Wednesday, October 31, 2012

We Love Halloween!!

Maurie's preschool program filled with songs and poems!
Only Star Wars nerds would know who this guy is!  Josh reminded me about every other day this month that I needed to get this costume done it time for Halloween! Phew, mission complete!

Ready to go!!  Yoda, monkey, zombie, and Kit Fisto!

Trick-or-Treating with our neighbor friends!

Maurie

Nico

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tis the Season! Field Trip

 Our trip to the pumpkin patch!  It was an amazingly beautiful day considering the weather around the rest of the country!
Buddy was fascinated with the giant pig!

Playing in the corn pit!

Maurie's preschool class!

Maurie and Buddy

Sweet Chelsea!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

On the Dog House!

Buddy finally found a place where the dog can't share ice cream cones!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

First Day of School!!



 Back to School!
We are all smiles for the camera even though the first day of school was frowned upon! Summer was too much fun and free time will be truly be missed!
 
Sam is now in 4th grade!

 Josh is starting 2nd grade!


Maurie with her new preschool teacher!

Sam's teacher must have made this frame and she sent us pictures!

HOORAY!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Time with Grace!

It was fun to have Rachel, Scoot and Grace stay with us for a little bit at the end of summer!
Sam spent every spare moment with Grace! He thinks that she is the coolest baby and wants to have at least 10 like her when he is a dad!



She is a good sport and as cute as ever!

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Random!

One of my favorite things- to get my hair done!

The pure beauty!!

Buddy is pure entertainment and also pure trouble!

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Impromptu family picture in front of our house! Notice my shoes, (totally styling with the socks!) they are from high school days and I can't seem to give them up yet!

Friday, July 20, 2012

Seven Years Old!

Happy Birthday Josh!!
Lost Tooth on his last day of being 6 years old!

Blowing out the candles!
Josh had a great birthday full with family, friends (at Jump On It - the trampoline place), and goodies. We love are sweet Bopper and we keep teasing him that he better not change even though he is getting older!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Swimming Lessons!!

Here are a few pictures of swimming lessons this year!  Everyone loved it this year (hooray!)!
Maurie showing off her goggles!

Buddy loved to go under the water. His favorite part was going off the slide!


Sam learning a back stroke!

At the deep end!

Instead of learning how to breathe properly, Josh would just hold his breath the entire time!

Sam and Josh playing around.

Waiting for lessons to start!

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Splash time!

One of our hottest days yet!
We decided to cool off with a little water time in the backyard!

First sun exposure of the summer!

Josh plugging his "holes" so he could go underwater!

Buddy going down the water slide!

Drink break!

This one I snuck a picture of them while I was inside. I had know idea what they were doing!

Buddy joined in!

I finally spoke up and asked them what they were up to!  They informed me that they were animals escaping from the aquarium! Silly summer days!

Friday, June 01, 2012

Fun Idea

I saw this at a friend's house one time and after finding a couple scrabble games at yard sales (and some extra free time), I finally was able to put ours together! I thought the middle names added a bit of family history and they made the game board look a little more full.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Nature Walk

Summer has begun!!  I think this is the first summer that I wasn't actually looking forward to.  However, I have already changed my mind and I am enjoying spending time with my awesome kids! (Easy-going mornings are a big plus, too!)
So we have put together a relaxed schedule of things to do during the summer and it has already been super fun (and super simple)!  Here is one of our latest. I let the kids take over the camera on our walk around our neighborhood and got to see a little more of what they enjoy! Here are some of our favorites!
Finally a picture of our new house (just 7 months later)!

Our mailbox - #4


The end of our street is a one-way street :)


Maurie, George (our cat, who followed us the entire way), and Nicolas

I thought George would give up and turn around eventually, but I think he enjoyed the walk as much as we did, except for one part . . . 
. . . the large dog that thought George might be a fun snack! It took a few houses to get him to leave us alone!

pretty flowers
cool tree


The kids took a picture of every fire-hydrant we saw, so I picked this as our favorite to share!

They actually asked if it was okay to get in this bucket! What else do you think I would say, I think I wanted to get in as much as they did!

It is pretty exciting to have a cow and a horse just a few houses away!

Buddy inching along a fence!
Fun to be a kid!
P.S. George made it home, too!