Our Favorite Season is Here!

Happy ner-style Birthday to Gampy on September 1st! 

Love, Fred and Bob A.K.A Sam and Cade

Girls day out! Such beauties!

With girls comes creativity, crafts, and clutter!

Getting ready to get our nails painted...

What color are you going to choose?

Magenta, blue, pink & purple- oh my!

OO-La-la

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream (and good-looking photo bombers)!

Baths and bedtime...

11 FULL games of LIFE for these two. 

Favorite occupation: doctor & police woman, least favorite: sales person and mechanic.

Taking a walk to Lambeau for pre-Badger game fun!

Here are Uncle Bri, Grey & Jax at Grandma and Grandpa's church picnic...

Sam used a ticket for a cruise through the country streets with this guy. He loved it!

Silas loading his nerf gun to win coins.

Gretta and Theo face-painting.

One last hoo-rah in Door County. The water was....cold!

Leia came with us, along with Grandma and Grandpa- probably the last (outdoor) swim this year!!

Enjoying the perks of the library reading program with free supper at Pizza Ranch- yum!

A few before and afters...thanks to my cousin Beth for another job well done!

Gretta's new look!

Before...

After! So handsome.

And this sweet girls mug shot...

Shorter is much easier to comb!!

Leila turned 5 this month.

Her favorite color is blue, she has been enjoying Classical Conversations (her first year!), and some of her favorite things to do are dress up, play make-believe, and play with dolls.

Celebrating this girl some more. Praise God for such a sweet gift!

Card first...

Everybody, smile!

I can't get enough sleepy pictures from this guy. 

All ready for school, mom!

Look away from the camera if you love chalk paint!

Hours of fun!

Leila and Gretta chose to make watermelon rice krispie bars for their presentations at CC.

The boys made ninjas. Hieee-ya!

As long as the work is getting done, yes, Darth Vader can join you. 

After a long day of CC, we took a stroll to Kwik Trip for 75 cent muffins. 

This was 2 minutes of pure quiet!

And finally...pumpkin days at Uncle Mike and Aunt Julies!

Our hayride to the pumpkin patch was exciting!

How tall this fall?

Peek-a - boo Gretta and Leila- Loo

Can I take this home?

Cousin love!

Little monkeys in big trees. Until next time!

Almost Fall...but not yet!!

Our ambitious two year old has been refusing naps at the normal hour 

and waits until nearly dinner time to crash after some heavy reading. Sweet boy!

Princess Leila and cousin Princess Olivet on their way to a costume party 

heading to a special JDRF event with food, a guest speaker, and a Timber Rattler Game!

Sweet Olivet whispered shyly with her hand covering half of her mouth, 

" I didn't know the queen was going to be here!" 

as she admired Miss Green Bay (back left corner).

Carb-loading at Noodles the night before our first half marathon...

and here are Stephanie and me, giddy with excitement, running faces on :)

This is before the race- wish we had taken an after too! We finished it! 

What an amazing experience all around :) Praising God for our run in Chippewa.

Our friends from Israel were home visiting, and we realized 

our kids represented each number from 2 to 9 exactly! So great to spend time together at a park and later a hotel eating pizza, chicken and POPCORN!

Here are Auggie Doggie and Theo Bear testing out the dip to see if it is any good.

Olivet and Leila celebrated a special birthday together. 

Since Olivet turned 5 in July and Leila will be 5 in September, why not celebrate in August?!

One of two pictures from the Brown County Fair. This must be our 8th or 9th consecutive year going, and the kids love the library tent, the pigs and cows, and riding the tractors.

Half of our crew with half of our friends- so close to lunch time, and so ready to go! 

We love these girls!!

This was the view from camping site 14 on the Michigame Resivoir- where we spent 3 nights (more or less) swimming, fishing, eating, and telling stories around the fire with two other sweet families.

After getting chased from the infamous rope swing back to our boats to seek land and ultimately shelter from the coming storm, we made it to the Infield Bar and Grill in Crystal Falls, MI. There, they patiently served 6 adults and 11 hungry kids while we waited out this one!

Leila fishing before the storm!

Here are my kids on a Monday, drawing cyclops faces on their white boards. Ha!

And the next day, these two are working out some energy before our parent-child orientation with Classical Conversations.

We've had lots of projects going on around here, from fence-fixing to caulking seems, but this is one of my favorites- going from beige walls to gray ("greige" by some design experts!) and I couldn't be happier with the color! Thanks to my dear talented Dad who has painted his whole life, and comes over one night (this would have taken Tim and I days!). 

Until next month...