Happy Father's day Daddy!

Daddy,
I know we can't really tell you yet how much we love you, but we hope this helps show it! Thank you for being the princess chauffeur, dress up partner, playmate, protector, cuddler, storyteller and overall best Daddy. We will always be your little girls! Happy Father's Day....

Landsharks concert in the park

Last night was the yearly Landsharks concert which helps officially kick off summer here in our neighborhood. For those of you who don't know the Landsharks are Jimmy Buffet's house band at Margaritaville. It is always so much fun and last night did not disappoint. We had fun playing in the fountains, dancing and snacking. It turned out to be a perfect night. Plus the best part was that everyone slept past 8 am this morning!

Rory dancing and drying off

Jolee and a friend snacking

Rory Dancing more

Rory Dancing

new baby pool

New baby pool on some very hot days is a good thing. Jolee and Rory have so much fun just splashing around. Plus it's nice not to have to gather a ton of gear and walk to the pool.

Fashion shows and backyard adventures

Jolee loves a good costume change. I swear that she is going to be an actress one day! The other day we had yet another fashion show, and since Rory joined in as well I thought I should share. There were a lot of outfits. I didn't even take pictures of all of them! I also included some pictures of our backyard jungle. Our butterfly garden from last year is in full bloom again so we have caterpillars, butterflies, and lots of other bugs. We also have tons of birds as we look out our yard. Have fun!

Jolee in her Ariel dress


Rory smiling in a purple number

Tiana and Belle

Cinderella

Jolee's wedding dress

Cute when they actually get along

Aurora

her blue dress and cape

OUr first new Monarch of the year hatching

Jolee staring up at the butterfly above the garden

Flapping it's wings

Modeling my sunglasses

A friendly duck in the back yard

A hawk on our neighbors bird feeder

An overly friendly dragonfly. This dragonfly would not leave us alone. It even landed on me several times. It let me get super close to take this and then touch it.. weird huh? Do you believe in reincarnation?

Ballerina

Bear with me.. This is going to be a long one!
Today was Jolee's very first Ballet recital. It was so cute. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures so trying to narrow it down to just a few was near impossible. Jolee did so well. She listened and did everything she was supposed to. Her class came out and showed us all how they stretched and warmed up for class. Then they came back out and did their actual performance dance along with 3 other fun dances. Funny side note, Jolee told everyone in the audience that Rory likes to spill raisins all over the floor when she eats them during the warm up part of the performance. So cute! The whole class did really well. 2 little girls had a few shy moments and ran to their moms for a minute or two but other than that they all did a great job.

Again, sorry for the crazy amount of pictures, but I hope you enjoy them as much I do. I am so proud of my beautiful little ballerina!

Getting ready before hand


Looking cute and ready to go on stage

Ms. Lindsay walking them out to stretch

stretching

Letting them warm up and chat before dancing

Jolee's turn to prance around the group on her toes

Jolee turning to say hi to us

coming out for their dance

getting ready for a twirl

"Introducing me" song

The Tea Pot dance

Jolee facing the right or wrong way.. not sure

Swim Dancing during the Fishie Song

all the fishies napping

Jolee getting her award after dancing

Jolee's whole class

Rory running up to hug Jolee

Jolee and Her adorable teacher Ms. Lindsay