Summer time crafts!

 With all the abduction attempts I am not allowing the kids outside without an adult and with trying to freeze food for winter I am busy a lot of the day in the kitchen. So we have been doing more crafts than playing out side.

 Today they did bead faces on plates. Then they glued beads on all sorts of stuff like paper bags. Kept them busy for quite a while.

 They had lots of fun and they turned out pretty darn cute! They are now decorating my dinning room and I am loving my new art work. : )

Radcliffe Days Parade!

 Patiently waiting for the parade to start. We had great weather, a nice over cast morning. Sure beats the heat of previous Radcliffe Days!

 Cheese!

 My little book worm reading while waiting....because everyone reads while waiting for a parade. : )

 Rylin's outfit she picked out all by herself. I tried getting her to wear flip flops or tennis but no cowgirl boots all the way. I have to she she wears it well though!

 My beautiful girl!

 And my stair steps....

 Finally candy time, I am sure it is everyones favorite thing about parades. They all have the bags I made them for part of their Easter gift.

After the parade we went to the park for some games and ice cream and to the tractor pull. They had lots of fun and were beat by the end of the weekend!

Family reunion

 Lookout people Adrienne is driving! Ok so it is just a little gator but she had a blast driving everyone who was daring enough to ride wit her around. On a funny note her brother and sister would not ride with her....does that say anything about her driving?

 The last couple pictures are of Joes Aunt Theresa and his cousin Madison. I thought they turned out so cute!

My sleepy boy

 Lane takes after his dad in that he could fall asleep anywhere and literally does.

 He is sleeping hanging over the table let. How is that comfortable.

 The big brown bear is his favorite and he likes to sleep with him a lot but I guess for this nap he needed his friends as well. Lane set these guys all up like this before he fell asleep.

 So precious! And the only time he is quiet and not bouncing off the walls!

I took this one just because he is so cute. I can't believe how fast he is growing up. Heading off to school in a couple weeks I am so sad this summer is over. : (

Happy Birthday Rylin!!

 She is the goofiest girl ever! She loves to pose, not that these pictures give that away or anything. : )

 A month ago (yes I totally forgot about blogging for awhile there : / ) we had Miss Rylin's Birthday party. It was lots of fun Her cousins were there and Aunt Julie Papa Gary and Grandma Deb we there. (We did a gathering at moms house at a later date).

 The boys, cute Lane cute. Love him!

 Posing with Grandma.

 The best time of all, gifts!

 Adrienne reading her her card. :)

 I love the look of love on Adrienne's face in this picture. : )

 Cake time! She requested strawberry cake and frosting.

 We got her a new bike and I never got a picture of her on it : ( But she had a ton of fun and loved all her gifts!

Adrienne and Gma Deb Had to get a picture showing Adrienne is almost as tall as her! lol

Camping!!

 I love me a good camping trip. We hadn't been in a couple years because our weekends are so full with me working every other and I swear every friend Joe has has been getting married. But we finally found a weekend and made reservations weeks in advance. I didn't sleep for 3 nights leading up to it I was so excited!!  Lane was too and crashed out on the way to the camp grounds!

 We got the tent all set up and made a quick dinner. Hot dogs, brats, pasta salad and beans. YUM!  Joe sat in the little kid area. : )

 While Addie and I braved the hot sun at the picnic table. Then we just hung out and enjoyed each others company.

 Rylin enjoyed stealing the show as always. They were excited for dark to come so we could do sparklers!

 Mom and the girls. The only picture of me the whole trip pretty much. Except for the one of me helping Rylin on a horse. I think I need to put Joe on photo duty more often!

 Finally its time!! Sparklers!! They had a blast with them!

 I bought them for the kids to play with but.....the pictures say it all lol.

 After sparklers were done they headed to bed and slept pretty good. It was a little chilly the next morning but was what I consider the perfect camping weather!

 Daddy made us a yummy breakfast of eggs toast and bacon. Yum. I love cooking over an open fire!

 What I did the night before. everyone knits lace while camping right? : )

 The next day we headed out on the boat. These were taken on my phone. Just in case we flipped the boat didn't want to ruin my expensive camera lol.

 Rylin either found it boring or very relaxing. She fell asleep sitting up. I had her lay down and use Joe's life vest as a pillow and she slept for about 3 hours!

 Lane enjoyed every minute of it!! He is my outdoors boy!

 When we got back to the camp we found that we had new neighbors and they had horses. The kids asked if they could pet them and they were very nice and let them many times. Even after Lane fell in the pile of fresh poo!

 They headed back to our site to cook up the fish we caught. Rylin and Lane had fun playing with them while waiting for Dad to get everything ready to fillet them.

 She is such a ham, and all boy!

 And then there is Lane lol. The look on his face says it all!

 Rylin had lots of fun laughing at him trying to hold the fish!

 While watching Dad fillet them the kids were talking about how dad was cutting up their friends. It was really cute!

 Rylin got brave and asked to go for a ride on the horse. They were kind enough to saddle her up and take them each for a ride.

 Addie first, she loved it.

 Then Lane, he looks like a natural.

 And Rylin, she found she wasn't so brave after all and that it was really high up! We refused to ride : ( lol

 Sunday we got up, made another big breakfast and packed up camp. We headed out to do some fishing. The spot Joe picked was covered in these yellow flowers and I had to take some pictures!

 I can't wait to  print some of these off!

I love so many of them!

 I am blessed that is for sure!

 We had so much fun camping that we decided that we are saying no to things, important things like reunions so we can sneak in a few more camping trips this year. The kids just grow too fast to miss out on times like these!