Bowling!

We had a late start this morning. Charlotte was tired, she slept until 9:30 this morning!

"It's still too early, Mama."

 This afternoon Mama kept Charlotte while she napped and Uncle Blake and I took Julia bowling. Uncle Blake won one game and I won one game, but Julia was a close second in both games!

I think the cheesesticks were her favorite part! 

Julia had lots of fun bowling and asked when we could go back again. If you go to kidsbowlfree.com you can register your kids and get 2 free games per day during the summer! I think we may be spending a lot of time at the bowling alley!

I know this picture of Charlotte is blurry, but I still love it. It shows her rotten smile and personality!

Tomorrow the girls, Nonny and I are heading to the beach with the church to spend the afternoon on the pirate ship. I can't wait to see how the girls like it!

Painting Fun

The girls and I were going stir crazy today and needed an activity to entertain us so I busted out this painting activity. I gave them q-tips, make up sponges and cotton pads. They both had fun making a mess!

Silly girl! 

Daddy's home!

Daddy came back from his work trip today so the girls and I made him some welcome home/happy birthday signs. I let them have it with the paint which they thought was awesome! 

 

I'm pretty sure Charlotte got more paint on herself than she did on the poster! 

Happy Father's Day!

We got up bright and early this morning and headed back from the beach. We came home, ate lunch, and packed Michael back up so he could head to Pell City for the week.

This evening the girls and I went to Dothan to celebrate Father's Day with Granddad. I didn't take any pictures!

I'm hoping for a quiet, low key week without Michael around, but that never seems to happen when he's gone!

Beach Day

We woke up this morning to a beautiful day at the beach!  We got dressed and headed out to an early lunch at Bud & Alley's. I'm so excited that there's one in PCB now and we don't have to drive to Seaside just to eat there anymore.

Julia wanted to make a silly face

 Crazy girl loves lemons!

After lunch we took a walk down the dock to look at all the boats before we headed out. 

When we got back from lunch Michael and Charlotte took a nap and Julia and I went over to the beach.  Julia built a sand castle and played in the edge of the water while I relaxed for a little bit and then we went out in the water and took a walk down the beach. She asked me if we could swim to California but I convinced her that that would be a little far.

 I told her to pose for me and this is what I got. I asked her what that was and said "It's my Sarah face!"

 She still loves to wave to all the helicopters. 

We stayed down at the beach for a few hours before we headed up and got showered. I had a session tonight but GranDi and Granddad came down to the beach and took us out to eat for Michael's birthday after my session. We had a delicious dinner at Boar's Head.

We were unsure if we were going to go back tonight or spend the night but since it was almost 10:00 before we got done with dinner we decided to stay another night. Michael dropped Julia and I off at Miracle Strip and went back to the house to turn the air back on before he came back to get us. 

 

Unfortunately, we only had time to ride 3 rides but Julia still had a good time. She wanted to ride the "Scribble Scrabble" AKA the scrambler first. After the scrambler she got brave enough to try the Sea Dragon. She was a little uneasy when it would go up backwards and lifted you slightly off your seat. She finally got to ride the bumper cars too. They weren't open yet the last time we were there. We had to wait several rides before we got on but she loved them!

 

Waiting on the scrambler to start

Bumper cars

Charlotte has had a low low "fever" today (99-100) and has hardly eaten anything (I think all she's had to eat all day is a 1/4 of a PB&J, a handful of goldfish and about 3 French fries) so there has been lots of Julia/Mommy time and Charlotte/Daddy time. I've enjoyed my time with Julia but I hope next time Charlotte is feeling better so we can all spend time on the beach and enjoying Miracle Strip together!

Magicians and Chik-Fil-A

Today's library activity was a Magician. Grayson and Natalie met us there. Most of the content was a little over their head but they had a good time talking! They were pretty impressed when the magician made a little girl float in the air and when he pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

 Petting the bunny

After we left the library we had our usual Thursday lunch of Chik-Fil-A. We had to go pick something up at Maribeth's after lunch which resulted in more playtime for Grayson and Julia. I just knew they would both fall asleep on the way home but I was wrong! Charlotte did, but Julia was still talking when we pulled in the driveway!

Thursdays are quickly becoming my favorite day of the week during the summer!

Fashion Sense

Mom kept the girls for me today so that I could go to lunch with some friends. I had sundresses picked out for the girls to wear but they would have none of it. They picked out their own clothes instead. Charlotte was absolutely adamant about wearing her boots! I was surprised that Julia chose her sandals over her boots today!

 

When did she get so big?!

I wish I knew how many hours are spent riding some sort of horse at our house!