Summa, summa, summertime!

This past weekend was Memorial Day weekend...or if you ask me, the official start of summer.  First off, Memorial Day weekend has a special meaning to me as my grandfather was a veteran, and I have lots of friends that are either veterans or are still active in the military.  My whole-hearted thanks goes out to all of them for the freedom that we have that they fought for.  Without them, our lives would not be the way we know it today.

Since we got the new dog over the weekend, we had a pretty relaxing weekend in which we didn't go ANYWHERE!  It was GLORIOUS!  We did take advantage of our local community pool twice.  Delaney is such a little water baby that even though her teeth were chattering, she didn't want to get out!  (don't worry, I moved her to the baby pool that was MUCH warmer and she warmed right up!)  And we did go out to dinner once (thanks to a gift card my mother-in-law gave us for Easter).  On Sunday evening though, we did the traditional cook-out in our back yard with some good friends of ours.  They brought their 2 1/2 year old Aiden over and he and Delaney and Delilah had a blast in the backyard in our little turtle toddler pool.

They played for hours in the pool while we cooked and ate dinner and enjoyed a few beers and some GREAT company.  Delaney even got to stay up a little past her bedtime so that her and Aiden could watch Elmo on the TV for a little bit. 

The swimsuit that Delaney is wearing is my favorite one that she has this year as it features a monkey. And since Delaney is as close to a monkey as you can get (only WAY cuter!) it is only fitting that she wears it!

Plus, there's just something about ruffle butts that gets me every time!

I Die!

I'm thinking that this is going to be an AMAZING summer!