Summertime Fun

Lot of fun things to celebrate and do in the summertime!  We celebrated Dad's birthday and then Will's a couple days later!

Happy Birthday to you!

 

Maggie is a mini-mom

We had an awesome time at Will's Minecraft-themed party.  As usual, Amy had amazing decorations and plans for all the kids.  They got to swim, play in the splash pad and break a piñata - they slept well that night!

Happy Birthday, Will!  Here's a bucket of water.

Lovely

Rockin her Minecraft shades

Maggie calls this her "withering stare"

There's our girl

Grandpa's always a good sport

Tai Chi on the beach?

Very concerned with preparing a solid foundation 
for her castle...my little engineer

Our little babies

Evie has been begging us to hold a lemonade stand for some reason, so we took all our stuff to Grandma and Grandpa's on a hot hot day... not many customers, but the ones that came (mostly family) paid well!

Note the doggie biscuits and handmade sign - they were quite proud

I think she drank as much as she sold

Jamie and I closed on our new house and on our current house in two days - whew!

Had to sneak in a photo after officially closing

Royal Oak just opened a beautiful new park with a splash pad!  We went to the grand opening and it was awesome.  The county brought their mobile rock-climbing wall, and the playground was a huge hit.  Ben only had eyes for the splash pad. We saw quite a few friends from the area which was so nice!

Who says you can't rock climb in a bathing suit?

She made it pretty high!

Hanging tough

Tickled by the mayor's speech

Ben doesn't know any of these kids, just sat down with them
all to wait for the bucket drop

Later that evening we decided to take the girls to see the women's DCFC soccer game (Grandma watched Ben for us - thank you!).  It is seriously so much fun, and both girls had a great time!  One of the teams that Maggie competed against this spring was there together, and Maggie quickly bonded and became part of their gang.  Evie instantly made friends with another girl in the bleachers (I guess she's not my shy one anymore!), and was busy playing all night.

The girls were on DCFC's Instagram!

Le Rouge!

Cheering with her new scarf

Love this girl

Adopted to the team

The girls had a "late over" at camp this week, and our friends Adam and Sara invited them over for a real sleepover with their little girls.  They had an awesome time, so spoiled!

Tie-dye action!

Hard at work

Life is good

This is how you eat a s'more

Some others:

Got to see Boss Baby with her buddy

Throwback of the Rabine girls from Traverse City

Let me tell you about frogs

zoo visit

Sometimes Jamie takes Ben to camp when they 
need extra help, he fits right in!

Continuing the 7/4 tradition - watching all the random fireworks
from the top of the parking deck

This is Uncle Jason's tortoise Winifred (the boy)

Ben adores him... and we hope Winifred doesn't eat him