Visiting Grandma
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 9:40 am.
It was Marian’s turn to visit Grandma & Grandpa just before our trip out there-all the girls were there & had lots of fun together. Thanks Mom & Dad!!
A visit “home”
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 5:32 am.
I wonder if I’ll ever grow out of saying, I’m going “home” for the weekend – it means to my parents house, the place I lived for actually only 5 years of my life. Although, before my family moved in, it was my grandparents house and before that it was my great grandparents house. Anyway, it’s still what I say I guess because it’s wear my parents are.
We went for a visit to go to this big, funny festival parade and sit in front of my Grandpa’s now empty house-as we’ve done for about 5 years now. You never know what you’re going to see in this parade, we’re all still waiting for the man riding the giant steer live we saw the first year (I seriously mean there was a man riding on a giant steer-way taller than me, just clomping down the street at the very end of the parade). Some pictures. . .
waiting for the candy
This band has been performing in the parade every year and every year I laugh because they were a popular local band when I was a teenager (weddings & such) and they were really old then, or at least they seemed like it. I have to say that they actually look younger to me every year now!
This might be my favorite picture, you can guess what this guys job is, but don’t you love the pink shirt and pink bucket:)
Frozen popsicles were a popular give-away this year
Our corn haul, yes they give away corn! We got 17 ears of it, enough for our family dinner later that day. Kelly also scored an awesome purple pepper, that he hung on to and smelled all day (it was that sweet) and then grilled it to put on our burgers. Funny pepper story, Noelle also got one and asked Trisha what it was, she said “it’s a pepper”, Noelle throws it like’s it’s poison and Trish said that Marian grabbed it like it was a $20 bill. What can I say, my kids LOVE peppers:)
Showing off their candy score
Tara brought a slip & slide for the kids to play on back at the farm
I think I’ve mentioned before that my sisters & I are close, so close that each of us really wanted our daughters to have a sister, none of us managed to do that, but then we realized that our daughters are the same age differences apart as we are. We try to get them together as often as we can so they can hopefully share the same bond that we do.
and, here’s all of us
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 5:32 am. 1 comment
Another day at the pool
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago at 6:45 am.
We have really loved our pool club this summer, granted it’s been super hot but we are definitely getting our use out of it.
We invited Noah & Heather to the pool on this afternoon and the boys (all three of them) have graduated from the kiddie pool. All Ezra wants to do now is jump in and swim to the side or slide down the slide, Noah too. And, Tobin is finally wanting to jump to me and doesn’t care if he goes under-MAJOR progress.
And, Mari is at Grandma & Grandpa’s house for a few days:)
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The Balloon Hat Challenge
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago at 6:34 am.
We were at this 50 foot banana split event (no pictures of this!) and there was a clown making balloon animals and things. He was making these really cool hats with multiple balloons and I told Mari she could probably do that and we looked at it but she didn’t think she could.
She got pretty close!
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago at 6:34 am. Add a comment
Fun with Hannah
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago at 6:31 am.
Right after our last MOPS park day, Becky ended up on bedrest-she & baby are doing just fine. The kids & I took Hannah for a couple hours-to the park and lunch at our house, we all had fun:)
This is the park that the kids challenge themselves to get all the way around it without touching the ground, Ezra practiced and was concentrating on climbing from where Mari is the the green bar over his head and then dropping himself to this yellow part where you have to swing across (Mari in the next picture). He didn’t get the monkey bar swing yet but figured out how to get this far and it’s not easy!
Hannah was very excited to do the climbing wall, she almost had it mastered (without help) by the time we left.
