Summer Time ... Family Time...

It has been an interesting Summer for us so far – between working the garden, the jobs keeping up with all the kids activities going on and continuous organizing in the house you would think we do not have time to get sick but behold between all of us but Steven we seem to either get a stomach virus, fevers and a few other things we won’t mention… I thought Summer time is a break time from that stuff lol…..

Sam is enjoying himself a great deal at Soccer, Steven is almost done with drivers ed and just itching to get on the road…of course I am not in a rush for that at all ;-) Sarah is enjoying our outside activities a great deal, she loves being outside and is getting so much better about tolerating the bugs all over the yard… she can be such a girly girl when it comes to that and then at the same breath rough house with the boys. She is also having a really hard time with bug bites once she gets bit it’s a chore to keep her from scratching no matter what we put on it and we had a few instances where here bit got infected.

I can’t believe summer is half over already and go by even faster next week when both boys are playing soccer and we have some weeks where we are out on the field every night. Sarah gets totally into the game and is constantly keeping an eye on her brother and if she does not see him she right away asks “Where is Sami” I just love the way she ended up with this little nick name of her own for him, its so adorable.

This past week we also celebrated Stevens’ 16th Birthday wow where do the years go. I also had a Birthday but we won’t go there ;-) Sunday we went to Bay Beach in Green Bay with my Sister and her family, we had a lot of fun the kids loved the rides and after we had a BBQ at their house before we finally made it back home by 9 PM everyone was just out by that time. We would have loved to have an extra day on that weekend lol…. Here are some pictures from Sunday……….

Sarah, Samuel and Cousin Nathan

Its a Turtle alright are we even moving..?

Whatever you do just look up and smile...

The Ladies......

The guys.... or boys and toys?
I'll race you once around the block...
Hey I can handle these wheels....
Ok sharp corner coming up ... I can do this...

4th of July Weekend Recap

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a very nice 4th of July weekend; the weather was just beautiful, we all had a 3 day weekend, watched the parade, had a nice BBQ with my sister and her family at our house and then ended the day with smores, a big fire and fireworks in our own backyard.
The parade in town was pretty long considering that we are in a town of population 5700 approx. it lasted almost 1 ½ and had various floats, lots of old cars etc. the kids enjoyed of course the flying candy more then anything :-)




Saturday after a nice big Belgian Waffle Breakfast my sister and her family went back home. Garry took the boys fishing and Sarah and I spend a few hours in the Garden and we had so much fun. All three of us that includes the dog where just a mess full of sand and soil and sweat lol…. In the evening Garry and I went to a River festival for some music and more fireworks in Point and Sunday we pretty much just laid low and hung around the house. Originally we had opted to go geocaching but then it started to rain and we decided to not chance it given the heavy storms we have been having over here when it does get going. It really would have been a great opportunity to do some more unpacking in the house but lol we really really did not have any motivation to do that :-)
My goal is to have it all done before the big Holidays at the end of the year …..hahaha…

Moving forward well Steven started Drivers Ed and yes I actually let him behind the wheels on a country road…. I can’t believe my Baby will turn 16 on Monday and drive..sniffle..
July and August will be a couple of very very busy months for us since Drivers Ed, Soccer for Samuel are almost at the same time and keep us going Monday thru Thursday and when Drivers Ed is done Steven starts to Referee Soccer again and then play himself when the High school league starts in August. Then there is getting ready for school again, a trip to Somerset and Upper Michigan before Labor Day as well. Sarah will start Early Childhood and will be officially going "to school" .....

Ok Mom I am ready......

Hopefully in between we do get to enjoy some of the summer, blessings to all!

Water Break....