Those summer nights...

Sometimes geocaching brings you to the most beautiful spots you might never have found otherwise. Today was a prime example. The hunt led us to a nature walk behind a new(er) community in Manheim. We strolled along a grassy path next to a flowing creek and saw some amazing birds. (Yeah, no clue what they were. Mommy failed to earn the Girl Scout Birding badge.) It was just a perfect outing for this lovely summer evening.

Zack's 3rd Birthday!

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon for a Sensenig birthday party at the park!

Will and Jill, best buds

The future kindergartners... Zoe, Will, Jill and Callahan

Playing Mouse, Mouse, Mickey

There's the birthday boy and his special cake

Our week

Jillian working on a get well hat for Grandma.

Natalie being a good mommy to her babies.

Our future stylist, Jillian, at work.

Mommy and Daddy all dressed up to go to a wedding. Doesn't Daddy's new suit make him look handsome?

Our latest cake for Zack's third birthday

Jillian's last day at day care

Our soon-to-be-kindergardener had her last day at day care today. She started there just after Christmas in 2005 when she was just two years old. She's thrived under the care of the wonderful teachers there and we are so thankful for each of them. Jill was a little sad about leaving, but knowing she'd see her old teachers every morning this fall when we dropped off Natalie seemed to soften the blow a bit.

As fate would have it, subbing for her regular teacher today was Miss Becky who was in her room that very first day.

Jill was given this scrapbook today full of pictures of her time at Hildebrandt. It will be a treasured keepsake. Plus it made Mommy get teary!

Three closer to 100

Daddy is away for the night so Mommy and the girls did some geocaching of course! We packed our dinner in the cooler and headed to Buchmiller Park just south of the city. It was a fun, but rough evening of caching. The fun: playground time, picnic dinner, watching the frisbee golfers, and getting three caches closer to 100. The rough: didn't find the first two we looked for and well, we all had war wounds by the time we got home! But never fear, our troopers are tough and are already asking to go out again...

She did make it across. But only after Mommy came closer to spot her.

And a cute Natalie story from this morning...

It was your typical slow starting Monday morning for Mommy. As she dragged her tired self out from the shower, Natalie turned down the blankets on the bed beside her and told Mommy "I saved your spot." Could there be any better offer than to crawl back into bed for some snuggle time with your daughters on such a morning???

weekend recap

Natalie likes making faces in herself in reflective surfaces... not anything simple like a mirror, but rather exciting places such as the mixing bowl or a chrome door knob...

Mommy's flip flop cookies

How messy can one two year old get with a simple chocolate iced donut? Seriously, we even give it to her in small pieces...

Natalie and Jillian put their baby in the cradle and were reading her (him?) a book.

Kisses for Natalie (photo by Jillian)

Our little pool daredevil. Give her an inflatable ring and she is unstoppable. She was even going off the dive at the Beyer's pool party!

The gang at the Beyer's house Saturday night.

4 Mommies

4 Daddies

4 five-year-olds

4 two-year-olds

1 pool

1 hot tub

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Lots and lots of fun!

Randomness

Jill discovered the phone book the other day. She kept asking if we knew random names in the book. Once she understood that we didn't know everyone in the book, she'd read off their phone number and ask it if was ______'s. Lovely fun for everyone!

There are no words needed here!

Showing off their Dr. Seuss loot from the $1 bin at Target.

Jill got a little book and Natalie, a notepad. The whole family is sharing the magnets!

Day 6

OOPS! We skipped a day! Sorry Daddy.

Here's a picture of us missing you tonight...