Just a little dancing with Coco and Poppa Jack. Sorry it's sideways but it it still fun to watch!

More Summer 2014 fun

More pictures from our memory making Summer! Sorry for the order of them but it was way too much trouble to place them in chronological order and trying to get caught up.

Below sweet sisters are enjoying ice cream after having a cavity filled.....does that make me a bad mom??

Feeding the chickens in Illinois after they came home to roost for the evening and enjoying a cold treat after playing in the heat with our Florida cousins.

Langley and taking a selfie at the new water park in Mt. Vernon

Sweet cousins saying goodbye

Picture time on the bridge in Foundation Park during one of our many outings

Walking the trails in Foundation Park listening to Uncle Shannon tell stories of his childhood

Racing up the hill

These girls LOVE to dress up and pose for you!!

In between our travels we attended baseball tournaments to cheer on Bennett and his Delta Heat teammates. Parker keep the little ones entertained with Yoga and other activities!

Look at these Delta Heat baseball players!!

Bennett keeping Jackie entertained on our trip to the St. Louis Zoo

Visiting with the Hippos and learning about the big importance of their little tail....for another blog post :)

Bennett and his twin teammates, Cash & Crews

The weather was fairly mild so playing outside was a must!

Teamwork builds awesome block towers! These cousins are proud of them work.

Huddling up before game time

Our evening entertainment was musical production by these two with wardrobe changes and all. I wish I would have gotten a video!

A little exercise on the tandem bike for Jackie and Poppa Jack

Time to feed the chickens!

Silly faces at lunch time

I'm not sure we ever stopped moving on this final summer visit to IL and we enjoyed every minute of playing with our cousins!

July 4th in Natchez

This year for the 4th of July holiday the Parker clan met up in Natchez. Thanks to some great planners t-shirts were made for this reunion. Below Coco and Poppa Jack posing with their 10 (almost 11 at picture time) grandchildren.

You can't see from the photo but the back of the shirt has a picture of the house at 303 South Union.

Some good looking kiddos top and bottom!

dancing queens

Smile! It's lunch time!

family fun time!

father and son

father and daughter

10 and counting....

After the fun and festive holiday weekend, the girls and I hung around in Natchez to help Coco clean up a bit you could say. Below we took an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful weather and river views and to be silly.

As everyone was packing up to leave some of the children thought they needed to put together a lemonade stand. Amazingly it went pretty well.

Sweet cousins!!

All weekend the pool was a busy place

Here they go again being super cute!

getting ready to race

It was a fantastic time with family and friends! I look forward to many more fun reunions.

Twin Lakes camp pictures

In June the "big" kids went to overnight camp for an entire week. It sounded like a great idea when I signed them up but as time grew near I was terrified. Twin Lakes was an amazing place that provided pictures we could view daily which made me feel better. Below is a picture of Bennett and his cabin mates including Taylor.

Below is Parker and her cabin mates include good friends from Greenwood.

Bennett dunking and flying high!

Parker and her best friend Emma.

Girls having fun and being silly.

Parker enjoying petting the rooster.

There were many more pictures but there were a few of my favorite.

June 2014