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June was jam packed with fun, and it all started with a trip to Sunset Beach for Rowland Beach Week!

While we were there Chloe had a terrible case of diaper rash.  She was on some serious antibiotics for an ear infection/running nose.  That meant naked baby on the beach!

Chloe never took to a paci, the only thing she loves is her llama, and she really really loves it

Callie loves picking me flowers, of the lantana sort

Chloe list of medeications only increased when we got back from the beach…. no one told me that kids medications could add up so quickly

more ‘airing’ out time

The girls love talking to ‘Siri” but she doesn’t always like them back

love these two

Doc rarely gets to lay in our bed, but when he does he takes full advantage of the situation

she gets her sleeping looks from her momma, sad but true

I got the opportunity to take this sweet boys pictures, he’s born the be a gamecock with his Uncle being Grayson Greiner and all

during bath one night, I saw Callie in Chloe like I had never seen before, it took me by surprise!

We are working on this girl actually posing for a picture without her tilting her head

Callie went to VBS and Chloe and I got some special 1 on 1 time together

We’ve really enjoyed the pool lately!

yeah, she’s trouble

We started celebrating fathers day by decorating the chalkboard, Mac was excited about her picture of her daddy :)

She also said these things about her daddy, and drew a picture of her, Chloe and V

Father’s Day ESPN time

We took a trip to the Zoo, said hello to the gorilla

the elephants

the girls are also learning/practicing sharing

our cucumber plant is still going like crazy!

we love bubbles, and go through a tub of them a month it seems

Chloe is really wanting to put her own clothes on now, and though she hasn’t figured out that shirts go over the head and not by the feet, she keeps trying!  Usually big sister comes into help too

Pool Popsicles

Did you know that these will grow if you place them in water after you’ve used them?

Callie has finally learned how to write her own name, we’re working on the ‘balloon’ A, but I love it for now!

We love our Levi visits!

Chloe’s favorite game at mexican “Choot Em Chlo!”

This picture doesn’t help the fact that I want another baby….. 

I was in a sewing mood one night and I remembered this cute idea I saw on Pinterest.

at first Mac didn’t love it, but I think she saw my sad face and changed her mind. She ended up wearing it all day and loved it!

before the heat wave hit Columbia, we spent as much time outside as we could.  Having two little ones stuck inside for a couple of days is no fun

With a dog and two messy kids, theres no shortage of things to vacuum up

90% of the time we have cereal for breakfast.  Chloe has yet to have milk in her bowl.  My attempt at letting her be a big girl back fired, she hated it!

Doc got a new little pool to help keep him cool during these really hot days

she loves her “appa juce”

We started getting into the 4thof July spirit with some painting

Jill and I decided one night to go see Magic Mike, yup

We are 1/3 of our way through summer and were enjoying our days more and more

Happy 4th!

Growing up my parents threw a HUGE 4th of July party every year at their lake house.  It was one of my favorite days of the year and something we looked forward to.  After the sale of the lake house, and a few years of doing it at their house, they decided to no longer do the party.  Can’t blame them- it’s a lot of work!  Now that we don’t have set plans for the 4th anymore, it’s always a struggle to decided (at least for us) what were going to do to celebrate.  This year we had great plans to go to a friends house and spend the afternoon by the pool.  As you all know, when the Granger’s make plans and get excited about them, something usually gets in the way and changes our original fun plans.  Vaughn had a small procedure done on his back the day before.  Unfortunately the next morning the pain pills and antibiotics he took didn’t agree with him and caused him to be really sick the entire morning into the early afternoon.  I felt so bad!  He finally had some days off and now he was sick, on the 4th of all days!  We texted our friends and canceled, no way was he going to be able to hang out with folks by a pool and socialize well.  So I called my parents up, “y’all up for visitors?!”  We loaded up the car late afternoon and headed to their house for dinner.  And what started off as not such a great day, ended with smiles and laughter! 

Chloe had fun being chased by Papa!

After some yummy hamburgers, what’s a holiday without some ice cream on the porch?!

The girls love that G-Kat and Papa (Nana and Big V too) live in the country.  They always have a list of things they ‘have’ to do- feed the birds, pick blueberries, feed the fish, you know country things.  Callie picked everyone some fresh blueberries, although she ate most of them before they hit the container.

It was about time to head home and we had a few little fireworks to set off. 

Chloe was NOT a fan.  In fact, she hates all loud noises.

It might have not been a huge big celebration, but it ended up being just what we needed.

Happy 4th of July everyone!

God gave it to me

We were leaving Publix last week and Mac and I were being silly. I said "Stop being so silly James Wallace Helfer!" she replied "My name isn't James! It's Callie McNair Granger!" me "Oh really?! Well that's a beautiful name! Who gave you that name?" Mac "God gave it to me!"

Love this girl and how God finds his way in our little talks :)


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