Sunday, July 8, 2018

Summer Successes

Swimming Lessons

The girls both took 4 weeks of lessons (Monday through Thursday) last month! These were Jemma's first swimming lessons EVER and I'm so proud of her! She tried just about everything that was asked of her (minus going under water). Jade also excelled this year and is now running and jumping in and swimming several strokes unassisted. She is most confident when she can touch the bottom of the pool, so we're working on getting over the fear of the deep end still, but this is MUCH improvement for her! Here are a few videos of Jade!




Riding a Two-Wheeler

After a few days of balance practice and confidence boosting, Jade was off and riding her bike without training wheels! Here is a video from the first night she rode on her own!



Name Writing

One of my goals for Jemma this summer was for her to learn to write her name. We started with one letter a day, but by day 2 she decided she could already do it all. ;) Here is a sampling of her writing!


Losing Teeth

Just adding this here, Jade lost tooth #4 and #5 these past two Fridays! She looks adorable with that missing front tooth! The other front top tooth is loose too! Love her semi toothless smile!






Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Father's Day

Nate's parents had gotten him a driving experience at Chicagoland Speedway for a Birthday/Father's Day gift and it just so happened we were all available on Father's Day to schedule it!

Nate took a 45 minutes "class" and basically then suited up and headed to the track! He then got to drive around the NASCAR track on his own for 8 minutes!! The girls loved watching and cheering on daddy! 





Here is a video of Nate driving! It doesn't look like he is going that fast for some reason, but his certificate said he reached a maximum speed of 144 mph!!



 


Afterward, we headed to Texas Roadhouse, enjoyed a delicious meal and enjoyed celebrating Nate and Grandpa! 


The following weekend we got to celebrate Nate and Grampy with a wonderful dinner at Carson's ribs! We're so blessed and very thankful for these amazing and loving father's in our lives!

Monday, July 2, 2018

Summer Fun - June

We spent a lot of our hot days playing with water in the back yard! The girls are loving our new "water slide" and it has provided many hours of entertainment!







One of the highlights of our summer is always the extended visit of my sister and her family! The kids have such a blast playing together! It was super fun to have them here for my birthday celebration this year at one of our favorite restaurants, Pilot Pete's! On another afternoon we got together with them for a fun lunch at Two Toots followed by some play time at a nearby park!






Another one of my favorite summer traditions is our extended Obermayer Family Weekend! Everyone gathers in the Deerfield, IL area for a weekend full of food, family and fun! :)

Bowling!

Chuck E. Cheese! The kids combined all their tickets and all the tickets the daddy's won for them and were each able to get something worth 1000 tickets!

The kids also received these adorable t-shirt's from GeeGee for their annual great grandchild photo session!



Wouldn't be a family weekend without an entire group shot!

Also a summer highlights is our annual strawberry picking day with Grammy and it was so much fun! Both girls enjoyed eating and picking equally!