Julie's Visit

We had a wonderful visit with Aunt Julie this week! She got to spend a lot of quality time with her nieces and nephews.

On Wednesday night we had a sleepover at Aunt Jessica's house. Cousin Becky spent the night too! The girls likes playing Guess Who with them.

We stayed up until 1:30am talking!!

On Friday we went to Uncle Steve's Lake in IN.

The kids loved playing in the sand.

There was also a neat playset for them to play on.

Uncle Steve took us for a ride on the pontoon boat.

Julie leaves for Chile today (saturday) at 3:30pm. Please pray for her safe journey. We'll miss you, Julie!

End of the Summer Pics

The kids like to cuddle with me while watching Go Diego Go.

This is Taylor's funny face that she came up with on her own.

This is Charlie's 2nd official haircut (I didn't have my camera with me for the first one). He was not in the mood and insisted on holding my camera during it. He was not too pleased to give it up at the end.

Fun with the cousins & second cousins

The kids had fun at Grandma's house when Mommy's cousins and her five kids came over!

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Taylor also got to go to a REDS game with her Daddy, uncle Chad and Grace.

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Taylor cracked me up when I went to get her up from her nap and say all the extra clothes she had put on. (Socks, slippers, necklace, and underwear on the head!)

July Photos

We've heard you were in need of some new pictures, Grandpa. So here you go. Here's a quick recap of what we've been up to this month:

Our friends, Andy and Heather, were in town. Andy helped Daddy become Mr. Fix It. They even built a gate for our deck! Taylor had a lot of fun with them. She kept forgetting which one was Andy and which one was Heather.

Then Mommy and Daddy went to Myrtle Beach for a corporate meeting.

This is a new park we went to with the MOMS club.

Here's two photos Grandpa took at a graduation party.


I LOVE this picture of Taylor!

These last pictures are from Aunt Sandy's birthday party this weekend.

Dayton Art Institute

The kids and I went to the Dayton Art Institute today. They had a fun room for the kids with lots of hands-on exhibits.

These were people made out of jelly beans with butterflies that fluttered on the wall. charlie wasn't quite sure what to think of it.

(We went with a MOMS club friend, Luke)

Fourth of July 2009

The kids had a great 4th (despite the rain). They visited mommy at the festival where she had a booth in the afternoon. (We made the T-shirts with the moms club)

Here they are with their cousins.

Taylor and Grace braved the weather and rode in the parade with the MOMS club.

They did so well throwing the candy bags at everyone.

Afterwards, they were rewarded with a funnel cake!