May,June Update 2

The girls and Wilks visited with Nanny and Pa in NJ May17th thru 20th. They had a great time. The girls got to drive with Alyssa Grace. Wilks took them to the movies and got some quality Monmouth Mall time in with them = )
We went to WC on opening day 5/22...here Lex stops for a short snack..before hitting more cool water rides!

Lex with a mega tan.?...nope, just playing around with a little bronzer...both girls had fun playing Umpa Lumpas for hours.

Kids bowl free program started back up...we love this program, specially since the alley is with in walking distance from our home.

Lex's silly bandz collection keeps growing....when I shared the article about the bandz and why schools are banning them...she sighed....."but mommy I learned my 4 times from them"

The girls went back to NJ with me from June 3rd tru the 15th....

I got lots of holding baby Julia time in!

The girls got lots of loving up and playing with the cousin time, plus...of course plenty of pool time.

We all put together this 500 piece puzzle during our NJ stay at Grandma Mary's

While in NJ, the girls and I attended GBHL for the 2nd year in a row...we had a great time catching up with old friends and making new ones....this year the G ladies, drove up from Richmond, VA to join in on the fun, it was blast!

The day before we left for home we visited the Liberty Science Center. Always lots of cool things to explore!
Lex is wearing her dreads she got at GBHL

We had a wonderful visit, filled with NJ's finest Pizzas, and the girls got treated to two separate shopping sprees, one for jewelry (Pandora bracelets like mine =), thanks GM) and one at Game Stop (thanks U. Phil and A. Cindy). Only downer was my ears where clogged almost the entire time we there.

Here's our traditional 'By the tree, before we head out photo'...only it's not the same tree, winter storm damaged it and it's been replaced with a new one!

By the time we got home I was sure I had a full blown ear infections, I procrastinated a few more days before heading to urgent care (no insurance)...they set me up with meds and when I woke the next morning this hand made vase was bedside, waiting for me with a get-well note from Lex. Liv tended to putting the drops in each ear for me. Both, took such good care of me...it was really sweet.
While we were gone..oh my how the garden had grown...Lex got to harvest the first few cukes...probably like her favorite food ever!!!

Wilks had to work on Father's Day...so we celebrated when he got home: steak dinner, homemade brownies made with love by the girls, his own copy of Square Foot Gardening, A diploma for being the best Dad EVER from Lex and this awesome sharpie art....by Liv, T- shirt!