the hardgrave family

Well, we’ve just gotten back from our week at Disney World and to say that the girls had a great time would be the understatement of the year. We promise to put more pictures up after we get a bit more caught up, but I thought that I’d go ahead and share this one. This is the girls meeting “Belle” during her story book time at the Magic Kingdom. Lily’s face really tells the whole story.

Well, the summer is over and the Fall is finally here! Here’s a few picture from the last few months at the Hardgrave home. The one above is Sarah’s recreation of our “last hurah” of the season, a day-trip that we took to the beach for Labor Day. I was pretty impressed.

Lily loved the birds. The birds loved Cheeze nips.

Kathryn has wanted to go to school with Sarah so so badly. To help her come to grips a litte bit with Sarah now being gone for school, we let her dress up in one of Sarah’s uniforms and ride in to school with Sarah and see her classroom. We walked in, the funniest thing happened. All of Sarah’s friends just kinda stopped what they were doing to stare at us. Finally one them broke the silence (that I didn’t quite comprehend) and said “which one is Sarah?”

Every other saturday or so, we have chocoate chip pancake day. As you can see, Lily loves it.

The girls all playing by the pool on a wonderful 4th of July morning.

The girls all love to swim. Lily is no exception!

After swimming in the morning, David and Sarah went to the local driving range. That’s Sarah above on the way home cooling off with some Gatorade.

Sarah scoping out the lay of the land.

Notice the rusted out truck on the left? For the those of you not from the beloved South, I’ll let you in on a little secret. The way you can tell that this is a driving range and not just a pasture is that the truck is sitting on it’s own tires rather than blocks. (By the way, the truck is affectionately known as “Mater,” as in “Toe-mater,” a red juicy vegetable suitable as a meat subsitute on some sandwiches)

It’s a hit! (Sarah, not me)

This is a great picture for two reasons.

1) Sarah took it. (Not bad for a 5 year old!)

2) It shows just how terrible I am right now at golf. Yes, I have completed the swing and yes, the ball is only about 2 inches off the ground and about to drop right back to were it was before I started my swing. Shameful, I know, but there it is.
An now, on to some Memorial Day Pictures . . .

Many thanks to my Aunt Suise and Uncle Bill who invited us to their condo on Pawley’s Island, South Carolina for the weekend. The whole family had a fabulous time. I think we would live there if we could. The girls are still talking about it. But alas . . .

Sarah as a sand mermaid. Finishing touches complements of my artistically gifted sister, Amanda Smith.

Kathryn and Lily making Sand Castles. Man, did they love the sand.

Remember the end of the “Mary Poppins?” . . . .well, this is me flying a kite with the kids (they are there, just off camera, I promise). If you didn’t learn anything else from that movie, at the very least, you should take away that as a father, you should voluntarily fly kites with your children least some magical nanny have to come to your house, turn your life upside down and make you lose your job so that you’ll have plenty of time to do it then. . . “Let’s go fly a kite!”

Another great shot of Lily. She loves the camera.
And last but not least, below is a picture from Sarah’s dance recital. Way too cute!