Thursday, September 1, 2011

July 4th, 2011


This year for the 4th of July we watched fire works with Joy, Darik and Keira.
Isn't Joy a beautiful pregnant woman.
She gave birth to Edward the next day!

Keira and Brock just kissed each other.

This was Rayna's first year seeing fireworks. She was SO cute!
She kept trying to catch them. She was absolutely amazed.



Our Trip to Kansas City June 28th-July 1st

I took the kids on a road trip to Kansas City to visit some of my college friends.
Here are Regina and Jill with me. (Above)

Mary Schmitz, an college room mate with Rayna and me.


It was over 100 degrees so we had some fun with water in the backyard.
Phil and I were trying to fill up some water guns for
Brock. Rayna and Mitchell (Regina and Phil's little boy)

Rusty and I trying to fix a leak in the blow up slide.
Playing with a new friend, Reille (might be misspelled but sounds like RE-ell).
All the kids (minus the newborn, Roxton). From left to right:
Reille (3), Mitchell (2 1/2), Ryker (6), Brock (almost 4) and Rayna (almost 2)

We always take one of these photos...and here we are!
Jill, Rusty, Mariel
Regina, Jen and Phil

Brock's fist "slip and slide" experience.

Rayna loved it too!

And here we are...the whole gang.
Reille, Phil, Regina, Mitchell, Ryker, Rusty, Mariel, Brock, Jen and Rayna
Jill is taking the photo and can be seen in the reflection :)

The beautiful Regina!

The lovely Jill!

The vulgar Phil and me!


Brock


Monday, August 22, 2011

June 2011: Fun in the sun

Cousins Brayden and Gabrielle with Brock, Rayna and Keira
Daddy and Rayna

Rayna and one of her princesses. She LOVES princesses.
Brock playing with the hose
An inch worm. I haven't seen one of these in years. They are amazing to watch.

Poor Rayna has had a cough for months and she's been using the nebulizer that we bought when Brock was a baby and needed it for his RSV. Her cough is finally gone and we are medicine free!
Brock got a big boy bike with pedals. He was a little scared to try it out. He can't quite figure out the pedals. We ended up putting training wheels on it but he still doesn't have any interest in learning to ride it.
Rayna got Brock's running bike. She doesn't know how to really use it yet but boy does she look cute!



Sunday, August 21, 2011

June 2011: Pool and Worms


Our neighbor, Pat, has this wonderful pool and has invited us to swim whenever we want. We took advantage of it a few times this year. Brock loves to jump off of the diving board into Josh's arms. Rayna isn't sure what she thinks about it.













We did some yard work and found some worms. Brock loved playing with them and Rayna enjoyed giving them to Brock. They love dirt and getting dirty.





Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Fun in the sun...Summer is finally here!



Brock wanted to play "Monkey and Turtle" the other day. Rayna was the turtle.

Brock was the monkey


Look at those ringlets! Rayna may end up with my hair after all.