Josh's swimming lessons

This year we enrolled Josh in Gwinnett County's Swim 1 class. He attended it for two consecutive weeks from M-Th with Daddy. We were very pleased with his progress in class. The class took place indoors and as you can see from the picture, the water was pretty cold and it took some bribing to get the kids in. By the end of the two weeks, Josh excelled at going under water, swimming short distances with his "diggers," making bubbles, and occasionally swimming with going under and coming up again. Hopefully next year, he will be even more gung-ho about going the distance.

Pizza and Preggo

Josh with our friend Joe making pizzas.

We stocked up with about 20 individual doughs to put in the freezer- wuhoo!

And, I'm 20 weeks pregnant with a girl!

Rachel's 3rd Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday to our beautiful daughter, Rachel!

We had several celebrations for Rachel's birthday. 1st- with family, with sparklers from her Sunday school teacher, and with friends at her birthday party. Each event was equally fun and we were thankful for them all!

Mudfire

Since the weather has been nice, the kids are enjoying lots of time outside. One afternoon, I let them venture into the backyard mostly unaccompanied. I was cleaning up in the kitchen and watching what they were doing. Oh my- it soon turned messy quick. But once the mess started there was no reason to stop it since it was outside and was occupying their time very well. Here's what they invented... they call it mudfire : )

And something less messy, picking blueberries.

Piedmont Park

One hot Sunday afternoon in June we ventured downtown to Piedmont Park for a family get together with Jason's co-workers. They catered the event with barbecue and had lots of fun activities for the kids. Josh and Rachel got their faces painted, decorated buckets, played in a jumpy thing, and ran around. They were completely exhausted after the afternoon's activities, but nope, naps did not occur.

Suwanee Town Center

Summer is almost here! The kids are getting to enjoy their water time outside now- yippee! Off to Suwanee Town Center...