Friday, June 15, 2012

Part 2: Week with GrandMare


Burke Lake Park with GrandMare
The Park had a lake, a family of ducks, a carousel and a train

It was beautiful weather and a great little place fairly close to our house


This sounds funny, but I felt like we were in the movie Narnia (#1) where the kids ride to their Uncle's house on a train through all this beautiful terrain! 


We were sad to see GrandMare go.  We love visitors so if any of you are considering a vacation...
Marianne left Saturday morning. That afternoon Jon took the kids to another cool park.  Next to the park and lake there was a small reptile house

Apparently there were toads in the little zoo/house and then there were more toads down by the pond.  When Jon and the kids walked out on the dock to see the fish and toads, a toad jumped up right by Jon's foot. He jumped, yelled and ended up scaring the living daylights out of Luke!  Oh no!

The kids kept telling me about the snapping turtles
This week we headed over to our 2nd family in DC's house...Cam, Sarah, Lucy and Nora


I loved Lucy's new pool---primarily because it had a sneezing giraffe!

The kids had a blast and it felt good to get out

Nora and Claire
The Deedee Claire



We are loving Claire's sweet smiles
My friend Callie gave her the adorable feather headband :) The shirt and skirt are actually for a 9 month baby and Claire is barely 6 weeks!  She could grow into the shirt, but her pudgy belly fills the skirt out!




Finally got some really sweet smiles of hers on camera.


I love this picture!  My baby "Claire Atrisha"(what Luke calls her) is our little angel


3 comments:

Jyl said...

Loved all the pictures and Claire's smiles are soooo precious! Wondered what was on her head and then you said a feathered headband. Looks like so much fun you guys are having although no snapshots of the 4-7pm hours, right? Shelby is coming!! Love you, MOM

Jody Neeley said...

Claire is so beautiful! Miss you guys. Thanks for keeping up on your blog, I love hearing how you are all doing.

Anonymous said...

What a cutie! Love the smiles at the end.