Grace Is 5!

It's a bit late of an update, but I wanted to post some of the pictures of Gracie turning 5! Her Granny's birthday is the day before so Grace was privileged to have her Granny here to celebrate with her. My sweet girl turned 5 on July 13th!

Granny and Papa bought her a new big girl bike b/c she can now ride with no training wheels! And her Grandma and Grandpa Way bought her the long anticipated Dora doll that can be taken in the bath and her hair changes color, and make-up appears..... yada, yada, yada. She has been wanting this for FOREVER!!!! She was thrilled to get it. And her mama and daddy got her her very own game boy. She was VERY spoiled this year... but hey she's the middle child, she needs a little bit of spoiling!

When I get a chance I will put together a little slide show of her growing up. In the mean time, here are some pics from her b-day party.

Summer is just flying buy! We have been taking advantage of every moment of it!

We've been camping every chance we get. Clint's parents come up in July and they brought our nephew Andrew with them. So we loaded up the trailer and we camping! Just before they came out, Gabe finally learned to ride his bike w/o training wheels! Of course me mentioning that his cousin didn't know how and that he would be able to show Andrew that HE could do it, might have added some sudden inspiration!But it didn't last for long, b/c once we went camping, I taught Andrew how to ride w/o training wheels!!!!! I am sure the entire campground thought I was crazy running behind him and hooting and hollering! But I was soooo proud of him, and it was awesome to see all the kids (minus Abby of course) riding their bikes like "big kids"!


*Sorry Alecia, I don't have pictures of Andrew riding, just video of it! :( I was too busy running to take pics and when he finally got it, I ran and grabbed the video camera instead! I think your dad took pics though.*

Papa and Granny certainly enjoyed relaxing and just hanging out with their grandkids.


This was pretty much how Papa looked the entire trip!


The kids really enjoyed hanging out and playing with each other. I wish they could see each other more often! Here's a few pics of them just being kids...








All in all I think the kids had a great time!