Thirteen Years

We spent our thirteenth wedding anniversary at Kate and Sean's house at Lake Wylie.  We played in the lake and on the water slide and had a cook out.  The kids played their little hearts out and fell asleep five minutes into the drive home.  They enjoyed playing with "baby Fitz" and holding little Evie.  We had great company and great food and it was a perfect way to spend our anniversary! 

   

Kate and Sean had this awesome water slide / pool.  The kids spent hours on this!

   

    

   

    

Baby girl had her own pool.

   

   

Kate and I went paddle boarding on the lake.

    

   

Alex and Sean went canoeing.  

    

The kiddos swam in the lake and floated on floats for a little bit.

    

   

They ultimately went back to the water slide.

   

   

Alex found a lot of lake mussels! 

   

   

Harper found every opportunity to hold baby Evie.  She was able to feed her!

   

      

Kate had these retro bomb pops!

    

   

    

We had this delicious blackberry cobbler for dessert.

   

4th of July glow sticks!

    

Very sleepy kiddos!

Carowinds Celebration

For Harper's birthday, she wanted to go to Carowinds with her friend, Emmet.  We went from park opening to mid afternoon.  The kids were wiped!  Harper fell asleep on the way back to the house for cake.  We had a fun time!!

    

It was great getting to Carowinds early because there were no crowds or lines!

    

Harper forgot this ride goes fast!

         

Which we thought was very funny!

   

      

   

   

Emmet asked to ride this crazy ride.  Alex went with him the first time.  Harper decided she wanted to give it a try, but panicked after getting into the seat so Alex took her off.  It wasn't as bad as it looks.

    

     

Bumper cars were a hit!

   

   

   

We renamed this ride - Harper's Swings.

    

   

There were a few rides that you have to sit with an adult if you are shorter than 54 inches.

   

   

   

   

   

   

Alex got a bullseye! 

       

    

We had a lot of snacks.

   

    

   

Happy birthday Girlie!

    

    

Harper's 7th Birthday

We celebrated Harper's seventh birthday yesterday!  She was lucky enough to have both sets of grandparents and Great Grandma in attendance for her birthday.  Her day started with a special breakfast with the Scheers.  After I finished work (and it stopped raining) we all went to the pool at the condo.  Harper thoroughly enjoyed all her birthday gifts and it was fun to watch her open them.  The kids were up until after eleven at night playing with all the new toys!  It was a great birthday celebration!