Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Reading!

 Our summer goal for Scarlet is to have her reading before the new school year.  These "Bob Books" helped Evelyn learn to read and Scarlet is doing great with them too!  Look at her go!!!







Thursday, June 24, 2021

The Lake is Open!

 The lake is open (and still pretty cold from the snow run off)...and these kids can't get enough of it.  We are so lucky to have this private space just a mile from the house.






I bought myself a little float and taking it on it's maiden voyage.  I just want to float, relax, and read my book.  I brought a paddle just in case I float too far!  In the end, I ended up taking a rope and tying off to a floating dock several yards off shore so I could float without worrying where I end up...

Now the kids are along for the ride



Joseph spent hours with this water squirter











Completely wiped out...Lorelai is half buried in the sand, wolfing down her lunch so she can play some more.  She is definitely my biggest water bug!




Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Softball photo shoot

 We are so grateful to have such an awesome softball coach...but she also turns out to be a pretty talented professional photographer!!  She did a photo shoot with all the girls and the pictures are amazing!  It was a great year!












Love this picture! Laser-focus...






impromptu sibling picture.




Too cute not to photograph for a couple of pics


Great year with these girls! Awesome team...awesome season!




Father’s Day

 We had a great Father's Day!  It was a beautiful day.  The kids helped to make Dad breakfast and then they gave him cards, pictures, and presents.  We gifted him with out traditional D-A-D pictures that we do every year.  In the late morning we headed down to our lake.  Daddy canoed with the kids and we had lunch.  Oh, and we actually got to watch as a bald eagle swooped down to catch a fish at our lake and fly his snack into the treetops! So COOL!  After that, we came out and had a relaxing afternoon before grabbing dinner on our way to a family movie!  Long day but full of family fun!

















Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Kick off to summer!

 School's out and the Carnival is in town.  I can tell these kids have been feeling cooped up because they were absolutely bonkers and pure joy!  We spoiled them...they stayed out late, rode all the rides, played games and enjoyed junkie carnival food.  Lorelai and Evelyn are now tall enough for the really big rides so I got dragged onto those.  Joe stayed in the smaller area with the littles because his stomach can take the spinning.

Joseph was very into riding the motorcycles...which is fine because he will NEVER own a real one.






Racing down the slide!


Couple videos below in the web version...