Various Summer Photos

At a kite festival in Centennial Olympic Park back in May.  They had about 4 or 5 bounce houses set up for free...for anyone to enjoy!  And boy did our girls enjoy them. 

Stopping for water....it was HOT and HUMID that day.  In Atlanta?  No way.  :-)

Another exciting day in May.  Eating fruit.  Why is that exciting?  Well, up until this BREAKTHROUGH day, our girls would only eat bananas and apples.  We had tried sporadically with other fruits.  Always with no luck.  Well, one day before dinner, they're begging me for any and every unhealthy treat.  I kept saying no and they would keep trying.  So, finally, I grabbed a "bucket" of fruit from the fridge and told them they could eat anything out of that bucket they wanted.  Anything at all.  To my surprise, they both started picking up fruit and eating it.  I was so excited that I grabbed the camera and called daddy.  What a day.  I truly think calling it a "bucket" and just letting them fish whatever they wanted out of there with their hands had a lot to do with it.  And that was it...now they love watermelon.  Cantelope and honeydew are still sometimes a challenge.  And recently, we got Kaitlyn to eat grapes.  Halleluia!

At the lake for their birthday weekend. 

Also at the lake for their birthday weekend...we went to see Toy Story 3.  That was their first movie in a real theater for full price.  Up until then, we had done dollar movies and generally would only make it for an hour or so.  They LOVE Toy Story and Toy Story 2, so we thought that this might be the real first opportunity for them to sit though an entire movie in a theater because they had a vested interest in the characters already.  Well, Nicole did pretty well.  Mike had to wrestle to keep Kaitlyn still for the last 30 minutes or so, but we all made it.

And finally, the actual night of their birthday back in Atlanta.  We went out to eat to celebrate and brought our own cake.