I Hope You Remember

To Keagan and Riley,

As your mom I have a long list of hopes for each of you. On this day, as I sit here trying to accept that our summer has come to an end, one of those many hopes is that you remember this time in all of our lives. I hope you remember what an incredibly blessed and magically special time our summer 2019 was. 

I hope you remember how lucky you were to have quality time with all 10 of your cousins this summer! I hope you remember our over the top fun trips to Dallas and Chicago. I hope you remember our meals and laughs with the Fosters and adventures and silliness with the French’s. I hope you remember the many play dates with such amazing friends, the many trips to the pool, the camps and VBS’s. Its totally fine if you forget any of our grumpiness, your fighting or mommy’s snapping and frustration. Actually I would really prefer you did forget that! But without question, most importantly I hope that you remember the three of us making memories together, our craziness, our shenanigans, our cuddles, our teasing and scarring eachother, our laughter and our love.  If you forget everything else, at the very very least, please remember that! 

So much fun has happened since we got home from Chicago! We went from one set of Ginn cousins in Chicago to another with our Texas Ginn cousins staying with us for an amazing weekend celebrating Kennedy graduating a whole year early from high school! 

We had such a great family dinner at Fogo de Chão, Keagan and Campbell built a giant fort to sleep in for the 3 nights and one day Aunt Kari took the three girls and Bubba roller skating! So much fun with family! 

We were also SO blessed to have quality time with our oldest cousin Sami who was home for 2 weeks before heading off to an internship on Washington DC! We absolutely adore her and she definitely got her cuddle fix from Riley while she was here! 



We had an amazing day at the water park Grand Texas with Miss Heather and Calli! Such fun slides, some that Riley even went on, a fantastic lazy river and wave pool, giant splash pad, and even alligators and a petting zoo! Oh and a maze and Keagans favorite which was the floating blow up obstacle course on the lake! It was a long, full day of so much fun with the cutest girlies! 











We definitely had two important components of a great summer which is down time laziness and late night silliness. The silliness was mostly with the French’s and here we are filming “the whoa” and playing games. 

Keagan surprised everyone by cutting her hair! She recently told her friends she would rather cut off her toe then her hair! We went in for a back to school trim but she cut off 8 inches in order to be able to donate it! I am super proud of her for doing that eventhough she is struggling a little bit to adjust to mediumly long hair now. 






One night we went to the Toyota Center to see some of  our very favorite stars Dude Perfect! The girls watch them on tv and YouTube and screamed when I told them we were going to see them on tour! What a fun and exciting show and we had a phenomenal time together! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Riley more engaged and mezmorized and afterwards Keagan said it was one of the best nights of her life! 

Keagan went to and loved a pool party for the girls primary class that Miss Riley refused to go to, and swimming at Claire’s that Riley refused to go to. That silly girl! But there were other play dates with Calli and with Claire, and we have played a ton of board games especially the ones Sa handed down to Keagan as they prepare to move. By far the funniest was when we were playing Life and my game piece mom had two twin daughters and the blue boy husband piece kept falling out of the car every time I touched it. Ironically hilarious! 






The other day we went roller skating with Calli and I am SO thankful Keags can be SO helpful with Riley and that Riley no longer needs her wheelchair even though it comes in handy sometimes! Calli was helpful with Riley too! We had a ton of fun but poor Keagan ended up with a nasty bruise from falling!!

In the last week and a half I have had to work 4 days to help prepare for the first day of school tomorrow. I am unbelievably thankful to have a job where I get the summer off with the girls but its still always hard to go back to work. The hardest part may be trying to figure out what to do with the girls while I’m at work. This year Taryn and Reagan were SO helpful and offered to have them! So Keags and Rys went to the French’s every morning until after lunch and then 3 of the days to a different friends house in the afternoon to play until I got off work. They went to Calli’s house, Claire’s house and Audrey’s house. I’m SO thankful the girls had so much fun! They played games, did crafts, watched movies, went out to lunch and cooked with the French’s. Plus Keagan and Reagan went on bike rides! At Calli’s they did major crafts and painting. At Claire’s they made a bunch of fun music videos and at Audrey’s they made muffins and get well packages for the Lakes who have been sick. We are SO blessed with amazing friends!! 









And that is the close of fantastic summer! Oh we have been SO incredibly blessed these last 11 weeks! I am so thankful and hope none of the three of us ever forget it! Maybe this blog will help a little with that. 

Keagan and Riley I hope you remember summer 2019!