Connell July 4th Bash!

July 4th we headed to Hollonville to celebrate with the Connell crew at Uncle Donnie & Aunt Harriette's house. (They were brave enough to have us all over!) Hotdogs, hamburgers, fishing, games of tag & kickball, splashing in mud puddles, sparklers, & fireworks! What more could you ask for!?!? (As for the Scharlow's we didn't get to see much of the sparklers & fireworks...Rylynne fell about 10 minutes before all of that was about to start and broke her arm! But we will talk more about that in another post!)

We all really did have a great time as you can see from the photos below. Mama & her 3 brothers were all there and most of the family.

Rylynne, Sydney, Kennedy, & Uncle Donnie

Aunt Susan, Aunt Harriette, & Uncle Bobby

Mama & Valarie

First Catch of the Evening

Uncle Donnie, Uncle Bobby, & Mama

Michigan!

For the past couple of years we have talked about taking a trip to see Shawna's family in Michigan. (His Dad's side of the family) Well, we finally made it up there! We had not seen his grandmother since our wedding day a little over 6 years ago...and she had never gotten to see the girls.

This was also the girl's first airplane ride! They did GREAT! We weren't sure how that would go, but we could not have asked them to be any better.

Once we arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan we headed to see Shawna's "Grandparents" the Bakers'. We had not seen them in about 4.5 years at Leah's wedding when I was pregnant with Rylynne. It was so good to see them! The girls had a blast feeding the fish in the little pond behind their home.

We then headed up to Big Rapids that evening to Shawna's Uncle Mark's house. Grandmother Scharlow was so glad to see us and we were so excited to see her! At Uncle Mark & Aunt Naoma's the girls played in the paddle boat, fished, played with their dogs (especially George!), and we visited with the family!



Rylynne, Grandmother Scharlow, & Sydney

 


 

The Girls with George

Shawna, Rylynne, Sydney, & Grandmother Scharlow

Shawna & George on a Boat Ride

Aunt Karen & Sydney in a life jacket that was as big as her!

Sydney & Daddy

Rylynne & Daddy

Uncle Mark, Shawna, & Uncle Bryan

Uncle Don, Aunt Karen, Aunt Naoma, Uncle Mark, Shawna, Uncle Bryan, Grandmother Scharlow, Rylynne & Sydney

At Lake Michigan! The girls had SO much fun at the beach. The water was freezing but they had so much fun splashing and playing in the sand. (Sydney of course fell in a couple of times)

Baby Scharlow #3 - Finally a Name!

We are expecting baby number 3...A BOY! We are all so excited. Rylynne hugs, kisses, & tickles my stomach all the time and loves to remind me of all the baby things we need. Sydney hugs, kisses, & tickles my stomach too but is usually quick to remind me that she is a baby too. When we found out we were pregnant names were one of the first things I started thinking about. We actually knew pretty quick that if it was a girl she would be Macy Kathleen.....but if the baby was a boy we had a list! So when we found out that the baby was indeed a boy we started trying to narrow down the list but really kept adding to it!

Corbin...Cody....Wyatt....Levi....Brady...Drake...just to name a few of the 15! I'm sure I was about to drive Shawna crazy because I wanted a name! I ended up typing up a list so that we strike through names that just didn't "fit". We both wanted a southern kinda name. There was only one name that Shawna had actually thought of on his own. The more we looked at the list, the more that name started to stand out.

Baby #3 will be Wyatt Lee Scharlow! Lee is Shawna's middle name. We didn't notice until recently that Rylynne, Sydney, and now Wyatt all have a "Y" as the second letter. So no, that was not planned!

I am now 25 weeks! This pregnancy is flying by!

Rylynne's 4th Birthday!

Let me just say this little girl gets VERY excited about birthday parties! She has been talking about her party for a few months. Her first theme idea was Doc McStuffins, but that changed quickly to Rapunzel! And she let us know pretty early that she wanted a tower cake....so I called Grandma! haha

The party was lots of fun. We had to change everything a few days before because the weather was going to be cold and raining. So we moved it inside and to the Hampton Train Depot. Here are some pictures!

 Rylynne with her cake....being a little shy!

 Let's just say Grandma out did herself AGAIN! The cake was perfect!

Rylynne and one of her best friends Caitlin!

 Blowing out the candles...

 Painting!

 Pin Pascal onto Rapunzel

 Painting with some of her friends

 Sydney playing Pin Pascal on Rapunzel

 

Favorite game of the day.....tangling up "Flynn" Uncle Brian, Nick, and Dewayne didn't know what was coming! It was really funny and the kids loved it!

 Poor Dewayne had some of the older kids on his team and they really got him good!

 Rylynne tangling up Uncle Brian....she is still talking about this!

 

 Growing up Brian and I always got presents on each others birthdays. I can now see why! As soon as Rylynne started opening gifts poor Sydney started looking so sad. But don't worry....she had several gifts waiting on the side. Grandma and Uncle Brian took her to open hers. She had a gift from us, Grandma & Papa, and Uncle Brian and Lindsay!

 She was so excited about her Barbie house!