Always love these playdates...

We always love days when we get to see Aunt Candy, Kohen and Wyatt...

 

Candy hadn't seen the house yet, so they decided to make a trip out one Friday afternoon!  So we got to hang out for a little bit!  So much fun, we got to show her the new house (it wasn't done at this point), and more importantly just hang out...

 Then low and behold we decided to go to The Wooden Spoon for dinner that night, and look who we found.  I promise we never even mentioned that we were going there. It's like we have the same mind!!!

 

These sweet boys were so excited to see each other once again...

 Paisley and Shawn decided to join us for dinner as well...so we had a big crew...

 me and my sweet friend....love our friendship...

Celebrating our Independence...

We had a VERY relaxing 4th of July this year!  We hung out by the pool A LOT, ate some really good food, saw some fireworks, and went to the Rodeo (well the kids and Chris did)...

 

Here we are being bums at the pool...

 If you had told me at the beginning of the summer that I would be jumping in the deep end with Bailey I would have called you a liar...

 

It was SO much fun jumping off the side with Bailey and Carter.  We jumped every way you can think of, frog jump, cannon ball, toe touch, etc...this was one of my favorite action shots all the way through us jumping sideways...

 Love Carter's face and body position here...Chris did a great job getting all of these action shots...

What a great way to spend our 4th!  And I love that the kids remembered me jumping off with them to this day.  It is the little things that we can all do that mean the most to the kids.  I had no idea they would love it so much when I suggested we do it!  Now I know...

Final Day & Drive Home...

On our final day we soaked up as much sun as possible!!!!  We had such a great time on our last day...

 

doing a little wading in the water...

 a little floating...(our group were all on the rafts)...

 a little relaxing...

 and a little burying...

 

After a GREAT week with our friends, we are now headed back to our normal lives...We had a great trip home, and all in all it was a great time.  And the best part...we are ALL still friends after the trip...

A Little Racing....A Little Sun...

This was our next to last day at the beach, and we woke up to a little rain so we decided to use this as a time for a little racing!

 

We went down to the racetrack to do a little go kart racing...

 

Just love this picture of Molly & Magan...such sweet girls

 Our little wild child....she loved the go karts as usual...

 Kennedy wouldn't ride the go-karts, but she was all about the bumper cars...

 Carter, well he was all about both!!!!

 Once we were finished with go-karts, we grabbed some lunch and head back to go to the beach...

 

Not sure who or what she was doing, but love her pose here...

 Me, Crissy and Danielle...I had the best time with these girls and their families...

 Sweet Whitley....

 These 2 boys are SO crazy....

 They all decided to lay down in the sand and have the waves come up and wash over them...

We definitely soaked up as much time as we could of the sun and the beach...tomorrow I will show our LAST day at the beach...bittersweet!

Pause from Vacation...Molly Turns 4!!!!

Today at this exact time, this girls TURNS 4.  I can't believe that our littlest is 4, man how time flies!  She is one special little girl, and definitely gives us a run for our money!  We sure do love her to pieces, as crazy as she is, she completes our family!  We wouldn't be the same without wild, crazy, independent, smart, funny, you name it MOLLY CLAIRE FLYNT!

 

Poor child has been the one left out with the whole bike thing.  Not that we didn't want to get her one, it just wasn't top of mind, and since the girls are still using theirs (without training wheels) we just hadn't gotten her one of her own.

 

She came home from choir and we gave it to her, she was SO excited!!!  She jumped right on and started going.

I love her sweet cuddles, her craziness and just for being her!  And although, she does act too big for her own good a lot of the time, it is what makes Molly!

 

Happy 4th Birthday Molly!  We will celebrate her next weekend at her party!

Can We Get Just One Family Beach Picture?...Day 5

These 2 girls are so hilarious...and I love how their personalities really show in some of these pictures...

 Kennedy finally realized that it was FUN to jump the waves with Bailey...

 Not sure what the conversation is here with them, but hilarious watching them...right after this they went right back to jumping

 These 2 made themselves a couch, and I am pretty sure later in the afternoon Carter actually took a small nap on it.  Note to self:  big hole might cause people to fall... :)

 There are literally 50 pictures of us trying to get a family picture while on the beach in our swimwear...somewhat impossible...but I will take what we got.

 Love my sweet/crazy family, and the fact that they all love the beach...

 Loving on Magan...

 We went down to Seaside on this night with all the kids...it wasn't as exciting as we had hoped, but at least we all got out of the house!

 It was a little HOT!!!

Life Is Like A Box of Chocolates...Day 4

Don't these faces just scream...I LOVE THE BEACH!

 

Welcome to Day 4 of our trip...kids are still loving the beach and being with their friends.  There were no fights the whole time, which was amazing, and they loved the fact that it was like ONE BIG SLEEPOVER every night!

 Love these sweet college girls...Magan and Hannah, we loved having them there with us...

 Some serious burying going on today...

 We picked a few nights to go out just the adults and hang out.  On this night we decided to go to Bubba Gumps...Ryan's favorite movie!  And I am not sure, but this might be my favorite picture from the whole trip...doesn't it look just like the scene from Forrest Gump?  And to top it all off, they ask trivia questions while you are waiting on your food about scenes in the movie, and Ryan OWNED everyone in the restaurant!

 And Danielle is my adventuous friend...we have done several crazy things together (mostly in Branson), so of course why not try the Cyclone.  I mean who doesn't want to sit on the end of a metal bar and get slung forwards and backwards going really fast?  It was pretty fun, we got to see Destin, upside down, which was a first for me.  :)

 Love that Danielle wants to do these crazy things with me...who knows what our next adventure will be...

 Love these couples....we enjoyed every day that we were there together!   Couldn't ask for better friends.