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 3 of 5)

JULY. 

Part three is all about July.  We had a pretty fun filled month and here are some photos..

1) Independence Day.  Here are Cooper, Katy and Kampbell in their red, white and blue.  Just love how precious these three are - so difficult to get them to smile at the same time though!  The Bram Fam came over and Andrew was home, so we had some food and celebrated.  Then, I took Cooper into downtown Indianapolis for the fireworks show that night.  We had a great day!

2) Katy climbing the dishwasher.  Not sure what it is about my kids loving the dishwasher, but they both have loved climbing in it.  Crazy kiddos.

3) Tim's surgery.  Tim had a short outpatient procedure to remove some weird tissue things he randomly gets.  This is him coming out of anesthesia.  He's always funny when he starts waking up.  He never remembers any of it later on though.  Wish I could have gotten some video.

4) KB's birthday!  Kampbell turned 2 on July 11th.  She's such a sweet grandbaby and I love her so much!!

5) Friday night sprinkler celebration - no real reason, he just wanted to have some sprinkler time, so we did it.

6) My Grandpa's birthday was July 13th and we went down on the 12th to celebrate with him.  Wish I had more pictures, but these will have to do.  Him with his cupcakes :)  

7)  The 13th we celebrated Kampbell's birthday at her house for a family party.  She was having a "bee" themed party, so I made her this cupcake cake.

Here are a few pictures of the pretty one on her birthday :)

8) Cooper had swim lessons for 2 weeks during the month of July, here are a few pictures from that:

I just love this one.  He's so handsome!!!

9) We took Kampbell, Cooper and Katy to a splash parkon the 22nd.  It really wasn't warm enough for them to be playing in the water, but hey, it was summertime, so we had to make the most of it.  Poor kiddos had blue lips when we were finished.

Again the smiling at the same time is rough.

10) July 28th we had the Sprinkle for Steph you can click to read more.

11) Another splash park visit with the Cooper and Kate after the sprinkle on the 28th.  They loved this one!

12)  Last, but not least, we bought ourselves a camper!!  Read about that here. 

Summer, Part three - OUT!  Stay Tuned, Part 4 coming right up....

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.......)