Hello everyone. Anyone still out there reading this old thing? We are long over due for a catch up blog post. What a summer it's been in both wonderful and not so wonderful ways. As most of you know, Randy broke his leg and ankle on our last night of vacation at Bethany Beach. So since then things have been a little topsy turvy to say the least. But before that really unfortunate incident - we had an amazing summer as a family with tons of great adventures. We've had lots of great pool days, had a week at the beach and visited Dutch Wonderland, the Turkey Hill Experience and The Land of Little Horses in PA. We officially welcomed Daniel into our family in Baltimore court. And watched him start to eat solid foods, learn to sit, crawl, stand and now start to take steps behind a walker. He's also found his voice and can make as much noise as his big sister when he wants to. Speaking of the big sister, Faith has become such a big girl these last few months. Not having daddy able to hold and play with her the way she's used to has been really hard on her (well all of us really), but she has really loved being such a great helper for our family - especially daddy. She'll start a preschool program four days a week at our local elementary school right after Labor Day. She seems really excited - we all are - yet while we know she's ready I think we're all a little nervous too. More on that in future posts for sure.
It's certainly been more of a whirlwind summer than usual, but in some of the best ways! My mom always says you have to just roll with it because neither the good or the bad last forever. And luckily we have an amazing village of family and friends that are always there to help us through those rough times. We are so very blessed in many ways!
And best news we've received all summer came today when we found out that Randy can slowly stop using his crutches and only has 2-3 more weeks in his boot. Just in time for him to get back to school and for us to create and settle into our new school year routines.
And of course it wouldn't be a Grove blog post without a ton of photos (some from the very beginning of the summer...oops!). Enjoy!
Much Love,
The Groves
My favorite image of our summer!
Sleeping beauty
We love summers at the pool.
Sprinkler fun is the cheapest Friday night enteratinment you can find.
posing with our new mini van
Trip to Dutch Wonderland
Favorite ride: The Frog Hopper
Our happy 6 month old
Pool days
The Turkey Hill Experience
Someone is crawling!
Visit to Land of Little Horses in Gettysburg, PA
Randy loved this tractor because it was just like the one his Grandfather used to have. So of course Faithy had to take a picture.
Weekend away for mommy and daddy to see the Foo Fighters on July 4th!
And now he's standing
Damascus Days parade with great friends
The beginning of a week at Bethany Beach with the Kehler clan
Off to the beach
Love this one - a girl and her daddy
nothing like a nap on the beach
We buried Uncle Bobby
And built sand castles with Uncle Josh and Susan
This was a typical vacation day on the deck (yes the same deck where Randy broke his leg and ankle)
First time playing mini golf
What a crew!?!
Mommy and her babies
So silly
Faithy and baby Ben
Classic Faith
Uncle Josh and Daddy taught her how to play football.
The two troublemakers
Hanging out on the deck
Our friends the Capobiancos came for a visit. Faith and Nico had a great time.
And they brought ice cream!
Love seeing these kiddos all together!
Learning how to eat hardshell crabs
These are the days
Cousins
Faith got to meet Olaf on the boardwalk
Lots of snacking on the beach
All of the cousins and they are (mostly) looking at the camera
Celebrating Connor's 4th(!!) birthday
The whole gang. This was literally minutes before Randy broke his leg. Sorry I cut off your heads Randy and Josh. You're too tall :-)
Poor daddy
First time at the movies.
Can't get him to sit on the couch and stay there any more.
Faith wanted in on the 7 month photo shoot
All he wants to do these days is stand.
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