Happy Fourth & Swimming!!!!

We went to the 52nd annual Pine Tree Parade (the neighborhood just down from ours) last weekend and had a blast! Zoe invited us to her neighborhood and was such a great hostess (as well as her mom, dad, and baby brother!) We enjoyed decorating the wagon and waving to all the bystanders! It's always fun to be in a parade!

Stopping for a cool drink with Zoe!

Julia passed Level 2 at swim lessons this week! She has been working really hard on her swimming skills lately and has turned into quite the little fish in the pool! She is SO proud of her new white ribbon! Be sure to ask her about it if you see her! :)

Party Time!

On our trip to St. Augustine, we went to an engagement party for Katie and Will at the World Golf Village! What a beautiful place! The girls got a chance to help Will with the "Challenge Hole." The balls didn't make it too far, but they did win the contest for the females!

Julia with her "coffee cup" that she won! Of course, she drinks her apple juice out of it! :)

No party is complete without ice cream!

Beach!!!

We went to the Atlantic Ocean side this year and visited with Uncle Will and his fiancee' Katie in St. Augustine! All the girls wanted to do was play in the sand and on the beach so we spent LOTS of time doing both!

Look at that cutie with her pigtails!

Daddy made us into a mermaid! Well, really just Julia-Gracie couldn't stay still long enough!!!! Look at that cute smile in the upper corner!

Downtown Florence

We found a horse in downtown Florence on Friday night so we had to hop on! What a cute set of cowgirls!

Giddy up!!!

Then we went over to the campus of UNA to see the lions in their outside habitat! They were sleeping by the time we got there (yeah, at 7:00 pm), but we did find some small lions made out of marble that were just as fun for the girls to see!

Our Alabama Weekend

We took a weekend trip down to Florence, AL for the Memorial Day weekend and had a blast! We all loved the fountains, waterslide and just overall swimming in the pool. LOVE this expression on Julia's face as the fountains "got her!"

The little fish-she spent most of her time {WITHOUT} her floaties, but wanted them for her deepwater swimming! She is doing so great at swimming on her own!

Where the girls spent ALL of their time during the day! Even Gracie got adventurous and got pretty far into the water (well, at least for her!)

First Pool Day 2010

We had a great Sunday afternoon in the pool - the first of many for the summer season! These girls just keep growing and learning so much! Julia jumped off the diving board a couple of times (picked right back up from last summer!) and Gracie had so much fun on the steps and practicing her kicking with mommy and daddy!

Taking a break from swimming to "tiptoe in the clover"! :)

Lounging on the raft!

A Baseball Game, the Train Museum and the Zoo!

Wow, it's been busy around here lately! The wonderful spring weather has gotten us out enjoying lots of activities! We went to the Diamond Jaxx game and Julia instantly found the cheerleaders (surprise!!).

On one of our rainy Saturdays lately, we went to check out the Casey Jones train museum in town! We had a blast checking out all the trains and mommy and daddy found out lots of neat things about Jackson's most famous train conductor.

We sure are getting lots of use of our Zoo membership this year! We have been five times since November and have a great time each time we go. We met our friends that were home from Iowa this past weekend and had a little zoo playdate with the kiddos (and adults!).

Happy Mother's Day from Two SWEET Girls!

Happy Mother's Day to our mommy and grandmothers, Granny and Neena. Just wanted to share a few pics of these cute girls doing what they do best....smiling and loving on their sister!

Thanks for being the sweet girls that you are! You make me a proud mommy!!!!

Memphis Zoo

We took a little day trip to the zoo this week during Julia and Gracie's "spring break" from preschool! We had a wonderfully sunny day with a little bit of a breeze and enjoyed visiting all of the animals! We took Neena and Sara Nan with us so got lots of cute pictures with all of the Roy girls-just couldn't get them all on here! Check out these cuties in their new sunglasses!

Julia rocking the princess sunglasses-at least she picked some with a little bit of current style!

Hiding out in the "cave" near the panda exhibit!

Easter Sunday!

Look what the Easter bunny brought us!!!

Julia in her Easter dress made by Neena

Gracie posing for a picture in her Easter dress

Easter Egg Hunts!

We had a busy Easter weekend-three egg hunts on Saturday, including our annual Northwood hunt (our fourth annual!). Gracie in action above waiting to get started!

Julia hosting her own egg hunt at the Northwood "T" We ended up having beautiful weather and the children wore themselves out with a jumper and MORE than enough eggs to find!

Beautiful Roy girls at our church Easter egg hunt at Lambuth University! Beautiful grounds and all kinds of cute children running around! Hope you all had a great Easter-we sure did!

Palm Sunday

The children entered our worship service on Sunday morning waving palms and then got a chance to sing in "big" church! The little ones did so good with their song and their signs that went with it. Hallelulia!!!

Don't they look so cute?!?!?!?!

Of course, we ended up at the Mexican restaurant after church for lunch and the girls posed for a cute pic with their daddy while they had a chance!

Easter Egg Decorating

We went over to a friend's house after school today to do some Easter egg decorating! They had a really neat egg spinner that made dying the eggs very simple (and a LOT less messy!). Also, the eggs came out a little tye-dye looking so the girls really liked that! We have definitely gotten a start on decorating eggs since we have FOUR more egg hunts before Easter is all done!

Gracie can do it "all by herself!"