Update!

Hi! Here is an update from up north - just some pictures I wanted to share! I know, way more of the younger 2 than the older 2, but they are just in cute stages right now and being here all day with me, I have many more opportunities to photograph them!!

First, here are all 4 kids playing in the sand box together and Carson taking all of us for a ride in the ranger!

Kamryn thinks she is so big! She is getting so independent - a good thing most of the time! She just loves to follow the older kids around the house and yard - and then just usually ends up doing her own thing! She does some pretty funny things!

Trying to be like sissy!

It was really raining one day and so Carson put out some little buckets to catch rain. Next thing we know, . . . . . . . . his rain was all gone!

She loves to show everyone her belly button!

She decided to unpack Carson's suitcase for him and, as Coleman said, she wanted it to be a boat!

Again Kamryn thinking she is SO BIG with her helmet on and riding the scooter. (she brings me the helmet and insists on having it put on her and then goes and hops on the scooter and just stands there!) Her new favorite trick is to hop on the back of the tricycle when Coleman is cruising around on it! HOLD ON!!

Just a little wagon ride - Kamryn can now smile on cue - most of the time!!

Carson got citizen of the month in September!! WOW! He was very excited and we were so proud! :-)

We got a battery powered 4 wheeler from our neighbors - Coleman can spend hours cruising around the backyard - it is pretty cute. He goes until the battery needs charged!

Coleman's first day of preschool - he loves it!

I think we have Halloween costumes all decided, so I will probably be posting those pics next!

So, Kali this blog is pretty much for you since everyone else was there. But I know you asked to see pictures of the weekend, so here are a few. We had a great week down seeing everyone - left last Tuesday, spent Tuesday night with Mom and Dad, Wednesday night with the Robinett's, Thursday night with the Mills' and then picked Jeff up from the airport on Friday, and back to Cambridge for the weekend. I said we had to spread ourselves out so we didn't wear out our welcome anywhere! Or at least I hope we didn't!! Coleman chickened out on the mutton bustin, but Carson was so excited to win the buckle and the kids got to ride on the float in the parade. They had fun being able to go to the fair grounds with their cousins and not having to have mom or dad with them. It was fun to see Carson having so much fun with Payton and Tyler - it seemed like the 3 boys were on their own so much! We'll see if I can find out what all Carson learned from them in the tent that night! Just joking Kami and Kortnie!! :-) The water park on Sunday was great - the kids had a blast with the cousins. I could have done without puking twice at the park, but oh well. Kali, we picked up a little sickness somewhere, but we all seem to be over it (keeping our fingers crossed that Kamryn doesn't get it!!) And then made it back home on Monday - a long, busy, but very FUN week for the kids and I. We hadn't even got out of Cambridge and the kids were already asking when we could see everyone again! -Thanks Kort for the pictures of Carson on the sheep!

Reece bouncing Coleman so high!

I just had to include these of Carson and Annika doing flips into the pool!

And finally a picture of the little girl!!

Summer fun!

Here are a few things we have been up to. Celebrated Kamryn's 1st birthday - her birthday was on a Friday and we finally celebrated on the following Wednesday - the first available evening. Good thing she doesn't know anything about birthdays yet! She loved her cupcake and seemed to enjoy all the attention she got while opening her presents!

Talking on her cell phone that Aunt Kami gave her!

We decided to try tent camping this past weekend! It went so well, the kids slept great, even Kamryn slept on the ground with the rest of us, and we all had a great time. We went up the St Joe River out of St Maries, left Friday, came back Sunday. We don't have a tent that is big enough for all of us, so we had a girls tent and a boys tent!!

Carson making his fort and Coleman trying to chop down a tree - typical!!

The kids eating dinner in the fort Carson made.

Stephanie and the kids came over to get their dog yesterday and the kids spent the day at gma and gpa's slip n sliding, in the little pool, and in the hot tub. Kamryn and Hayden had matching suits - and I love this picture because - doesn't Kamryn looks so much like Hayden and nothing like Annika (guess the blue eyes and light hair will do that)!!

Guess that does it. The guys haven't even started swathing the blue grass yet - all the rain we got in June is just keeping everything so green. Will be a much later harvest than usual, but the crops look good. We start swimming lessons next week - Coleman's first year, so all three of the older kids in different classes! Will probably be some long mornings for Kamryn and I, but oh well.
I'll leave you with a couple of pictures of our little walker, so proud of herself! When she walks, she is either breathing really hard like it is so much work, or she is giggling and squealing with pride!!

more pictures!

Here are some more pictures of the little ones. Kamryn took her first wagon ride the other day - Coleman didn't really pull her with his tractor, that is just how they posed for the picture! I thought she looked so big holding on like a big girl in her sneakers! And she has really started to walk behind her push toy. Yesterday she loved going back and forth across the room while Coleman tried to get in front of her! He would run ahead of her and lay down so she would run into him!! They both thought it was hilarious!! Oh and she finally got her first tooth - Just one so far on the bottom!

Pictures!

I know some of you saw some of these pictures on FB, but here are some different ones and some of the same for you to see Mom of the kids on Easter and the dresses I made. Up close you can tell they were made by a rookie, but I thought they turned out pretty good! The girls (well Annika) just loved wearing hers!