Some time you need to....

Stop and smell the flowers!! 

Saturday night we went up to Clear Lake and spent the day on Sunday on the water.. It was a wonderful day!! Saturday night was a little chilly so we went and walked around the Clear Lake gardens, they are beautiful and I loved this little shot I got of the girls.. They were busy smelling all of the flowers!

family date night!!

We had a wonderful weekend but the best part for sure was the family date night that we did Saturday night!

We all got all dressed up and headed to Brown Bottle in Cedar Falls for dinner.. the girls loved getting dressed up and being included in the fun of going out to eat at a fancy dinner.. it was wonderful.

We had a great time, had a wonderful waitress that would play Cat's Craddle with Z when ever she came over and of course Charlee was just being busy being Charlee:)

Sunday fun day!!

We had a great Sunday!!

Charlee had a great time at the farm looking at all of horse and even got real brave and decided to ride Custer for a bit. I was so proud of her!

After all of that farm work we were hot, so we headed to the Vinton pool where Charlee had a great time jumping in with Aunt Sue making big splashes and doing cannon balls! She had so much fun!!!

After swimming Sue made a wonderful dinner and then we got to make Smore's... Charlee loved the Smore's and helped her self to two along with half of anyone else that would share with her, but she had to eat that many because she got half of everything all over her cute little face:)

It was a great Sunday Fun day spent with family!

4th of July

Charlee had a great 4th of July. Her and Jake headed to the lake on Wednesday!

Thursday we went to the parade, boated, tubbed, swam and even made home made ice cream.. it was wonderful!

Friday Papa John, Mary and Aunt Sue came to the lake and it was wonderful! we had a great time of swimming and a picnic on the boat. Charlee also got to go to the carnival and had a great time riding all of the rides that she could, if only she was a little bit taller:)

Saturday, Charlee got to go swimming with just dad and he can throw her pretty high up in the air and she just loves it. Charlee loves the water this ear and its so funny when ever she goes all the way under she comes back up almost growling.. so cute!!

Saturday we also tubed, where Charlee became airborn for a second, until Mimi was able to pull her back into the tube:) We also anchored and played on the beach for a bit, they had a great time building sand castles.

Sunday we swam and did the carnival again and then headed home...it was a wonderful weekend!

Catching up!

Char got to spend an entire weekend at Clear Lake with just Mimi and Grandpa and to say that she LOVED it would be a MAJOR understatement... She got a new Mickey Mouse poll and had a great time fishing off the dock with Grandpa.

Going for a Jet Ski ride with dad... This was Charlee's first time ever on the Jet Ski and she handled it like a champ and had a great time. She also tubed for the first time this weekend and had a great time jumping off the back of the boat and swimming in the lake around to the stairs on the boat, climbing in and doing it all again!