Parade

Our Weekend: Part 2

It was BEAUTIFUL weather for the Memorial Day Parade! Sunny and warm...not too hot, not too cold. The boys love a parade. I had them dressed in their patriotic red, white, and blue. Once they got their little flags to wave the "look" was complete! Looked like the turn out was good for the first parade on the new bridge.

The boys enjoyed clapping and waving their flags (and getting candy!) but not the clowns. We had our Seroogy's connection again this year (a friend of Roz) so we got more than our fair share of the meltaways! In fact the boys had so much fun that a few tears were shed on the walk back to the van. I guess a late night of fireworks (with the traditional popcorn and lemonade) followed by an early start to get to the parade was a bit much for the twins!

The Shown Boys

Roz, Justus, and Eli

Roz

Bay Beach

Our Weekend: Part One

We had a busy (and fun!) Memorial Day weekend. Uncle Joe came to visit and we kept extra busy. He arrived Saturday just in time for dinner. Sunday we made our first visit of the season to Bay Beach. The weather was great and the boys, as always, had a blast. Wesley is finally tall enough to ride the bumper cars so Joe pushed the petals and let Wesley steer!

After we finished the rides we headed over to the park area to have a picnic lunch. Roz's head somehow ended up in the middle of a fight between to robins. Then some brave ring billed gulls decided to harass us for the rest of the meal. When the boys weren't screaming at the pesky birds the wind was flipping the fried chicken off their paper plates. We ate quickly and moved on to the playground before heading home for naps.

On Your Mark...

Today we picked up our friends Sara and Erin then headed to downtown GB for the WPS Kids Power Run. The boys (and Erin!) ran the half mile race. Each got a "medal" to say they finished, a t-shirt, and a goodie bag.

Wesley came in 27th in his age group which is about right in the middle. He ran a lot faster than I thought. He was done before I walked from the start line to the finish line. So, unfortunately, I got a picture of him starting out but not at the finish line. I decided to just stay at the finish line to get a picture of Jer with the twins. So I have a picture of them finishing but not starting. It's a good thing Sara came with us...we needed a third adult. That way we could have one at the start, one at the finish, and one to run with the twins.


Wesley had a great time and was very proud of his fast running. Justus seemed to enjoy the race as well, but Eli was pretty much led along by Jer. Two out of three isn't bad I guess. All enjoyed the snacks provided and the goodie bag though!

One Whole Year!

Today marks the one year anniversary of this little blog. I thought I'd share a few stats with you from the last year. I didn't put the stat counter on the blog until mid-June so these numbers aren't perfectly accurate, but you'll get the idea!

• 193 Posts (194...if you count this one!)
• 2,736 Visits
• 5, 255 Page views
• 3 minutes per visit on average
• 14 States visited...can anyone guess which state had the most visits?
• 2 countries visited (one from Belgium...not sure what happened there!)

A lot has happened in the last year....a new baby, a new van, a new house. We've had good days and bad days....all documented here. For most of 2006 and part of 2007, I had been keeping a written journal but this has kind of become my journal now. One of these days I'm going to send it someplace to have it printed...pictures and all! That will be a fun keepsake. So if some posts seem a little odd...it's just the things I want to make sure and remember. I'll keep writing and hopefully you'll keep reading!!

Wednesday's Lunch

I got these new plates at Walmart for the boys. Now that we have a dishwasher our 2 sets of kiddie plates weren't enough...depending on when we run the load. The boys really like them. The plates stack nice and seem to be doing well in the dishwasher so far. I was smart and got five of each red and blue so JD can have one in a few months too. I took this picture on Wednesday just before I called the boys in to lunch. I don't know what made me think to take a picture...all those little plates in a row just struck me as a photo opportunity. Probably because this about sums up my day...making, serving, and cleaning up...little plates of food!

AWANA Awards

Tuesday night we finished up the AWANA year. All the boys finished a book so they received a special award. Justus and Eli were first year Cubbies and to finish their book they had to memorize about 28 Bible verses. Wesley was a first year Spark (aka Skipper) and finished both the book and the workbook. And I'll do some shameless bragging here...he was the only one to finish both in his class. Several finished the book and moved on to the workbook but he was the only one to finish both. He memorized 32 Bible verses in the book and another 18 in the workbook for a total of 50 verses!

Wesley gets his award ribbon from Mr. Tim

Eli gets his award bear pin from our good friend Sara and Mr. Royce

Justus gets his award bear pin from Sara and Mr. Royce,
he was a bit nervous but went up anyway!

After the awards ceremony we call stayed for the end of the year carnival. Lots of games, prizes, snacks, and candy. Once he got warmed up, Justus seemed to enjoy the hockey game and kept going back to that one. When I asked Eli to guess how many M&Ms were in the big jar he guessed "five" and unfortunately didn't win that prize! Wesley enjoyed all the festivities and can't wait for AWANA to start back up again in September. I have to get the directions from one of the families at church on how to make these really cool PVC marshmallow guns. They were so FUN!