Weekend in recap

We had a very busy weekend!  Saturday morning Alyvia and I went to the NICU Small Wonders Walk.  It's a walk to celebrate all the miracle babies from the NICU and a fundraiser sponsored by the parent committee.  It was the 6th annual walk, but the first time I was able to attend.  What a fun event to be a part of though!  It was great to see some of the families that I took care of and how amazing their kids are doing!  The event is really geared towards the kids and Alyvia had fun too!  Face painting, glitter tattoos, balloon animals and Julie K music-oh my!

Saturday night we went over to Caroline's house to meet up with my friends from college.  It tends to be a different kind of crazy when we all get together now....our kids are the wild ones!  The girls and boys are all about the same age and it tends to get a bit rowdy at times :)

Colson, Nolan & Austen....sometimes sharing is hard!

It was too crazy for Cole to be a part of!

We did manage to get a picture of the BU girls...but not without tears from the little boys that they couldn't be a part of it too!

Maybe next time we get together, we can have just a big girls night.......maybe in 10-15 years!

Today Anne hosted a "sprinkle" for new baby girl!  She decorated so cute with the "sprinkle" theme everywhere :)  Sprinkle donuts, sprinkle cookies, ice cream with sprinkles, sprinkle favors-loved it!

Alyvia dressed up and ready for baby sister's shower!

Look at all the diapers and wipes we got!

It is so exciting to celebrate baby girls impending arrival, she is coming very soon!  We can't wait!

Apple Orchard & Farming with Daddy

After we picked Alyvia up from school today, we headed out to Tanner's Apple Orchard!  We started off in the store and sampled some yummy apple cider!

Then we ate some apple cider donuts too!

We took our purchases to the car and then we walked around outside and played for a bit.

We had a fun time and then we headed up to Bradford to see daddy for awhile.  We miss daddy so much when he's gone farming all week :(   The kids were super excited to see him!

Colson and I took a ride in the combine with Papaw while Daddy and Alyvia hauled a load of corn in the semi.  The kids and I headed home after our ride-a-longs and had pizza for dinner.  We had a fun afternoon and we can't wait until Daddy home with us more often!

Week in pictures

Saturday-woke up to these 2 cuties taking over my bed :)

Livi and I went to Naperville for my cousin Amy's wedding shower and Cole went to work with Daddy!

Sunday-we got up and went to church and then Livi and I went to our friend Lizzie's birthday party.  It was a yucky rainy day, but we had fun anyway!

Then we had to leave for a Snyder family picnic at Bradley park.  It rained more today than it has practically all summer!!  The kids obviously still had tons of fun :)

Will & Colson having a blast throwing ice!  I foresee trouble with these 2!

Alyvia, Joseph and Ben playing in the rain

Colson (the boy who hates the sprinkler) joins in on the fun in the pouring rain!

On Tuesday, Colson and I had a quiet day planned at home....but Daddy had other plans for us :)

 Poor Daddy got a bad burn on his hand while working :(  So Colson got to spend an impromptu couple of hours with Papa while daddy and I went to Prompt Care and picked up supplies to take care of Daddy's hand. 

We have an appointment next week with a hand surgeon to make sure that his hand is healing properly...

On Thursday, this cute boy hung out with Colson and I all day!

Poor guy had a fever the day before, so he came to Aunt Katie's instead of going to the babysitters.  He was so good, just had a yucky stuffy nose that made it hard to take a good nap.  I tried to get a picture of him and Colson together, but Cole kept telling me "doe!"

 

On Friday, Cole and I got to have a "Mommy & Colson Day".  I've been wanting to do something special with Colson since Livi started school-he doesn't get as much one on one time as she did.  So today, we went to the zoo!

My big guy and I got to see the baby tigers out playing!  They were cute, but not as cute as my little guy :)

After the zoo, we met Nana for lunch at Avanti's.  I had so much fun spending a couple hours having fun with my little boy :) 

We had a busy, busy week!  I'm sure it won't slow down much :)

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Independence Day!! It was a HOT one here today-110 degree heat index :O

We headed out on the boat this morning and met my parents, their friends, Chris, Anne, Finn and Anne's parents at the dock.  From there we headed up towards Henry.  We stopped off a little before Lacon and got in the water to cool down. 

Colson braved the water!!!

Finnegan tried to stay cool out of the sun :)

Then we went up to Henry to eat lunch.  After lunch we swam for a bit in our cove.

After a few fairly scary moments vs. 2 BIG barges, we decided that it was time to go back in.  We stopped and grabbed a few fireworks on our way home.  It wasn't really much, but the kids thought they were cool enough :)

We had a really fun day and we are sooo excited to leave for vacation on Saturday to spend a whole family fun week together!

Dancing Queen

Here are 2 videos from Alyvia's dance class.  She is very serious during dance and she pays such good attention to her teacher.  Bless her heart, she has a little fall in the 2nd video but continues on :)

And this little cheese ball kept smiling every time I pulled out my phone/camera

I love my babies!

P.S.  Sorry the videos are sideways, I don't know how to fix them!!

Our new toy

With our growing family, we decided that we had to sell Alan's jet ski last fall.  It wasn't really designed for a family of four (now five!).  So, Alan did some shopping around this spring and found us something that is more family oriented-our own boat!  Although I'm a little nervous about the investment, I have to admit it's fun to have :)  We took it out for the 1st time on June 14th with Anne and Finn joining us.  We put in at Chillicothe and headed downtown to pick up Nana too.  It was a good first run!

Snacks on the boat are the best!

Finnegan enjoying the cuddy

My 3 favorites

Our family

Then we went out again a couple of days later for a little early Father's Day family day.  We headed North to Henry to check out the water that way.  Alan found a little cove that we could anchor in and Alyvia convinced us to let her swim :)  We had such a fun  family day!

Livi was worn out on the way back!

 I don't know that I'll always be so happy about it, but right now, I'm so happy we have this boat!