baseball game

Last Sunday our church gathered at a the stadium of our hometown's minor league team. There was food to be eaten and people to chat with and tons of stuff for the kids to do.

We had our pick of some empty seats and J decided he wanted to sit on the end even though it was about 5 seats away from us.

V's view.

E was concerned there would be fireworks.

Yes, they have a merry-go-round, as well as a couple of bouncy, jumpy toys, and a playground.

I could see the headlines.. "Church Crowds Bridge; Bridge collapes". They were all gathered to watch the bumper boats as our Pastor was in line with the kids.

Someone had an extra ticket and so J got to ride to. Can you find him? Our Pastor is the one holding his heart.

No matter how he begged, or pointed....

the kids had no mercy on him...such a good sport.

J was soaked as well.

happy boy

He was spitting up a storm right before this, decided not to drool for the camera, but he's still a cutie.

outdoors....

Checking out a very pretty but very dead dragonfly.



These are a little grainy as I am trying to figure out some things on my camera.



They both wanted to take a picture, I suppose you can figure out who took which. E says "I don't care if he pulls my hair." I wonder how long that will last.


Before any locals attack me for this, let me say that I asked Martha (pictured above) if photos were against the rules, and her answer was, "no it's just that amish people don't have cameras". She said it was fine for friends to take pictures. I have been told by my husbands family that her mom might have a different answer, but it's not like I'm a tourist or anything. I promise not to turn any pics of their family into postcards and sell them.

They are playing with clear marbles that they found in the garage. They dumped them in the wheelbarrow and filled it with water. Then they dumped it and had a blast trying to find them.

Saturday we spent the afternoon at the farm and we were able to finally meet...


Joash David...I wish i would have taken a pic of his hands, they are huge!


First ride on a quad.


Trying to catch frogs in mom mom's pond.


Success!


J was actually driving this! (on daddy's lap of course)

also took some pretty pics of a butterfly, check it out here

More Summer Fun

I discovered these pics from a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to share.



We met mom mom and some cousins at aunt grace's pool.



We spent a fabulous Saturday evening with Uncle Dwayne and Aunt Abby. She has the big box of random toys that the kids love. Let's just not think about how many kids/adults have sampled the teeth.


V and unky D



They have the whole kit and caboodle for guitar hero (2 guitars, bass drums and mic). Dennis even started us out on the mic, I always wanted a family band.


I told den to get me one of these instead of a gym membership.


One sticky day we met some friends at the park. They loved letting E boss them around. Mostly she wanted them to take her on the big slide over and over and over again.


Puppy love....




One Saturday that J spent at mom mom's house she let him and Rustin spend about 2 hrs playing in the mud. Yes, that's my son flexing his guns. What's hilarious about this is that I have seen countless pic of Den doing the same thing when he was a kid.


I think they thought they died and went to little boy heaven.

7

Last Thursday, my firstborn turned 7, yes 7. This is only 3 years away from 10, yikes.

The celebration started with Den taking J and some cousins to a miniature golf course. I stayed home with baby and miss E had a sleepover at mom mom's. He said they were so speedy as they couldn't wait to see what kind of hole was next.

"Ducks?", you might ask. I asked the same thing when my hubby returned w/ the camera and had 5 pics of cute little ducklings that were at the course and 3 shots of the pose above w/ the boys in it. He claimed they were moving too much to get a good golfing shot. hmmm....

Thursday evening Den's parents came up for a birthday dinner as well as cake and ice cream. That day he spent swimming with cousins and helping me with the baby at Costco.

Lego Cake

E made her brother a bday card.

Now....

and then....

a weekish old

7 or 8 months

18-20months (ish)

2ish

It was this guy who taught me a whole different level of love. I remember holding him in the beginning and wondering if it was possible for all mom's to feel what I felt at that moment. I decided it was impossible, because he was the most beautiful baby in the world, and too bad for them. He has brought me joy, and challenged me in ways I never thought possible, and I still want to squeeze him any chance I get.

Freaking Me Out

Last night I looked over and there he was, freaking me out by rocking on his hands and knees. I'm not ready for this much mobility at 5 months! However, it is adorable and exciting!

Summertime Sweetness

Me- "j, want do you want for dinner on your birthday?"
J- "Do we have any corn?"
(when I said I wasn't sure if it would be ready, which I did find out it will, he then asked for broccoli <3 )


poor kitty

Yesterday Morning Sweetness

"V is smiling at me!" (he was)


Ran upstairs and came down to find this...J is telling V who is who in the photo album, "here's Uncle John.."


Ran up again and came down to find them like this. "We're camping with V," they tell me.