June! Happy Summer Time!!

We started off the month celebrating this little lady's first Birthday! Rose took a short break from the pool to sing Happy Birthday and eat some cake. You might not remember this birthday Elliana, but we look forward too many more fun adventures with you :) YAY for girl cousins!

Rose also made it through her first year of school and I would say it was a successful year! She has even mentioned missing school :)

After school was out we headed to the beach, although Justin was still in a brace and the weather was less than picturesque, we made happy memories :)

Rose and Justin also enjoyed their Father's Day trip to Lego Discovery and, of course, a brewery :)

The rest of the month was full of fun times too!

We adopted a new kitten named Pumpkin, although I voted for Kit Kat...

We found some Berks County Rocks

Ate frozen yogurt

Kept up with piano lessons

Took a trip to Ballocity

Played outside

Rose had a play date and made some Berks County Rocks to hide for all the ones she finds and can't part with ;)

Were scientists completing experiments 

Then took our science to a larger scale at the Lancaster Science Center

And made a mess at Nana's :)

Justin and I had our first night away in ages planned and just to add some extra excitement...Rose decided she needed a trip to the hospital. Luckily nothing was broken and Rose was back to running around in no time :)

Justin and I celebrated 12 years with lots of beer and a beautiful Bed and Breakfast.

Rose and Justin got to see Incredibles 2 at the drive in with her grandparents and cousins.

Justin also started the flagstone patio in the yard. Hopefully it will be completed before summer is over!

May...a month to remember ;)

There have been many memorable moments this month, although each month has many special memories, this month was a whopper :)

Let's start with the girls because our month was full of happy memories.

Although May had some rain, which was great for the garden, we took advantage of every sunny moment to have fun outside.

This about sums up Rose most days...Nana finds the perfect gifts :)

Rose had her first concert at school. There is something magically fun about watching a group of tiny people sing :)

Rose also participated in her 2nd piano recital. It has been wonderful to watch her learn new and challenging songs this year.

We had a family fun day at Tiny Town in Lancaster and Rose made lots of new friends :) 

I also got to help out at Rose's first field day...man was it hot! but lots of fun :)

To keep it real Rose also had pink eye (aka stink eye)  early in the month and finished out the month with her first cold sore  ;( Plus we were both suffering from crazy snotty allergies...nothings perfect!

Now on to Justin...there were some highs and breaks ;)

Since I was still recouping from my broken knee Justin got to attend the kindergarten field trip, although there were some moans and groans, he had a great time! And so did Rose and her classmates!

The next day they went to the trampoline park and Rose had a blast!

 Now onto the breaks:

Justin broke his foot at the trampoline park.

 

After some surgery with a plate and screws all should be well in a few months

Birthday Month!

April is the month we celebrate the nuttiest two members of our family...pictured below :)

 I can't believe this little girl turned 7 this month!

On our visit to Texas we had taken Nettie a dinosaur...Rose decided she would like a matching one. So one arrived as an early birthday present.

More evidence that these two are the silliest people I know ;)

And they are best buds! I am so glad that Justin and Rose have a close relationship and know that will come in handy as she grows up.

Our first birthday celebration was a party with school friends on the Art Bus! Rose and her friends had a great time making an Olaf gumball machine.

Rose also had a party with family and loved being with her little cousins!

And again these two :)

Then it was our turn to celebrate this guy! Rose decided to hang out with Aunt Kate while Justin and I hit up some local breweries. 

Rose also attended her cousins birthday party! Yay for birthday parties :)

We ended the month with some family fun!

And Rose decided to master bike riding now that she's 7 :) I can't wait for all the fun we can have this summer.