St. Louis

The entire Edwards family took a late-summer trip to St. Louis to see a few baseball games and explore the city.  G-Chip agreed to go because the Cardinals were playing the Braves!

On the way- three kids on three iPads!  It kept them entertained!

Fun at the City Museam!

Dan and his little Cardinal fans!

Start of School

Cooper started the 1st grade in August (teacher is Mrs. Linda Grimm), and Reese Ann started Junior Kindergarten (teacher is Miss Holly Johnson).  They have had such a great and fun school year so far!

Miss Linda showing Cooper what to do

Cooper with two of his good buddies- Hudson & Sam

Reese Ann visiting her classroom

A few weeks later, all of the Jr-K kids had a circus parade around the school.  They had lots of fun, and Reese Ann was one cute clown, if I do say so myself!

Catching up... our summer

It is my Christmas break project to get the blog back on track!  So since I left off with our Derby trip in May, I have many months and lots of life to catch up on!  Our summer was wonderful!  We started it with Cooper's Kindergarten bridging.

 

 

Cooper and his precious teacher, Miss Jennifer Sammons

The day after school was out, we headed to the beach with Mom, Dad, and the rest of the family!  We had a wonderful time even though I did not capture any pictures of all of us together.  We did get a couple of cute shots...

Coop and RA

Our friends, the Sirokys, were at the beach at the same time, and the boys got to go fishing together.  Here is the cutest shot of the day!

We had lots of fun around the house and at the river during the rest of the summer! 

Father's Day fun with Dan!

at the pool- Cooper swam like a fish this summer!

loving driving the boat!

He got brave and tried out the sled from my childhood!

Sweet friends hanging out at the river

Our 1st water balloon fight

Princess RA in her princess pool!

Kentucky Derby!

We had a wonderful opportunity extended to us by our great friends, Lindsey & Todd, to go the Kentucky Derby!  Lindsey's family has a wonderful derby history, and we had such a great time with them and our friends, Jayme & Justin, the entire weekend!

Dan and I on Oaks day the Friday of the derby

Jayme, Lindsey & me in our Derby outfits- The Lilly drink was the favorite of the day!

Derby Day was cold & rainy, but our seats were covered, and we still had a fabulous time!

The boys all celebrating after a race where they all won money!!!

Easter

The Spring has totally gotten away from me, and I am in total denial that school is over!  We have had lots of fun things going on around here, but I realized that I have neglected to update the blog going as far back as Easter.  So, here is an Easter update- mostly in pictures!

Getting ready to hunt some eggs at the church Easter Egg Hunt

too busy eating the candy to keep hunting eggs

at Reese Ann's school party

Dying some eggs!

the only picture of all four of us from Easter

Recently around here...

We have been busy since returning from Disney World!  Even though we would still rather be at the happiest place on earth, we have had some fun things going on around here that are worth documenting!

Dan and I got dressed up for a night out & this is the best picture we got!

Cooper as Benny the Boxer in the kindergarten musical and his adoring sister

with a few of his classmates ready to perform

Reese Ann ready for her first tumbling class with Emily & Eady teaching them how to stretch before they started!

Such cute 3-year-old friends!

listening very carefully to Mr. Robert

a few more Disney memories...

I neglected to post some of Cooper & Reese Ann's favorite things from Disney- we took a survey on the trip home!  Also, here are a few additional pictures!

Reese Ann's favorite stuffed animal from the trip- Ursula the sea witch

outside the Beast's castle

On test track with Mom, Dad and G-Chip and Sis-sis in the back!

Cooper's favorites:
-Activity: Jedi Training
-Wild ride: Expedition Everest
-Calm Ride: Toy Story Mania
-Parade: Electrical Water Pageant on Bay Lake
-Show: Lion King
-Character: Oso
-Food: popcorn
-Best quotes: "Everything just comes to life!" and "I want to live here!"

Reese Ann's favorites:
-Princess: Snow White
-Rides: Peter Pan & Ariel's Grotto
-Activity: Enchanted Tales with Belle
-Show: Little Mermaid at Hollywood Studios
-Parade: Electric Light Parade
-Food: popcorn