Saturday, September 18, 2010

Silly Brenna

The other night we caught Brenna with her hands in the cookies. She can open the pantry now and love to go and find treats!
Brett also like to put the kids in strange places. I came down the other night to find Brenna perched up over the fireplace. I think she actually liked it.


First Days of School





This fall started off a new school year. It was fun to watch the boys get excited to meet new people and learn new things.









Matthew started Pre-School at Miss Pam's this week. He "Loved it so much he just wants to live there". He has 3 friends in his class at has made a few more. He is just so cute going in each morning..he leads the kids around the room showing off the toys. We are working on learning the days of the week and sing the song frequently!



Joshua started 1st grade and is loving it. He likes Gym the best - who would have guessed?!?! We are excited to watch how he grows this year. I think we will have lots of reading time in the evenings so time to hit the Library for books.



Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Summer In Review

As we get ready to head into fall and another school year begins I thought I would post some pictures that captured what we did this summer.

We spent LOTS and LOTS of time on our new water slide. There were many days in a row that we would set it up and stay in the backyard the whole day playing.



Megan, Justin's wife, and I took the kids to our favorite museum..The Museum of Play..and the boys had a great time showing their new cousin Nathan around. Here they are playing with the life-sized Mr. Potato Head that you can dress up many different ways.




Matthew having some fun riding his jeep in the yard.


We spent a day as a family hiking. It was a REALLY hot day and we spent almost the entire time stream walking. The boys had such a great time catching crayfish, getting muddy and wet, playing with their nets and jabbering away. What a fun day that was. Brenna though got a bit upset with us because we didn't let her walk in the streams so I finally took her back to the car and let her play and met up with the guys later.



Joshua, Matthew, Tristan and Nathan competed in the annual Kids Fishing Contest and the Rod and Gun Club on Grand Island. I think they were all excited about their trophies and Nathan even won a new fishing pole.

Brett took the boys camping one Friday evening. They enjoyed cooking marshmallows, building a camp fire, canoeing and catching frogs.