Meeting Baby Ben

We were so excited to meet sweet Baby Ben!!

Julia loves cuddling with Baby Ben

Twin~Cousins!!

Ava loves her baby cousin too!!

It is very hard work being this cute..

He is so sweet....

Look at those eyes!!

We love you Benjamin Richard Leidecker!!

RAIN!!!

Rain

This summer has been one of the driest St. Louis has experienced in years!

If you look carefully, you can see the wet sidewalk behind the girls... :)

We didn't see any rain for the first month that we were here, 

so needless to say we were very excited to stand in the rain the first time!! 

Matthias' Big Boy Haircut

One last shot of my little boy and his little boy haircut!

This is about the time that Matthias was done with the whole haircut thing!!

Matching Haircuts!

Look who's a big boy!!

4th of July

Happy 4th of July!!

Getting a picture of these three together is quite the task!

Seriously cute, patriotic kiddos!!

First day at our new home!!

First dinner in our new home!!

The girls were very excited to visit the playground for the first time and discover that it is so close to our apartment!

Ava posing at the playground!

Matthias checking out the bridge...

Julia is happy that we are all back together as a family in one place!!

(so is Mommy!!)

Family Time

Enjoying Strawberry Shakes!!

Even Matthias is getting in on the yummy shakes!

Taking an evening walk/ scooter around campus.
Daddy is very busy with Greek right now so we always try to take advantage of the
evenings when he is home.

American Girl Store with Rachie

Julia is a great reader! She was introduce to the American Girl series at Christmas this year by Rachie. She gave her several of the first books in the series so that Julia could decide on which girl was her favorite. She had Rebecca all picked out when we discovered "Meet Julie" a girl who lived in California in the 70's that had recently moved and was starting a new school. (Sound familiar?) She also has beautiful long blonde hair. So she checked that book out at the library and she was sold! Rachie got Julia the rest of the series for her birthday with the promise that she would take her to Chicago to the American Girl Store to get her very own Julie doll.

We took the train, a huge highlight for Julia, but nothing even was a comparison to how excited she was about getting her doll!

We found Julie!!

And we found her lots of her accessories... (something to use future birthday money to buy!!)

More Julie dolls

This is one very excited little girl...

And with Rachie!!

It was love at first sight!

We got home very late and Julia was very, very tired!!

One last very sleepy picture!!