July Birthday celebration!

So as normal Bella has gotten a drawn out birthday celebration. I'm not sure how it always happens, but it does. I decided we would go lowkey this year. Last years big party was fun, but very overwhelming for all of us.  I'll almost admit i wasn't sure what emotions i would be feeling on their birthday.
Since the plan for sunday came down to the wire, i had nana and aunt Dar along with Grandpa and Grandma Judy come over on saturday.

Bella out bug catching before the family arrived

WE did cake and ice cream.. her request this year was an eagle or butterflies..so Nana did both

She got some great presents including picture frames for her new room and school supplies

Grandpa helped max put his Legos together. 

Then we ended up in Watertown for a bit before coming home.

Sunday was the big day. 

The kids slept in which was great. Then I made pancakes with sprinkle and bacon for breakfast.  Then they played for a bit until it was time for church. Church was a struggle with Max, but we made it through

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We stopped at Josh's grave to say happy birthday to him, before heading home. We got home long enough to change and then loaded back up to head to little amerricka. There we met up with our buddies Ms Hannah, Ella and Madeline. 

After Little Amerrika, we came back to our place for supper, playing outside and fun. Auntie Tori, Reed and Abbie came over and we did cake , ice cream and presents. bella loves her gifts. She dove right into her new gel pens and coloring book. 

busy friend filled weekend

Saturday we loaded up and headed to Watertown. Bella went to the Ashppin picnic with my mom and aunt while Max and I hit up the grocery store to get stuff for the freezer meal workshop I was going to do on Sunday. We chilled at my mom’s until Bella got back before we headed over for a play date with two of our favorite boys.

The kids had a blast playing together. Not too many tangles either which is pretty good when you have a almost 6 year old, 4.5 year old, 2.5 year old and a 9 month old.

This little guy was just loving everyone’s attention. Bella is apparently all excited for all the new babies current and coming.

Sunday morning, Bella and I handed over to her buddies house, Bella got to stay and play with her buddies while Hannah and I went to a wildtree meal workshop. that was a good time. It’s nice to do adult only things.  We then headed back to pick up Bella before going to my mom’s to collect max. We had a quick lunch at my mom’s before headed to Lake mills to visit Auntie Tori.  I got to help Tori with some maternity pictures. She’s 25 weeks along with a little boy. We are very excited for this new little guy to join the family.

on of my favorites

The kids played outside while we took the pictures. I was on a break while Tori did an outfit change so I got a shot of the kids. They love Auntie Tori’s fish pond.

I love how this shot turned out.

This was one that Tori really wanted and it was the hardest shot to get. I’m just not as talented as I though. I think I got most of my bug bites from laying in the grass, but it turned out pretty cool.

 

This was my kids on the way home. They both passed out. So when we got home, we supper then back outside to play until they were tired out again.

Week of Sept 9th A week of everyone

So it seems like we spend the week seeing a lot of people. My  mom came down Monday and Tuesday to help out since Josh had an colonoscopy Tuesday morning.  Bella was let out of school early both Monday and Tuesday due to the heat and lack of A/C in the public schools. Thursday I went and took some items into Madison in hopes to sell them to make some extra money. Max and I did lunch with Diane while we were there. Max was not a fan of the car ride. So that was kind of stressful for me. then friday after bella got done with school we had a play date with a friend. The kids had a blast at the park and our time was too short. Hopefully longer next time. We also stopped by the great grandparents to say hi too!

feeding the goats..which means the goats try to eat max.

Nighttime stories with nana

We had a doughnut date with daddy after Wednesday morning mass.

We had to bring the big digger with us.

This is max’s favorite thing to do with his trains

Fun in the bunk

Random farm pictures

The kids playing at the park