Beach Babes!

We took a quick trip to the beach during our summer break.  I finished school on Saturday, and Anna Claire starts back to school on Wednesday!  I can not believe summer is almost over.

We hit the beach immediately, and the girls loved it!  This is the first year neither of them was scared of the waves!  They had a blast.

After splashing in the waves, we went in for supper and headed to get hair wraps! Anna Claire was so excited! Gracie decided she did not want one this evening.

The girls had fun running and playing in the sand!

Even did some kart wheels!


















Enjoying the morning on the beach...

And the afternoon..
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Supper at Peg Leg Pete's, aka "The Pirate Place" according to the girls.

Gracie was so tired this is what happened in the middle of supper:

After supper, Gracie decided we must go back and get a hair wrap for her.  She was so serious about sitting still!

Another day at the beach...







And a little Putt Putt!



Pictures for fun!




And a dolphin cruise to end our time at the beach...

BLUE Ice Cream!

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Baby?

Pretending to be a baby in the church nursery.
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Be Jeweled!

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An Adventure!

Today we went to Childersburg, AL to visit DeSoto Caverns.  It was quite the adventure.  We arrived and the girls began panning for gemstones.  They loved finding pretty colored rocks in the sand!














Next we explored the DeSoto's Lost Trail Maze.  This is a 3/4 acre maze that we traveled through completely.  Right in the middle of this journey the rain began and it poured!  We could not find the exit and ended up completely soaked!  There was nothing to do but laugh and splash in the puddles.




I decided we should go do something inside,  so we went on the cave tour.  I didn't think about it being 60 degrees in the cave!  A little cold since we were soaking wet.  The girls were a little scared of the dark, but we enjoyed seeing the incredible cave formations!





By the end of the tour Anna Claire was beginning to enjoy it, but Gracie was still scared.















After the cave tour, we played in the bounce house until the rain came again.  Hopefully next time we will miss the rain!  There are many more activities to try.

Jello Jigglers!

Gracie chose a foot, heart and a bear!

Anna Claire chose a bunny, duck and cat!

They ENJOYED...

Girly Fun at Home

This morning we decided to have a party!  We began our day by baking chocolate chip cupcakes and making tea.  After everything was ready, we dressed up and had a sweet tea party complete with many babies and animals!

Play-date at the Pool

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Fourth of July Weekend!

We had a great weekend of lazy times around the pool!


KiKi and Anna Claire!

Uncle David and Anna Claire!

Gran and Gracie!

Gracie is "practicing hard."

Grandaddy and Gracie!

Mommy and her girls!




Anna Claire practicing her cheerleader skills.  She was so
proud of how steady she got.  She said, "I could just sit
and have a tea-party up here!"

"We love our Uncle David!"

(No worries, the bandaid on Gracie's forehead is just for looks! :)

Butterflies!!!

Over the last couple weeks we raised butterflies!  We received the caterpillars in the mail...

They formed chrysalis...

And this morning we woke up to...


BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES!!!