May...and June...

May...

brought spring recitals (actually late April ;))...

Our beautiful flower!

a Dinosaur adventure!

 

playing outside!

and picnics too!

June...

brought more fun in the sun, fishing, and fun ideas from Pinterest :)

fishing!

sidewalk paint!

moon sand!

and an anniversary for Joe and I! We celebrated our 8 years of marriage by attending a rock concert. :) We both love concerts and we decided that we need to attend more of them and more often! Our next concert will be in August! (Maybe one of these days I can convince Joe to go to Bon Jovi with me. ;) ) I cannot believe we've been married for eight years. It truly continues to get better. I feel so blessed to have him by my side on this journey through life and to watch him as a father to our children...it brings me so much joy! 

On our way to the concert we were "spotted"...a woman literally jumped in front of us, snapped our photo, and told us to check out the website the next day. For being completely caught off guard, our picture turned out pretty well! Happy Anniversary to us! :)

June 28th...

In the early morning hours of Thursday, June 28th, Joe and I got our van prepped and ready for our long road trip. We turned off all of the lights inside the van (as best we could), dimmed the screen and dash (as best we could), turned off the garage lights and house lights before going to get our sleeping babies. We were as careful as possible to ensure that their transition from sleeping in their beds to "sleeping" in the car seat went as smoothly as it could. Our efforts were all for not when about twenty minutes south of town Gavin was spotting trains and Sydney was searching for the moon. *sigh* We learned very quickly that this strategy that works for countless other families...isn't quite as successful for us. Luckily, they are both early birds which I guess worked to our advantage this day. 

                                

All in all, they both ended up napping about an hour later in the day (yep, awake for approximately 16 hours that day and only slept for one of them) and they were still rockstars by the time we reached the hotel in Mississippi. We all crashed at 8:00 on the dot that evening, preparing for the rest of our journey to Florida the next day!