Summertime Fun

Kids snuggling up to penguins at the zoo. :)

Dad and Cole enjoy watching Kai play t-ball!

Kai receiving a participation trophy after his last t-ball game!

A nearly toothless Saydria getting ready to be smothered with soap and water on the trampoline.

Kai and a borrowed dog named Sammy.

Saying goodbye

I had to take a picture of Cole here. He was placing the stethoscope on my chest and saying, "Take a deep breath." Then he was putting it on my back and saying the same thing. It was really cute. He was so serious.

Kai enjoying a little local frozen custard, Whit's. We are finding ourselves there more and more lately. It's been especially nice lately now that we can sit outside and eat it.

This is Saydria with her friend Elle. Elle and her family stayed with us for a week before they moved to Texas. Saydria loves Elle, we have spent the last 4 Thanksgivings with their family and many weekends in between. Elle and Saydria spent many a nights up playing with dolls and dressing up. They are such good little momies! I remember them making beds for the dolls at the hotel and even going out on the balcony of our room and just sitting out there with their dolls and swaddling them. Saydria will definitely miss this little girl. We know we'll meet up with them again someday. (Kevin grew up with Elle's dad.)

Kevin made a rocket launcher for the kids out of PVC pipe and we took it to our friends' house to launch it with their kids and here's their really big "kid" spraying Cole with water! Cole was running back and forth to get him self sprayed. We used the water to fill the 2 liter bottles up and send them flying high with the rocket launcher. The kids love it!

This is Brayden and Pyper, Elle's big sister. Pyper and Brayden have known each other since they were babies! They saw each other again when when they were 3 years old and then their family moved to Ohio when Brayden and Pyper were going into Kindergarten. They've had a good time hanging out, playing games, going fishing, swimming, ice skating, wrestling, going to Pyper's dance competitions and doing everything else that kids love doing together. Pyper will be missed. Thank goodness for blogs, huh? :)

Old School...

I'm searching my blog posts to look when I made the dessert sushi a long time ago and I found this post that I never posted. So, I'm posting it. :)

We've been having a fun time with PVC! Kevin built a rocket launcher for the kids. They get to use 2 liter bottles and fill them with air through the pipe and then pull the "trigger" down and it send the bottle flying high. We even filled some with water and they went higher.

With some other friends, we had the bottle lined with glow sticks and shot it off at night. The kids enjoyed that also.

The other picture is of Kai enjoying some local frozen custard, Whit's. We are finding ourselves there more and more it seems. :)

This is Saydria and her little friend Elle, Dale and Meghan's daughter. They visited us for a week before they moved to Texas.

This is Cole getting sprayed by Terry Cook, one of our good friends from OH. We miss their family, their son Seth is Saydria's age, he's blonde kid in the right side of the picture. :)

Baby Averi

My friend Tiffany and her husband Dan had a little baby girl a month ago. I didn't have any pictures until recently. She's in the NICU and just wanted to hold her and didn't worry much about taking photos. :) She's a beautiful little baby though. I love this picture of Kevin holding her and she even has a little pink bow in her hair. We love her and are happy that she has arrived!