family times

Dad came over for an early Father's day brunch.

My dad and i with my kiddos

Uncle Rex with Calliope and Will - His youngest niece and oldest nephew

My pretty sis with her nice husband- they celebrated their 3rd year anniversary this month.
3 years. 3 kids. wow.

And this one...... is just for fun. Andrew makes life fun around here.

Some more.....

Here's Will and his new bike. He's pretty excited about having a big boy bike although he's still not sure if it quite compares with his trike... he was a little disappointed in how "wobbly" the bike is. We told him to just wait for the day we take the training wheels off- then it really will be "wobbly". :)

The newest members of the village people??

Summer happenings

Our small group had a beginning of summer BBQ at our house. The weather had been so rainy that Andrew and i set up the party in the garage. It turned out to be a beautiful evening but we still had fun in the garage.

Look at all the kids! I think there were 16 in all! :)

Sophie and the scooter

OUR FIRST GARAGE SALE!!

Elias was the designated merchandise tester and price remover.

Will had an extremely successful lemonade business....even though he probably
drank half his profit...

A Super Cool Cat in the Hat Birthday Party

Last week Will got to attend a very cool birthday party for one of his little friends who is also named Will. He looked forward to this day for weeks and had a complete BLAST! He kept saying over and over on the way to the party "I am just soo excited for 'Little Will's' birthday party. Mom, aren't you just soo excited for "Little Will's" birthday party?!"

A group shot of all the happy little birthday party attendees!

Some of the mommies with "Thing 2" - who doubled as a very talented party planner! :)

Will standing next to the CAT and holding his very own fish bowl with edible gold fish.

Making messes while wearing paint smocks courtesy of the Cat.

Making more messes- this time on cupcakes!

"Little Will" the birthday boy along with "big Will" the very happy party goer.

some catching up to do.....

Our little rainy Memorial Day family BBQ

Here's Will showing off the ketchup smiley face his Dad painted on his hamburger

Having some fun Papa time!

And finally, we said good-bye to our foster dog Heidi, so we could say HELLO to our newest household members........

CALLIOPE!

ELIAS!

GIDEON!
Their parents (my sis and her husband) came with them and we are very happy to have them cozily situated in our basement for the summer. :)

As if Will didn't have enough babies in his life already, he was actually quite thrilled to finally meet his two newest cousins!

The girls, on the other, hand are still a little skeptical of the new twins....they are not yet sure if they're ready to share the "twin spotlight" yet......