Everyday Moments

This weekend has been a perfect example of why I love summer. We enjoyed celebrating our friend Liam's fourth birthday, made plans to meet up with friends at our local Jazz in June concert and fit in spontaneous swims in-between all the fun.

I'm really getting bad about not remembering my camera to capture our daily memories, and my cellphone camera has a small crack in the lens, but I did manage a couple of snapshots along the way.

I wish I could bottle up these kinds of relaxing weekends and keep them forever. Here are a few of the highlights:

Liam's party was an OKC Thunder theme and included lots of backyard games for the kiddos. Liam's mom Michelle is super creative and had stations set up around the backyard for everyone to play and they got a sticker after completing each one. Nothing keeps these kids motivated like stickers, it was brilliant!

Here's Gray playing "pin the horns on Rumble." And yes, Michelle painted this picture of Rumble herself...I wasn't joking when I said she was super creative.

Here's Cora giving it a try.

Next up, Gray and Cora ducked inside the tent that was set up to read picture books about basketball. What a simple and clever idea!

Here are Michael and Liam, our birthday boy, trying their hand at a beanbag toss game.

The kiddos also painted shirts with fabric paint and stamps and also tried dunking on a kid-sized basketball goal before enjoying cake and snacks. 

This one is a blinking shot, but as you can see, Gray loved the blue icing and how it turned his teeth and tongue blue too.

 Claire may have enjoyed the cupcakes too. So adorable!

All that fun requires a little rest time

Daddy and Gray relaxing after our bike ride, waiting for the jazz music to start