Show-time

Mommy and her friends thought that

Toy Story3 sounded like a fun adventure to

go on with my best buds!


(Drew was able to make it too!)

I had NO IDEA what a movie theatre was...

but the anticipation built as we walked in.

we were all beaming with smiles of excitement.
Even lil-Jackson was grinning ear to ear.

we got our treats...


we found our seats -

and it was show-time!

Thanks Mommy for the special day!

swimming debut

Being the big brother that I am,
(and the amount of excitement that was bubbling over inside)
I offered to go first for swim lessons this morning...
to show Hannah "how it's done".

Mommy was really impressed with the skills
that I carried over from last year.

Hannah watched in awe/anticipation...

that is until she needed to be distracted a bit
until it was her turn.

despite Mommy's uncertainty of whether or not Hannah would actually participate, Hannah went right to Dani's arms

and away she went!

blowing bubbles,
putting her face in and floating/kicking!

About the only thing she really buckled her knees at
was jumping in off the edge of the pool.

Not too shabby Hannah-bear!

Elijah...well, he was eagerly lookin-in
on what the future had in store for him.

figured he probably should work on his walking skills
before any kind of swimming skills...

our beautiful friend

Yesterday mommy surprised us with the news

that we were going to see a special friend
that we haven't seen in a while,
come over and play with us.

She was right!



Sweet Tess came to play for a couple hours
while her mommy took her older brothers to a movie.

we frolicked in the yard....found backyard adventures...

and even had a little playhouse fun!

and snack time (of course)!

Thanks "sweetie pie" (my chosen reference to her today)
for coming to play!

Father's Day

Last night we tied up Father's Day by meeting
Papa Tom and the rest of the family for some
yummy sweet potato fries and pizza...

followed by a nice walk downtown Lake Geneva

for some yummy-nummy ice cream!

Daddy wasn't feeling well today,
so we don't have any great photos to share with you from today,
but we are sooooooooooo grateful for all the ways
daddy loves and works hard to provide for us,
and to be with us!

Thank you daddy for loving us
so generously and unconditionally!

We love you too!

Flatens come for a visit

This weekend we had more fun-loaded excitement as the Flaten family came to visit us.

Of course, we had to take them

to all of our favorite local spots!


Including: Fort Pool/"sand-box"!










(I even found a classmate there and had endless
fun jumping in and out of the pool together)


as well as a trip across the Pedestrian bridge....

to Frosty Freeze!

which, by the way, Mommy and Melissa deserved
EVERY BITE OF

since they just finished running
their 1/2-marathon earlier that day!

now to try to get back to normalcy and schedules....

Wait, is that possible?
it's SUMMER!!!!!!!