Father's Day Weekend

So, I finally located my camera cord to download pictures...here's a catch up of the last few weeks.

South Bend

We headed to visit Cindy, Tom, and Colten while they were over our way in Indiana the weekend before Father's Day. This is the best picture we got of the 5 of us...it was steaming hot outside and the kids were wanting a nap by this point! Instead of letting them have a nap, we headed to UP Mall. So much has changed since we were students, ah-hem, 7+ years ago.
Miss Avery had enough, sunglasses in hand, she was ready to be done:)
All three kids played while Artie and Tom walked to get the cars to pick us up in the circle at the end of Notre Dame Ave...I said it was hot and we didn't (at least I didn't) feel like lugging the kids all the way back to the parking lot behind the bookstore!!
My beautiful boy enjoying the sunshine and grass:)

Father's Day Weekend

I don't have any pics of the day-which I just realized when I uploaded all of these photos so I'm really sad-but on Saturday, the 19th, Artie and I volunteered at the 2nd Annual Kate's Kart Ice Cream Social. We were in charge of the fish bowl game, where "contestants" threw ping pong balls into fish bowls filled with water-no fish (they would have baked it was so hot!). Aside from the very strong breeze, the game went well-I will say we were one of the more popular games:)!! My mom came out too and took the kids around to everything while we were busy for our two hour slot. They had a live kids band and llamas and free ice cream, it was amazing. I even got to talk for a bit to Kate's mom and it's just so incredible to see what she has put together and done for other children in memory of her daughter. So, all-in-all, we had a great time and will hopefully be volunteering again next year!
On Father's Day, we took the kids to a splash pad/park by our house so Artie could see what all the fun was about (I have previously taken the kids during the week). Here is Avie in her matching sunglasses and swimsuit!
This girl LOVES the water:)
Spencer busted out the bear crawl...something he doesn't do at home so I suspect he doesn't like to crawl on the cement.
He got a little frustrated that he got caught in the middle of all of that water and couldn't see where he was going! Don't worry, he made his way back to mom and dad all by himself:)
Brother and sister having a serious conversation about something in the mud.
Avery is telling Spencer to "come with me" back into the water, so cute!
After the kiddos had enough of the water, we dried them off and headed to the park side. One of their favorite things to do is swing side-by-side and laugh and make faces at each other.
Riding on the frog. What a difference time makes. Last time she was on one of these things, she didn't know how to make it rock back and forth!
Spencer got the horse and had no idea what to do other than hold on tight!
I had brought Avery a dress to change into after running in the splash pad. However, the slides at the playground were so hot that she needed some shorts. So, Spencer came to the rescue and let Avery borrow his 18 month shorts-they fit her like a dream!! Poor girl runs around constantly pulling up her 2T shorts...and she will be 3 in a few months!

Randoms from the last week
Yep, Spencer really does this when he's ready for his nap and just relaxes and watches a little TV-with the two fingers in his mouth, I've never seen any kid suck the first two fingers like he does!
When it's time for Avery to get up from her nap, we have become accustomed to letting Spencer get her up (if he's up before her). She gets up really grumpy and mad that he woke her up, but it's cute and funny! This time he happened to get distracted by books on the floor, but he will also actually climb up in her bed and start bouncing!!
This girl loves her dog! She has really taken to asking Domer how his day is going and when he doesn't answer, she usually asks me if he's having a good day:)
Avery has been very into picnics lately and so we got out one of her old baby blankets and she puts out quite a spread:) She is really starting to use her imagination more and it is awesome!

Enjoy the rest of the week!