Porter Selifies

 Surely I'm not the only one who opens their photos on their phone and finds a whole bunch of kid selfies right?  There were a lot of carpet pictures with some toes in there too, but I just picked out a couple of the cute ones to post on here.  Love my Porter!

Popcorn Park Zoo

We went with some friends to Popcorn Park Zoo, which is an animal rescue zoo.  You can buy boxes of plain popcorn that you can feed the animals as you walk through.

The peacocks were pretty impressive strutting their stuff!

The piggies loved the popcorn, but it was hard to get it close enough for them to eat it.

Porter loved trying to throw the popcorn, but couldn't get it close enough most of the time.

It was a super hot day, but good to get out and take a break from all the unpacking and cleaning!

Island Beach State Park

 We live about 30 minutes from the beach.  We should go more often, but it's such a circus getting ready with Porter.  We did however finally make an effort to go regardless of Mr. Grumpy Pants pictured above.  He does not enjoy playing pack animal.  Haha!

 This goober did not want his feet in the sand but I stuck him in there anyway because I was done holding him.

 Camille and Remi, we just love them!  Porter especially loves Remi!

 Adam and his "Adam Almighty" pic.  It was so funny because we kept telling him if he fed the birds they'd eventually poop on him.  Well, he didn't get pooped on but poor, innocent Camille did!

Aside from some sand in the sandwiches (haha, pun intended) and the breeze making it a bit on the cold side, it was a really nice evening on the beach!

Judson Family Reunion 2014

 Our first day we spent at Burke Lake Park.  It was beautiful!  We had a great spot under the shady picnic area and close to the lake.

 We rode the merry go round.  We wanted to get icecream but it was closed by the time we got there.

 We also rode the train around the park.

 The kids absolutely enjoyed hanging out with all their cousins.

 The second day we went to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home.  We had car troubles on the way there and wasn't sure if we were going to make it home.  Aside from stalling a couple of times, we made it back just fine.

 Share a Coke with me Paul!  Hahaha

 This sassy girl was not super happy about stopping to take pictures since we were all dying from the heat, but she sure can take a cute pic.

 Selfies with my Tanner Manner

 I love this kid

 My all time favorites

 Hanging out at Thomas Jefferson's Casa.

 The third and final day we went to Great Falls Park, the Maryland side.  We rode this boat up the canals.  It was pretty neat going up the canal lock.

 The girl cousins and Porter

 Such handsome fellows

 After the canal ride, we walked over to the falls and saw some great views!  Too bad it was so stinking hot!  I would've loved to have stayed longer.

 It was so fun to get together and do some really fun things that we haven't done before even with all of our visits to Virginia!  Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for all your planning and funding of the activities!!!

Happy 9th Birthday Lana!

 So we started her birthday celebrations at the Judson Family Reunion, where we sang happy birthday to all the June/July birthdays.  Then when we got home on her actual birthday, we had some friends over for a pool party, pizza and chocolate cake.  It was absolutely perfect since we were still in the middle of unpacking our crap.
 I also did a terrible job of documenting the whole process but at least there's a few pics!

 We tried lighting the candles outside, but it was too windy so we had to move to the garage.

Happy birthday sweet girl!

Our first day of summer

We moved into our new house about 2 days before.  The house was still a mess, we had painters prepping for paint and I was frantically trying to pack up stuff for our Judson Family Reunion in Virginia in 2 days.  We took a break and spent a couple of hours out in the pool, enjoying the hot day and cool water.  We've LOVED the pool (thank heavens for those winter swim lessons we took!) and we have tried to take advantage of it every day we could this summer!

Tanner's Kindergarten Graduation

 Our Tanner graduated Kindergarten this year.  What?!  How on earth did that happen?  It turned out to be a fabulous year. 

 The night before graduation we went to say night time prayers at his bed and he got all sad on me and started to tear up.  When I asked him why, he said it was because he was going to miss Kindergarten and that he was also afraid that first grade wouldn't be as fun.  Oh man, what do you say to that?  "You're absolutely right?!"  Haha, I love my tender hearted boy.

 Tanner made a lot of good friends in his class and was happy and excited to go to school pretty much every day.  Even toward the end of the year I convinced him to start getting school lunch on the days they had things he liked.  Win win for both of us!!

 His Teacher Mrs. Rubin was fantastic.  She also got teacher of the year this year, so congrats to her! 

Congratulations buddy!  First Grade will be awesome!