quick note

Hi all-We've been very busy with vacation and work so posts have been slow! Sorry! I've been trying to post for several days now and Blogger just would not cooperate. Several posts will follow so take a look. Hope to get vacation pics up soon. We have over 800 + pics I think to go over so it will take awhile! Things to look forward to! :)

Play group

On July 3rd, it was time for play group at our house! We alternate places every week and this week was my week! We had a yummy waffle breakfast with all the fix ins! The kiddos had fun playing and learning new tricks!

Barbara and I with some of the kiddos

Nikolas

Christopher

William playing "rough" with Brent

The kiddos took all the toys off the "steps" and found a great place to climb! Brent started it and then the rest followed. William hadn't figured this trick out till now! :)

Nicholas got creative and found a good resting place!

Nicholas' twin brother then had to follow. Their Mom (Barbara) states-monkey see, monkey do! It was to cute!

William then wanted to get into the action!

It was a fun morning and always good to see everyone!

Stratham Fair

2nd half of vacation was spent at the fair, of course! William did really well and just went with the flow. We tried to go to my parents house every afternoon for a nap. He loved seeing all the animals and different surroundings.

Played in the faucet with Grampy on the last day!

Went and visited the petting zoo. William wasn't to sure of all the goats coming up to him!



Watched Tyler and Jared catch pigs!!



Stole Uncle Chris's hat and glasses

Ate lots and lots of ice cream! Yummy!



Pass out in total exaustion

See that cousin Larissa is NOT a country girl :)

Watch her perform on stage

Ride on rides of course! (with a little help due to height requirements...Disney doesn't even have height requirements!)





Look at that smile!





Help out with forestry

Eat twizzlers

Swing some more!

Pose with Mommy

Take pictures with my cousins!


We had a great time and miss everyone already! William had so much fun with all his cousins! Looking forward to doing it again next year!

July 4th Cont'

We had our Annual Fellows July 4Th Bash! We had plenty of good food and great friends! Our neighbors came over and I had some playgroup families too! William was able to have some of his male buddies over and they all played great! It was so much fun to see 4 toddlers playing together. We were able to get quite a few laughs watching them too!

Sprinkler fun! The boys had lots of fun with this!





Nikolas-he had us in stitches watching him go up the slide-WET-to funny!

Christopher

Nicholas

Bubble fun! William had a grand time chasing them

I finally made dirt cake-oh my! so YUMMY! William enjoying it...



Time for the fireworks! Marks favorite part of the day!

Chelsea

4th of July Parade

Tile!

We've had tile for our 2 bathrooms for prob. well over 2 years now. It has just sat around occupying space :) Mark decided for Father's Day he would start the process. I offered to go somewhere else and he decided he wanted to tile! We started with William's bathroom first and will work on our bathroom in the coming months.

Before-

Ripping up the yucky linoleum!

Working on the trim-

The final project! Mark did a good job and it looks SO much better then what was there!

Catch up time!

Fathers day we celebrated early at our Neighbors-Mike and Leslie. They had family over and invited us over too! It was really nice and William and Evan got to play together. Fathers day was spent tiling the bathroom floor (that's what Mark wanted) But we will get to that post soon!

The boys crawled up next to me, at the same time :)

Evan and William playing together

William on Evan's new swingset! It was hot hot out!

Evan (15mo)

Sweet baby Lexi



William has figured out a new trick! Opening lock and lock containers. He opened it up and had a feast on puffs and dried fruit! He made a huge mess with all the crumbs at the bottom of the container! It was worth a few pics! He had to go outside and get shaken off with that mess!






Williams opened up his container and spread the little pom poms (tot school idea) all over the floor! Daddy was not fond of Mommys idea and the mess William could make with them :)


Then here is a couple pics of what happens when the AC goes out in June in FL!! We had the AC guy out the 1st day, but he had to order parts. SO we had to wait 2 days! Not fun at all, by the 3rd day we were really uncomfortable. Mark borrowed a couple window units to try and keep the living room (worked a little bit) and Williams room (worked great! Coolest room in the house!) cool. Before that William camped out in our room with our unit-which couldn't keep up by the 2nd day! He was not having the heat while sleeping so it was not a fun few days! I am forever grateful for cool AC in Fl!