June little things

This is about when our garden started to take off and grow at rapid rates.

 Ryan surprised us one day with grilled cheese donut sandwiches that he picked up on his way home from work.  So good and such a fun surprise!

 And growing, and growing...

 Ryan got a trainer for his bike so that he could ride down in our basement if the weather is not cooperating.  This was the start of gathering stuff together for his triathlon training.  

 And growing...

 Our cute neighbor friend, Hudson Evans, loves to play dress up with the girls.  His mom and I think it's hilarious, but his dad might think otherwise... :)

 She pulled out the nail stuff, was very specific about what colors she wanted, and begged to have her nails done!  I had to hold her hand under the light with her, but we got it done!  It wasn't worth it though, since it didn't last very long... they are just too fun to peel off!

 Our first little cherry tomatoes!

 One day. Claire stuck a pair of Lucy's undies on her head and started dancing around to the music we had playing.  She called it her hat and really thought it was a hat.  From that point on, anytime she heard music playing, she would run and grab a "hat" from Lucy's room and stick it on her head before dancing.  Love this silly girl!

 The boots and Dad's tie made some other very fashionable additions as well!

 These two have really started to play together and get along great!  They were cracking up in Lucy's bed under the covers one day.

 We took a trip to COSI during their big trucks exhibit.  Lucy loved climbing in all of these things, especially since that is what she see's most of the time around our development!  This tractor below was not even close in size to the biggest truck there- it was like a huge building on wheels!

 They wanted a "princess wagon ride," and why not?! That and a whole bunch of paper cups kept them happy all morning!

 Dad was with us at the zoo again, which meant for a little extra fun- riding the carousel and the train!

Nashville, Ryan's second home

Ryan had another long trip down to Nashville in June.  After the first day of him being gone, we had had enough and decided to pack up our stuff and head down to Nashville ourselves at about 11am the next morning.  We love a good, spontaneous road trip, and it's even better when we get to see dad!  Ryan was still super busy during the day, as expected, so I just took the girls all over Nashville myself.  The first day we went to the children's museum there since we got in for free with our cosi pass. It was kind of a creepy place, to be honest, but it gave us something to do for a little bit.  The next day, I took the girls to downtown Nashville to explore Broadway street (their main street) and a few other areas downtown.  We tried on boots, ate some BBQ, did a little window shopping, visited the visitors center and pretended like we were famous country stars.  It was definitely my favorite day there and so fun (until Claire's poor little foot got caught in the stroller and I thought she broke it- which she didn't.  But she screamed the whole drive back and then some).  

A few small tourist groups were walking by as I took this picture and they kept talking about how cute the girls were and waving to them.  As you can see, Lucy and Claire didn't mind the fun attention one bit!

At first, I was making sure the girls didn't touch these instruments because I was afraid that they would break them,  But some worker there convinced me that that's what they are there for, so I let the girls have at it.  They had a ton of fun!

Another Grammy visit

Grammy took a few days off from visiting great-grandpa and helping him in and out of the hospital up in Cleveland to come visit us and our cousins!  It was fun, as usual!  These girls sure love their grammy!