Vacation

We took a little trip to Salt Fork. Everyone enjoyed themselves and Grady and Gwen were excited to sleep at their new house.

 

 Fishing with Daddy, or as I like to call it the kids getting being impatient and Daddy cussing out the fishing poles.

 Gwen making sure not to leave a drop of ice cream in her bowl.

 Grady with the treasures he found on our hike!

Breakfast at Denny's



After our trip Austin visited with us and did a guest night time book reading.

Gwen has started dance classes on Saturday mornings, so that means the kids are doing separate things!  So far so good.

 

Dad and Grady went to Touch a Truck

 

Saturday we headed to the balloon festival.  The kids had a great time running around on the race track.

 Grady was a little cranky so he missed out on the pictures.

 Gwen and mommy went out to get their toe nails painted!

 Church festival!

Gwen and Grady are starting preschool this year.  Their classroom has a sandbox, Grady is all set!



Lucy Liu and I go way back!

Super Grady!

 Super Gwen!

 Quack Quack!

 Honey Bee is our favorite.  Kids had a great time at the convention center this weekend!

Grandma told me on Friday she organized the toys so they were all together.  Sunday I got home from the grocery store and they packed up all the toys in grocery bags.  Half of them of course needed to go in the refrigerator.  Sorry Grandma!

Gwen insisted on wearing her superhero mask to get ballet slippers.



Photo Friday!

 Gwen is all ready for ballet classes, she starts in a week!

 Gwen is addicted to edamame, just like Daddy!

 Grady and his funny faces.  For whatever reason, he feels that his hands have to be involved as well!

 Growing up with family friends is great!

 Face tattoos and M popping in the background.

 C took care of G&G!



Grady loved the funnel cake at the festival while M preferred the slush.

Camping Trip

The kids were finally old enough to do a group camping trip.  We headed to Alum Creek for 2 nights.  It was a great weekend.  The kids and adults had a lot of fun.  The kids get along so well.  C and Gwen like to run around and be crazy, while Grady and M like digging in the dirt and rocks.  I cannot wait to go on another trip.

The daddy's as Gwen calls them took the kids on an early morning hike on Saturday.  Purpose being to not piss off our neighbors at 6am.

 

They picked berries on their hike!  Meanwhile, the mommy's and M stayed back at the campsite to get the fire going to cook breakfast. 

 Alum Creek had fishing poles and bait available for the kids on Saturday morning.  C caught a fish within 30 seconds of being there and Grady caught one a little later.  Gwen and M did not have any luck.

 M and C high fiving or something close to that!

 Saturday night we made ice cream!  It was very fun and extremely tasty!

 

 The kids got along really well.  I do not really remember a time when we had to intervene.  The mommy's and daddy's only got in a few arguments.

 C chasing the ice cream ball.

On the way home I asked Gwen what her favorite part of camping was and she immediately responded C!  I look forward to watching our kids grow up together.

 Barbie party at the library!

 Gwen's ever so important corner!

This year's Dash for Donation was a success.  I even ran this year.  Here are the guys post making breakfast.  Don't know where we would be without Ryan today.

 The kids with their medals after the mascot dash.  I think Grady is going to be a runner, he had a grin on his face the whole time.

 Gwen was very excited to wear her tutu.

Amazing turnout for the Dash!