Itty Bitty Sweet, Sweet Kitty

Because of Eva's great love of "kitties", we talked Dave into a new kitten! Here she is at the animal shelter when we first met our newest family member.

The kids named her Elsa and she is 2 pounds of adorableness!

She was quick to love on us and took naps everyday on me!

Checking out her new surroundings. Aren't her markings so cute?!

Playing with new toys is tiring.

This is her favorite spot to nap.

Elsa loves the doll baby stroller.

Eva is so in love!

She climbed right up and took a nap on Benjamin.

Tough guy Collin is really smitten with animals and babies. He is so sweet with Elsa and loves on her so much.

Even Anna, who's not much of an animal lover, enjoys her new kitten.

So little and so cute!

4th of July Lake House Trip

On our way to our annual family reunion with Dave's family at their lake house in Tennessee!

Eva's turn to drive.

Fun times swimming in the lake:

Happy Birthday Dave!

Eva loved Uncle Mike's dog. She's such an animal lover.

She loves her daddy too!

And her "Cowen"

Benjamin has a mouth full of adult teeth and looking so old!

Boating time:

Eva was desperate for a turn driving. It was a quite the crazy ride with her in charge!

We had a great time exploring the island across from the lake house, which is affectionately called "Skunk Island" after Grandpa relocated a skunk there.

More tubing fun. They were quite brave this year and really enjoyed themselves!

Three little monkeys

Snuggling a sweet Eva with all of her lovies after nap time.

The kids got to paint their own sail boats.

Eva did a good job at first too....

Then she decided to change to painting herself....

She really, really enjoyed herself!

Playground fun waiting for Uncle Jimmy to finish his race.

The kids ran to the finish line with Jimmy.

We had another wonderful 4th!