever imagined for my kiddos! They are so blessed by his love and laughter!

Celebrating Lindsey's college graduation with a luncheon at Zocalos

Maddie loving on Grandma Jill

4 generations of amazing men, celebrating Father's Day

Happy Birthday to Grandma AND Pops!

Sharing sweet memories with my kids!

We grew up spending the summers at Twain Harte Lake with my family and it's so very special to return each year with my kids. This lake holds so many wonderful memories and it's very nostalgic to see my son slide down the slides and watch my baby girl as she swims to the rock alongside us. This past Friday, we had a blast at the lake. We swam, played catch, slid down the slides, caught tadpoles, laughed, ate snow cones, and built sand castles. Connor and Madeline had a smile on their faces the entire day. We all carpooled in my parents' SUV and Connor, Maddie, and I fell fast asleep on the way home. That's how you know it was a good day!

Summertime...

The start to the summer has been great… We've been spending afternoons at the rec center pool or our mini-pool at home. Connor is taking swim lessons in the evenings and doing great! He's now swimming independently with breast stroke and is starting to doing crawl stroke. It's so fun to watch him swim! Madeline is enjoying the water so much too! She's very confidant with her life jacket on and likes to float around the pool with us. 

End of the season!

We finished off the season with a busy weekend... two games and our team party at Wicked West pizza. We had lots of fun! It's so fun to watch Connor play ball and it's so special to see Mike out there as the coach. He's so amazing with the kids- and the parents have so many nice things to say about Mike. He really is an awesome coach. The kids love him and he really helps each ball player progress and grow. Madeline likes to go to the games and cheer on her brother. It's so swet to hear her yell for Connor (and Daddy!). She's made friends with all the other siblings and loves to  play with all the kids. I love that we get to spend time at the ball park and watching Connorr play is just so much fun... one of my favorite things to do!

Splash Park Fun!

We are so blessed to have this awesome park by our house! The kids love cooling off at the splash park during the summer. Maddie was a bit timid at first but got comfortable quickly. Connor ran right in and went under the big buckets and got a ton of water dumped on his head! I love hanging out with them and just watching them laugh and have a blast together!