House Work

Man, where have we been right? Well it has been a long two weeks. My dad, bless his heart, came into town two weeks ago to spend his vacation working at our house. We are so lucky to have such a handy man that really does love helping his kids!! He did SOOOO many things for us. Take down our privacy fence, install a chain link fence, powerwash our house and deck, fix our guest bed : ), fix our kitchen chair, and began mortaring our driveway. All from Saturday to Wednesday.

Here are the before and after pictures with the fence...it looks SO much different in our backyard and I've even had a few conversations with my neighbors which is new! The before and after pictures of the deck will be coming, considering Mark and I spent all day Saturday and Sunday in the 90 degree weather painting the blasted thing, but didn't take after pictures yet.

Glimpse Into Home

Like I said, when we go home it's always chaos at Grandma's which is where we are.

This is Mae's version of an angry face. Her nose makes it SO priceless...



Periodically you can catch Evan, even with a smile!



My pal Megan's youngest turned one in the middle of July and since we were in town we had to make it! Yes, he is attempting to grab the candle here- oh the difference between boys and girls.



Six months apart and he weighs more and is pretty much as big as Hadley...but they do look cute together don't they!! Happy B-day Brogan!



To end the weekend, we had a bubble party courteousy of Grandpa. He saw these bubble guns at the lake and had to have one for each kid!!! They were great...

BUCKET GIRLS

As I said, "anything goes a grandma and grandpa's house." These girls are something else. We had them all stripped down from a dinner of spaghetti and they started standing in these buckets so it seemed like a perfect photo opportunity.





Ella's face in that one is just plain priceless.


If only my feet were so small and cute?!


All went well until all three wanted to be in the same bucket...

Weekend Home

Hadley is so blessed to have her great grandparents on my dad's side. They get so excited to see her and she always just takes in their love!! This picture with great grandpa just MELTS my heart. I plan to get her with my dad and Mark's dad then with her daddy of course...



Great Grandma has been through the ringer in the past few years with medical things, but in this picture I can just see a beaming great grandmother and that is all. Bless her heart...



So this is a glimpse into the CHAOS that occurs when all these kids are together. You have to look at the position of the horse (this is a four wheeled horse that they can sit on and roll around)...the wheels are both in the AIR?!?! She started propped on the bucket thanks to Ella, but then just went crazy and decided to rev the horsey up which resulted in complete wipe out. This picture captures her trying to SAVE the animal crackers!?!?!? that were in her hand...NEVER a dull moment from MaeMae.



Ella looking innocent after the incident...



This is classic MaeMae, her most recent injury from falling down at her house. If she didn't have a scab we would wonder what was wrong...



Lastly this reminds us of the ANYTHING GOES AT GRANDMA'S idea. A bucket on the head with a hot dog?!?!?! it's a circus....

4th of July

For the third row in a year we spent the fourth of July weekend at the Jess and Doug's place in Michigan...this year was different- no adult beverages for preggo, but still a good time with family and friends!! Between boat rides, fireworks, cookouts, and the annual cornhole tourney time just FLEW by!!! As always, thanks to my sister and her hubby for letting us come, it was a much needed getaway!



The target dollar bin is my weakness, but Hadley sure looks cute!!




My favorite, FIREWORKS!!!!


As you can see Hadley is STRUGGLING to stay awake, but watched every firework saying "wooow." Right when the grand finale ended Hadley closed her eyes- OUT COLD. She didn't wake up for the boat ride back in, taking off the life jacket or the ten minute walk back to the trailer. Bless her heart!!!! She loves fireworks as much as I do I guess!!!




Evan has a mixed look of fear and excitement about a boat ride...

Erika's Graduation Party

Three weeks ago, we went home for my cousin's graduation party...as always a majority of my pictures are of the three amigos!?!?!?! Regardless, congrats Erika and we definitely enjoyed ourselves at your party.


Just being goofy we decided to do a belly pic and I, sadly am not the winner!


MaeMae felt left out, so here is her view...


Always so patient, Daddy & Hadley



The girls started attacking the cornhole games...

Hadley and I surpised Mark with this sign on the door for Father's Day, you can see how proud he is!!

Another belly picture, this was at 29 weeks (2 weeks ago), Hadley doesn't really get what's going on with mommy. She often points at it and says hi. We also have her playing with a baby doll that she kisses, hugs, and holds so hopefully she has some awareness of a baby.

She really is something else...