More Summer Ordinary Moments

Besides moving & traveling, a lot of our days are just plain ordinary!  

Here are some of the special ordinary moments that I managed to capture:

Summer:)

The three amigos!

Superman ready for church!  He places his cape under his shirt, just like Clark Kent so he is ready to go when he is summoned!

We love our new backyard!

This is what happens when you refuse that afternoon nap... (a couple hours later & she falls asleep amidst playing toys!)

Little girl on our big counter!

Home sweet home for breakfast

We are so excited that we are now only a couple blocks away from one of our favorite parks, the Lost Toy Park!  A great place to play & now it's SO easy to get to with our bikes and stroller!

Someone is happy to graduate kindergarten, his last day of school!

Sweet Abby

Ordinary Moments, Summer Edition

It's hard to believe that we haven't even had a full month of summer yet!  I would still say that we are moving into our new house, as we work on unpacking & finding a spot for everything.  We have traveled for a week to North Carolina.  We had a week of VBS.  We had a family reunion at our new house.  But, in between, all the busy days we are enjoying the long lazy summer days (although I would say that they aren't so lazy when you have three little kids running around all day)!

Here's a few of my favorite pictures from summer so far:

Andrew on his John Deere

Pool time!

Happy Abby

This is how you roll with three :)

Happy kids, happy mom

Groceries for a family of five.  We can never seem to leave the store without a full cart.  It takes a lot to feed this family!

We are loving our swing set!

Summer joy

My little superheroes

Daddy & his princess

A Fun Family Reunion

This past month, we were excited for a very special time in our family!  With big sister Jill having a big birthday, we decided it was time for a little reunion (minus West Coast California Andy).  Everyone headed to our new house that was JUST moved in & we managed to keep everyone fed, entertained, & having fun minus not much furniture and lots of boxes!

Here's my family:)

It's been several years since the cousins have all reunited, with us living far away from one another, so it was really fun to see them together and having fun.  

Cute cousins :)

Oh wait, I think Uncle Andy did make an appearance.  Do you see that strange man in between Jill and Jen, yep that's Uncle Andy!

We did lots of fun things together over the HOT weekend!  We went cherry & black raspberry picking, went to the movie Inside Out, & headed to the national Zoo.  Do you see this full car load?

 

And amidst the wildness, we even had a tornado warning (in our brand new house!).  We never get tornado warnings around here so it was a bit crazy, but we all managed to stay intact.  Jen & I were the crazy weather watchers while everyone else hunkered down in the basement.

This is what family reunions look like in 2015, lots of playing followed by some iPad time!

More cute cousins :)

And they all love their Grandma!

And their Grandpa!

What a fun weekend & hopefully we reunite again sooner than later!

Thanks to everyone for driving and helping manage the chaos!