{"id":31871,"date":"2013-07-12T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=31871"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:12:09","slug":"livin-the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/livin-the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Livin’ the good life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a blast swimming our first night on vacation!  Anna Kate and Rose were busy cheesing it up for pictures, but Noelle was under water most of the night!<\/p>\n

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Aunt E and Uncle Fred have the neatest back yard.  After the pool, they have a gorgeous yard that leads down to the lake.  The girls loved having a picnic by the lake in between swimming and more swimming! <\/p>\n

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These are our girls!<\/p>\n

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Loving.every.minute.<\/p>\n

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Feeding the ducks bread crumbs has become an exciting tradition!<\/p>\n

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Daddy and his girlies, and Rose trying to yell at the ducks to come get their food!  She is hilarious.  You have to hang out with her to fully appreciate how totally awesome she is!  She\u2019s the sweetest, craziest little 2 year old all bundled up into one adorable package! <\/p>\n

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Well, what do we have here!!!  Anna Kate tried the Buddle Jumper floatie and LOVED it!  She was all over the pool, and it kept her head above water while she kicked and pulled the water with her arms!  She was so proud to be off of the steps, and we were so relieved to see her happy in the water for the first time ever!  She was more comfortable in this floatie than she ever has been with someone holding her, and it\u2019s coast guard approved as a life jacket, so it is an extra safety precaution.  Hopefully she will get used to the swimming motion this summer and then next summer we will go all out with hard core lessons (the kind you have to sign up in March to get into).<\/p>\n

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Noelle is enjoying swimming on her back this summer, and Anna Kate had fun watching her sissy swim all around her in the middle of the pool (so excited for her)!  Rose enjoyed Uncle Andy\u2019s ice cream sandwiches, from head to toe, lol!<\/p>\n

*I\u2019ve still got over 100 trip pictures from last week, but no new pics this week!  Okay, just a couple with Mike\u2019s phone, lol!  I\u2019m waiting on a new Canon that\u2019s not in stock right now\u2026 I\u2019m still not in any hurry to take pics.  This is the part of the summer that all of us Mommies need some renewed energy!  Right now, if I can keep the house going, and everyone clean and fed, I\u2019m doing good!  So far, so good!  I\u2019m thinking it will be at least two more weeks before we\u2019ll have the new camera.  Nothing\u2019s really going on with us right now, except for trying to beat the TX heat (and doctor\u2019s appointment every day next week, sometimes two in one day\u2026 busy check-up time)!  We have parties and play dates this weekend, but I\u2019m looking forward to just living in the moment.  It\u2019s different, but a nice break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We had a blast swimming our first night on vacation!  Anna Kate and Rose were busy cheesing it up for pictures, but Noelle was under water most of the night! Aunt E and Uncle Fred have the neatest back yard.  After the pool, they have a gorgeous yard that leads down to the lake.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}