Beautiful zoo morning and Dora and Diego

On Thursday, we took advantage of the mild temperatures and enjoyed a wonderful morning at the zoo!  That night we went to McWane with some friends to meet Dora and Diego and see their new exhibit.  We had a great time!

GA driving the pirate ship!

raising the sails with Emilyn

GA and Harris checking out the map.  GA was saying "First we have to go to the pirate ship, then we have to hurry to the Animal Rescue center!  Let's go!"

Lizzie loved playing in front of the butterfly screen.

Diego's Animal Rescue Center was really cute!

Diego was trying to get her to look, but she thought he wanted her to point!

Peggy hugging Dora with Hilton! 

Aunt Kim snapped this before we left! I should have taken one of her!

I was a perfect day. . until the MAJOR meltdown that occured when we left McWane! These girls were worn out!

SO MANY phone pictures. . .so little time!

I seriously just spent an entire nap time getting all these pictures uploaded.  Some of these go WAY back to February!

GA and Papa

Lizzie at park

Reading to Sissa

GA and I do some worksheets from time to time while Lizzie is napping.  This made me laugh because she told me she was circling the "email" because it started with E.  Funny that my 3 year old knows an envelope represents an email but has no idea that it is called an envelope!  Thank goodness they both start with E!

Eating at Panera after the dentist

Tripp and GA with bubbles at Eloise's birthday

GA with Hendersons at Zoes

They really love each other! 

Just playing!

Aparently I was bored waiting in line at Publix!

Liz at the zoo!

GA at the zoo!

The "under 2" area at McWane is Lizzies FAVORITE place on earth.  Seriously!  She LOVES it!

Packing for the beach

Meeting Will for lunch one day

Yogurt on the way to the beach

My most favorite beach picture!  This was about 5 minutes after we arrived!  If you could have heard the squeals - totally made the long ride worth it!

Getting gummy worms and ice cream at Pier Park

Back Porch

at the park

The next two are some of Laudan's phone pictures that I stole because I wanted them forever!

We have so many adorable pictures of these two (maybe that should be another whole post).  GA was telling me the other day that Ben was her brother.  I was trying to explain that he is just her friend but she insisted he is her brother.  Close enough - Will and I pretty much consider him our firstborn anyway! Oh, and she tells me all the time that she wants Laudan to be her mommy (but she is kind enough to let me know that I can still live with her at Laudan's house).  Ha! What a blessing to have friends that are TRULY family!

Liz and Bec at the soccer field on Lizzie's birthday!  Bec is so coordinated - I was amazed watching her do her soccer drills! 

Random Pictures from the last week. . .

We had a pretty uneventful week and Memorial Day weekend.  GA and I both like to be busy so the days got a little long sometimes.  We did spend a lot of time playing outside!

This girl is counting down the days until fall soccer!

We went to the pool and GA jumped off the diving board 3 times!

My new favorite outfit - straight out of Laudan's "hammy down" line

May 2012 Beach Trip (Last Post)

GA and RahRah went pretty far out!  This was with my zoom lens.

Swim lessons with RahRah.  He's got his coaching face on!

Tutu bathings suits aren't really my fav, but GA loved them when she saw them last year!  They were cheap at Target, so I gave in!  She loves it!

Miss Priss

Grace Ann met a friend, Beau, who is only 4 days older than she is

out again!

We were SO SAD to leave!