Mom's Group Family Picnic

Yesterday, we had our 2nd annual family picnic with our mom's group at Fish Lake Park in Maple Grove. I always forget about this park, but it is wonderful!  There are lots of picnic tables, plenty of shade, a good breeze, no play equipment, & a great beach with a shower & easily accessible bathrooms.  The kids had tons of fun.  Baylee was on her best behavior this year; last year, she threw temper tantrums the entire time & hoarded a bag of Sun Chips.  Livy ate a lot of food & tried to keep up with the big kids.

Here are some pictures of our evening, complements of my friend Emily.

Beach fun!

Livy trying to keep up with the big kids

      

Daddy playing soccer with his girls 

Livy eating her first hamburger

June Wrap-up

We have had a crazy start to our "summer."  Mike had to travel for work & was gone the first week of June.  When he came back, he went off to Canada for 10 days for his yearly fishing trip .  This year was with his dad & his dad's friend, Dana.  They had a great time & caught a ton of smallmouth.  While Mike was away, Po-po & Ye-ye visited the girls.  We would have done more fun things with them, but my car battery died & needed to be replaced.  Thank goodness they were here because being stuck without a car with 2 little ones kind of stinks.

Two of Livy's friends turned 1 in June, so we had birthday parties the first two weekends in June.  I can't believe these babies are already 1!  Time has flown by way too quickly.  It's fun to see the girls' friends grow up & to see Livy interact with them more now that they aren't "blobs."

I rejoined the gym so I'm trying to get the girls used to the daycare.  They are doing pretty good.  I usually try to coordinate with friends so the girls have someone they know in there to play with them.  I try to do yoga & Zumba once or twice a week.  I prefer group classes to slogging along on the elliptical. It doesn't make it seem like you're working out as much.

Here are some recent pictures of the girls.  We had their 3 1/2 & 18 month photos taken recently.