7.18.2011

We're having lots of fun with Grandpa Gene! On Friday night, the girls stayed home and just the boys went to a baseball game. T has so much fun with the guys, when he got home, I thought he'd be so tired, it was like 10pm, but all he wanted to do was play baseball.






Saturday we went to an African Safari animal drive through. It was pretty sweet. You drive your car through and animals come right up to your car and stick their heads in the window and eat carrots right out of your hand. I'd never been so close to a giraffe or any of the other animals there. It was so funny!







Apparently Maizie didn't think it was that cool....she slept through most of it. ha ha.


The ice cream truck has been driving around our street quite a bit lately! It's so fun! When T hears the music he yells "ice cream man! ice cream man! I hear the ice cream man mom!!" ha ha. I think he actually slows down at our house, because we run out each time we hear him diving by. ha. So fun!

7.14.2011

We're so lucky!
Grandpa Gene came to visit us!! We're having so much fun with him!

7.11.2011

We had so much fun with our friends today at the zoo.




T trying to pull a funny face. ha ha ha.

7.7.2011

We had so much fun golfing last night!
(thanks to my friend Vicki who watched the kids!!)

I already can't wait to go again!

7.6.2011

I joined a tennis club here, and I'm having a total blast playing a ton of tennis. This tennis club has been so much fun for me, and the day care is great. T loves it, and little sis hates it, but she's getting more used to it and hopefully is starting to understand that I always come back.
Anyway...the club offers a kids tennis class, targeted for ages 4-6. Well, T loves tennis and his new friend is in the class, so although he's a bit younger then the other kids, the teacher said to bring him to the class and see how it goes! ha. So tonight T took his first tennis class. He did love it. But he was just running around trying to hit balls instead of doing the cute little drills the teacher had planned (balancing the ball on their rackets, running from the base line to the service line....etc) so I think we'll try again next year. Oh and half way through he walked off the court and came up to where I was sitting. So I took him outside and hit some balls with him until the class was over, and I took the kids to the day care so my new good tennis buddy Wendy & I could play. We had a blast. I'm addicted to playing tennis and I haven't been able to get enough lately. It's too fun.

T & his friend Sadie before their class started.


This picture is very misleading, it looks like he's actually listening to the teacher, but right after I took this picture, he was off. ha.


Here's when we left the class and went outside to play on our own. ha ha.






I'm proud of my little tennis man.

7.5.2011

Library today!
we checked out 12 new books...and read every single one of them tonight before bed. So fun!
(T discovered a love for Mercer Mayer books, I remember loving them too when I was little. We checked out: Just me and my puppy, Just me and my mom & Just me and my dad, and he wanted to read those 3 over & over again. haha.)






After the library, we had a dance party in the kitchen. (Sorry, I need to work on my filming skills.)




Even little miss started shaking her stuff while snacking on watermelon. ha ha.

7.4.2011

4th of July this year was the most fun 4th of July I can remember. At 6:30am, my friend and I left the kids with our husbands and went to hit a few tennis balls. We started playing games and then ended up playing a match. We had a total blast, I loved it. (it was a great match too...went to a tiebreaker)
Then we went to lunch with that same friend and her family. (Sam and her husband work together, and they have 2 young girls) After lunch we came home, the kids took naps, Sam and I watched a movie. Then we had some friends over for swimming and a BBQ. Super fun day. I love summer.

7.3.2011

Our neighborhood is so much fun! ha ha. You guys would've died if you saw the firework show right in front of our house last night. It was so great! We live like 3 miles from the Michigan border and right over the border you can buy the big light up the sky, baseball game type fireworks. So every 4th, everyone in the neighborhood crosses the border, buys the goods, brings them back and they have a big party in the circle. So we went up to Michigan the other day, and bought our fireworks to contribute. Last night was so much fun, we had a great time. Everyone brought out their lawn chair and just hung out. (I took this picture early, there were about 5x this many people out by the end of the night...)


T was terrified at first, but after a few minutes he was ok. (This was the only sparkler he held though...after this one he was done. And either Sam or I had to be holding him for the rest of the night.)


Little miss Maizie didn't like the noise one bit. She'd look at the lights, but all in all I think she had a pretty stressful night.


Around 10:30 the kids were tired enough to put to sleep, even with all the noise going on outside. So we put them down & Sam and I stayed up.


The cops showed up around 11. But that still didn't stop our crazy neighbors! ha ha. Our next door neighbor (who's a firefighter..haha) and who's driveway we were all hanging out in, said the cops have to come say something if they get a noise complaint, but that they're not going to do anything else about it, so anyway they didn't let that ruin the big grand finale. ha. It was probably the best firework show I've ever seen, and it was right in front of our house. No traffic, no crowds, it was great.


(Apparently Halloween in the neighborhood is an even bigger event. I already can't wait! ha.)

7.2.2011

Saturday morning...


He has a pretty sweet mower. It blows bubbles as you go.

7.1.2011

We love Fridays because Sam gets home from work early (by 4 every week!) Last night we swam, BBQ'd, ate root beer floats, listened to some music and did fireworks late into the night. T didn't go to bed until 10:30! But we had such a fun night.
Here are some pictures and a movie at the end.