Amy and the boys come to visit!!

This summer has flown by. We have been lucky to be able to visit friends and family coming to visit us! Last week Amy, Jordan, and Jaxon came to visit us from South Dakota. We had a great week of visiting the city 4 days, traveling to the beach one day, driving to the Pancake House, and just shopping around.

The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and I was having fun just visiting with my sweet friend. The kids wanted to see all the NYC stuff so of course we trotted off to Central Park and ate at Mickey Mantles, then we hit Toys R Us and rode the ferris wheel and of course went to all 3 candy stores. One day we just drove to the city to ride the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and then drove back home. Sunday we had a girl day where we went to see the Broadway show In the Heights with Jordan Sparks. It was great!

All good things have to come to an end so Monday morning we woke up to rain and drove to the city and went to Ripley's Believe It Or Not and then went to Dave and Busters which was a thrill for Cade because he has been begging to go there forever! So after all the fun we put Amy and the boys in their town car and off they went to the airport.

It's always sad to say good bye to our company but I know people will come back because everyone wants to visit NYC! We had a great time and can't wait for them to come back.

Happy 17th Birthday Kinzi!!

Today our sweet girl turned 17! I can't believe it. We are so blessed to have her as our daughter. We couldn't ask for more.

Kinzi had to cheer today so we thought we would try to do something this evening with her. We took her to Ruth Chris Steakhouse.(That is favorite) Scott gave her a purity ring for her birthday. She was very excited. Hopefully she won't date until she gets to college:-) I would be happy with that. Now we have to get a car which I am not looking forward to. I'm sure I will be doing a whole blog on my teenager driving! Happy Birthday Kinzi, Love You!

Family Comes to Visit!

We were so happy to have my brother and his family, plus my mom to come visit last week. We spent the week playing games, shopping and visiting New York City. The kids don't get to see each other very often so it was nice for them to be able to play together and for us to get to see our new nephew Miles. He is the most precious baby in the world!

The kids got to pick what we did so you will see we went to the M&M store, Madame Tussauds wax museum, Miles rode the subway for the first time, and we did a ton of walking! I'm so blessed with a wonderful family and glad we were able to spend some time together this summer. Miss you guys already.

Summer in the Carolina's

We were able to spend 5 weeks with our neighbors in Charlotte this summer. We had a great time visiting with old friends and one week at the beach. The kids went to a camp with their friends for a week which was a lot of fun. Scott flew in for the 4th of July and we ended up going white water rafting which was a blast. I would definitely like to do that again.

At the end of July we went to Hilton Head with the Rodriguez family and relaxed. The boys caught crabs, went biking, jet skiing, swimming, and ate a lot of junk. We had an awesome time and are very thankful to our friends for letting us stay at their house for a month.