Memorial Day Fun

We had a great Memorial Day. First, Soph and I met the Beaty's in Powell to watch the Memorial Day parade. Soph loves parades.

 

Addie and Soph walking to the parade:

 Waving the American flag:

 Jax, Soph and Addie:

 All three kiddos waving at everyone who passed by:

 Their favorite part was .....the candy! Our friends Jake, Erika and their son Weston were also there. Soph sitting next to Jake and Weston:

 Then we took the kids to the Beaty's pool to cool off. Jax and Soph having some fun:

Then we cleaned up and went to our friends Andy and Erin's for a cookout. Such a fun day!

Fun Weekend

We had a fun, busy weekend. On Sunday we played outside in Soph's little pool, played with water balloons, then we went to our friends, The Clark's for a cookout. Soph had so much fun playing with her friends.

 

 

Soph running through the sprinkler with her friends:

 Soph, Jax and Alexa (all 3-4 months apart) eating cup cake ice cream cones):

 They also had their jump house up which the kids loved:

 We also took Soph to Chuck-E-Cheese this weekend. This is her favorite place (besides Disney) and always asks us to go back. Soph on her favorite ride:

 Playing a game with daddy:

 After Chuck-E-Cheese, we took her to get Jeni's Ice Cream. She loved it. It was soo nice out we sat outside.

 Since Elliott started working 3rd shift this weekend I tried to keep Soph out of the house for several hours so he could have a quiet house. We played outside all morning on Sunday.

 Soph loves her water table, and little pool:

 But her favorite thing to do was carry water balloons up her slide and put them into her pool.

 Then we started throwing them at each other. She loved this:

Africa

We took Soph to the Columbus Zoo yesterday to check out the new Africa exhibit. It was really cool.

 

Close ups with the lions:

 Cheetah:

 Giraffe's:

 Soph even got to feed a giraffe.

 Although we went to see Africa, we also checked out the rest of the Zoo. Soph loves stopping and getting her picture taken with all the animals:

 Polar Bears:

 She loves visiting the goats:

 We rode the boat and visited the dinosaur exhibit:

 Kush went to the Zoo with us so we had to get a selfie:

 And we can't visit the Zoo w/o seeing all the characters:

Spring Nights

We have had some great weather this past week so we spent a lot of time outside.

 

We also grilled out and had Soph's favorite, corn on the cob:

 And ice cream sandwiches:

 We also got out Soph's pool and water table.

 We ate dinner outside as well:

 Soph being silly:

 I found an idea on a blog I read on something fun to do with Soph. Edible finger painting using cool whip.

I filled the cupcake container with cool whip:

 Then added food coloring:

 And sprinkles since Soph loves sprinkles:

 Soph showing off her artwork. I'm not sure if she enjoyed painting or eating it more haha.