Bucket 'O Fun
Mommy and Ellie
Pudding Painting with Ms. Patti
Best Buddies
Luke's Class
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well this picture accurately describes both personalites.
Daniel
Daddy and Luke in Class
Cousins are so much fun! It's always an added bonus to add a party to it. My nephew Conner turned three while he was here so we celebrated the 4th and Conner. My boys love Conner and always want to include him in all the "boy" things, but they love Grace just as much. They'd let her pull and grab on them and just say, "She likes it." Believe me, if their sister did anything remotely close to that they'd scream to high heaven! Grace seemed to like this game and would reward Daniel with a laugh. 
For the 4th we had family games of frisbee, three legged races, and of course a water fight. 
This was our photo finish for our three legged race. We almost won, but Grandma and Daniel surged ahead narrowly defeating us.
Our water fight started with the the little guns, but eventually progressed to water balloons. The saying, "I'm water and you're glue....something, something off of me and stick to you" seemed to hold true for those water balloons. They would either bounce off of people or break in the throwers hands. I love this picture of Ellie and Conner. They truly love each other and were so cute together. Conner was up for whatever Ellie wanted to play and Ellie loved being around him. It was the sweetest thing.
Without coordinating it, the girls wore stripes and the boys wore solids. Of course we had to take a picture! :-) I love this one of Katie and me and our girls. 
A bit late, but I hope your Fourth was fun and your summer is as well. I'd love to hear how you all spent yours!
Yes, It's that time of year again. This year it was some Tango and Dinner. You heard right...Tango - Eric does a pretty mean tango. I'm usually the one to wants to dance and although I also suggested this, Eric was game for it and showed me around the dance floor. He's pretty amazing for just learning it and I was estatic to hang out with my super-sweet-hunky man! Love ya!
This was Luke's first year of T-ball and guess who played for???? The Rockies! You can probably imagine how excited I was about all of this. Or maybe you can't, but I was THRILLED! Now if only I can convince Daniel's team they need to be the Rockies....
Guess who else was thrilled? Yep, Poppa!
Luke sees someone taking pictures!
His throw to first.
Now his run to first. You can see in the background that I'm taking another angle of this picture.
Daniel has been out of school for a few weeks but I wanted to share some pictures from the day. Instead of graduation they say "Aloha" to Kindergarten and therefore we had a Luau party. It was fun to see the kids as they sang to us and then the teacher shared a bit about each child.
Daniel got many hugs and a lei from his teachers. He also had plenty of hugs from his siblings. I took mostly video so the pictures aren't as good because I wanted to record the day. These are a few of the pictures we got.
Luke's sad that school is ending. It means the end of playing with all the siblings while the moms chat away before and after school. I'm actually missing it myself!
As a last goodbye they all signed eachother's beach balls. Daniel~ we're so proud of you! You're teacher said you could be counted on to do whatever she said and that you were very observant of your surroundings. You made many friends and she was glad to have you in her class. We are so amazed to see how much you have learned and excited for what's next. We love you! Aloha to Kindergarten and Hello 1st Grade!
Luke likes the camera either in front or behind it. He can get very clear pictures, and I really enjoy seeing what he is interested in. It's fun to see how much he loves taking his pictures.
Here's one he set up himself. He wanted to show everyone that he can fish and take pictures. 
This one is ode to Grandpa L. :-)
Luke had a fun water party. We had two sl-p-n-sl-des and sprinklers galore. The kids ran around and had a grand time getting soaked! We're glad we could celebrate our big guy!
I love these cuties!
I made these sunflower cupcakes with ladybugs on them. Ladybugs have been quite the hit lately and since we were having fun in the "sun" what better way then to make sunflower cupcakes (with bugs on them of course)!
Ice, Ice, B-by!
Need a drink of water? No problem, it's a ready water fountain too.
Luke and one of his best buddies checking out cars. Happy Birthday Luke!
Uncle Jeff gave Daniel a book 1,400 things to be happy about and one of the pages asked what you would be happy about camping. The kids unanimously said, "FISHING!"
Eric and Ellie
Luke loves his fishing chair.
This must be a family trait. :-) https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvqZGRMKveUipmer5s0tWeTE0mVqqSXxd7Nl4jSFdsowgqoVgc82yI9caTlAVMW7-mpCXLOk7e01cSAqBZbav4KL1_o-7qBiogqUxUYsrRUstF9Z08rgdv6WxlXV12Nt1aPSVw0LCaeQ/s1600-h/Daniel.jpg
Daniel finds the secret of fishing....patience. 
I know the month is almost over and Easter is long past, but I wanted to share our Easter celebration with you.
Daniel all dressed up.
Our church Easter egg hunt. Apparently Grandma has a picture of her on a hay bale about this age too. Hopefully I can get a copy someday.
I love when they do this!
Eric looking dashing hiding those eggs!
As they say, "Age before Beauty."
"Look what I have Grandma!"
Cool as a cucumber.
Pink...
...and blue.
Swinging good times.
For those of you who know my Dad, he knew where to sit. The sodium was calling his name.
Let us pray.....Ellie's recent prayer is "Thank you God, for our food. Thank you for butterflies, ketchup, marshmallows and hot chocolate." :-)
