Florida Vacation Fun

While Daddy has a week at church camp with the kids, we decided to head on down to Florida and start our vacation without him!  

All loaded up with Adaline too headed south!

this is how we roll for food purposes on a trip to Florida! A picnic at a rest area ;)

Green GiGi brought out all kinds of yummy snacks at Aunt Debbies pool. 

We love that she always brings the fun food to the party!

Cadence got to go to Aunt Aprils church camp for the week so it's just Mommy and the littles hanging out. We went to Paynes Creek Park to play and cool off some in the creek, but it was a little high for playing in...

Swimming at Aunt Aprils pool. I love that the common theme in a trip to Florida involves water!

at Aunt Aprils pool everyone was showing off their mad swimming skills and having a great time. Then Charis, accidentally, hit her mouth on the side of the pool :( it broke off one of her teeth we had had fixed when she first came to live with us. It didn't need to be repaired immediately but it did bleed enough that our pool day had to come to an end ;)

then we picked up Cadence from camp and drove to meet Grammie and Poppa at Solomons Castle!

I hadn't been there since I was a kid but it was a lot how i remembered it...the kids liked looking at all the cool stuff and especially eating dinner inside a big boat!

one of Grammie's friends offered to put Cadence's hair into  beads and we were so grateful! 

Getting her hair braided in the summer is a big treat for Cadence. 

a crazy dinner at CiCi's pizza with all the Murdock crew

and finally driving to Orlando to pick daddy up from the airport. and a few extra hours is a good reason to stop off at the Boardwalk at Disney and have some fun

and eat ice cream...but then we had to go because Daddy Was Coming!!!  

June Phone Dump

some fun random shots of other June happenings...

we're attempting potty training so Christopher got to pick out his new underwear!!

Cadence's Aunt Brandy had a new baby. Cadence is fully in love with Maci...and what's not to love about a sweet precious new baby. 

nothing says summer like, mostly naked, filthy kids...right?? at least in the Andersen house :)

Dance Recital 2014

Our precious Cadence finished up her year of dance lessons in june with an end of year recital. We are so proud of her and the way she has worked so diligently to learn her dances this year. She is also developing into quite the leader in her dance class and shows lots of confidence in herself when she's dancing. Not to mention that she's beautiful and has a perfect body to be a dancer - we may be a little bias but we really do think she's the most beautiful one there ;)

This was her outfit for tap. 

We're so grateful for Ms. Charity always choosing beautiful and tasteful outfits 

for her dancers to wear. 

and this was ballet. she was so excited about her french maid outfit and the fact that she got to hold a serving tray for part of her routine. 

Ms. Charity and company in the grand finale!

and afterwards, pictures with her friends. Ella and Ally were so sweet to endure the entire 2+ hour recital to watch Cadence in her dances.

and of course Mrs. Karen always watches with us as well. We so love her and how she loves our kids! We couldn't hardly do life without Mrs. Karen :) 

us and our girl. We're so proud of her and can't wait to see her dances in the years to come!