June's Sunshine

Oh my goodness I can't believe June has already come and gone. Our little sunshine continues to grow and develop and pretty much amaze us every day. So many things have happened this month, but I will try my best to give you an overview. :) We are trying to take advantage of different museums in the area. We visited the Museum of Life and Science in Durham several times this month. Grace love's their outdoor exhibits. 

 Grace's friend Natalee went with us on one of our adventures up there. :)

 A different time Mimi joined us for the fun!

Grace is a total water bug! We spent many, many days at the pool/lake. I could literally put hundreds of pictures on here of my daughter enjoying the sun, but I have limited myself :) She is so tan from all her time out in the sun, people are always commenting on it. Thank goodness she has her Daddy's skin and its ability to tan so easily.

We finished our season at the little gym. We have had so much fun watching this child learn how to walk, and run, and now even jump. The little gym has really helped with her ability to be so incredibly steady for such a young thing. The "show" was a lot of fun, and Daddy did a great job with her. I know they will be looking forward to September when it starts back up again!

We also celebrated Father's Day this month. This man that I picked at 18 has really turned into an incredible husband and father. We are so blessed to have him. Hopefully he felt spoiled on his special day. Especially the making pancakes in a winter hat pictures. :)

 

June has been a truly amazing month. It feels like it just flew by! We are feeling so blessed with this thing we called life.

Sweet Grace,
We love you, wow do we love you. There is something about the love you have for your child, that you just won't understand until you have your own someday. Toddlerhood testing can be in full swing, screaming because you don't get your way, laying on the floor, refusing to say thank you, and yet still we want to just scoop you up and kiss you from head to toe. We love you. There is nothing you can ever do that will change that because you are ours. And we love you. We love you when you ask to read a book, and go get one and come sit on our laps, wow we love that. We love you when you get your stool and bring it to the sink so you can wash your own hands. We love you when you ask over and over for "stay-ews" stairs, and take 30 minutes going down them to the car because you want to do it yourself. We love you when you use a crayon and write all over the wall.... in blue. We love you when you run up and wrap your arms around our legs. We love you when you sit still and we love you when you go "running, running running". We just love you.
always and forever my baby you'll be
xoxo
Mommy & Daddy

It's Already JUNE!!!

Wow! So much happened last month in May. It was so challenging to try and pick out which were the BIG moments! They were all so special. I did my best to pick out my favorite moments from the last month, but I would strongly suggest you check out our day to day blog: learningoakfarm.blogspot.blog for a better idea of what our family is all about!

Grace went to the strawberry patch. Mommy had never been to a strawberry patch either! It was so much fun. I am pretty sure we ate twice as many strawberries as we put in our bucket. Grace had an amazing ability to consume the ENTIRE strawberry, stem and all. They were delicious!!

 We also did some outdoor painting. Grace is becoming quite the artist. She loves coloring, painting, and getting really, really messy!  She is also showing off one of her cloth diapers. We actually use cloth diapers now 100% of the time. No disposables for this family. :) Its more work with the washing, but it is so worth it financially and of course saving the world!

Mothers Day!!! I am so glad that God chose me to be this girls Mama. He knew exactly what he was doing when he gave her to me. She teaches me knew things everyday about loving unconditionally, quickly forgiving and forgetting, enjoying every moment, and just having joy. I am so blessed.

She loves imitating her Daddy. I had to share this picture. I just love how she adores everything about him.

We had a Marbles class called Toddler Together and Uncle Taylor was able to come each week and spend his lunch playing with us! He is such a great Uncle, always makes time for his niece. If both Daddy and Mommy are home and Grace hears a car door she immediately asks, Tay Tay? I love that. :)

Outside time is still very important here! We love our patio and its really coming together. We have gotten flowers in the pots and all Daddy's stuff cleared out of the open area. (not pictured here) We are really pleased with the safe place we have created.

 Life and Science Museum with Daddy before we drove to our CaMpInG TrIp!!!!

 Sleeping on the way to Uwharrie National Forest!

We made it! Our first family vacation. Camping for one night! :) It rained the ENTIRE time we were there :) So we had a lot of fun having a picnic inside our tent. We read lots of books on the air mattress. We bounced and Daddy even flew Grace up in the air. It was fun to just slow down and enjoy each other with no technology distractions

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We made it through the night. Grace slept great, Mommy not so much. I think the rain kept making me have to use the restroom. hehe We had a wonderful pancake breakfast and then we walked out to a very beautiful lake. There was swimming somewhere but we opted not to in the rain.

We had such a lovely time camping together. I am so glad we went. :) It was nice to get away and be just the three of us over night!

I just had to include this picture of Boppy, Mimi and Grace. We are so glad they are living here in Cary now, and they are such a consistent part of our life. It. is. amazing.

Grace also had a memorial day picnic with some friends. We got some amazing pictures, our friend Deanna really does magazine quality shots!

Daddy and Mommy are still going on date nights. We try to get out every other week, and when we do we have a great time. :) Still totally in love <3 Not one day goes by I am not extremely thankful God chose him for me!

Memorial day itself was great. We read books, blew bubbles, went to the playground and had our first boo boo all in one day!

Grace just enjoying summer in a field of dandelions. This child makes my heart sing, have I mentioned that before?

Grace, I am madly in love with the little person you are becoming. Lately you have been chatting up a storm! I mean literally talking all day long. I absolutely love it. You are so silly and you love to laugh, you like when Daddy and I make funny faces and funny noises. So of course we do them all the time! We love you and could not be more proud of you or feel more blessed that you are ours. Just the other day Daddy looked at me and said, "Can you believe that she is really ours? That we really get to keep her?" I sure can't. You amaze us.
xoxo
Mommy and Daddy