Summer Fun

Snacks and crafts...

Playdates with friends...

saving the world...

taking time to smile for mom...

dressing up in mommy's socks...

marble art...

All part of summer! 

Father's Day

We had a fun Father's Day!  The kids and I did our annual Father's Day picture in Ryan's clothes.  They also filled out a survey all about dad. 

 
 We made him breakfast in bed as well. 

On Father's Day we had VBS day at church.  The kids sat together in the pew (I was their chaperone) and they went in front of the church and sang the songs they learned in VBS.  The kids had fun!

After church we went putt-putting.  The boys loved it!  It was a little hot but it was fun.

 Daddy and his boys (I could not get a good one of all of them looking!  Go figure! :))

 Jackson figured out the easiest way to play was just to pick up your ball, bring it to the hole, then hit it in.  I have to agree!

 They also had some games inside that we had to try out.

 Their favorite is air hockey!

 Jackson takes the game VERY seriously. 

Then we headed to Ryan's favorite steak place.  It was a fun day celebrating Ryan!

Random Stuff and the A WONDERFUL PRESENT!!!

We finally got all four kids together in their camp-read-a-lot shirts!

The week before Father's Day we came over to my parents house and celebrated his birthday and Father's day.  We took a pic of the four kids holding signs that say "we love you gpa"  We even got Jackson to hold one!

Elizabeth surprised me with the MOST WONDERFUL PRESENT!! She MADE this blanket ALL BY HERSELF for our soon-to-be daughter!  We're most likely going to be going with the name Claire (that's been our name for a girl since I was pregnant with Cooper!) and she had the idea to make her baby cousin a blanket all on her own!  She picked out the materials, cut out the C, and sewed it on by herself!!!!!  Our daughter is so so lucky to have such a wonderful cousin and I can't wait for them to meet!  Isn't Elizabeth just amazing??!!   Thank you Elizabeth!!

While the kids were waiting to swim at gma and gpas they did a little caterpillar craft for the Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

They all concentrated so hard and painted the entire egg carton, even Jackson!

This was just hilarious.  So one night Ryan was out of town and I was having girls over for craft night so I put the kids to bed just a little early and then was getting things out.  All of the sudden I hear Jackson calling "mom, I need you!"  I go in there and he's standing on his bed covered in white stuff (can you see it all over his legs, shirt, arms, face?) 

He had taken a brand new bottle of lotion and put it all over himself!  He's never done that before!  He looks very serious because I tried really really hard to have a stern face and not laugh.  (He's just so funny I typically laugh even when he's naughty which is NOT good, he thinks he's just a hoot now!)  So hopefully he learned his lesson, and I of course laughed over it with the girls when they arrived.

I just had to end on this cute picture of my boys!!

Water Balloons and the Beatles!

 My boys, like all kids, LOVE water balloons.  We don't do them much because the are such a pain to fill up, but they love it when we make them!    These pictures are a little bright, I took a bunch of pictures before I realized the settings were off.  They were funny though so I wanted to post them anyway :).

There is a summer concert series nearby that we checked out a few weeks ago.  The band played the Beatles-it was so much fun!!

We met some friends there and the kids played around in the grass, mostly football.

Here's Jackson hugging Holly (They're right around the same age)...

she looks a little hesitant doesn't she?  :)

There was a truck selling slushys that we enjoyed!

Then we played more football!

Here's our friend Emily-she's also going to kinder like Cooper!

We then walked to get balloon animals made and the kids were holding hands, so cute!

Cute Holly with her glasses!

The boys each got swords with a belt and they were thrilled!

This pic was supposed to be up with the water balloons.  They posed so nicely for me after we played with the balloons!

Grandma's Camp Read-A-Lot

My kids are very very fortunate to have wonderful involved Grandparents on both sides.  Unfortunately Ryan's parents live in KS, but my parents live here so we are able to see them quite often.  My mom was a teacher before we were born and LOVES to read, so she came up with a really cute idea for the kids this summer. 

My parents have a pool and we swim there a lot in the summer, but after we put sunscreen on the kids they always have to sit and wait for the sunscreen to soak in for awhile.  My mom now is going to do "Grandma's Camp Read-A-Lot while they wait!

She reads them books and then they do a fun craft/educational activity about the book.

They also received circles to write down each book title they read on it.  As they read a certain amount of books they get prizes, so they of course love that! 

Here's Jackson's

And Cooper's so far.

Each kid got a shirt to wear during the camp.  Adorable!

Jackson was nice enough to pose for me.

This is a really horrible picture but it's showing a really fun new thing my mom got my dad for Father's Day.  It's a projector you can attach to your ipad!  They're planning on watching movies while we swim and doing fun movie nights outside.  Woo hoo!