Sparklers

Having fun with some really long sparklers!

Swimming Lessons

We had another great season of swimming lessons for these two. 

Reilly learned the butterfly stroke...

perfected his dive...

 increased his canon ball splash...

 

 and gives the flip a try!

 Katie and the kids!

 Sarina swimming through the hoop...

 and making big splashes!

 

 Sarina is officially float free!  She can now jump off the diving board and swim all the way to the shallow end!  Yay...but at the same time nerve racking...she's not afraid of deep water! 

Great Job kiddos!

Welcome July

Happy Independence Day. 

 We enjoyed another great parade in Eureka.  

What's all that noise? Oh...here come the rescue trucks! Their faces...Ha!

 Too loud for little Timothy. 

 Watching the cars go by on Grandpa Saathoff's front porch.  

 Grandpa grilled up some yummy burgers for lunch!

 And he also surprised the kids with jello-pops. 

 These three..

And Timothy giggling at Grandpa.  

We got a quick nap in before we headed to Andy and Erin's for some delicious ribs.  

Then off to the lake to watch the fireworks with Bob and Ashley.  

It was such a fun filled weekend!!

Goodbye June 2016

Well our June sure went out with a BANG.  

It was just an ordinary Monday evening...Daddy and Reilly headed out to play softball with the guys and Little Miss Sarina wasn't so thrilled about staying at home with Mom.  

I let her pick what we were going to do while the boys were gone and she chose a bike ride and eating ice cream cones...(chocolate cones that is).

Her typical summer look...scraggly hair, mismatched clothes, and tennis shoes instead of sandals!! Not sure what the x's are on her knees...and when I asked her she didn't know either! Since the boys grabbed their hats before they left she had to have hers on too!

Always wearing what she eats.

 

The boys had a blast playing ball until Reilly got a shiner...It was popping out of his head the size of a grape! Ouch!! But he was tough and kept playing! 

 

And last...this filthy little girl peeked out of the shower to see her wounded brother and yanked the shower curtain in the process....pulling it down and the shower rod smack on her head!!!

Help! Two tired, filthy and bleeding kids!!!  Please tell me the day is almost over!

This picture reminded me of those sketches of Jesus in the Bible story books too...I'm sure she'll love to look back on this when she's 16!!!

Goodbye June!!!