our dads

we made it to father's day!  yay!  we all got together at catie's place to celebrate our wonderful dads!  it was a nice (hot) laid back day... yummy food and drinks.  we love our dads.

sweet baby girl

happy 7th birthday sweet baby girl

had a blast

after the fun time at dairy queen a few weeks later, kadence was able to meet up with a few of her best girl friends and went to the movies to see monte carlo, it was so cute.  kambel and i came along... not too many pictures, but they had a blast ;).

special day

hi.  it has been a long time!  you see, i have this problem.  i really want to post things in order on this blog, which means i am either motivated to get things up here, or so overwhelmed because i am behind that things don't get posted.  guess which one happened ;).  either way, i am making a post now - even if it is from kadence's 7th birthday in june :).  kadence turned 7 on june 15th (w.o.w.) and we had a very low key celebration.  well.  sort of.  you see, kadence was telling lots of people she was having a party.  we didn't know she was telling people.  of course the little children she was telling were waiting for an invitation, which never came, but there was one.  kadence's buddy luke, from our church.  kadence loves this kid.  he is such a sweetheart and always makes it a point to make kadence feel special.  he left to college this year, so kadence doesn't see him that much.  well, he called me up on her birthday and wanted to know where this 'party' was (that i didn't know kadence had worked him up with all the details weeks before), so i thought he just wanted to meet up with us and celebrate, so i just told him to meet us at dairy queen and we would have ice cream together.  i just thought it was so sweet that he remembered her birthday.  well, he was expecting a party to be there...there was no party.  just us. hehe...how akward he must of felt :)... i thought it was sweet.  she got to pick out a new bike with no training wheels and then we went home for cupcakes that she picked out.  here are pictures below of the special day.

so cute

a few times over the summer we hit up a splash park on ft. campbell.  always fun!  kadence and ty were a bit cold, but they got over it by eating snacks!  kambel found her friend from the gym, which is always so cute. 

round three

we decided to stay one more night after we checked out of our other hotel.  so we checked back into another one and swam for the day and relaxed, after we toured all the elvis stuff. 

round two

...and off to day two in memphis...

                                   ....kiddos waiting in line to give the tickets......

....inside elvis' house....

...his parents bedroom...

...his pool room was covered completely in fabric....

...in his backyard...

...kambel with elvis...

...this wall surrounds his property and people sign it day and night.  we were on the tour bus so i snapped a few pictures, i found my name and aunt kim's last name ;)

...see it?...

...buckley...

 day three to follow.

round one

well we all know that my posting habits have been very bad lately, no excuses, but we have been SO busy this summer!  so now it is time to catch up...  we took a long weekend adventure to memphis to explore and to see elvis' home.  here is round one

we got to the hotel and ty broke in the bed

the view from our window, ha!

ty brought his toys.... in it is his bug bite cream

...and a picture of him and his daddy!

then we started our adventure...

holding hands....

looking at BIG buildings...

tooooo big!

taking trolley rides....

walking down beale street...

eating at hard rock.... (sun was bright!)

walking back down beale street...

taking a buggy ride...

eating ice cream...

then going back to the room.