Lake House

No only did we have Private Pool parties during our Florida visit but we had the Lake all to ourselves on the Sunday we went Jet Skiing.

It was awesome.


Cooper loved wearing his life jacket and eating his hotdog outside.

 He even rode the Knee Board- on land :)

 Lillian loved tubing. Aunt Susanne was her favorite to ride with, but she let Mama have a few turns too.

 Taking a bubble break

 We had hotdogs for lunch. Silly Uncle Al, thinking Lillian's foot was a hotdog... it was bun length.

 Uncle Caleb and Aunt Susanne

 Daddy and Mama

 What a great family activity

 Just hanging out in the hammock

 Daddy and Lillian pulling Madi

 Thumbs up means Go Faster... Lillian never put her thumb down

 Last ride of the day!

Thanks Uncle Al, for having us at the Lake House while we were in town.

We had a blast!

Cooper- 16 months

Its hard to believe that Cooper is 16 months old.

Between moving from our old house (13 months), moving to Nana and Pas (14 months), moving to our new house (15 months), taking Cooper's monthly picture in Daddy's chair just didn't happen.

But we have plenty of pictures that truly capture our little man.
He loves his Mama

 

And playing with Daddy

 And anything yellow

 He loves Teddy Grahams!

 And being upside down

 Playing with wooden spoons

 And going down the slide

 He loves to giggle

 And laugh at silly things

 Our Little Dude loves everything

Gator Boy

Look out UF, here comes your next mascot.

 I love the tail!

Only in the Sparkman house would you see... A gator pushing a ballerina on a train (Cooper can push Lillian pretty fast)

 All Gators have to eat, and this Gator loves hotdogs!

Water Slides for Lillian

While visiting the local pool, Lillian demonstrated her amazing swimming skills and received special permission to go down the big water slide.
She loved it.

Pops and Gran Get Hitched

Along with trips to the beach, a day at the Lake House, and private pool parties we were also able to celebrate with Pops and Gran on their wedding day.

It was a family affair and we are so glad to have shared in their special day.

Playing with cousins

While the kids don't have any 1st cousins (yet), they have plenty of second cousins (or first cousins once removed, or whatever you call Rob's cousins to our kids :)

Needless to say, they kids adore getting together with their "cousins" when we are in Naples.

Playing dress up and putting on makeup with Chloe is their favorite.

 Putting the finishing touches on her costume before coming downstairs to do a show

 Meanwhile, out in the backyard, Cooper loved swinging with Bea. She is amazing with the kids and loves playing with all of them.

 Back to the house for the show...

 Look at these 3 beauties... watch out world!

After the show, we headed to McDonalds to for lunch together.

Uncle Caleb's pool

We were so blessed during our recent trip to Florida to have gorgeous warm and sunny weather to visit the pools.
We were also blessed that no one else visited the same pools when we were there :)

Private Pool parties for the Sparkman's!

 Just hanging out on the raft with Daddy

 Madison thought the pool was cool, but catching lizards was AWESOME

 What happens when you buy the next size swim trunks and you find out they are too big... you have to  pull them up, A LOT! Cooper did not seem to mind, and he was fascinated by the strings.

 My 3 Sparkles (and a lizard)

It was a great time at the pool, Thanks Uncle Caleb!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from the Sparkles!

AKA rock, paper scissors

I figure I don't have many years that I can coordinate the kids costumes so I might as well take advantage of it while I can.

It is a bit challenging to come up with 2 girls and boy costume.

I even made them play to decide who was what.

They were the cutest Rock, Paper, Scissors ever!

 This is what happened when Lillian dumped out the Halloween candy to sort it... they do love candy :)

Can't wait to see what they will be next year.