Pumpkin Carving Time

Here is a quick clip of the fun (or lack thereof) Grace had while carving her pumpkin last weekend. Landon busied himself with his finger food as he watched on.

Halloween preview

Aunt Cathy made some cute Halloween t-shirts for all of the kids and we had a little photo op last Sunday night- ADORABLE!!

Just a taste...

Our Inland Waterway trip over Labor Day

Grace's "shoes" - this was pretty funny; she found her cousin Wyatt's socks
and put them on her feet (inside out) and ran around saying they were her shoes...

feeding the huge fish at the hatchery

Cool shades guys...(they were uncle Mike's until Grace broke them)



Swimming at Beba & Grandpa's

S'more's...YUM!!!


This is just a taste of what's to come so to speak...I have a bunch of pics to upload. I am buimmed though because our memory card conked out on us and we had some really cute pics from the county fair that we lost! More to come....stay tuned!!!

Finally, some new pics!!

Grace at 3 months

newborn Grace

my babies

After a Dairy Queen cone

Trying on flower girl dresses last weekend

What's so funny Grace?

Landon's 2 teeth!

Bath time

Gracie's Mohawk

Grace & Landon talking (they do this all the time)

Playing with Gavin at a family party

Landon holding his bottle (for a second)

How do those fingers taste, buddy?

Playing at Aunt Cathy & Uncle Mike's cottage



My happy boy

In case youu are wondering about the first couple pictures, I just figured out how to email them from my cell phone so they have been sitting on there forever! They were so cute I had to share them.

It seems I am always saying this, but we have been extrememly busy lately so I have been awful about getting things posted. Sorry!! I can't believe summer is almost over already- where does the time go? I guess it makes things a little tougher when things are busy with work, a house for sale with showings and open houses, 2 kids to keep up with and lots of weekend plans!

Last weekend we took a girl's trip to Saginaw to help Karen look for a wedding dress, try on bridesmaid dresses and flowergirl dresses- of course I forgot my camera! I did get a cute one of Grace on my cell phone though.

Tonight we are taking the kids to the fair, Thursday I have to go to Jackson for work overnight and am meeting Matt & the kids at my parent's house. Grandma & Grandpa (and Aunt Megan too) are babysitting the kids so Matt, Cathy, Mike & I can escape to Chicago for a quick overnight trip to celebrate our Anniversaries this month. Should be lots of fun!

I'll try to be better with the pictures- hopefully things will slow down a little soon :)

A few more...

Croquet anyone?


Grace after we got out of the lake...and ready for more!

all 5 cousins

These were taken the Sunday after the fourth when we got together for the day to hang out at Nonnie & Papa's becuase it was 80 degrees! Grace had a blast swimming. So much so that she didn't want to get out of the water even when she was shivering and her lips were turning blue (the water is still a little chilly and it was pretty windy that day on the water). She kept slapping the water and telling Matt, "No - MINE" Then she realized that probably wasn't the best approach and she said, "more" in a cute little voice. Nonnie wanted a picture of all the cousins together and it didn't go quite as planned. These were the best ones that I got on my camera- I guess we'll have to try it another time.

Fourth of July

Family & Friends watching the fireworks from our house

We had a great 4th! We went to a family party at Matt's aunt & uncle's house all day then had family and friends over to our house to watch the fireworks over the bay. My parents & Megan came up to visit and we had lots of fun!! Grace made it up for the fireworks - for about the first half anyway. She had a great day & even took a good nap, but just couldn't quite make it.