Lately we have been...

going out to eat (this is our annual lunch to cheesecake on our birthday). Notice Jackson's "cheese" face :)...

doing a minor bathroom remodel (this is mid-border removal, I'll have to post finished pictures soon)...

messy!

taking pictures with the bathroom decorations...

having a few playdates... (Hunter, Cooper, Ally, Jackson, and Ashlynn)

dancing like a wild man... playing angry birds...swimming in our little backyard pool...

being superheros... (looks like Cooper is an unhappy hero!)

and generally being silly! (I do not like this picture of me but I had to post it because the story behind it is hilarious-but also so inappropriate! We were taking goofy family pictures while hanging out and my mature husband decided to do something inappropriate to the camera with one of his fingers. I'm sure you can guess what I mean. So Cooper sees him but doesn't understand what he was doing, but knows by my reaction that it's inappropriate. So he then copies his dad! I just have to roll my eyes because as you can see Ryan thought it was hilarious. (I guess it was kind of funny :)

Hope you all have been doing fun stuff lately!

The Diving Board and Spiderman

With our extreme heat that we've been having here we've been swimming a LOT! Cooper now loves to swim without floaties on (he can't go very far yet but he's working on it ) and gets very upset if I ever have him put them on.

A favorite at Gma and Gpa's house is the diving board! Here C is about to bravely jump off, with cousin Ben behind him.

He loves it!

We have another one who loves it too! Jackson's Auntie was very nice to help him so I could take some pictures of this very special event! I don't do a great job putting him in, a few times he went WAY under when I helped him. Luckily he loved every minute of it! (look at his tummy and thighs, aren't they just chunkalicious!? Is that a word? :))

He also loves it!

This puddle jumper is the BEST-he can basically swim by himself when he has it on!

Jackson is way more into coloring than Cooper ever was. He graduated from paper onto other surfaces, wasn't that creative of him? :) Thank goodness for the magic eraser!

The boys still love dressing up like superheros, and I just love seeing Jackson in these little costumes!

Here's big brother Cooper who was so nice to share his costume with his brother!

Messy Party

A few weeks ago Elizabeth and Ben spent the night and I decided to have a Messy Party! I'm kind of embarassed to admit this, but I got the idea from Kate Plus Eight. I don't really even watch the show but happened to catch an episode where her babysitter did it with her kids and I thought it looked so fun! So, this is what we did...

All of the cousins are waiting to see what they are going to do!
We started with mummy wrapping contests.

The best part was unwrapping!

They also thought it was so fun just to throw the paper around.

Then we headed outside. Here is the before photo!

We first did pudding painting. Jackson quickly learned the best thing to do with pudding was eat it!

Jackson just kept eating it.

Then they really started to have fun with it!

Poor Jackson was forced to play!

Messy Ben

Messy Elizabeth

Messy Cooper

Messy Jackson

The after!

Then we made human sundaes. I think this was my favorite.

First the chocolate!

Then whipped cream!

Finally a cherry on top!

The sundaes...

This sundae is still working on his pudding!

We washed it all off with waterballoons and the sprinkler.

After this we headed in for a bath. We're definitely going to have to do this again!