Catch Up Post Part 2

We came back from the wedding festivities in order to jump into Vacation Bible School.  I put Claire with the 3 year old class because I thought she would do better with them than in the nursery since I was working at the event.  She was skeptical at first but by the end of the first day, I could not keep her off the stage.  She wanted to dance with the older girls who were the dance leaders.  Each day more and more kids joined her on stage.

As soon as VBS was over, we were on a plane for Scottsdale, Arizona.  This was our first family air trip and all went well aside from leaving the bag with all the itinerarys, snacks, ipads, etc at home.  We did go back to get this and still made it on time.

We enjoyed the resort, great meals, swimming, the Phoenix Children's Museum, the railroad museum and much more.

Next up was Grace's BFF's 4th birthday party - cowgirl style.  The girls had a blast!

Then July 4th brings me almost current!  Yea!

Catch Up Post Part 1

Ok, here I am catching up AGAIN.  June was nothing short of crazy.  I think Claire has hit her peak Terrible 2s.  Then to top it off, she started crawling out of her crib and is a very confident "night-wanderer".  So with travels, weddings, illnesses, writing grants for charity and routine life, this blog is on the back burner AGAIN.

Let's start with Memorial Day.  We spent the weekend with some friends at JW Marriott.  This resort still tops our best.places.ever. list.  Lots of swimming, arts and crafts and smores.

Then the girls had their last day of school.  Let's just say "impossible to get a good picture of the 2 of them"!

Next up, my cousin's wedding.  The wedding was in Brownsville, TX - about a 3 hour drive northwest of San Antonio.  Steve was working that weekend so I met my family up there.  This is the weekend the peak of Claire's attitude started.  She didn't like my sister braiding her hair for the wedding.  Then she wouldn't wear her flower girl shoes.  Then she wouldn't walk down the aisle.  Everything was no, no, no.....until the dj started the music at the reception.  Claire danced and danced and danced.  She danced with her cousins and other family members.  She danced with the wedding party.  She danced with strangers.  And when no one was dancing with her, she pulled people off the side to come dance with her.

Claire, Grace and Mia (my sister's daughter who is 5 mos older than Claire)

Notice one of the flower girls is missing???

Notice the "flower girl shoes?"

A random couple she found to dance with.

The man she pulled away from his wife to dance with her.

Definitely the Dancing Queen

Enough for now...Part 2 will be VBS (dancing queen at it again), our Arizona trip and other random things.