Our First VBS of the Summer

Anna and Jake went to vacation bible school this week at one of the area churches. This was our first experience with a closing ceremony not in our church (or grandma's). Let's just say, we aren't going to anymore closing ceremonies! (Hotdog social, long photo slide show, a couple songs, then ice cream social that we didn't let the kids go to because Luke was LOOSING IT!) All in all they had fun!

Yeah! She Can Do IT!!

Finally! We have been trying to teach Anna to ride her bike (minus training wheels) for what seems like forever! Sunday she figured it out and today she went around the block for the first time. She still needs help on the take off part, but we are very proud of her!

Anna's photo shoots

I made an attempt to get some 6 year photos during our vacation. Anna tried very hard to cooperate, the wind stressed her out a little bit, but these are the best ones.

More from Our Adventures in Camping

Another one of the highlights of our trip was going miniature golfing. The big kids did awesome (very well actually) and Jake got a hole in ONE! He was really excited about that!!! The temptation for Luke was the gold cart they left in front of the activities building. He wanted to get on that thing so bad, finally I just let him so I could take a photo! His favorite toy at the playground was the firetruck (that you have to put money in the run), I know from experience with Luke that moving toys are a bad idea (remember Chuck E. Cheese)?

Our Jellystone Adventure Part 1

We camped at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park this week for our first family vacation of the summer. Uncle Danny, Aunt Noelle and Calli Jo joined us. We used our new camper for the first time and the kids had a blast! Luke got a few injuries during the stay, starting off with a fat lip from falling and biting it! (AUGH). The next day he not only got lost (I was helping Anna take a shower) but also fell in the gravel and got a stone in his forhead. On the bright side, he also really started talking well on this trip. It amazed all of us to watch is vocabulary grow!

Camping Adventures!

The park has a great (very warm) pool and a kiddy pool, which strangely is not warm!! The kids loved the pool and the park! Every morning they do a flag raising and a character comes out so the kids can take photos with them. Luke decided the statue of the ranger was the safest for him! Jake and Anna learned how to make corn with Aunt Noelle, and Calli tried corn for the first time! (more updates to come, I have to leave for work now!)

Happy Father's Day!

I worked all weekend, so we didn't get to travel to any of the "dads" houses. Happy Father's Day! I finally remembered to take a photo of Mike and the kids together today! :)

The Lady Bugs!

We went to our favorite grocery store and the kids got to pick out a cupcake....they wanted these, lady bugs! Jake and Anna (as we figured) wouldn't touch them, but Luke?? Ate the whole thing, and is still pooing blue!!!

Luke and His Pal!

Luke LOVES the dog! He is his pal! P.S. Do you like the hair cut??? It got buzzed last night! P.S.S. Thanks for the t-shirt Grandma!

Roller Skating!

Anna had a birthday party for one of her former classmates today. The birthday party was at the roller rink in town. Lets just say, that skating in not her forte!

Finally the cake!

At least we had something to look forward to on the way home from our shortened trip to Chuck E. Cheese. We all sang Happy Birthday to Anna. As you see, she picked out a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I tried to encourage her to get a sprinkle cake with pink icing...just to be girly. She wanted no part of it! After cake, daddy taught the big kids how to play the card game War, within 20 minutes Jake sighed and said, "this is a long game daddy". He wasn't kidding. I finally begged for it to be cut short. Glad today is done, and glad that Anna had a day FULL of special things! Tomorrow is her buddy Nick's birthday...he's in Colorado now, but they still like to share their birthdays each year! Happy Birthday Nick!!!

Chuck E. Cheese

Looks like we all (well most of us) had a great time, right? Everything was going great, the kids were wild (as they should be!) and playing every game that they set eyes on, and then? Jake went potty all over the play structure. (Not kidding) Well, there goes that trip to Chuck E. Cheese (sigh). We have probably 60 or so tokens left to be used, I feel the worst for the poor girl that had to clean our little "puddle" up! Anna and Jake had fun, Luke found that he liked to play with a steering wheel only, everything else made him scream...and boy do I mean SCREAM!