Saturday, September 14, 2024

Summer 2024

 Here are all the pictures from our Summer 2024!


Kayla started to love to swim and go on waterslides this summer.. She finally conquered the blue tunnel slide at the water park.


We spent a lot of time this summer with Sarah.


Cedar shores!


Traditional photo!


The girls love their picture taken here.


Kayla rode lots of new rides this year!


And oldies!


We had our season pass to Chuck E Cheese and went quite a bit!  Just like my childhood!


She loves dancing and seeing Chuck E.


Dance and pictures.


This simulator ride is her favorite.


At first she liked the idea of this game, but she doesn't like the balls falling down on her.


Scooby Doo ride is a hit.


Peppa Pig ride!


My little fishy started swim lessons!


This was her first trial class and she moved right up to the next level.


She did so good!!


She did SO good with the swim lessons!  So proud of her!


Chuck E Cheese in North Olmsted.  She loves this carousel.


Happy Father's Day Papa!


All of us hanging at Chuck E Cheese.


Girls playing air hockey.


More pictures with Chuck E.


Do the Chuck E shuffle.


Gigi Chuck E Cheese day!


So much fun!


She's not scared of him at all!


Dance girl!


Top shelf prize!!  Woohoo!!


Yaaay!!



Soooo excited!!


She got the LAST Princess Poppy!


We saved for 2 months for this prize and she was so PUMPED for it.


Yaaay!  Hard work pays off!


Cedar Point with our girls!


Scrambler is still a favorite!


Kayla and TT


Steph and CJ.  Love getting to spend friend time!


Sam and the girls!


Me and my baby!


Kelsie's high school graduation!


Waiting for her to take the Stage.



Neil and Nana!


More Neil and Nana.


Pretty girls!


Cheering section!


Yay Kelsie!


Singing in her group.


Getting ready to call names.


Walking up to get her dipolma.


Eric gave her a huge hug!


Kayla congratulating her.


Amelia's turn.


Seeing Joel!


Love it!


With her little cousins and aunts!


Family!


Littlest and biggest cousin


Picture with us.


Nana wanted a picture so bad!


Aunt sissy!


Aunt TT and Uncle Ted!


Neil!


Just on her own!  Beautiful!


With her besties.


Afterwards we went to Chuck e cheese with her cousins.


She loves riding rides.


Merry go round!


Playing together


Air hockey


The girls love playing together.


Flying high.. in the sky.


Amelia's turn


And here comes Chuck E!


Eric loved him!


Kid shot!


Another kid shot


Dancing with him.


Cute one!!


He loved him so much!


Girls having fun!


Fun fun!


Smile girls!


So much fun!




Had to get one on her own too.


girls playing together.


Ice cream at Mr. Divots


Playing in the sand at Cedar Point.


The girls love this ride.


Matterhorn!  Kayla's new favorite ride that she was able to get on this year.


The girls loved the 4th of July fireworks at Cedar Point!


So fun to watch!


Loving it!  So proud of how much she's grown this year.  Lesson learned is that I wish we would have gotten a place to stay in Sandusky that night.  It took FOREVER to get out of the parking lot and I would have liked to have not had to do that long drive.  Everyone left at the same time and it was chaos getting out.


Best friends!


Inside out 2!  We loved this movie!


My favorite scene was the anxiety attack scene.  


Kayla loves getting pictures with the plants.


Cousin day!


Kayla loves Suzie so much.


Cousins riding rides.


With Abby.


All 5 girls.


The big girls riding together.


Character picture!


Fun!


Camp Snoopy!


The wild girls and the calm girls!


Kayla's favorite...  follow the leader


Happy girl at the end of the day with her own icee.


4th of July party at Aunt Becky's


Playing with water


Playing with water some more.



Matterhorn girl with daddy.


Steph and CJ,


Kayla sharing her meatball with daddy.  She LOVED the meatballs here.  I hope they bring them back next year!


Girl needs a pool!  She set up this splash pad and slide to play in.


Moving up another swimming level!


Ana had class the same time as her one week!



Cuties playing at the splashpad in Memorial Park.


Besties!


So much fun!


Love the splashpad!


And playing at the park together.


Alpaca farm with Gigi.


Our usual picture!


Petting the alpacas


Petting the pigs.


And Donkees



Kayla's still too afraid to feed any of the animals.  Maybe when she's bigger.



The Big Bounce House...  This place was incredible... but holy crap did it hurt if you got "rug burn" on it.


We had a lot of fun with TT, Maia, and Kyle here.


Bouncing in the giant bounce houses was a lot of fun.


Good memories!


Help I'm stuck in the balls and can't get out!  We were cracking up over this!


But holy hell did I hurt my elbows!  We were coming down one of the huge slides and made it gave Kay and I rug burn so bad.  It hurt so much I wanted to cry.  It was even worse in the heat!



Playing in a smaller pit.


Girls running off together.  Overall, I liked this place and thought it was fun.  It's just not a lot of time and the stands for food/ice cream were ridiculous and really cut into your time.  I do think that we'd go again though!


Moved up another swimming level!  This girl was killing it!  She practiced all her moves at the waterpark and moved right up.


So proud!



Next week we went to Hancock Field Days and they had a bounce of bounce houses there that Kayla enjoyed going in.


She went down this slide probably 100 times!


This one was not a hit for her.


Kayla and Kelsie!


Kelsie's graduation party!  We came early/stayed late to help setup and cleanup.


Pictures of Kelsie from Kindergarten - Through highscool




Picture boards


Picture table


Labelling all the beers/drinks!


Picture of everyone.



Girls playing!


TT and Lucy


Erica, Tony, me, and Cody


Nana and Kayla


Reggie, Tony, Chance, and Cody


Erica and I!


Reggie and Uncle Ted


Kelsie with Kelly!


Sisters!



Happy girls!


Graduation cake


Yum!


Amber and I!


Deb and I!


Poppy with the girls


Davey with some friends


Eric and Cody


Lucy, Amelia, and Kayla


Keslie and her mama!


Mama/Daughter!


I had to pop in too!


She loves her Davey!


Jennifer and Rick


Poppy and Kayla


Nana, Keslie, and Kayla



Nana and her girl!


Kelsie and us!



Kayla got a gymnastics bar and she loved it!  It's incredible how much she improved in gymnastics and got over her fear of the bar!


She's a flipping pro now!


Yeah girl!


Kayla loves doing experiments.


Snoopy love!


She loves playing gymnastic teacher and having her dolls/stuffy do tricks


Back at it!


Flip!


Happy birthday papa!


Kisses


Yeehaw!!  Dad was happy to get sang to!


Leaving the restaurant together.


Summer Slam!  This was so much fun!


The Miz was "hosting" must have just been on TV because we barely saw him.


We had floor seats and it was pretty cool!


When Cody Rhodes came out, Cody said now I know how it feels to hear 60K people chanting your name!


The MIZ!  My favorite!  Wish his reality tv show would have another season.



We had a great time at Summer Slam!  It was better than I expected it to be.


Back to Cedar Point!


With her bestie!


Moved up ANOTHER LEVEL!


This time papa was there to witness it!



Corn Fest with Papa!


Cuyahoga County Fair... it was the guardian hot dog dance party.


Onion was the girls bestie!


She loved dancing with them.


Sarah and her dad.


Kayla and Sarah dancing.


Kayla ended up winning one of the ride passes!  She got a free ride pass!!


Dance party!


So excited for the Ferris Wheel


Their ride!


Sarah and her dad!


Tea cups


Kayla was loving getting to go on rides with daddy.  Mommy was scrapped.


Inisde the bear ride


Big girl swings!  She was so pumped she was tall enough.  I didn't get to go on because I was eating ice cream.


All the girls together!


Looking at animals


Besties!


Picture!


Wagon was a hit!


On daddy's shoulders



Ana and Vesna


Sarah and Jon


Girls!  Getting ready for tilt a whirl.


They all hopped in together.


Kiddie rides!


Fun!


They absolutely love this thing.  They would stay the entire day running around and playing in this if you let them.


They were ALL about it!


Posing


The kids petting zoo.


Brave girl feeding the cow.  Kayla wouldn't feed any animal.


Cute!


This was another favorite ride.


The girls wanted to win a prize so bad.  This guy was fun and exciting for them to play a game with.


Back to Cedar Point!


Icee!!!


Ready for the snoopy show.


Follow the leader!


Picture with Snoopy!


More characters!


And another!


My work company picnic.  This woman does really good tattoos for the kids.


Loves it!


She does such a good job!  And honestly she is pretty quick about it too.


Bingo time!



Winner winner chicken dinner!  She won the first 2 bingo games!


She was so lucky that I had to have her go help Irma do the balls.


The summer event was definitely fun!


On the last day we FINALLY made it to the boardwalk nights at Cedar Point.  For some reason we had missed it all summer long.  It was a great event.  I really hope that they do it again.


They had a parade.


They had lots of performers and some fun stuff on the beach.


They had a digging area to find sea shells.


Afterwards you could paint them.


This guy was incredible!  I loved watching his act!


They had different tasks that you could complete to win buttons.


The girls were excited to win more buttons!


Guardians game with our neighbors.



The rock and blast fireworks were INCREDIBLE!!!


Kayla loved this game at Chuck E Cheese and she was really good at it.   Too bad they took it away in the beginning of the summer.


Girl loves doing cartwheels everywhere!


Loves getting pictures!



Gigi date!


She loves this dance floor.


Asian Lantern Festival time!  We love coming to this every year!


She loves her baby!


Picture with her mouse.


Picture with my dragon.


Kayla was ALL about beating on the drum and lighting up the tree.


So fun!


The lantern festival is so beautiful.


Girl picture!


Kayla!


They loved this one.  As you move the dragonflies wings move.


Peacock!


Another thing Kayla loves.


I love all the interactive parts of the Asian Lantern festival!  I wish they would add these things to the winter lights one too!


Kayla loved jumping on these hopscotch areas too, but she was scared when big kids were in there.  Overall, we had a very excited and busy summer.  I wouldn't change it for anything!  We make such good memories and have such a great time!

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