Pappy's 70th Birthday Party

July 1st was Pappy's 70th Birthday. We celebrated with a pool party at our house. Here are a couple of pics from that day of Pappy with his grandkids.

Sharks

Over Father's Day weekend when we were at Orange Beach we saw a shark just a few feet off of the beach. We were able to take this short video of it.

Father's Day Weekend

We spent Father's Day weekend at the Beach with Ben's parents, Liz, Maggie and Johnny. We stayed at Seachase Condominium and had a blast. When Hurricane Ivan hit, it did a substantial amount of damage to the condominium. Since then they have totally redone the outside of the condominium complex. They have fountains, baby pool with a mushroom waterfall, four pools and a couple of hot tubs. I highly recommend it for anyone with kids. Here are some pictures of John Hunter and Clara in their floats that Mimi bought them, a picture of Connell and Johnny at the pool, Maggie and Johnny by the pool and Connell trying out his snorkle.




The next couple of pictures are pictures of Clara playing in the sand and a picture of Ben's attempt at a sandcastle. I think this explains why he went to law school instead of architecture.

June Pool Time

We had lots of visitors in the month of June who stopped by to hang out with us in the pool. So much so that one night we even had a party so all our friends could hang out and swim. Here are just a few pictures from the month of June at our pool.

Cecilia hanging out in the pool.

Anna Witt in the pool.

Maddie and Uncle Ben.

Clara our bathing beauty.

Joe Joe, Connell and Brady.

Trophies and Parties

After the official end of the t-ball season, The Angels had a party at Springhill Swim Club. There they were presented with team trophies. Connell's coach said to a Lefty who really came through with some big hits, Rootbeer Heinz.
Here's a picture of Connell's team.

After that party it was announced that we would have to play the Yankees for the division championship. After that game, Connell was presented a trophy from the park for winning their division. Again he was called out as RootBeer Heinz. I realized then with much certainty that he will forever be known as Rootbeer.




Notice the hat in the last picture. Our beloved Casey Pup Rocket Rock-n-Roll Star Spiderman Heinz decided his hat needed some character before he even played the first game.

Yankees v. Angels

Connell's team made it to the playoffs for T-ball this season. We had to play the Yankees which is his friends' Jack and Gavin's team. It was a close game but they pulled through. In the end all that really mattered was what kind of snacks they had. We did celebrate all together at Moe's that night. I've realized that with kids eating out consists of Moe's or Wing's or other kid friendly restaurants.
Here's a picture of Gavin warming up.

Here are a couple more of our Angel with his Yankee friends.

End of the School Year

May 30th brought about the end of a school year for the kids. Connell is headed to First Grade and Clara has left her school to attend school with Connell next year in K-3. I thought it would be a nice tradition to not just take pictures on the first day of school (like all good parents do, even though their kids hate it) but also take pictures on the last day of school. Attached are a couple from the last day.