Cuddle Time!!!!

One of those precious, rare moments that I acutally captured on camera!

Adorable!

My adorable princess hamming it up for the camera!!!! Need I say more.......

Hudsonville Fair 2010!

Tuesday night we ventured to my old stomping grounds and took the kids to the Hudsonville Fair, as we've done every year since Kailyn was a baby! The kids had a great time looking at all the animals and choosing a couple of rides to go on. Will didn't really remember what the fair all entailed, so he asked lots of questions on the way there...it was precious! Kailyn on the other hand totally remembered and helped us tell Will all about it:)One of the kids' favorite was the train ride....it was slow and didn't go up or down.Watching the kids show and participating with the other kids!

About half way through the show Will spotted the John Deere's, so he and daddy took off to go sit on every one:)The kids got their faces painted....Kailyn chose a rainbow and Will chose a tiger....so cute!

The kids chose this elephant ride as the last ride......they had a blast going up and down and around at a pretty good clip!We ended the night in the barns before riding on more tractors. The kids thought it was great to pet the baby dairy cows.

Millenium Park!!!

Last week we are able to visit Millenium Park for the first time and LOVED it!!!! The splashpad was super fun and an "extra" for my kids when at the beach. The beach was clean and the water waveless and shallow....perfect! We met my cousin and her kids and it was nice to go along with someone who had been there before to show us the ropes....and the rope course:)
The splashpad water wasn't very warm so the splashpad was short-lived but thoroughly enjoyed by my little people.

Summertime Wednesdays!

Each Wednesday this summer we were priveledged enough to go to my Aunt Kim's house and swim in the afternoons! This is the first year that we have really been able to go consistently and skip naps, which made for a very fun summer! My kids are seriously part fish and would swim every day, all day if given the opportunity. Will also learned to jump in by himself with just swimmies!!! We are so proud of how much the kids have learned and are able to do this year and hope that their love for water continues:)A rare mother/daughter moment....it's usually all about a cousin or grandma, so this was nice for a change!

Kailyn's favorite new game with Haley! Kailyn would sit on the raft and Haley would go under the water and make her wait and then.......she'd push up the raft and in Kailyn would go with a little screaming and lots of laughter!!!!! Thanks Aunt Kim for allowing us to have such a fun summer by hosting us every Wednesday....Love you!

Little Painters:)

This past week we really started working on the room that is to be our classroom downstairs!! I really wanted the kids to be part of it and have some ownership over it too, so we doned our paint shirts (a.k.a. daddy's shirts) and headed downstairs to do a little priming on the paneling! As you can see Will was totally sporadic and Kailyn did a pretty good job....I have to say that after a half hour, when they were sick of it and I was left to finish, it went a lot slower than with my little helpers! Thanks for your help Kailyn and Will....I love you guys!

Order!

I walked in the living room one day to all Will's trucks, tractors, loaders and gators lined up from biggest to smallest!!! Nice job buddy:)