Good Morning Birthday Girls! They requested chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast.

 "Happy Birthday to You..."

 Dad with the Birthday Princesses

Mom with the Birthday Princesses

 No work and no school means lunch at Hibachi!

Special icecream and special birthday drum song!

 Instead of taking cupcakes to school today- the girls spent the rainy afternoon making their own cake!

 William helped with the sprinkles

 Their beautiful masterpiece!

A third Happy Birthday Song for the day!

 The rain bands are here!

 Having fun in between storms

 Big jumps!

Emily loves the puddles!

A fun day out of school because we are under a Hurricane Warning.  No rain today-just windy!

Hurricane Pool Party at the Grahams!

The girls are pretending to be mermaids

The girls are making up a dance routine

 The boys are sharks attacking the mermaids

 Drying off by jumping on a trampoline

 

Hurricane Pizza Party at our house!

 The girls are all dressed up!

 Superheroes, pirates and princesses!

And then the boys dress up-TMNT and Spiderman!

A beautiful weekend at Orange Beach

Watching dolphins

Watching herons catch fish

 Red flag waves

 Hurricane window protection is up-now praying Isaac does not come!

Grand Summer Ball 2012

Ready for our first day of dance this year!

We are so excited to see our friends!

 Our new Dance Class!

Silly William jumping in the girls picture to add a few bunny ears!

William's first soccer practice!

William is the shark and is stealing the ball!

 To celebrate the first week of school we met William's best friend, Ella, at MooCheChe for icecream...

And then a visit to the pet store next door to see all the animals!

 First day of First Grade!

 William loves his new shark backpack!

Ready to ride with Dad to school!

A relaxing last weekend of summer at Orange Beach!

 Emily caught a frog

 She made a sand castle for her frog prince

 Hannah found a pretty little shell on the beach

 William found so many shells he could barely carry them all!

Watch out sea gulls-here comes Emily!

 Ready for another day of school!

 Ready for another tadpole hunt!

 Cowboy and I watched the boys catch over 30 tadpoles and 6 fish with their nets.

William with friends at Meet the Teacher!

 William's first grade teacher is Mrs. Cain

Now time for the girls' Birthday Party Night-The girls asked for a Barbie Mermaid Pool Party!

 Lori, Addi, Bryce and Hannah jumping in!

Emily and Ramey under the fountain!

 William and Cullen

The girls love their Barbie Mermaid Cake! 

Blowing out five candles!

 Eating yummy cake!

 The girls dancing in the pool

Beautiful weather and a beautiful sunset at the Fairhope Pool!