july 20th Bella’s birthday party

 

This year was the first year Bella was able to have a “friends Party” When I asked her what she wanted to do, I gave her two choices; a party in the park with just cake and ice cream and a lot of friends or just a couple friends and bowling. she picked the latter, so we went with it. She invited Ella and Kate. The kids had fun bowling, or playing around.. we had the whole place to ourselves. We did Cake and ice Cream followed by a trip to the park to play with bubbles. Even us Parents had a great time along with the little ones too.

Digital scrapbooking design customized with Smilebox

That night, after the girls had gone home, chores were done, supper was ate, we piled into the car and went to check out Rewy’s fireworks. We parked far enough away that the sound didn’t bother Bella. IT worked out great!

Sparkler fun

Oh yes he is!

taking pictures with my phone

Watching the fireworks

Bella was laying on the hood of our car

Swimming Lessons Round 2

This free picture collage made with Smilebox

Bella’s 2nd round of swimming lessons were a bit different then the first. She knew more, which was good, but her class was bigger and had a different teacher. She did manage to figure out how to float on her back though, and could get her legs up to swim a bit, but she is still lacking the staima or strength to keep at it. She had a lot of fun though, so that’s what really maters.

PeeWee Soccer

This digital scrapbook created with Smilebox

This year Bella was finally old enough to participate in sports. She was a bit nervous and said she didn’t want to do it, but after only a few minutes on the the field she had a blast and asked. “do I have soccer, today” every morning.  She did get tired out and drink lots of water, but there was also lots of fun. Three of the boys on the team were from her 4k class, so that really helped. she made new friends with the girls..including playing ring around the rosey while they were suppose to be chasing the ball. I’m not sure she scored a goal, but she did kick the ball a lot, which is the most important part.  I hope next year she will have as much fun… and hopefully have her friend on the team!

Swimming Lessons

 

Bella started swimming lessons in June. IT’s for one hour Monday though Thursday for two weeks. She will be taking another two week session starting next week. She’s got a ways to go to pass this level, but I just discovered on Wednesday that she doesn’t hold her breathe when trying to float, so yeah she just sinks. She has made progress and I hope she makes some more in the next two weeks.

 

Make a free scrapbooking design

third day.

first day

Mommy and Me

This slideshow design customized with Smilebox

I decided to do Mommy and Me pictures again with the kiddos. Only Max wasn’t a fan. It was nice to have some candid shots of me with the kiddos.

Tori and Matt get Married

I have way too many pictures so I just made a slideshow of some of them. Sorry they aren’t the best quaitly pictures, but at least you get an idea. When I get to see the professional ones I’ll post any good ones I get from that.

Make your own digital slideshow

Universal Studios and Date night May 27th

 

So I don’t have as many pictures, but I know we did just as much, since we got up at 7am and didn’t go bed until 10:30pm ish

This free digital slideshow customized with Smilebox

Magic Kingdom May 26th

 

Sunday was probably the busiest and picture heavy days..so I’ve added a few slideshows to break it up

Slideshow personalized with Smilebox

After we did what Bella needed to do …see Ariel it was off to get Max’s hair cut

This slideshow made with Smilebox

Make a slideshow

Free slideshow design created with Smilebox

Beach, Welcome to IOH May 25th

 

 

This free digital slideshow customized with Smilebox

 

 

 

This free digital collage customized with Smilebox

Day one of pictures May 24th

I’m making this easy and making a slideshow..hopefully that will be more entertianing

Free slideshow created with Smilebox

March 23rd:Egg hunt

So Today we were able to take the kids to the local egg hunt. We didn’t know what to expect at all. Earlier in the day I walked a 5k with a couple friends. We did it in 47 mins! My mom and Aunt managed to make it to Town to watch the kids while I did the walk at the Lancaster house. So as I was walking back to the house, the stopped me at the clothing store. They went and check out the entertainment for the kids. Then my mom bought Max a jacket because his was getting to small. I have a spring coat but it was a bit too chilly for that and I wasn’t going to buy the next size winter coat for a couple weeks. Then we went back to the Lancaster house to meet up with Josh. All of us when to the egg hunt that was held at the Courthouse grounds. The kids had fun and got goodies. We all then went to lunch right away before the crowd.

Create your own free digital scrapbook

My mom and Aunt left then and the rest of us went back home. After naptime, Josh worked on putting together our new grill. Dar had brought it down for us since we didn’t have room when we bought it two weeks ago. The kids just enjoyed playing outside!

March 16th- a day in the barn

 

So it’s only been a week, but I can barely remember the day, but I know we had a great time in the barn. I let Bella man the camera and she had a blast. I changed it to black and white so most of the pictures are black and white, which is always fun to play around with.

A free slideshow design by Smilebox

Feb 24th: The Benefit

Sunday was the day of the benefit for Josh, to help raise funds to help us get by. Hiring on help for the whole summer along with all the travel really hurt us. Josh’s sister , Kara organized the whole event. We stayed out of the planning and just showed up to the event on the actual day.  This was the least stress choice for us. Planning and large get together stress me out.  I love to do them, but freak out if they don’t go as planned. This way I don’t know what went as planned or not planned.

It was held in Fennimore from 7am until 12pm .I wasn’t sure how the kids would do being up there that long, so Tori and Dylan stayed with them at our house until I came to pick them up. Josh and I were planning to be there at 7:30but due to chores we didn’t get up there until just before 8am. We got there and there was a good number of people there. I noticed that some of Bella’s classmates were there and playgroup friends, so I felt bad the kids weren’t there. So once I got done eating I left to go get them.

When I returned 30 mins later the place was busy. There was a lot of people there and I think a lot of people hung out for almost the whole thing. Bella took off as soon as she saw Aunt Olivia and Max only want Aunt Diane. Of course that was nice for me, but I would have to have my kids around me a bit more. Tori and I hung out a bit . We also checked out the silent auction. There were a lot of great items on it. So many of them I could have bid myself, but naturally I didn’t.

There was a great turn out over 400 tickets were sold for breakfast. I think they actually ran out of food. The kids had a great time playing and running around. Josh was able to visit with a lot of people and seemed to enjoy himself. I’ll admit I was a bit on the shyer side and stick to those who knew.  The auction actually lasted until 12:30pm and it was too funny the last 30 mins of people watching their bids and making sure they would win. There was so much so it was hard not to find something to win.

We stayed after it was over to visit and what not before we loaded up to head home. Thanks to all those who came out and helped out. Thanks Kara for organizing it . Thanks to those who weren’t able to attend but send in donation. Thanks to those who donated items and who bid on them.

Customize a free photo slideshow

Once we got home, Max went down for a nap, Bella a rest and Josh tried to rest too. When it came chore time it was just too nice to stay insides, so we all headed outside. The kids had fun in the mud and snow. I tried to use the wagon in the barn, but Max is a stinker and knows all the fun places to go on his own, so yeah that didn’t work at all. But we had a lots of fun outside

wagon rides.. totally happening more often now

totally put them to work young these days

this is the snowball that Uncle Jeremy made for Bella, that she threw at me, then threw at her daddy, who threw it back at her

always something new to climb on

This is Merry Christmas bird..who didn’t learn from bambi that running on the ice was not a good idea.

On top of the world