July- Part I

4th of July

 with cousin Ava

 We had swim lessons at the Swim Ranch the week of July 4th!  Both girls did great and Emily finished Lane 1 this summer!  Yay!

Emily's BFF pinkalicious bdparty.  SO cute!

 On the way to Little Rock, we stopped at Hendrix in Conway.  We saw my name on the fish pond, but didn't get a good picture of it since it was SO sunny and hot.  We showed them my old dorms too.

 Great-grand Mimi's 88th birthday "surprise" party!  The girls had a blast, but it was way too short.

Emily's 6th Birthday Party Luau

 Loved her bracelet from Uncle Matt and Aunt Neha

Hula Time!

 Yummy cake!

Pool time with her besties

 With her BFF's from her class

Eating hot dogs after her party!  She had a GREAT day! 

June

 Uof A Tennis Camp

 Silver Dollar City with my college friends and ALL of our kids!

 Glitterbox!

Vacation Bible School

Last day of school

We are nearing on the end of the summer, but had to post these pictures of the last day of school.  It makes me sad looking at these.  She had a great teacher and made some really good friends.  I hope some of them are in her class next year!

Update

 I took Ella to a trial class at the Little Gym.  She loved it!

1st haircut at a hair salon (not by us).  Emily was so scared, but ended up loving it.

 Memorial Day with their cousin Ava.

Ella's end of the year program.

 Emily's dance recital was June 4th.  She was in three dances this year.  She did a tap dance to Glee's "Express Yourself", jazz dance to "Freak-A-Zoid", and a very pretty ballet dance to a Miley Cyrus song.  She did SO good this year and was asked to join the Teenie Team dance team for next year.  We are going to the informational meeting about it this summer.

We have been very busy the months of May and June!  Whoo!  I'm hoping to get back to update now. 

Today is Emily's SIXth birthday!  I can't believe how much the years have flown by and I don't want to miss a second of it.  I hope to get better at updating the blog so I don't forget even the little things.

Easter Dresses

Emily's Girl Scout Troop had a fun Tea Party at the Botanical Gardens.  Since it was rainy and yucky on Easter day, I decided to dress them up in the Easter outfits to take some pictures that day.  It's such a beautiful place for pictures!

St. Louis Trip

The Magic House!

We went on a weekend trip to St. Louis a couple of weeks ago.  We got Emily out of school early on Friday, then headed to St. Louis.  We stopped at the Magic House once we got into town because they were open late.  Emily and Ella had a BLAST!  They hardly stopped to take pictures.  We went there last time we went to St. Louis, but Ella was less than a year old a couldn't do much there. 
Saturday morning we took the girls to the zoo.  It is one of my favorite zoos and they had a blast!  A highlight was seeing the elephant they are sponsoring as a Zoo Parent (gift Uncle Jeff gave them for Christmas).  Then, my mom and aunt picked me up and we went the Jessica's wedding shower (Jeff's fiancee).  I didn't take many pictures of the shower, but it was very lovely.  We took my Aunt Barbara around Forest Park area where we stopped at this area where hundreds of tulips were in bloom.
We met Jessica's family for dinner that night.  If you look closely at the picture above, you can see the arch.  We didn't go see the arch up close this time.  We did that last time and we were pressed for time.  We did have a wonderful time seeing Uncle Jeff.  He is moving to Boston this summer, so it is probably the last time we'll be there except for the wedding in Sept where I doubt we'll have time to do any tourist things.