Disney on Ice!

Back at the end of January, I took Cooper and Kampbell to see Disney on Ice.  It was a great time, they had so much fun seeing Mickey and Minnie and the rest of the crew.  This was a show with scenes from many of the Disney movies, Lion King, Aladdin, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and many more.  Cooper hadn't seen all of these movies, so there were some parts that weren't as interesting to him as others, and the same is true for Kampbell, but over all, we all had a fantastic time.  These two are at such fun ages!  Here are a few pictures!

 

 

Our Summer...... (Part 5 of 5)

This is last month of the summer series....  Then to catch up on October, maybe some day...

September was a fun month.  So many fun things.

1) Cooper has been loving Legos the last few months, so he's been wanting to play with them all of the time.  We have bought several of the little $12 and $19 kits to build a specific thing with the legos, and we both have a great time building them.  Well, the first weekend of September, we happened to  be at my mom's and she gave Cooper this huge tub full of legos.  Cooper and I built a helicopter (pictured below), then we started sorting.  We probably sorted legos for an hour but got a lot of them organized.  

2) Cooper officially had his first day of preschool!  Such a big boy.  Here he's pictured on our front porch, in front of his school and with his teacher.  I cannot believe he's already in pre-K!

3) Katy all dressed up in a ruffle-y outfit.  Had to get her in it once before she got too big!

4) The kids had grandparents day at their school - my dad got to come up and you can see, Katy wasn't having much fun.  Poor Papaw having to wrangle these kids.

5) Our church had a night of praise and Cooper and I went.  It was such a good time, He and I sang our hearts out for the Lord

6) Another weekend, we were visiting with family again and Dad, Gwen and I took the kids to the zoo.  It was a good time.  We rode the train, visited the animals and enjoyed ourselves very much.  

As you can probably tell, Cooper still enjoys sticking his tongue out quite a bit.

7) Next up was Steph's birthday.  This is the cake I made her.  A funfetti cake from scratch from Sally's Baking Addiction.  I think I tripled the recipe to make a three layer cake.

The 25 year old! :)  I forgot the candles, so this would have to do.

The girls and I taking a selfie.

8) Soccer pictures and lots of soccer games happened in the month of September.  Here is my cute boy and his dad with the entire team.

9)  Apple orchard time!  We like to visit Anderson's apple orchard to get our fill of honeycrisp apples, cider slushies and their home grown popcorn.  YUMMY!

Katy had fun jamming her face through the play structure.  Silly kid.

The must have token picture of the kids with the huge pumpkins.

10) You can never go wrong with playing in the neighborhood with the other kids.  This girl has a blast, and so does her brother, if we could only get him to slow down long enough to take his picture!

Here he is one evening - he decided it would be a good idea to climb up on the dash of the van.

11)  Olive Garden family dinner.  Once the never ending pasta bowl started, we had to visit at least one time! :)  The boys were doing the seek and find on the kids menu while Katy decided to light up the room with her sweet smile.  I love these kids.

Our Summer...... (Part 2 of 5)

June.  We were fairly busy people in June.  Let's get to it.

1) CHILDREN'S MUSEUM VISIT.

We have a membership for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and we like to visit as often as we can.  The kids and I have a great time, Cooper gets to play with things he loves to play with, Katy gets to follow him around, and it's a good time had by all.  

On this particular visit, the museum had a Great Wall of China event, so they had a massive "Great Wall Slide."  It is the same slide they have during Christmas time.  We all enjoyed it.

2) Making Kate's handprints for Daddy's Father's Day present.  For Father's Day this year, I decided to take the lead from something I had seen on Pinterest.  A leather bound journal that we make Father's Day cards year after year for Tim.  This is just one of them.  In addition to this, we got him a seat for the pool, and a Samsung Gear watch.  I think he had a pretty good Father's Day.

3) Garage Sale time.  Tim went all out with the garage sale this year.  We didn't sell much, and ended up donating a lot to Goodwill, but, it was a good excuse to clean out some things.

4) Family Game Night - SkipBo for the win.

5) Our "mini" vacation.  We stayed with my mom, and took the kids to a few places in the Louisville area, the Zoo, Louisville Slugger Bat Factory, out on the Ohio river on a boat and then lots of visiting with family.  Good times.

6) At the end of our mini vacation, we took a trip up north to get this little fella.  The newest member of our family, a Havanese puppy named Snickers.  This is the night we got him.  Cooper wanted to hold him in the car.  Both boys desperately needed haircuts...

So, the next day - they both got them.  Here are the after photos.

Then, we ended our vacation at Monkey Joe's.  Still a favorite for Cooper.

Our mini vacation was at the end of June, so that is a wrap for Part 2! :)  Coming soon, part 3....

Our Summer...... (Part 1 of 5)

Since I've basically taken the summer off from blogging, I wanted to highlight it in the best way I know how, going through my pictures and tell you how our summer went!  And actually, I don't really feel like we've had much of a "summer" - that is, the normal Indiana humid, hot summers that we're used to.  We've had a few days so far of terrible heat, but mostly, it's been rather mild.

Mild summers mean not much pool time, which is unfortunate, however, we've been able to enjoy some other activities that we usually wouldn't because of the lack of heat.  I suppose there are ups and downs to all of this cooler weather.

1) ANDREW GRADUATED!

The beginning of May started with Andrew Graduating from college!  Congratulations Andrew, we are so proud of you!!!

2) Mother's Day Picnic

My brother's family and our family met up with my mom and her husband for Mother's Day at Clifty Falls State Park in Madison IN for an awesome Mother's Day lunch.  It was good food, and great company.  Since the park was a couple hour drive from our house, we didn't really do much else that day, but it was good to spend time with my Mom.  I cannot help but show off the pretty cupcakes I made, and they were delicious!

3) Katy's Birthday & Party

Oh my little Katybug.  We had such a good time for her birthday party and on her birthday as well.  This girl didn't want anything to do with her cake, but she still had fun and we all had a good time celebrating her big day!  We did her party on the Sunday before Memorial Day (which was also Katy's actual birthday) so that family could spend their actual Monday at home.  Here she is in her birthday outfit.  Precious, right?

Sitting with her cake and wanting nothing to do with it.  Although it probably didn't help that she had several people watching her - she was just a tad bit uncomfortable I think.

I just love the way her cakes turned out.

4) First Swim of 2014

Cooper and Andrew took their first dip in the pool - and it was cooooooooooollllllllllllllldddddddddd....  But they had fun, swam for just a bit and got out.

This was during a point in time where Cooper was obsessed with sticking out his tongue.

Cooper really liked jumping in the pool this year.

5)  On Memorial Day (Katy's actual birthday) we went to an Indianapolis Indian's game.  We had Steph, Ryan and KB over for a late lunch, then headed to the game that evening.  We brought blankets and sat out on the lawn.  It was a good time.  We didn't make it to the fireworks, everyone was just too tired and the kids were ready for bed.

Cooper's always giving us some kind of show.

Happy Birthday Katy!

That wraps up our May!  Parts 2-5 coming soon (I hope.......)