Diva Baby & Boat Trip

We've had a great weekend! Kris and Beth have been here visitin since Wednesday and we rented a boat for the day yesterday. Lily's old babysitter Katherine watched her and Pierce, and Maria and Ian joined us on the boat. The weather was beautiful and we had a blast tubing, wake boarding and just relaxing in the water.

Lily's first birthday is just 3 weeks away, and she's getting so big! She's taking stpes on her own now and will take off running any day. Every day we see more of her personality and she's certainly not lacking in that area ;) She thinks wearing my sunglasses is absolutely hysterical and I have some shots below from a photo session the other day.

the girls

Kris

the group

Lily's new back yard :)

I mentioned in an earlier post that we were in the process of finishing the back yard. For those of you who don't know, we live in downtown Wilmington less than a mile from the Cape Fear River. While we love the location (and our house!), we were on a very small city lot, most of which was taken up by our house. About 6 months after we moved in, the lot behind us went up for sale and we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to buy it and double our lot size. Unfortunately, buying the lot left us a little short on cash, but after a year and a half of owning the lot we were finally able to take the time and money to turn it into an amazing back yard! We hired a landscaper to level out the ground, bring in some clean soil and sod, and then Mark, his cousin Nate and I put in the patio. Much easier said than done - it was a LONG weekend of hard work, but it was well worth it!! There is still a lot to do (furniture, landscaping, etc.), but now Lily has a great place to run around and enjoy the outdoors :) She's already taking a few steps at a time, so she'll be running around back there pretty soon!!



Happy Birthday Aunt Melly!!

silly saturday morning :)

How is it June already?!

Time is flying by, and we'll be planning Lily's first birthday party soon! Since the last time I posted, Mark has been to Manchester and Paris (with a cool VIP tour of the Eiffel Tower!), we went to visit Melissa, Kevin and Parker in Virginia over Memorial Day, and we got a new back yard! We're going to do some more work this weekend on the patio, and I'll post some before and after pictures soon.

Hope you all are doing well and enjoying the beginning of the summer!