fourth of july

tired after a l-o-n-g day, and waiting for fireworks!

natalie and tyler, mouths full of grapes

heading to pick up water balloons

watching the parade in lagrange on daddy's shoulders

jumping into the pool with pappy

waving at pappy driving the grand marshall of the parade

sweet molly in the wagon, lonnie doing the hard work!

look at our bigma, waving her flag! she is beautiful at 101!

checking out the fountain in downtown lagrange, one of nat's favorite spots

my new favorite pic!

memorial day 2010

we had a great time at the memorial day gathering at the lane's house a couple of weeks ago (was that really two weeks ago?? time is going by too fast)...here are a few pics of the fun times...

nat spent a great majority of the evening running back and forth in the back yard!

natalie and cosette in the pool

love that ruffle bottom!

the face we get when we try to get her to "pose" for a picture :)

sweet baby grant

flannery and her daddy

natalie and harper being tickled by todd!

/natalie and harper...running with the bean bags

summer fun

we were so blessed to have this swing set "donated" to us by some of dave's parents' neighbors...while natalie and i were in lagrange the other weekend, dave, grandpa bobby and uncle steve put it together for natalie! natalie was SO EXCITED to see it when she got home, and it's definitely been fun to enjoy our backyard with the swings and slide.

my girls

natalie, sadie butter, and nat's "baby brook" resting on sadie's bed

sunday sweetness

mother's day at gam's

dave shaking the sand out of natalie's hair

fun in the turtle sandbox

swinging cousins

"ma ma ma" (grandma) pushing nat on the swing

sisters

swinging on the rings

nat nat and her pappy

"high" is her favorite way to swing

gam and pappy set up this neat little area for natalie and molly

loving the trampoline with pappy and dave

lonnie and bigma

the whole crew sits for a yummy lunch

my beautiful grandmother

a few tries at a group photo of the ladies...

katy and sweet molly

audie muse, natalie muse, and charlene muse

oh, what a fun mother's day we had! thanks to gam for the pictures, as i forgot my camera that day. we also had a great time celebrating at dave's parents house too...happy mother's day to all of the amazing mothers that i know...and love. you are a true blessing to me. post is mostly pictures for you, miss katy.

cousins

it was so fun to grow up with my sweet cousins, jenn and patrick...i have the best memories of making pallets on grandma's floor and spending the night while watching the sound of music...and cutting out pretend "food" out of paper, and running a restaurant out of grandma's basement...so many fun times together...
on saturday, molly came up to play at our house, and it was so fun to watch her and natalie together. they had the best time on the wagon ride around the block, and got so tickled at each other...thanks to aunt katy for pulling these two cuties around the block! i am so glad that natalie has the sweetest little cousin in molly...we love her so much.

nat nat and bigma picking daffodils

only 99 years separates them...bigma at 101 and natalie at 2...amazing!