Sunday Afternoon

Today has been gorgeous! It is sunny, in the 70's with a light breeze-just about a perfect September day! So instead of sitting inside after we got home from church we put Cobly down for a nap and headed outside. The kids, who arent normally allowed outside to play on Sunday were super excited! And since they have an attention span of about 5 seconds when it comes to outside games not called tag or hide and seek, we played alot of games!! We played croquet, ladder ball, the kids had a somersalt contest, guessed things that Abby drew in chalk, and of course played tag and hide and seek. Cant really get away from those games.

And of course I had to snap some pics-cant have to many of those!

This first one obviously isnt from outside but I had to show Colby's new trick! Look No Hands!!

You cant really see it all that well in this picture but Colby has alot of red in his hair! It will be interesting to see what color it will be when ever his hair decides to grow in thicker!

And I had to throw in a close up of this mop-anyone feel sorry for me for having to tackle that every morning?!

Outside-again!

So back at the beginning of June when my parents came out for Abby's recital Bryan and my Dad made a couple sets of Ladder Ball. This kids love to play and while they haven't quite gotten it down they have fun with it.

If you know Bryan you know that he likes to push people's buttons because he thinks it is funny and he knows exactly which ones to push to get Abby going!!

So after a game between the two of them Abby came over to tell me that Bryan was cheating! She is so funny!

One thing I have really love it that Abby and Dylan and Lacey all play really together. They always are making up some kind of game to play! They are awesome!

I had to put these next pictures in because they are just too funny!

Don't worry she wasn't upset-she smiled, laughed and got back on! But man its a good thing she is young and flexible because that would be hurting if it were me!

Dylan's paper airplane!

Dylan made his first paper airplane today! He was way excited! It was so cute to watch him-he was concentrating so hard! Colby noticed I was taking pictures and decided to cruise on over so he could be in one! He was pretty proud of himself!

School Starts!!

Well the 1st day of school was a huge smashing success! Abby is a big 2nd grader and totally loves it. Dylan , my big Kindergartener, was a little nervous but very excited! He loves his 1st day and was excited to go again today, so thats good right?!! Abby just loves school so I think that has really helped to get Dylan pumped up for it! So, so far so good-but since its only the 2nd day we will see! hahaha!

So now it is Lacey and Colby at home and man is it quiet! Lacey has alway been awesome at playing by herself and when Colby goes down for a nap man I can get alot done! And it STAYS done! well at least untill the other 2 come home!

Poor Lacey just doesnt understand why she cant go to school. She keeps asking when Abby and Dylan will be home, hopefully that wont last to much longer as she gets used to them being gone. And I think when her dance class starts that that will help too. She is so excited for that. I cant wait to see how she does-she has a lot of personality packed into that little body!!

Outside in Ohio

These are the last of the Ohio pictures. The kids love to go run around my parents huge backyard and I love the pictures I can get when the sun sets! I think it is so funny how Abby's hair always lights up like a halo!

I dont know why but I just love this picture of Lacey!

We also had fun blowing bubbles-a must-do-favorite activity with the kids!

And now back in Iowa, it took a few days for them to adjust to real life-man those guys were grumpy!! So now we are trying to beat the end of summer boredom by breaking out huge coloring pages and extra long playing on the computer time! Which they love and I actually have to force them to get off the computer. Thankfully the humidity has left for a few days and the temps are down so they can at least go outside or more than 5 minutes without melting!

Jail Break, The Greene, Cows and Croquet

Okay so just warn you this post has alot of pics! First up is Abby and Dylan with Uncle Jeff and his duct tape hat-this picture cracks me up because Dylan is striking a total Jeff pose!

We had to build a chair barricade to keep Colby in the living room since he likes to put any small thing he can grab in his mouth but that little stinker was like Houdini!! He could always find a way out! Every time he would get out the kids would yell "Jail Break!"!

We took the kids to Young's Dairy which is always so much fun! I thought Lacey would be in heaven because of all the cows turns out she isnt really interested in the brown cows only the black and white ones! We saw some baby black and white goats and she kept saying that they looked like cows!

One morning we took the kids to The Greene-an outdoor shopping center, which is super fun! They have a splash pad fountain that you can play in so we let the kids go play since it was sooo stupidly hot!! They loved it! And bonus we stopped in at Payless and they had a great deal going we spent under $20 and got 5 pairs of shoes worth about $130 altogether!! woohoo!! This first picture is blurry but it is just so funny!

Jeff and I got together and threw an Unbirthday Party for everyone! It was way fun with yummy snacks and silly toys and of course some croquet!

I still have some more pics of things we did-I know it is ALOT of pics but we had so much fun and I love taking pics of these guys!